Queen Victoria's Empire Worksheet and Puzzle -- Episode 4: Scramble for Africa

Do you need a couple of fun ways to get students more thoroughly engaged as you take them through key information about the British Empire during the era of New Imperialism? Look no further than this Queen Victoria's Empire Episode 4 Worksheet set!

Designed to go along with a showing of Episode 4 of the PBS series: Queen Victoria's Empire, this teaching guide will help students understand in detail issues of the age including:

--Gordon of Khartoum's adventures and death in the Sudan
--The slave trade in the Sudan
--Prime Minister Gladstone's conviction that the British Empire had grown too large
--Cecil Rhodes' use of racist policies to his economic advantage in southern Africa
--The competition for diamonds and gold in southern Africa
--The Boer War
--The death of Queen Victoria and the end of an era

This Queen Victoria's Empire teaching packet offers you and your students several different choices:

--Fill-in worksheet with 36 problems to help students focus in on the concepts that matter most; all problems presented in video order
--Fill-in worksheet as above, but including timestamps as well for teachers who like to offer their students this information
--Follow-up crossword puzzle with 19 clues and terms
--Answer keys for all activities