2. Key Stage 3 Migration to Britain- The Romans

This is the second lesson of the Migration to Britain scheme of work and focuses on the Romans and building source analysis skills. This resource is the entire lesson on a power point and includes:

• a joke and riddle to help settle the students while they write the title and date
• clear smart differentiated learning objectives
• starter- class Hangman; divide the class into two teams and then use a random name generator to decide which team goes first. The team that guesses first wins.
• Activity 1- students colour and label a blank map of Europe to show where Italy ad Rome are and the countries that were part of the Roman Empire, when the Roman EMpire began and what date the Romans invaded Britain. They then check their work with the map on the next slide.
• Activity 2- students study and analyze the source closely to make 3 inferences on why the Romans wanted to invade Britain.
• Activity 3- students read through the changes that the Romans made to Britain and colour in the 3 that they think are most important. Students then speed debate what they think is the most important change completing the debate cards as they go.
• Plenary- students choose one of the tasks to complete- freeze frame, drawing, or poem.
• Homework. students create a leaflet travel brochure to encourage tourists to visit Roman Britain