Hadrian's Wall

This resource works really well as a follow up to my other resource son the Roman Army. It looks at the reasons why the Emperor decided to build a wall separating Britons from the barbarians as well as how it was designed and built. There is also a section on everyday life on the wall including toilets and bath houses.

The tasks and activities are designed for levels of ability and include DART strategies for SEN as well as questions and answers for the more able. The last activity is a word search which can easily be copied to another document and printed off for homework.

If you have purchased this resource in the past, I have recently uploaded a new PowerPoint to accompany the main worksheet. Both resources include information, historical sources, tasks and activities. However, the PowerPoint also includes aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, starters and plenaries.

The aims of the first lesson are:

Know: How Hadrian’s Wall was built and designed?
Understand: Why the Romans built Hadrian’s Wall?
Evaluate: How effective were Hadrian Wall’s defences?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: Hadrian Wall’s defences?
Can You Explain: Why the Romans built Hadrian’s Wall?
Can You Evaluate: How effective were Hadrian Wall’s defences?

Whilst the aims of the much shorter second lesson, which could be set as a homework are:

Theme: The Roman Empire
Know: What was everyday life like for a soldier on Hadrian’s Wall?
Understand: How the soldiers kept themselves clean?
Evaluate: How comfortable were the lives of Roman soldiers?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: What was everyday life like for a soldier on Hadrian’s Wall?
Can You Explain: How the soldiers kept themselves clean?
Can You Evaluate: How comfortable were the lives of Roman soldiers?

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Kind Regards

Roy