Market Place Activity: Roman Public Health

This fun and interactive lesson has been designed to help students investigate public health in the Roman Empire through a market place activity. This is followed up a selection of optional activities including writing a report on public health, a knowledge quiz or a heads and tails activity, depending upon the ability of your class. This lesson is designed to get your students out of their chairs, moving around and working together. The idea is to print off the information slides and post them around your classroom for your students to gather and share or print enough of them off for group work.

When you purchase this lesson, you will be able to download a 24 slide PowerPoint Presentation which includes information slides, historical sources, starters, plenaries, tasks, activities, templates as well as links to relevant video clips. For stretch and challenge, I have also included an extension slide on Roman Baths. I have also uploaded a PDF version for people who may not have PowerPoint. For more information, please see the preview.

The topics covered are aqueducts, fountains, cisterns, lead pipes, sewers, cemeteries, public toilets and baths. The aims and objectives are:

Theme: The Roman Empire
Know: What is public health?
Understand: Why Roman leaders invested in public health?
Analyse: How successful were the Romans at improving public health?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: What is public health?
Can You Explain: Why Roman leaders invested in public health?
Can You Evaluate: How successful were the Romans at improving public health?

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Roy