Peasants Life Game with accompanying tasks

Standard board game that requires a dice and counters to represent the students playing. Students complete activity sheet as they play, using the knowledge they gained from the game.

Each square details something that might happen to a peasant to either cause them good fortune or bad and instructs students to move ahead or drop back a few spaces accordingly. As students play the game they have a range of activities to complete based on the information they find out in the game. They could do these as they play, or to consolidate what they have learned after.

Activities cover:
* the feudal system
* jobs of the peasant in each season
* factors affecting the peasant's life such as the weather
* matching pictures to the jobs of the peasant
* the roles of other people in the village such as the steward

This game is active learning that is student centred. Other than behaviour management, it is hands off for the teacher and enjoyable for students. This is appropriate to KS3.

Many thanks to Paul Durnall who gave this to me :-)