Picture based matching and sorting activities: Roman Britain

A pair of tasks with a range of different levels of challenge designed to support knowledge and understanding of the chronology of Roman Britain from 43 AD to 410 AD

There are two information sheets each with 8 events taken from the period -for each one there is a picture, date and descriptive phrase. As with the tasks they are set out to make them easy to cut out for use by pupils (could also be laminated or stuck onto card). This also allows for a further degree of differentiation by varying the number of events to be sorted or matched.

In all there are seven sheets for each set of events -providing differentiation with a variety of levels of challenge whilst using the same events for all pupils.
The different variants are:
The information sheet ‘cards’ with date, picture and descriptive phrase,
The picture and the date of the event,
The picture and the description of the event,
The date and description of the event,
Just the description related of the event,
Just the picture related to the event,
Just the date of the event.

There are two tasks -one of sorting the events into order and one matching events with their picture/description etc.

The variety of sheets allows for a range of challenge through the amount of information provided (as well as the number of events provided to sort into order).
For sorting the events into their chronological order
These involve sorting using one of the following:
The dates (also with a choice of picture and/or description),
The description of the event,
The picture related to the event.

For matching cards to develop knowledge and understanding of these events there is a choice of levels of challenge:

Matching just the pictures with either description or date (or both),
Matching pictures and dates with their description,
Matching pictures and description with their dates,
Matching dates with description.

The same ‘cards’ could also be used for playing ‘pairs’ (memory game) -again with a range of levels of challenge depending on which variant is used and how many pairs.
These events/pictures are the same as those featured in the linked resources on this period in British history.