The Black Death

This is a fully resourced and easy to use KS3 (11-14 years) lesson on the Black Death which should take at least two hours to teach.

Through imaginative and varied activities, students will cover the three objectives of this lesson. They will examine the horrific symptoms of the Black Death, drawing several pictures as they do. They will work out where the Black Death came from, what caused it, and how it spread. Finally, students will explore a range of evidence in order to engage in the debate surrounding whether or not the Black Death was a disaster for medieval society. The scaffolded writing task on this final objective could be used as a formative assessment.

This lesson is part of a unit of lessons published on TES called Medieval Life: The Unmaking of the Feudal System