The Great Exhibition 1851

The purpose of this lesson is to inform students not only about the Great Exhibition but also it’s importance to the British Empire.

**Lesson Plan: **

Lesson starts Embedded song plays as students enter with a literacy hook to immediately begin work to define an exhibition to then challenge students to think of any modern day ones.

Starter: Students watch a short intro video (embedded) to then define ‘The Great Exhibition’.

The teacher than has the option to watch a more in depth video (embedded) which students have a series of questions to answer linked with it’s inception - what was on display and what countries exhibited products and goods. Answers provided then for students and teacher to go though.

Main Task: students engage in a literacy relay task and work in teams competing against each other to build their knowledge upon the Exhibition. there could be a prize for the winning team.

Teacher then embedded knowledge using the answers and student feedback - students can mix-[air-share the answers between each other.

**Plenary: **Acquired knowledge can then be demonstrated though the answering of an exam style question (differentiated though scaffold / mark scheme and sentence starters / key words).

***Lots of visuals / moving images and music embedded within the presentation. ***