Market Place Activity: The Norman Conquest of Wales

This fun and active learning marketplace lesson is designed to encourage your students to move around the classroom and collaborate effectively, all while enhancing their critical analytical skills and deepening their understanding of the Norman Conquest of Wales. The lesson features diverse support activities tailored to accommodate various learning needs, with a comprehensive resource section at the end that provides additional photocopying materials and support tasks for easy access.

Upon purchasing this lesson, you will receive a 34-slide PowerPoint presentation that includes clearly defined aims and objectives, engaging starters and plenaries to frame the lesson, informative slides that detail the Norman Conquest and its historical context, and essential historical sources for the main marketplace activity. The presentation also includes a heads and tails activity that can be used a feedback activity for the Norman Conquest of Wales as well as a card sort and thinking skills review triangle task that serves as an analysis tool to understand why Edward I was able to defeat Llywelyn. These activities function as consolidation tasks and can be followed up with support activities for writing an extended answer if desired.

Additionally, the PowerPoint presentation contains a homework task designed to reinforce learning at home, relevant video links curated to enhance understanding, and an interactive word search with provided answers for self-checking. This lesson is a comprehensive resource aimed at making the study of the Norman Conquest of Wales both fun and informative!

This lesson has also been uploaded in both office and PDF format for your convenience. Please see the detailed preview for more information. The aims and objectives of this lesson are:

Theme: Norman Conquest
Know: The key events and figures involved in the Norman Conquest of Wales
Understand: Why was Wales a difficult place to invade and conquer?
Evaluate: How did Edward I defeat the Welsh and keep control?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: The key events of the Norman conquests of Wales?
Can You Explain: Why Wales was a difficult place to invade and conquer?
Can You Evaluate: How did Edward finally defeat the Welsh and keep control?