This lesson involved looking at historical sources and deciding which were helpful in providing evidence in historical enquiry. The children also carried out some reseacrh using the bbc evacuees page and then created a fact page about evacuation.
PowerPoint than gives the children facts about the plague which they can use to create their own factpage. The hyperlinks were to Horribel Histories clips which always go down well. If they don't work just type &'horrible histories plague&'; into youtube.
Learn about life at sea, weapons and famous pirates.
Differentiated activities - I used this with my Y6 class and the activities were differentiated by writing ability as the outcome was to write a diary of the day in the life of a pirate. There are also a number of extra resource sheets at the end for extra research activities..