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The British Empire

This lesson aims to question whether Britain was in India for the right reasons.

The subject matter is the East India Company and a study of how it slowly took over the country of India taking with it a precious diamond and making a fortune out of its trade. There are some great video links used here from the BBC and Dan Snow which help bring reasoning and clarity.

Students are asked if we should return the Koh-i-Noor diamond to India, the jewel in the British crown, after analysing some important evidence.

Students are also given key words to help them with their arguments as to whether the diamond should be returned to India or not.

The final activity focuses on the legacy of the East India Company and who benefitted from their rule before the company’s eventual collapse.

The lesson comes with retrieval practice activities, suggested teaching and learning strategies and are linked to the latest historical interpretations, video clips and debate.

The lesson is enquiry based with a key question of who benefitted from the Empire posed at the start of the lesson and revisited at the end to show the progress of learning.

The lesson is fully adaptable in PowerPoint format and can be changed to suit.

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With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created a set of resources which focus on ’the development of the British Empire' with depth studies on India and Australia. <br /> <br /> Furthermore I have been inspired to review and adapt these teaching resources due to recent debates about the impact of the British Empire on the indigenous peoples it conquered and the legacy of Empire and how it influences us still today. <br /> <br /> I would like to thank Sathnam Sanghera for his brilliant book ‘Empireland’ and his enlightened debate on the British Empire and how and why it should be taught in schools.<br /> <br /> This bundle includes historical concepts such empire and colonisation, continuity and change with a focus on the East India Company, the causes and consequences of British rule in India, similarities and differences within the British Empire, the analysis of sources and different interpretations of colonisation such as Australia and finally the significance of people such as Robert Clive, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Kitchener and their legacy today.<br /> <br /> The 13 lessons are broken down into the following:<br /> 1) An introduction to Empire<br /> 2) The American War of Independence<br /> 3) The British East India Company<br /> 4) Robert Clive<br /> 5) Focus Study – India<br /> 6) Gandhi and Indian independence<br /> 7) Focus Study - Transportation to Australia<br /> 8) The colonisation of Australia<br /> 9) The Scramble for Africa<br /> 10) The Zulu Wars<br /> 11) The Boer War<br /> 12) Apartheid and Nelson Mandela<br /> Bonus lesson: <br /> 13) Empire soldiers in World War 1<br /> <br /> Each lesson comes with suggested teaching and learning strategies, retrieval practice activities, differentiated materials and are linked to the latest historical interpretations, video clips and debate.<br /> <br /> The lessons are fully adaptable in PowerPoint format and can be adapted and changed to suit.

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We are pleased to let you know that your resource East India Company, has been hand-picked by the Tes resources content team to be featured in https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/teaching-slavery-and-british-empire-history in May 2024 on https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog. Congratulations on your resource being chosen and thank you for your ongoing contributions to the Tes Resources marketplace.

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