Henry VIII Battleships Game

This resource is one that I use at the end of a topic that my Year Eight students study on Henry VIII. It includes key questions which cover the knowledge that students need for their assessment the following lesson.

I use the resource in the following way:

1. I print off enough of this resource so that students have one sheet between two.
2. I laminate the sheet.
3. Students work in pairs and mark five random boxes with crosses using whiteboard pen.
4. They compete with the other pair on their table.
5. Group One select a box aloud (e.g. G3).
6. Group Two read out the question in that box – “Whose power in the Church did Henry remove?”
7. Group One attempt to answer this question.
8. Group Two tell them if they were right or wrong.
9. If Group One answer correctly and this was a square that was crossed off by Group Two, then Group One has ‘sunk’ the ship and wins the point.

Teacher can play the game in varying ways-- to make it easier your ‘ships’ can consist of multiple boxes crossed in a row, etc.