Market Place Activity: Roman Religious Beliefs

This market place activity has been designed to help students investigate how Roman religious beliefs changed over a thousand year period by getting them out of their chairs, moving around and working together. The idea is to print off the information slides and post them around your classroom for your students to gather and share or print enough of them off for group work. This is followed up by a selection of activities including completing a pro and con activity and extended answer on how tolerant were Roman religious beliefs.

When you purchase this lesson, you will be able to download a 30 slide PowerPoint Presentation which includes information slides, historical sources, starters, plenaries, tasks, activities, writing frames, templates, as well as links to relevant video clips. Depending upon the ability of your class, I have also included drag and drop, heads and tails and missing word activities that can be used instead of the extended writing activity. I have also uploaded a PDF version for people who may not have PowerPoint. For more information, please see the preview.

The topics covered are household spirits, Roman gods and goddesses, Emperor worship, priests and priestesses, mystery religions, Mithras, and Christianity.

Theme: The Roman Society
Know: Which gods and goddesses did the Romans worship?
Understand: Why did Roman religious beliefs change over time?
Analyse: How tolerant were Roman religious beliefs?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence, Change, Continuity & Collaboration

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: Which gods and goddesses did the Romans worship?
Can You Explain: Why did Roman religious beliefs change over time?
Can You Evaluate: How tolerant were Roman religious beliefs?

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Roy