Transatlantic Slave Trade - Source Investigation

**The aim of this lesson is to use a wide range of written and visual historical sources to help introduce the topic of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to students. Students will use these sources to help them infer information about the slave trade and build upon their source analysis skills. **

As always, this lesson includes a number of printable resources, engaging activities and information.

The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: The purpose and aims of the lesson.
Slide 3: Warm Up – What do we mean by the term ‘Transatlantic Slave Trade’?
Slide 4: Activity 1 – Instructions – how to ‘infer’ information from sources.
Slide 5: Activity 2 – Practice whole class inference instructions
Slide 6: Activity 2 – Practice whole class inference possible answers
Slide 7: Printable answer sheet/table
Slide 8 - 14 : Written and visual source printouts
Slide 15: Follow Up & Challenge Questions
Slide 16: Learning Review Activities

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