Dark tourism has been around for many hundreds, if not thousands of years, but is only now coming to the fore. Dark tourism refers to the specific locations’ tourists visit due to their links to death or tragedy. There are many theories as to why people are attracted to these places. This worksheet is a simple introduction to the topic looking at how similar destinations advertise themselves, whether it is thought right to advertise these places as ‘attractions’ and whether there is a location they would like to visit of the same genre. These questions could be an interesting way to begin a unit on a tragic episode in our planets history and explain how we could learn from our past. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This wordfill worksheet introduces your students to the Roman Colosseum, from what its function was, who built it and what went on there Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

The Temple of Artemis was thought to be three to four times as large as the Parthenon in Athens, it was once described as the largest temple and building of antiquity and served as a place of worship to the Greek Goddess Artemis. Home to both Greeks and Romans, the grand temple was destroyed and rebuilt many times over the course of its long history. The Antipater of Sidon, who compiled and visited all the seven wonders, said the temple was more marvellous than any of the other six wonders. The site of the temple was rediscovered in 1869 by an expedition sponsored by the British Museum led by John Turtle Wood, and while several artefacts and sculptures from the reconstructed temple can be seen there today, as for the original site, only a single column remains from the final reconstruction of the temple itself. These worksheets help your students understand what can be gained from a single photograph as well as develop from their own research a TripAdvisor review for this famous landmark.

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was completed in 435 BC and stood as an inspiration and destination for thousands for many years. The temple and statue survived earthquakes and other natural disasters, however many visitors and conquerors tried to destroy it but failed. The Roman Emperor Caligula was so jealous of its power over his new defeated subjects he ordered the statue be moved to Rome. The scaffolding used to do this collapsed, it’s said accompanied by a loud laughing noise… Your students task is to imagine they are guides at the site of the ruin of the Statue of Zeus. One of their jobs is to help the tourists choose an appropriate ‘talking tour’. Their boss has decided it’s time to update the recordings on these ‘talking tours’ and it has fallen to them to do this! After writing their tour your students need to let the tourists know of the update and design a poster to attract people to the ruin site. This will then be peer marked using a provided scoring table.

The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was built for Mausolus, the second ruler of Caria from the Hecatomnid dynasty who died in 353 BC. As the man who refounded Halicarnassus, Mausolus was entitled to receive cultic honours and a tomb on the central square of his city, in accordance with Greek custom. The person in charge of this project was Mausolus’ grieving widow, Artemisia II, who, incidentally, was also his sister. These worksheets asks the students to use a discription to draw their own interpretation of how the Mausoleum once looked as well as discuss whether treasures found by a British Museum team should be returned to Turkey or remain in London.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria was built on the small island of Pharos as a beacon for sailors having to navigate the tricky harbour. At the time the lighthouses were built this was considered one of the centers of civilisation. Unfortunately the lighthouse no longer stands, it is thought it stood for 1,500 years and survived a tsunami in 365 AD but succumbed to an earthquake in 1303 AD and now lies at the bottom on the Mediterranean where piece are still being found today. Imagine you are a news reporter and you have had the opportunity to do one of the following: ◊ You have been invited to be one of the first people to climb the lighthouse to the observation level ◊ You have been invited along to a dive to recover some of the statues which lay under the Mediterranean – Report what you see under the water and what it’s like to be recovering a piece of history – Report what you see and how you feel

The Colossus of Rhodes is familiar to almost everyone. Its history begins with the siege of Demetrios Poliorketes, successor of Alexander the Great, in 305 BC. When Demetrios was defeated, he abandoned all his siege machinery on Rhodes. The Rhodians decided to express their pride by building a triumphal statue of their favourite god, Helios. The task was assigned to the sculptor Chares of Lindos, a pupil of Lysippos himself, and twelve years (from 304 to 292 BC) were needed to complete it. It has been proposed that a new statue should be erected to replace the lost Colossus, your students task is to discuss the pros and cons of this and what, if any, social, economic or environmental impacts this may have on the area, both in the long and short term. Your students shall then conclude whether they personally think a new statue is a good idea or not.

This icon of Egypt is 756 feet long at the base of each side, 450 feet tall and made up of 2,3000,000 blocks of stone, each averaging a weight of two and a half tons! Considering the creators limited tools, no side is more than eight inches more than the others, and the whole structure is perfectly in line with the four points of the compass. At the grand age of 4,500 years old, it is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing. The purpose of the structure is believed to be the tomb of the Pharaoh Khufu. Egyptians at the time believed their Pharaohs to be a living god who linked them to immortals. The pyramid stood as an eternal tomb for the pharaoh’s body and encouraged their beliefs of his continuing influence with the gods. Not just seen as a symbol of regal power, it was also a visible link between heaven and earth. These worksheets, with resources provided, help your students to research the workers, their working conditions and how they fulfilled their mammoth task!

This worksheet helps students explore Hadrian’s Wall between England and Scotland through a simple word fill worksheet.