History at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 5/6)

Unit 19: What were the effects of Tudor exploration?
Section 2: Why did the Tudors explore outside Europe?

Objectives

Children should learn:

to locate the Tudor period in relation to other periods of British history
reasons for Tudor exploration

Activities

Outcomes

Children:

Use a time line to establish the chronological periods between the present and the Tudor period. Discuss with the children why people explore the world and space today. List the reasons why people explore the world today on a flip chart or white board.

Establish with the children that the Tudors were looking for new countries in which to trade wool and other goods and to bring back expensive items, eg spices and furs to sell at home. People were also looking for a place where they could practise their religion in freedom. Explain that the Tudors were looking for new lands in which to settle. List the reasons why the Tudors explored the world in a different colour on the flip chart or white board.

Ask the children to write paragraphs in the chosen colours to show reasons for exploration in Tudor times and today. Using a Venn diagram, discuss the reasons that are the same and the ones that are different.

locate the Tudor period correctly on a time line
record reasons for Tudor exploration
identify similarities and differences between exploration in the Tudor period and the present

Points to note

This activity places the unit in a chronological framework and builds on children's knowledge of exploration today.

There are a number of overlapping reasons for exploration in the present and in Tudor times, eg looking for resources, personal reasons, the future over-population of the planet. The Venn diagram draws attention to this and links to Mathematics Ma4, Handling data.

The use of two colours in writing will help in constructing discrete paragraphs.

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	1. How did knowledge of the world change during the Tudor period?
	2. Why did the Tudors explore outside Europe?
	3. How did people explore the world in Tudor times?
	4. Why did Drake circumnavigate the world?
	5. Why did the Roanoke settlement fail?
	6. What were the effects of the English settlement on the people living in America?
	7. What impact has Tudor exploration had on our lives today?