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

Unit 19: What were the effects of Tudor exploration?
Section 6: What were the effects of the English settlement on the people living in America?

Objectives

Children should learn:

to find out about the ways of life of indigenous peoples before colonisation
to consider how the English settlers viewed the indigenous people
to compare and contrast very different perspectives of the same event

Activities

Outcomes

Children:

Find out what the children already know about the people living in America at the time the Tudors were ruling England. What else do you need to know? Put questions on the flip chart. Give the children some sources of information about the indigenous Americans to help them find answers to their questions.

Give the children a picture showing how English settlers viewed indigenous peoples. Using their knowledge of the indigenous people, ask them to identify ways in which the picture gives a false impression of the Amerindians. Why might the English view the indigenous people in this way? eg fear, prejudice, different experiences/customs/culture. How might this have led to problems between the settlers and the Amerindians?

Using their knowledge of the Amerindians and their customs, ask the children to write an account of the Roanoke settlement from the Amerindian perspective.

recall and find out information about the way of life of Amerindians
discuss how the lifestyles of Amerindians were viewed by settlers from England
identify how these differences might have caused problems for Amerindians
write about the Amerindian perspective of English settlement

Points to note

A number of pictorial sources were created by members of the settlement and the possible bias in these could be discussed. A pictorial source could be pasted onto a large piece of white paper and the differences annotated in different colours according to their theme. Cumulative annotation could be undertaken by putting a series of sources on the same sheet and adding colour-coded annotations sequentially to build a comprehensive view of the theme.

It is important to stress that the Amerindians were not 'primitive' but sophisticated in their adaptation to the land and climate.

This provides an opportunity to discuss the impact on indigenous peoples and has links with citizenship.

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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?