Book your place now : ActiveHistory Training Day: 25th September 2009

Castles

Castles - Interactive exercises

1. Castles: Defence and Attack! [Interactive]
A game of strategy: Spend your budget on your choice of features, then read a story of how your castle fares when faced with attack! Complete with worksheet and extension activities.

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Castles - Quizzes [Interactive]
The following quizzes are a good way of testing factual knowledge after students have finished the simulation above.
Wordshoot: Castles
Manic Miner: Castles
Fling the Teacher - Castles

History weblinks for Castles

1. Ghosts in a Medieval Castle: An online adventure game
2. Medieval Arms Race: Outlines main methods of attacking a castle
3. Medieval Siege: Destroy the Castle Game
4. Build a Medieval Castle: Paper Cutouts
5. Neuschwanstein Castle - Paper Model to cutout

History in the News for Castles

1. MP's alarm over "Domesday Book" Council Tax threat
2. Movies - News - Nicholson to pen historical epic '1066' - Digital Spy
3. Vikings preferred male grooming to pillaging
4. French accuse English of war crimes and exaggeration over Agincourt
5. Bringing a Trove of Medieval Manuscripts Online
6. Is English law related to Muslim law?
7. Library to share 14th-century royal cookbook online
8. A Historian uses Fiction to Tell the Story of the Black Death
9. A century on, Bayeux tapestry 'vandal' is cleared