Interactive exercises

1. Head2Head Interviews
Have a one-to-one with King Henry VIII! - An award winning activity: conduct an interview with the Tudor Monarch from beyond the grave!
2. Decision-Making Games
a. Walking the Mid-Tudor Tightrope! - Designed for A-Level, but of potential use for younger students
  b. Are you a Lutheran or a Catholic? - There is also a follow-up lesson plan and worksheet.
  c. Don't lose your head! - Students play as King Charles I and try to avoid taking the country into a Civil War
3. Interactive Picture Investigations
a. What is the message of 'The Ambassadors'?: Analyse the famous picture and decide for yourself!
  b. The Tudor Portrait Mystery: Analyse a famous picture to determine its message
4. Splat! Quizzes
Splat the Tudor! - A fast and furious way of learning about the key characters of the period
5. Manic Miner Games
 The Tudors
The English Civil War, 1642-49
The Reformation
The Renaissance
6. WordShoot Quizzes
 The Tudors
The English Civil War
The Reformation
7. CannonBall Fun Quizzes
 The Tudors
The English Civil War
The Reformation
8. Play Your Dates Right Quizzes
 England under the Tudors, 1485-1603
9. Fling the Teacher Quizzes
Making of the UK | Wars of the Roses | Tudors | Mary Queen of Scots | The Great Plague | The Great Fire of London | The Gunpowder Plot | Causes of the Civil War
10. PowerPoint Presentations
The English Reformation Slideshow: PowerPoint Presentation

Worksheets / PowerPoints

  General / Henry VII    
1. Witchcraft - background 55kb
2. Witchcraft Sourcework 148kb
3. A classroom witch trial! [there is also an accompanying PowerPoint] 65kb
4. Witchcraft Trials in Scotland - by Mr. Fitzsimmons 300kb
5. What happened to the Princes in the Tower? 173kb
6. Tudor Monarchs - by Mr. Fitzsimmons 300kb
  Henry VIII / The Protestant Reformation    
5. Henry VIII - Evil or Wonderful? 33kb
6. Role Play - Protestants v. Catholics 195kb
7. The life of Martin Luther 127kb
8. Dissolution of the Monasteries - Role Play 106kb
  Edward VI 109kb
9.  The Lady Jane Grey Plot 126kb
  Elizabeth  
10. a. The Elizabethan Religious Settlement
b. Elizabethan Pirates
c. The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
d. The Armada The Babbington Plot: Secret Codes!		 c90kb
  James VI / I, Charles I    
11. King James I: An introduction 125kb
12. What to do with the King? 109kb

External Links

1. The Tudor Web
2. The Babington Conspiracy
3. Guy Fawkes and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
4. Mathew Hopkins - Witchfinder General!

Audio-Visual resources

  The Complete music of Henry VIII CD
  English Music from Henry VIII to Charles II CD
  Henry VII:
Wars Of The Roses 		VHS
  Elizabeth I:
Elizabeth R
Mary, Queen of Scots
Sir Walter Raleigh And The Orinocco Disaster
Sir Francis Drake - Voyage Around The World
Blackadder II
Elizabeth
Shakespeare in Love
Fire over England
The Sea Hawk
The Virgin Queen
Young Bess		 VHS / DVD
  Henry VIII:
A Man for All Seasons
Biography -Henry VIII
Private Life of Henry VIII 		VHS / DVD
  Jane Grey:
Lady Jane
Anne of the Thousand Days 		VHS / DVD
  The Stuarts
The Gunpowder Plot
Witchfinder general
The Mayflower Pilgrims
The English Civil Wars
English Civil Wars:
1. A People Divided
2. A Nation At War
3. To Kill a King
4. The Shadow of The Scaffold Cromwell: God's Englishman		 VHS / DVD
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