{"id":3572,"date":"2015-04-17T13:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T10:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2015-04-13T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:28:04","slug":"black-death-revamped-relaunched-new-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/black-death-revamped-relaunched-new-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Death – Revamped, Relaunched, New Resources!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Black Death Cardgame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Black Death is a popular subject of study with students. This self-contained scheme of work<\/a> contains a strong role-play element built around a diary that builds up over several lessons. There is also a\u00a0fantastic cardgame exercise<\/a>\u00a0built into the unit and an\u00a0interactive, self-marking end of unit assessment<\/a>\u00a0along with other opportunities to\u00a0create a boardgame<\/a>,\u00a0have a keyword challenge<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0produce an individual written project<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

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The Black Death is a popular subject of study with students. This self-contained scheme of work contains a strong role-play element built around a diary that builds up over several lessons. There is also a\u00a0fantastic cardgame exercise\u00a0built into the unit and an\u00a0interactive, self-marking end of unit assessment\u00a0along with other opportunities to\u00a0create a boardgame,\u00a0have a keyword… <\/p>\n

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