{"id":3576,"date":"2015-04-30T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2015-04-13T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:30:14","slug":"spread-of-the-black-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/spread-of-the-black-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Spread of the Black Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/Year_7\/bdeath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Death Cardgame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Spread of the Black Death<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/yr7\/Black_Death\/2_Spread\/1_Spread.doc\">Spread of the Black Death<\/a><br \/>\nStudents use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/1sts\/black_death\/animation.html\">this animated map<\/a>\u00a0to draw their own conclusions about where the disease started and spread to, and which areas were most affected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video Clips<\/strong>: Arrival of the Black Death in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/videoplayer\/index.php?id=557957421\">[1] Italy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/videoplayer\/index.php?id=888077421\">[2] France<\/a><br \/>\nThese two video clips provide extra detail about the spread of disease across Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/yr7\/Black_Death\/2_Spread\/z_Spread-extension.doc\">Extension Activity: Graphing Task<\/a><br \/>\nThis task requires students to use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/1sts\/black_death\/animation.html\">this animated map<\/a>\u00a0to measure the rise and fall of the pandemic over several years and make deductions about the way in which it rose and fell. There is also an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/yr7\/Black_Death\/2_Spread\/z_teacher\/1_Starter-Explain_peaks_troughs.xls\">Excel graph<\/a>\u00a0that can be used by the teacher as an illustration at the end of the exercise.<\/p>\n<h3>The Black Death is a popular subject of study with students.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/Year_7\/Black_Death.php\">This self-contained scheme of work<\/a>\u00a0contains a strong role-play element built around a diary that builds up over several lessons.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spread of the Black Death Spread of the Black Death Students use\u00a0this animated map\u00a0to draw their own conclusions about where the disease started and spread to, and which areas were most affected. Video Clips: Arrival of the Black Death in\u00a0[1] Italy\u00a0and\u00a0[2] France These two video clips provide extra detail about the spread of disease across&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/spread-of-the-black-death\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-VG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}