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The British Empire

The aim of this lesson is to explore the reasons for why Africa became so important to the British Empire and how its people were affected in a global race to exploit it.

The scramble for Africa was the reference given by the Times newspaper when several European nations, including Britain, took over most of the continent of Africa.

These countries looked to Africa to enrich themselves; students learn which resources they could acquire and analyse the various reasons these European powers grabbed whatever land they could.

A thinking quilt challenges thinking and ideas for this scramble and the dangers involved for European nations, whilst a true or false quiz and summarising pyramid checks understanding and reinforces the aims of the lesson.

There is also an excellent video link to Cecil Rhodes and his importance to British colonial power in Africa.

The lesson comes with retrieval practice activities, suggested teaching and learning strategies, differentiated materials and is linked to the latest historical interpretations, video clips and debate.

The lesson is enquiry based with a key question posed at the start of the lesson and revisited at the end to show the progress of learning.

The lesson is fully adaptable in PowerPoint format and can be changed to suit.

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With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created a set of resources which focus on ’the development of the British Empire' with depth studies on India and Australia. Furthermore I have been inspired to review and adapt these teaching resources due to recent debates about the impact of the British Empire on the indigenous peoples it conquered and the legacy of Empire and how it influences us still today. I would like to thank Sathnam Sanghera for his brilliant book ‘Empireland’ and his enlightened debate on the British Empire and how and why it should be taught in schools. This bundle includes historical concepts such empire and colonisation, continuity and change with a focus on the East India Company, the causes and consequences of British rule in India, similarities and differences within the British Empire, the analysis of sources and different interpretations of colonisation such as Australia and finally the significance of people such as Robert Clive, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Kitchener and their legacy today. The 13 lessons are broken down into the following: 1) An introduction to Empire 2) The American War of Independence 3) The British East India Company 4) Robert Clive 5) Focus Study – India 6) Gandhi and Indian independence 7) Focus Study - Transportation to Australia 8) The colonisation of Australia 9) The Scramble for Africa 10) The Zulu Wars 11) The Boer War 12) Apartheid and Nelson Mandela Bonus lesson: 13) Empire soldiers in World War 1 Each lesson comes with suggested teaching and learning strategies, retrieval practice activities, differentiated materials and are linked to the latest historical interpretations, video clips and debate. The lessons are fully adaptable in PowerPoint format and can be adapted and changed to suit.

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