Elizabeth I - Good or Bad Queen? KS3

Full lesson and resources to answer the question was Elizabeth I a good or bad queen? No textbooks needed.

Lesson includes a range of tasks from gap fill, mindmaps, challenge questions for the higher ability students, pair based information gathering task where they move around the room evaluation text and picture based sources to gain enough information on successes and failures of Elizabeth.

Then as a group of four they use the information gathered to either make a presentation on Elizabeth as a good or bad queen - presentation writing frame is provided and key success criteria discussed and displayed on PowerPoint. After listening to all the presentations students make their own mind up on whether Elizabeth was good or bad by sticking a post-it and their reason on the board as plenary.