Princes in the Tower

This Historical Skills / War of the Roses lesson investigates what happened to Prince Edward and Prince Richard - it presents students with theories of who may have killed them, including Richard III, Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII, Henry Stafford (Duke of Buckingham) or whether they are actually survived! Students can use evidence to provide their own theory on what happened to the princes in the tower.

This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks,information sheets which can be used as groupwork or individual work with table to complete, mini-plenary, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary.

Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.

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