The Transatlantic Slave Trade

KS3 History – The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Complete 10-Lesson Scheme + Assessment)

Fully Resourced | Historical Literacy | Exam Skills | Vocabulary | Oracy | Custom Narratives

This complete KS3 unit offers a powerful, knowledge-rich and skills-based exploration of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Designed for mixed-ability classrooms, the module blends strong historical scholarship with accessible pedagogy, model answers, and custom-made learning materials.

Across 10 fully resourced lessons plus a full end-of-unit assessment, students study the origins, experiences, resistance, abolition, and long-term legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, including a bonus lesson on Black Georgians to deepen representation in British history.

Lesson List – Full Scheme of Work (10 Lessons + Assessment)

Part One – Before the Trade

• L1: What Was Slavery Before the Atlantic Trade?
• L2: What Were the Great West African Kingdoms Like?
• L3: How Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Begin?

Part Two – In Chains

• L4: What Was the Middle Passage?
• L5: What Happened at a Slave Auction?
• L6: What Was Life Like on the Plantation?

Part Three – Freedom and Legacy

• L7: How Did Enslaved People Resist Slavery?
• L8: How and Why Was Slavery Abolished?
• L9: What Is the Legacy of Slavery Today?

Bonus Lesson (Representation & Diversity)
L10: How Did Black People Shape Georgian Britain?

End-of-Unit Assessment
• Full 50-mark written assessment with mark scheme & peer marking

What This Bundle Includes

10 complete lessons + full 50-mark assessment, each with:
• Fully resourced PowerPoints
• Printable worksheets
• Model answers and instant feedback slides
• Retrieval “Do Now” starters
• Frayer models to strengthen vocabulary
• Custom-written historical stories for accessibility
• Source utility, inference, and interpretation practice
• Extended writing scaffolds (PEE, DENTS, sentence starters)
• Oracy routines (ABCD discussion)
• Challenge and extension tasks
• Peer- and self-marking templates
• Clear learning objectives & keywords
• Homework and differentiation opportunities