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A complete unit designed for Year 8 on The British Empire.

This unit is fully resourced for each lesson, including clearly chunked activities and assessment points at the end of each unit based around a central question.

The following lessons are included (each roughly 1hr to deliver):

1. Why would Britain want an Empire?
2. How did Britain gain an Empire?
3. Hong Kong: how did we treat the Chinese?
4. Why did Europe want control of Africa?
5. Africa: Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift
6. India: how did Britain gain control?
7. Amritsar: how did the Empire treat the Indians?
8. India: Gandhi and the end of British rule
9. Australia and New Zealand: how did we treat the natives?
10. How should the British Empire be remembered?
11. Why did Britain lost its empire?

All units focus on the core skills of history (chronology, causation, change and continuity, historiography, source-analysis and judgement making), and are part of an overall theme for the year (For Year 7 this is ‘The Changing Nature of Power’, for Year 8 it is ‘Progress vs Regress’ and for Year 9 it is ‘Conflict’).

Each unit is also designed to focus on inclusive, social, history where possible. This aims to include the experiences of black people, disabled, LGBT and other minority groups throughout history. This innovative approach is in line with Ofsted’s framework regarding inclusivity in the curriculum and avoids the issue of tokenism within history.

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