Key Stage 2

History KS2 Unit 19 - What were the effects of Tudor exploration?

In this unit children learn about the reasons for, and results of, exploration of the world by people in the sixteenth century and its impact on sailors, settlers and indigenous peoples. Children investigate in depth one of the explorers and the problems associated with settlement. The framework can also be used to investigate other explorers and their attempts at settlement and trade.

OTHER RESOURCES

• Maps from before and after the Tudor voyages of exploration.


• A class time line.


• Accounts of Drake’s circumnavigation and attitudes to it.


• Sources that illustrate aspects of life on-board ship during the period, eg navigation, food, sections of ships, sea monsters, superstitions, punishments, daily life and disease.


• Accounts of the settlement of the Roanoke colony.


• Pictorial sources from the settlement of Virginia showing indigenous lifestyles.