Pupils have to deduce from a range of visual clues of castles they will see around them, the uses to which castles are put today and then to consider, using a simple debate, whether the country’s money should be spent preserving old buildings at a time when people are struggling to stay healthy and make ends meet.
Using techniques such as Mantle of the Expert, Influence cards and Conscience Alley ensures pupils are able to make well-informed contributions to the debate.
Learning objectives
- Pupils are able to give a range of reasons why people still visit castles today using clues provided
- Pupils grasp why most castles are ruins
- Pupils are able to think of pros and cons of spending money on restoring old castles and can offer a balanced answer orally and briefly by way of speech bubbles
Step 1: making deductions
In this concluding session we bring things right
