You can use this task on Scott’s journey to the South Pole in a number of ways: as a simple sequencing task, which really challenges across the ability range or as a diagnostic assessment task, for instance.
Whatever you choose, you will need to ensure that pupils have a strong grasp of the narrative from the launch of the Terra Nova to Scott’s death in the Antarctic BEFORE they attempt the activity.
Learning objectives
- Pupils are able to grasp nature of journey and correctly sequence between 4 and 6 stages
- They use evidence to establish events and can discuss the setbacks he faced
- Pupils can explore internal clues within a photograph and use knowledge of the context of the time in which the photo was taken to explain reasons for emotions shown
There are 11 pictures in all. Clearly this will be too many for most pupils so a judicious selection will be required. I suggest you use the following for most pupils, with nine for the most able.
Picture 6 (slide 4), Picture 3, Picture 5 Picture 2, Picture 11
I always think it is a good idea to do sequencing in two phases. Lay down simple start and
