This 15 slide Year 7 History lesson sequence introduces students to the legacy and significance of Ancient Rome. The resource helps students understand why Roman history matters today, how interpretations have changed over time, and how historical significance is constructed. The first section (slides 1–8) builds core knowledge. It opens with an inquiry question asking why Ancient Rome remains significant in the present. Students explore political influence, legal traditions, engineering achievements, cultural impact, and shifting interpretations by historians. The sequence examines how Roman history shapes identity, heritage, and contemporary debates. The section closes with a synthesis slide drawing together patterns of significance and preparing students for inquiry work. The second section (slides 9–15) provides a bank of learning activities for teachers to use across multiple lessons. Each activity slide includes a clear student task, a suggested timeframe, and a brief teacher note on purpose and differentiation. The activity bank includes source analysis, discussion and debate, creative and divergent thinking, structured writing, and additional tasks such as ranking significance factors, connection tasks, retrieval starters, and exit tickets. The transferable skill is evaluating historical significance; Ancient Rome is the vehicle.

This resource is provided as non‑editable PDFs and is not designed as editable PowerPoints. Teachers can upload slides to their LMS, print selected pages for classroom use, display them to support discussion, analysis, and writing, or upload them to presentation or design platforms if they wish to adapt the material (formatting may vary depending on the program).