Lesson 17: Students examine the main aims and events of the invasion of King Philip II’s Spanish Armada with a focus on the battles, route and main turning points.

A 17 slide fully resourced lesson containing warm up & learning review activities, a choice of tasks, printable resources and a printable knowledge organiser with all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Warm Up - A strategy discussion based on how students would plan a Spanish invasion of England in 1588. Prompt questions included.
• Slide 3-6: Task 1 - Students complete a gap fill activity to understand the main aims and plans of the Spanish invasion of England. Students can later evaluate how far the Spanish achieved their aims. Includes printable resources and answers.
• Slide 7: Source analysis - Students study a painting of a battle which took place during the invasion to infer information from it about the events. Prompt questions and ideas included.
• Slide 8-9: Task 2 - Students use the lesson fact sheet and the printable resource to chart the route of the Spanish armada and label the main events which took place. Printable map sheet included.
• Slide 10: Challenge questions
• Slide 11: Optional source task with questions
• Slide 12-14: Learning Review 1 - Match 10 key locations to what happened in a match up table. Answers and printable resource provided.
• Slide 15: Learning Review 1 - Alphabet key term quiz
• Slide 16: Lesson fact sheet/knowledge organiser
• Slide 17: More from RA Resources

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