White Rose PrimaryClass 11

T.A.S.C

The Armada

I introduced the T.A.S.C. wheel to the children

What do I know about the Armada?The children made mind maps.

I displayed the questions we needed to find answers to:•Who were Queen Elizabeth and King Philip?•Why were England and Spain enemies?•What was the Armada?•What were the sequence of events of the voyage?•How did the English / Spanish view their victory/defeat?

What is the task?

We discussed ways of answering our questions.The children had to organise themselves into groups of 4 and answer the first two questions.We discussed what they had found out

The Spanish Armada – You Decide

The Spanish Armada-You decide.

I explained that they were going to be English captainsand they were going to have to make decisions after listening to certain pieces of information. We mapped the voyage on the map.

The children really enjoyed the activity and found out a lot of informationabout the sequence of events that July. It was also a great stimulus for the children’s further research using books and the internet ,both in school and for homework.

A classroom assistant recorded the group work and I used it later as partof my assessment of the children’s Collaborative skills for oracy.

Decision making

How to present what we have learned?

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Newspaper report

Dance

Story

Diary

Poster

CollageCartoon

Song/rap

Radio play

mural

Game

Power point

Cartoon

BookInterview

The children decided to present their information by:

•A power point presentation - Power point Pirates

•A board game - Armada Monopoly

•A cartoon book - The Simpson’s Armada

•An interview - Oprah Back in Time

Which is the best idea?

The children organised themselves into new groups.

We then discussed the importance of planning each membersrole within the group so that everyone was clear about their task within the group.

What resources would they need and where we could get them?

Would they need to research anything for their task?

Let’s do it!

Let’s tell someone

How well did we do?

How well did I do?

What have I learned?