Activities Touring Tudor Heritage Today

KS2 Rich and poor people in Tudor times with K Eye2eye Britain

A wide variety of Tudor heritage - mostly buildings - can still be seen today right across Britain. Picking the Tudor period on Eye2eye Britain's timeline highlights lots of these from its 11,500 captioned panoramas and photos - houses big and small, hotels, guildhalls, castles, colleges, shops, a theatre and even a re-enactment with some 'Tudor' people. Tour these automatically, explore by hand, then print out or copy images to support many sections of this study unit. Ideal for whiteboard use by teachers at KS2 (and 1), and use by KS2 pupils individually or in groups.

Activities touring Tudor heritage today

If this is the first time you’ve used Eye2eye Britain for a project, get to know its main controls and what they can do for you. When Eye2eye Britain starts and its music has finished, if a Help window isn’t already showing, press F1 to show it. Text in this window (which can be printed if wanted) should help you get going. Teachers: you may want to help pupils get started.

An automatic tour of Tudor heritage If you have a whiteboard, you can start this project with a whole class automatic tour of the main Tudor sites right across Britain using Eye2eye Britain. Whenever something appears that raises a discussion, stop the tour there, then restart when appropriate. This tour lasts around 50 minutes at standard speed, plus any discussion time, so if you don’t have time for all of this, you can always stop the tour after covering just some of Britain – for example, the area nearest your school. To take an automatic tour of Tudor sites: 1) In Eye2eye Britain’s control screen, select the Timeline tab to display the page for choosing panoramas and photos by date. Scroll the timeline to select the period of Tudor Britain – 1485 – 1603. As you do this, make sure the pupils see the timeline so they see how the Tudor period fits with others. 2) Yellow dots now twinkle on the map of Britain to the right wherever there’s an image of a Tudor site. Click on the control screen’s Slideshow tab, then the Last set found by Search, Timeline or Tour panel. Next choose options such as displaying Captions and speed. Click the map by the twinkling dots where you want to start (click near your school’s locality to start with the nearest relevant sites). 3) If you want to stop the automatic tour to discuss something of interest, click the ‘video stop’ button to the bottom right of the photos. Press space to view the photos at the place you have stopped. To restart the tour, click the Eye2eye logo button to the bottom left of the screen to return to the control screen, then click the map to restart the tour where you clicked. If you don’t have a whiteboard, ask pupils to watch this in groups (more difficult to stop & discuss).

Exploring Tudor heritage by hand – then writing rich/poor lists Ask pupils, either individually or in small groups, to explore Tudor sites across Britain using Eye2eye Britain. When they find views they think help show how people lived in those days, ask them to copy the images into a rich list and a poor list in a word processor, writing a sentence for each saying why that photo belongs in its list. Ask children to try to place photos in their rich list in the order from most to least rich. The Tudor sites picked for the automatic tour above show a lot of stately homes, castles and palaces – mainly telling of the lives of the rich. These can be explored by hand: 1) In Eye2eye Britain’s control screen, select the Timeline tab to display the page for choosing photos by date. Scroll the timeline to select the period of Tudor Britain – 1485 – 1603. 2) Yellow dots now twinkle on the map of Britain to the right wherever there’s a photo of a Tudor site. Click on the map to the right to move to the explore map. Press the space bar to see views where you clicked, then double- click on active, highlighted dots on the map to explore other Tudor sites. 3) To copy an image to your work, right-click on the photo/panorama you want, select Copy Image / Copy View of Panorama, then use the same menu again to minimise Eye2eye Britain so you can see the application you want to paste the photo into. Click Eye2eye Britain’s Taskbar icon to return to Eye2eye Britain. To find views telling more about how the ordinary person lived, try exploring all photos – without any searching – of towns with good collections of Tudor buildings at their centre. Examples include: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire (see the 1450 shop); Lavenham, Suffolk; Ipswich, Suffolk; Long Melford, Suffolk; Worcester, Worcestershire; Sandwich, Kent; Saffron Walden, Essex; Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire. The best way to see these is simple exploring starting from a placename: 1) In Eye2eye Britain’s control screen, click the Go To tab to display the Go To page where you can choose to visit places by placename. In the text box under Or enter a placename and Go type the name of the place you want to visit. As you type, the list below will scroll to position the selected name at the top, and show a small yellow dot on the map to the right where selected the place is located. 2) Click Go to move to the explore map, the dot of your selected place flashing near the centre. Press space to see views there. To see nearby places, double-click on their dots on the map, then click on each image to see the next, then return to the map. Another way of locating less rich Tudor homes is to do a text search for cottages: 1) In Eye2eye Britain’s control screen, select the Search tab to display the text search page. All 11,500 images have text captions, and this page lets you select all the images that have words of your choice in their captions. 2) Click New search, then into the top two and bottom-left boxes type Tudor OR 16th AND cottage – the text pattern to search for – then click Search to do the search. 3) Yellow dots now twinkle on the map of Britain to the right wherever there’s an image with caption matching your search. Click on the map to move into the exploring map - which now highlights all your found places by leaving active red or yellow dots where they are, switching all others off and browning them out. 4) Double-click on any active red (where there are panoramas) or yellow dot on the explore map to see views there. Single-click on each image to see the next, then return to the map.

Learning Objectives and Suggestions

 Place Tudor times on a time line – Using Eye2eye Britain to select the Tudor period on its timeline, then taking an automatic tour, gives pupils a good feel for the placing of the Tudor period and what it has left us still to see today.

 Identify the features of Tudor buildings – The activities above give an excellent idea of exteriors of Tudor buildings and their features. You may wish to supplement this with views of Tudor interiors from other sources.

 Make inferences about the lifestyles of different types of Tudor people –  Recognise the main advantages and disadvantages faced by rich and poor people in Tudor times - The rich/poor lists made in the exploring activity above help with both of these outcomes. Pupils can finish their listing activity with a summary about both of these comparisons. Make sure the pupils have picked up on some of the disadvantages of the rich - eg from the captions at Thornbury, Gloucestershire.

Other Projects with Eye2eye Britain

Eye2eye Britain is a versatile resource for many parts of the curriculum, for use by a wide range of age and ability (users of 6 years and up of average ability can use the software themselves, all ages benefit from whiteboard use). The ‘recipes’ above for investigating Tudor Britain are some of a huge number of possible ways of selecting and using its material. For more suggestions, see the other Eye2eye Britain projects on our website www.eye2eyesoft.co.uk/school.htm , and also the teaching notes that are included in the Eye2eye Britain paperwork. Having seen some of these suggestions, we hope you will start to invent your own ‘recipes’ for more projects.

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