Year 7 Castle Building Project

Greetings Year 7

This term you have been learning a great deal about castles in the middle ages, why they started being built, how they developed over time and finally why they stopped being effective in warfare and became more like expensive status symbols.

Your Task

1. In a group put together by myself you are going to create a model replica of a castle which is based upon an actual castle design that you have researched.
2. You will create a fact sheet about the background to your castle and who built it and so on and this will be done in the form of a flyer that could be handed out to visitors to your castle. You may also choose to do a video introduction to the castle which could be played in the foyer.
3. Finally you are going to take photos of how you researched, designed and finally built the castle step by step and blog this on the Year 7 History blog to show to the rest of the school.

Choose who in your team that will take photos and write down what you are doing as a group as they need this information to create the blog. Their job is to tell website readers how you chose and researched the castle and how you built the castle replica.