Session plans and student resources
The structure for these sessions was:
Week 1: a two-hour session at Highwire in a technology rich environment.
Week 2: a one-hour class in a school classroom without any technology. On ocassion, digital cameras were taken in to the classroom or a video and television were used.
This was repeated over a term.

Any questions that are not clarified in these plans and resources, please contact:
Vivi Lachs on vivi@highwire.org.uk

PART 1: SPAIN IN LAS INDIAS

Session 1: Introduction to 16th century colonialism

Lesson plan

Resources

Intro story to portugal in Africa and Spain in Las Indias

Character cards: Caribbean

Character cards: Spain/Portugal

Character cards: West Africa

Questions for groups

Adverts questions screen

Breakfast homework

Session 2: Wider background Europe

Lesson plan

Resources

Investment stories and questions

Session 3: Spanish perspectives on the conquest of 'Las Indias'

Lesson plan

Resources

Perspectives: Las Casas

Perspectives: De Vitoria

Perspectives: Sepulveda

Additional resources:

Govern documents

Session 4: Spanish systems and Laws in 'Las Indias'

Lesson plan

Resources

Comprehensions

Comprehension questions

Session 5: Authoring speeches and Images to put across an argument

Lesson plan

Resources

Allegory image

Columbus image

Speech and article titles

PART 2: BRITAIN IN INDIA

Session 6: Introduction to the East India Company

Lesson plan

Resources

East India Company story

Comparisons worksheet

Comparisons answers

Boxes worksheet

Session 7: Britain in China and the opium trade: Job interviews

Lesson plan

Resources

Tea/opium story

Who's happy worksheet

Who's happy list of people

Job descriptions

Interview questions

Session 8: The White Man's Burden

Lesson plan

Resources

Kipling verses

Poems and questions

PART 3: BELGIUM IN THE CONGO

Sessions 9and 10: Terror, Greed and Resistance in the Belgian Congo: Letter writing

Lesson plans

Resources

Congo story

Letter writers

Letter writing frame

The Times

Pamphlet: Leopold

Pamphlet: Rubber

Pamphlet: Force Publique