Anglo-Saxon Clothes
Lesson Plan 3 – Exploring the Evidence |
Intended Learning Outcomes
- Children will be able to describe what clothes different Anglo-Saxons (men, women and children) would have worn and how it was made.
- Children should understand the variety of evidence available and how it can be used to understand life in the past.
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National Curriculum Links
Key Stage 2 History 6a, Art and Design 6b, ICT, Literacy, Reading
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Duration 1 hour |
Material and Resources
Computers (including internet access and interactive whiteboard / demonstration computer)
Relevant books
Handling materials/objects (not essential)
Class work from previous lessons
Who wears what activity sheet
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Activity |
Teachers Notes |
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Introduction
(10 minutes)
Whole Class activity |
- Teacher explains the activity. Each group will create a table-top display presenting the evidence that have gathered about the clothes worn by the Anglo-Saxon person they were researching (man, woman, girl, boy).
- Teacher should explain that they need to find out the answers for the ‘Who wears What?’ activity sheet
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Children are to arrange their findings in a table-top display for other children to visit and discover what they have learnt.
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Group Activity
(30 minutes)
Class divided into 4 groups |
- In their groups children will create their table-top displays.
- Children will visit the other groups to find out what has been discovered.
- Children can use this information to complete the ‘Who wears what?’ activity sheet.
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This is also an opportunity for children to display any additional activities/work that may have been completed for this theme. |
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Plenary
(20 minutes) |
- Whole class gathered so teacher can use the clothing quizzes on the Anglo-Saxon Discovery website to review what has been learnt.
- Teacher can use further information on the summary pages (Anglo-Saxon men, women and children) for further discussion.
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Start on the Anglo-Saxon clothes page using this to move to pages on Anglo-Saxon men, women and children. Short quizzes on each of these pages is found under ‘What do YOU think they wore?’.
Further information:
- There were different regional styles of Anglo-Saxon dress. For instance girdle hangers and wrist clasps were worn mainly in East Anglia and the north east of the country.
- Anglo-Saxon female costume changed over time. The dresses with brooches were no longer worn by the late 7th century. Shift dresses were then worn. As Christianity was adopted head dresses were also worn by women. Archaeologists do not know if they wore them previously.
- Male costume did not really change much over time.
- After Christianity adopted (6th century onwards) objects no longer buried with people so it is harder for archaeologists to work out what Anglo-Saxons later in the period wore. Can use manuscripts and carvings as evidence.
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Extension Activities
Children can try the dressing up games on the website (Dress Cyneburg and Dress Osric).
Children can draw what they think an Anglo-Saxon man, woman or child may have worn and looked like.
Children could find out what the Anglo-Saxons wore in their area, to see if it is different from other parts of the country. |
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