Lesson Plan

Knights & Castles Lesson Plan

Lower the drawbridge and step inside: this week your child or students meet the lords, knights, cooks and blacksmiths who made a castle run.

This five-day Middle Ages unit gives you a ready-to-teach plan for three levels, Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8), for siblings or a mixed classroom. Days run Reading, Writing and Words, Science and Math, Hands-on Project, then Friday Show and Tell. Littles label a castle, test thin and thick walls, build a cardboard castle and design a coat of arms. Middles follow a page to knighthood, test which tower shape is strongest and cook a medieval pottage. Bigs sort the feudal pyramid, read Magna Carta as a primary source, build a motte-and-bailey model and run a craft-stick catapult lab with soft projectiles. Common myths are corrected along the way.

Perfect for homeschool families, multi-age classrooms, medieval history and STEM units.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for each of three levels
• Parts of a Castle label sheet with answer key
• Lab sheets: strong walls test, tower shape lab, catapult launch angle lab
• Sequence cards, cut-and-sort pages and a writing page for every level
• Word search, crossword or maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards, a book list and a certificate per level

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