The Discover Maritime resources have been made in collaboration with researchers at the University of Southampton. They had been working on a project that would achieve two aims:

 

1. To transform our understanding of the evolution of English maritime capacity through a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment of the English merchant fleet over a period of crucial change in seaborne activity and ambition, c.1400-c.1577.
2. To undertake a prosopographical investigation of shipboard communities over this same period.

 

From this research project this resource was created! The teaching resources are aimed for use in a sixth form classroom and the resource pack contains plans for eight consecutive lessons (2/3 weeks of teaching). The first six lessons lead towards a two-lesson small group project revolving around the Medieval and Tudor Ships website. The first six lessons involve use of the online database in a variety of ways (usually in the form of a demonstration by the teacher), such that by the time the students get to lessons 7/8 they will have a solid skillset with which to use the database and be able deploy various methods in their group projects.

 

The final group projects lend themselves well to transformation into EPQ projects (as either group or
individual projects).

 

The full pack contains the following:
– 8 lesson plans
– 8 PowerPoint presentations
– 6 corresponding worksheets/handouts

 

The researcher’s website can be found here: Medieval and Tudor Ships of England