Overall enquiry question 
3 Doors into 33,000 Voyages  
Can you negotiate 33, 000 sources to prove your theory? 
Enabling pupils to test hypotheses using the Slavevoyages Database Learning objectives 
To deepen existing knowledge of the Triangular Trade To generate hypotheses from historical sources 
To test these hypotheses against a statistical database Year group 
KS5(England)  
3+ Hours Lessons Resources 
File name 
Description of resource 
The Map  and the Database Microsoft Power Point 
Lesson material for use as a stand-alone lesson or the first lesson in a unit of work in which pupils go on to access the *slavevoyages* database. Includes teacher notes and tips for using the resource Worksheet to accompany an internet based lesson, exploring the *slavevoyages* database Includes pupil notes for using the database 
Using the *Slavevoyages* Database Microsoft Word 
 
Presentation Template Microsoft Power Point 
Pupil presentation tool to accompany an internet based lesson, exploring the slavevoyages database 
Katie Hunter Author 
Lesson enquiry question 
What does this map tell us about Britain's role in the Slave Trade? 
Learning objectives 
To ascertain facts and inferences from, and question the value of, a National Archive primary document.  
Resources 
The Map and the Database ppt Multiple print-outs of the map source (Optional) 
Time 
Activity 
Resources 
Differentiation 
Technology 
PowerPoint 
5 min 
Visuals of the Triangle Trade/African Trade for  
 
Whiteboard and 
'The Map & the Database'  
re-cap/discussion purposes 
projector 
Slides 1&6 
PowerPoint 
5 min 
Prompt class Discussion: What is odd about this 
Print-out of Map with 
 
'The Map & the Database'  
map? 
'Fill-in the blanks' 
Slides 8 
writing spaces 
Map Source Print-outs 
10 
Give each group a print out of the map source to 
True/False decisions 
 
 
PowerPoint 
min  
analyse 
PowerPoint 
'The Map & the Database'  
'The Map & the Database'  
Slide 11 
Question: What does this source tell us about Britain's role in the Slave Trade 
Slides 10 
PowerPoint 
10 
~Share findings/Mark~ 
 
 
'The Map & the Database'  
min 
Slides 12&13 
Question: What does this source suggest to us about the Slave Trade 
PowerPoint 
10 
Answer the question individually  'Is this document 
Scaffolded 
 
'The Map & the Database'  
useful to a historian trying to find out about the  
min  
Questions 
Slides 14&15 
PowerPoint 
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?' 
'The Map & the Database'  
Slide 15 
Use a Mark scheme for the 
5 min  
~Share findings/Mark~ 
 
 
'How useful' type of question 
End of stand-alone lesson  
that fits into your KS5 syllabus   
PowerPoint 
10 
 
 
'The Map & the Database'  
min 
Slides 16-24 
+ 
Introduction to the idea of the *slavevoyages* database and how they will, next lesson, verify the source using the database. 
 

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Does the database back up the hypotheses we made from the inferences we drew from the map?  

Lesson enquiry question Learning objectives 
To generate hypotheses from historical sources 
To test these hypotheses against a statistical database To present findings that compare and contrast the information contained in primary documents and the database.  
Resources 
Using the *Slavevoyages* **Database** Worksheet/Instruction Sheet Presentation Template ppt Internet access, Presentation tools (e.g. Microsoft Office's PowerPoint) 
Time 
Activity 
Resources 
Differentiation 
Technology 


PowerPoint 
5 min  
Re-cap 
 
'The Map & the 
Pupils may follow the step by 
step instructions to check the 
Use the inferences drawn from the map in Lesson 1 to 
Database'  
example hypotheses 
create hypotheses. 
Slides 16-24 
In order to familiarise 
 E.g The map tells us that the British owned most of the 
themselves with the database 
factories on the West Coast **CHANGES TO** Did the British own 
before moving on to 
individualised enquiries 
most of the factories on the West Coast? 
Database 
25 
Individuals, pairs or groups follow instructions to 
Accompanying  
Computer 
Instruction Guide 
min  
interrogate the database, create graph and answer the 
task sheet/instruction 
Suite 
"Using the 
worksheet questions 
sheet 
Slavevoyages 
Database" 
 
Distribute other sources relating to the slave trade such as 
K Hunter - I have sourced and pupil tested 2 further 
the Barbadian letter document/British Port Statistics to 
sources to extend the unit of work if required.  
follow a new line of enquiry - all groups should check their 
See **The Letter and the Statistics PREVIEW** ppt 
line of enquiry with the teacher before proceeding 
 
PowerPoint 
 PowerPoint 
25 
Pupils copy and paste the results of their own enquiries 
Computer 
'Presentation 
'Presentation Template' 
min 
into presentations and annotate  
Suite 
Template' 
 Teachers could add guide 
 
Extension Task: Pupils can develop their own hypotheses 
headings to annotation 
and follow their own lines of enquiry in the same vein 
boxes 
 

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What can the database tell us about the logistics of the Slave Trade? 

## Lesson Enquiry Question

Learning objectives 
To present a PowerPoint that compares and contrasts the primary document and the database information.  
Resources 
White Board access, Presentation tools (e.g. Microsoft Office's PowerPoint), primary source document print-outs 
Time 
Activity 
Differentiation 
Technology 
Resources 
45 min 
Pupils deliver presentation 
 
Whiteboard and 
Pupils' 
projector 
presentation 
PPts 
45 min  
Pupils in audience take notes  


Option  - take notes in a triangle format that 
reflects the Triangular Trade  
10 min Discussion - value of primary sources, value 
 
 
PowerPoint 
'The Map & the 
of database 
Database'  
Reflection - Pupils reflect on range of skills 
Slides 23&24 
developed over the unit