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- Please find below details of this project.
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- National Curiculum History : Key Stage 3
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- Study Unit 1 : Medieval Realms
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- AIM :
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- - to explore the ways in which computer applications can be used in the
- study of a Domesday village.
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- Objectives :
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- - identify an existing settlement (Southease).
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- - prepare and present a study of that settlement in 1995 using
- computer applications.
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- - using the Domesday survey prepare and present a study of the site
- in 1086.
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- - identify other sources that can be used.
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- The project will be run mainly during after-school sessions and will
- involve pupils from class 9D2.
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- 17/5/95
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- Project explained to class and volunteers given information to take home
- and discuss with their parents.
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- HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS TO BE USED INCLUDE :
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- - Archimedes 3010 (6th form block Maths Dept. - the History Department
- has an ageing BBC Master. Archimedes are used extensively in Maths).
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- - Canon Ion Video Still Camera.
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- - HCCS Video Digitiser.
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- - Z88 Computer.
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- - Psion Computer.
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- - video camera/tape recorder.
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- - !Edit, !Paint, !Draw.
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- - !Genesis.
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- - !Topographer.
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- - database and graph designer.
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- TIMETABLE
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- June 7th : 'Hands-on' experience of the software and hardware.
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- June 14th : site visit to Southease village to collect information.
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- June 21 & 28 : creating a presentation.
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- July 5th : site visit to Southease church; examination of area
- between river and village; examination of area to west of
- main road.
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- July 12th, 19th & 26th : presentation work.
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- There is also the possibility of visits to the Sussex Archaeological Society museum in Lewes to look at 'life in medieval times' and also to the Downs
- Open Air Museum to look at examples of medieval buildings.
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- By the end of the project, pupils should have created :
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- - a database of information on the Ouse Valley from Domesday Book.
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- - a !Genesis presentation of the village in 1995 and 1086.
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- - map files showing the area 'now and then'.
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- - text descriptions of the project/visits/areas studied on !Edit.
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- PRIMARY SOURCES used include :
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- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Extracts from the years 1085-1087.
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- Domesday Book : Sussex.
- Extracts covering the Ouse Valley - Lewis, Iford, Rodmell,
- Southease, Harpingden, Orleswick,
- Beddingham, Itford, Tarring Neville,
- South Heighton, Bishopstone.
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- The PUPIL'S TEXTBOOK is Medieval Realms, by John Nicol. Oxford 1991.
- ISBN 0 631 90598 7.
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- Teacher's SECONDARY SOURCES include :
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- Anglo-Saxon England. Frank Stenton.
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- William the Conqueror. David Douglas.
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- Domesday : A Search for the Roots of England. Michael Wood.
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- Anglo-Saxon England. David Brown.
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- Britain Before the Norman Conquest. Ordnance Survey Map.
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- Domesday Book Through Nine Centuries. Elizabeth Hallam.
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- The Sussex Story. David Arscott.
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- A History of Sussex. J.R. Armstrong.
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- The Buildings of Sussex. Nairn and Pevsner.
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- Medieval England : A Social and Archaeological History. Colin Platt.
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- East Sussex Country Churches. James Antony Syms.
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- Sussex Churches and Chapels. Beevers, Marks and Roles.
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- Wharram Percy Medieval Village. Beresford and Hurst.
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- From Domesday to Jubilee. Ide and Watts.
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- Jim Fanning
- History Department.
- Tideway School.
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- July 1995.