Knights & Armour
What knights were: trained warriors who served a lord; armour, shields, swords, and lances; the code of chivalry as rules for how knights should behave
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Knights & Armour means trained warriors who served a lord, with armour, shields, swords, and lances, plus chivalry as behaviour rules. We will name gear, say who a knight served, then check a fresh idea.
Materials: Paper cards: armour, shield, sword, lance, chivalry; A toy figure or stick-person sketch as a “knight”. 1. Say knights were trained warriors who served a lord. Place the figure. 2. Match armour, shield, sword, lance to the figure. Child names each. 3. Introduce chivalry as rules for how knights should behave. Child repeats in own words. 4. Fresh check: child answers one new prompt on the same idea. Record and stop. Done: Ask a fresh gear or chivalry question. Proof: parent note of examples tried and support used. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.
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Castles
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Check understanding
- Describe what a knight wore and carried (armour, helmet, shield, sword, lance)
- Explain that knights trained from a young age and served a lord
- Name one rule of the code of chivalry (be brave, be honest, protect the weak)
“Could your child describe what a knight looked like, what they did, and at least one rule they were supposed to follow?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- History
- Domain
- Medieval Times
- Age range
- Ages 5–7