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Isle of Man castles & forts printables
Fact-checked PDFs in A4 and US Letter, for KS2 classrooms, ages 11 to 14, families and visitors to the island’s castles and forts.
Isle of Man Castles & Forts KS2 Topic Pack
Ages 7 to 11, schools and families
Label a castle, before-or-after-the-Vikings sorting cards, put-it-in-order date cards, a true-or-false quiz, a crossword where every answer is a real fact, a word search, a comic strip, a roundhouse to colour, a certificate and a full answer key
Isle of Man Castles & Forts Archaeology Detective Pack
Ages 11 to 14
Watch and Ward: were old promontory forts reused as lookout posts? Short sources with their provenance, an evidence table, questions experts still cannot answer, and a judgement task, with full answers
Isle of Man Castles & Forts Family Activity Pack
Families, ages 5 and up
Colouring pages, a castle maze, spot-the-difference, design your own castle, Useless the Eraser’s castle jokes and a 20-question quiz to do together
Isle of Man Castles & Forts Spotter’s Field Guide
Adult history fans and walkers
How to read castles and promontory forts, how Castle Rushen grew, the Watch and Ward, roundhouses and longhouses, 12 places around the island with what the people who look after or study them say, a timeline, open questions and a checklist
Isle of Man Castles & Forts Visit Journal
Visitors of all ages
Before-you-go checklist, what-to-spot tick lists for towers, walls, gates, banks, ditches and homes, six sketch pages, a log for up to 12 visits, and a visit stamps page
Isle of Man Castles & Forts Timeline & Poster Set
Classrooms and home
Six poster pages: a timeline from 5700 BC to 2013, the parts of a castle, how Castle Rushen grew, life in a roundhouse, forts around the island, and the island in numbers
Best valueThe Complete Isle of Man Castles & Forts Printables Bundle
All six packs plus a bundle guide, A4 and US Letter, in one download. $12.99 instead of $26.44 bought separately.