Romans in Sussex - Teachers Notes

Teachers Information - The Educational Goals of the Site

•	To provide a unique resource for learning focussing on a distinct area and time period. (Many books about the Romans and Roman Britain draw on resources which are often not linked to a specific place or time. This website uses a more rigorous approach which we hope will show that evidence needs to be interpreted in its proper context to be of the most value.)
•	To make accessible on-line evidence not formerly available or brought together, to show the wealth of material in Sussex, and also to show that certain types of evidence are not always found, so some historical questions cannot be answered securely at present.
•	To give users the opportunity to look at primary evidence in context and draw their own conclusions/make their own interpretations.
•	To understand that most of what we 'know' about Iron Age, Roman and Saxon Britain comes from archaeological evidence, and that archaeology and history complement each other, and should be used together to develop hypotheses.
The site will also foster the development of particular historical learning skills:

•	formulating enquiries
•	classifying types of evidence
•	analysing visual and textual evidence
•	developing ideas and hypotheses
•	interpreting evidence and evaluating the strength of the interpretation
•	communicating and supporting interpretations
•	prediction

Other more general skills practised will include navigation of the site, map-reading, language skills, including selection of key words.

We assume that the website will form part of teachers' overall planning for their pupils, and it is not intended to be a complete resource for teaching about the Romans in Britain.