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Feudalism Lesson Plans
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Students play a role-playing game using candy to identify the order of a feudalistic society. In this world history lesson, students identify the order of societal rank and loyalties within feudal Europe.
Students examine feudal class structure. In this Medieval Ages lesson, students participate in a classroom simulation and then discuss the roles of kings, barons, bishops, lords, and peasants in the feudal world. Students respond to discussion questions about the experience.
Eighth graders study European society during the medieval period. They investigate the feudal social structure and how it influenced daily life. They study Japanese society during the medieval period. They compare and contrast the similarities and differences between Japanese and European medieval societies.
Seventh graders compare feudal societies in Europe and Asia. In this feudalism lesson, 7th graders research the political, economic, and social attributes of feudal Europe and feudal Asia. Students create feudalism picture books as a culminating activity.
Students identify that a system of feudalism similar to that of medieval Europe developed in Japan by 1300. Students identify the social hierarchy of feudal Japan. Students identify what the cultural basis for the relationships among social groups. Students identify and interpret through role-play how feudal Japan was similar to and different from feudal Europe.
Students study the feudal system of the Middle Ages. In this Middle Ages lesson, students watch "The Feudal System at War". Students listen to an instructor-delivered lecture regarding the roles of monarchs, nobles, knights, and peasants. Students then write first- person narratives from their points of view.
Young scholars complete a chart and writing assignment about Feudalism. In this Feudalism lesson, students label a diagram that shows the concepts related to Feudalism and write a short essay explaining how William I used the feudal system to control England.
Students research the different groups in Feudal Japan. In this Japanese people lesson, students are broken into different groups representing the different roles in Japan. They research their group and have a "tea party" in which they interact with their classmates and find information about the other groups.
Students look back in time into the feudal form of government. They view Powerpoint presentations to take them back in time.
Seventh graders research aspects of either European or Japanese feudalism and create a skit to present their findings to the class. For the post-assessment, 7th graders create a picture book describing reasons for feudalism as well as political, economic and social characteristics of these two societies.
