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HistoryYears 8, 9About 4 sessions (estimate, no timer)A parent checks the finished piece
The Romanov Mystery
A museum has mixed up the labels for a royal object. Solve it — then explain why the man who gave it lost his throne.
What you'll make
A solved label puzzle, a paper opening egg with visitor clues, curator captions and a cause-and-consequence explanation.
What you'll learn
- Who Nicholas II was, and what 'tsar' and 'abdication' mean
- How ordinary Russians lived beyond the court
- How war and shortages built pressure for change
- Connecting causes to a consequence
You'll need
Paper or card · Scissors and glue · Coloured pencils
The main project ends at Nicholas II's abdication in March 1917.
Curriculum links
- Understand challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day, including the First and Second World Wars and the Holocaust
- Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance
- Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources, and how and why historians have interpreted the past in different ways
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