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Pedagogy

The London Bills of Mortality make an excellent resource to use in a classroom environment and are appropriate for students grades 8-12, undergraduates, and graduates. You may find below a poster presentation on using the bills in the classroom and a link to the prototype of a text-based adventure game to survive the Great Plague of 1665. Early Modern Death in the 21st Century Classroom Gaming the Great Plague of London Lynda Payne, Long Teaching Module: Children’s Health in Early Modern England Lesson Plans Dan Howlett, Humanities Data with Death By Numbers Lesson Plan Dan Howlett, Urban Plague with Death By Numbers Lesson Plan

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