EXTREME EARTH is a fourteen-lesson unit introducing and illustrating extreme weather phenomenon, the causes and effects.
Topics include:
Earth’s unstable crust
Mountains
Pushing, buckling bending and sliding – Mountain Formation
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Volcanoes
Geysers and hot springs
Weather and climate
Tornadoes
Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones
Drought
Floods
Earth’s Ice Ages and Extinction Periods
Global Warming and Climate change
The unit includes power point presentations and worksheets for each topic.
A unit of instruction studying the events of the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945 and that this is known as the Holocaust. The aim is to enable students to understand the history and to understand that genocide is a consequence of prejudice and discrimination.
This unit is suitable for year 6.
Lesson topics include:
Offering hope while spreading hate
Nazis - ethnicity and religion
Nazis and the Jews
Ghettos
The Wannsee conference
Extermination Camps
The story of the Frank family
This unit is a study of a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history: Early Islamic civilization, including a study of Baghdad c. AD 900.
Lessons include:
The beginning of the Islamic civilization
Important aspects of Islam
Time line of the early Islamic civilization
The rise and fall of Baghdad
Daily life in Baghdad
Center of learning
Early Islam civilization Trade
Early Islamic Art
The important cities in the Islamic civilization
Legacy of the Islam civilization
How did the power of the British monarchy evolve over time? Explore this with your students using twelve lesson power point presentations, worksheets and content pages.
The chapters include:
Monarchs since 1066 (Try this chapter free)
Royalty, power and religion
William the Conqueror – Absolute Power
John I
Establishment of a Parliament
Tudors take back power
Charles I
The Commonwealth of England
The threat of James II
Anne and political parties
Victoria – remaking the monarchy
The House of Windsor**
This unit presents a society that provides contrasts and intersection with European history:
Benin (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300
Ten power points with corresponding worksheets provide opportunities to reflect on historical information and give informed responses. There is consistent emphasis on historical resources.
Topics:
Oral tradition of the Kingdom of Benin
Time line of the Benin civilization
Establishment of the Edo Kingdom
Edo kings
Edo City (Benin City)
The Edo gods
The religious practices
The Edo (Benin) arts and crafts
Farming activities and Trade
The demise of the Benin Kingdom
Seven lessons with power point presentations and lesson activities in worksheet form.
Topics:
The main internal organs
Blood
Heart
Blood vessels
Respiration
Lungs
Exercise for the heart and lungs
Lesson activities include:
Comprehension activities; Expression of opinion giving reasons; Survey on healthy lifestyle; Planning exercise; Drawing and labeling diagrams.
This set of power Point presentations and worksheets should be used with your rock and soil samples to enable students:
to visualise how the three types of rocks are formed and relate this to the rock samples they have
to compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
to recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
to explore different soils and identify similarities and differences between them and
to investigate what happens when rocks are rubbed together
The lessons are:
Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - colour
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – lustre
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - hardness
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - cleavage
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – minerals and crystals
What is Soil?
A series of lessons about the characters and events central to the War of the Roses. The topics include:
The House of Lancaster and the Hundred Years’ War
The House of York
Civil war begins
The struggle for a Yorkist crown
Edward V and Richard III
Henry Tudor and Battle of Bosworth Field
Timeline of the War of the Roses
I have used these lessons mainly with Year 7 students. Each topic has a power point presentation and lesson activities.
This series of slides and worksheets aims to promote the students’ understanding of what slavery means, a historical perspective of what happened, abolition and slavery today.
I have used this unit with year 7 and 8.
Prepared for Year 5 students, this unit covers the following aspects of the topic, “South America”
Location
Countries
Important Cities
Physical Features
Climate Zones
Natural Biomes
Human Geography
Human Geography – Mining and Industry
Human Activities – Agriculture
Each aspect is presented with power point slides and there is follow up in the form of worksheet activities.
I used this for Year 5 & 6 (Grades 4 to 6). I used it after the unit on South America but it could be used first.
There are twelve lessons, each with power point slides and worksheets.
Lesson topics:
Location
Natural Physical Feature
Important Lakes
Important Rivers
Climate
Natural Vegetation and Wild life
Countries of North America
The people of North America (human population)
Mining Resources
Agricultural (Farming) Resources
Manufacturing Industry
Economy
The Renaissance is an eleven part unit.
It covers the topics:
The beginning of the Renaissance in Europe
Causes of the Renaissance
The Northern Renaissance
Timeline of the Renaissance
The rebirth of the classical ideas through art
Great Art works of Renaissance
Architecture and Science
Renaissance Exploration
Literature and the Renaissance
Geniuses of the Renaissance
The end of the Renaissance
It has been used mainly for years 8, 9 and 10.
There are power point slides and learning activities for each topic / lesson.
This unit looks at changes in an aspect of social history, specifically** leisure and entertainment in the 20th Century.**
Lessons are titled:
All work and no play
Home entertainment
Dancing through the 20th Century
Theatre
Movies
Music
Fashion and influences
Radio
Television
Sport
Each lesson consists of a power point presentation and worksheet with activities.
A set of nine power point presentations and nine worksheets.
The unit covers the following:
Roman withdrawal from Britain
The invasion by the Scots from Ireland
The Invasion of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes
The Anglo-Saxons
Village life in an Anglo-Saxon settlement
Anglo Saxon Art and Culture
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Christianity and the Anglo Saxons
Some Early Christian Missions in Britain
This unit covers the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor, using power point slides and worksheets.
The nine lessons are entitled:
Who were the Vikings?
Viking Society
Viking Village life
Longboats
Raiding Britain
The Anglo-Saxons push back
The return of the Vikings
Edward the confessor and the end of Anglo-Saxon rule
Timeline of the struggle between the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
I have used this mainly with 8 to 9 year olds. There are nine power point presentations and nine worksheets.
There is still much that archaeologists need to learn about the Indus Valley Civilization. This unit explores the reasons for this, including the importance of evidence, while giving insight into:
The Origins of the Indus civilization
Discovery of the Indus (Harappan) civilization
Cities
Society
Farming
Trade
Engineering and science
Arts and crafts
8 lessons are covered through slides and worksheets.
This unit satisfies the over-arching curriculum objectives:
• I can name and locate countries I am learning about.
• I can explain how the location of different European countries affects the climate.
• I can name and locate the major cities of Europe on a map.
• I can name and locate countries of Europe and explain where they are in relation to one another.
The unit consists of seven lessons with power point slides and activities covering the following topics:
The United Kingdom and the European mainland
Locating the countries of Europe
The physical characteristics of Europe
The natural environment of Europe
The human characteristics
Important cities and their characteristics
European Russia
The lesson, presented using a power point presentation, aims to enable students to place the Shang Dynasty on a time line. They will be able to discuss how the primary evidence at Yin Xu informed archaeologists.
The worksheet contains a time line activity and a comprehension activity related to the text.
This free download contains both the power point and the worksheet.
This lesson is entitled: MONARCHS SINCE 1066
and includes a power point presentation and worksheet.
Topics covered are - The Names of the Monarchs
Family Names
From Absolute Monarchy to Constitutional Monarchy
Activities include: Using a timeline to find information
Adding Royal houses to a timeline
Comparing aspects of an absolute monarchy and a constitutional monarchy
Use this lesson on its own or find the entire unit:**** “THE CHANGING POWERS OF THE BRITISH MONARCHS SINCE 1066”****
Students will be able to answer the question, “Who were the Ancient Greeks?”
Activities include drawing time lines to show a range of information e.g. periods of history, events, significant people; Using a time line to compare periods of history that have been studied.
This resource consists of a power point presentation and worksheet.