KS 1 students study the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
In this unit, students will compare aspects of life in different periods, using the lives of Marco Polo and Neil Armstrong.
***There are power point presentations and worksheets for: ***
Marco Polo - life and achievements.
Neil Armstrong- life and achievements
Comparison
**PLEASE NOTE: **THERE IS A UNIT IN OUR SHOP THAT COMPARES Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong. This unit on *Marco Polo and Neil Armstrong *contains THE EXACT SAME presentations and worksheets for Neil Armstrong.
This unit has been used with Year 6, 7 and 8.
Starting with a Timeline of Events this unit describes the settlement of Europeans in North America.
Topics following include:
Reasons for the European settlements
Establishing colonies
Life for early settlers
Pocahontas
War with Native American tribes
The arrival of the Quakers in the United States.
The beginning of King Phillip’s War.
The conclusion of King Phillip’s War
The Bacon Rebellion
King William’s War
The Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693
Power point slides for every lesson make presentation easy and there are worksheet activities for each lesson.
This unit consists of eleven lessons aimed at students in Year 7 to 10, Grade 6 to 9. Each lesson has power point slides and worksheets.
Topics include:
The Power of the Catholic Church
Causes of the Reformation
Timeline of the Reformation
Martin Luther
Huldrych Zwingli
English Reformation – Henry VIII
English Reformation - Henry VIII the Supreme Head of the Church
English Reformation - Henry VIII Establishing the Church of England
English Reformation – Bloody Mary and Elizabeth I
John Calvin
John Knox
Working Scientifically 5 is a good introduction to scientific methods and terminology.
It covers:
Creativity in Science
Planning to experiment
The main variables that may affect investigative results
Communicating conclusions
Evaluating accuracy of conclusions
Five presentations are used to illustrate the important concepts above. Each is followed by activities for learning in worksheet form.
Animals including Humans: Eating and Digestion:
There are eight presentations, plus corresponding notes and worksheets for students.
They cover the following topics:
Eco systems – consumers and producers
Consumers in the food chain
Human teeth
Teeth in animals
Mouth and the tongue
The Throat and Oesophagus
The stomach and intestines
The different ways that animals digest food
Use the six power point presentations to introduce your students to the scientific methodology and concepts:
How Science has had a positive and negative effect over time
Following the Scientific Method
Exploring scientific ideas
Getting accurate results
Recording and concluding
Limitations of tests
Follow up with the six sets of notes and worksheets for each lesson.
Finding lost treasure! People dream of this!
Students enjoy these true stories of modern discoveries of long lost treasure.
Each story is followed by activities. Answers are included.
Titles include:
Saddle Ridge Hoard
Galloway Hoard of Viking Treasure
Gold coins from a Spanish Fleet
Million-dollar baseball cards
The Constable hanging under the stairs.
Treasure from the Crusades
Burial Hoard of a First Century Princess
Gold while weeding
**Living Things and their Habitats **is a comprehensive 16 lesson unit covering the following topics:
The Environment
Habitats
Flowering and Non-Flowering plants
Classification of animals
Vertebrates: Mammals
Vertebrates: Birds
Vertebrates: Reptiles
Vertebrates: Fish
Vertebrates: Amphibians
Invertebrates: Insects
Invertebrates: Spiders
Invertebrates: Worms
Invertebrates: Slugs
Micro-organisms
Micro-organisms and health
Differences between animals, plants and micro-organisms
Each of the above topics has a power point presentation, notes and a worksheet.
This ten-part series uses power point presentations and worksheet activities to cover
Sexual and asexual reproduction
Reproduction in flowering plants
Flowering plants life cycles
Reproduction in non-flowering plants
Mammal life cycles
Bird life cycle
Amphibian life cycle
Insect life cycles
Work project - differences in life cycles
*Richard Attenborough
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Students identify that: humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement in a four-part teaching pack.
Slides supported by worksheet sets with learning activities, cover the topics:
What is a skeleton?
Why do we need a skeleton? – Protection
Why do we need a skeleton? – Support
Why do we need a skeleton? – Movement
With nine power point presentations and nine worksheets for the unit***** Plants***** for 7 to 8 year olds, this unit covers the topics:
What do the parts of plants do?
What do plants need to grow well?
Do plants really need water to grow? Experimenting
Do plants really need light to grow? Experimenting
Do different plants have different needs?
How does water move around a plant?
What are flowers for? Pollination
What are flowers for? Producing seeds
Seed dispersal
The lesson objectives are clearly stated at the start of each lesson.
Some simple items are needed for the investigations in lessons 3, 4 and 6.
In developing their historical perspective, students learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally for example, the first aeroplane flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited with inventing the airplane. They were the first to make a successful human flight with a craft that was powered by an engine and was heavier than air. This unit tells their story:
Meet the Family
Growing Up
It’s off to Work we Go!
Building Gliders
Building Planes
There are five power point presentations and five worksheets.
This seven lesson unit carries the students through the why and how of a turning point in history – Pearl Harbor.
Lesson topics, with slides and worksheets:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes President
A Changing World
The League of Nations
The Road to Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Pearl Harbor Attacked
America enters the War
Properties and Changes in Materials is a ten part unit. It consists of ten lessons with activities on worksheets and ten power point presentations.
The topics covered in the unit are:
Describing the Properties of Materials
Hardness of Materials
Transparent, Translucent or Opaque Materials
Solubility
Electrical Conductivity
Thermal Conductivity
Magnetic materials
Mixing and dissolving of materials
Reversible and irreversible changes
Separating materials Filtration, Evaporation and Sieving
Five power point presentations and five worksheets presents the topic of light to students to enable them to
• recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light
• notice that light is reflected from surfaces
• recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes
• recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object
• find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change
This has been used mainly for Year 3.
Aimed at Year 5/6, this unit explores forces and motion. There are slides, activities and worksheets to support learning and understanding. One lesson draws attention to Sir Isaac Newton and his contribution to mathematics and science.
Topics include:
What is a force?
Balanced and unbalanced forces
Gravity
Friction
Air resistance
Forces acting on aeroplanes
Water resistance
Levers
Pulleys
Gears
Isaac Newton
This unit is suitable for 7 to 8/9 year olds. It has mostly been used in year 3.
It requires different types of magnets plus some everyday objects in order to complete the activities.
There are six lesson power point presentations and six worksheets with activities and on which to record investigations.
Topics include:
How do they move?
Friction
Don’t touch!
Attract or Repel
Magnetic or Non-Magnetic
How we use Magnets
The Restoration of the monarchy in Britain is covered in this unit aimed at 13 to 15 year old students.
Broken down into twelve, easily managed lessons using power point slides, this unit covers the topics:
The Ending of the Protectorate
Early life of King Charles II
Personal attributes of Charles II
Commencing the Reign
The Plague of London
The Great Fire of London
The Anglo-Dutch Wars
Trade in the New World during Charles II’s reign
The Succession Crises
The Social and Cultural Change during the Reign of Charles II
Timeline of King Charles II’s reign
The Reign of King James II
The presentations are interspersed with questions inviting student participation and there is space on the accompanying worksheets for responses.
Explore this ancient civilization with your students. Use the ten power point presentations to provide information and visual context. Ten worksheets form part of this pack for students to interact with the information and notes.
The following topics are covered:
The Maya Civilization (This lesson is available free on TES)
Maya City States ± 600AD
Society
Religion
Warfare
Agriculture and Trade
Writing And Literacy
Mathematics, Astronomy and The Calendar
Maya Art
Maya Architecture
In this lesson: The Maya Civilization is depicted through slides.
Students will be able to place important events in the Maya civilization on a time line.
They will also be able to offer reasons for their decline.
There is a Time line activity in the worksheet and a comprehension activity from the text.
While this is a standalone lesson, the rest of the series explores other interesting aspects of the Maya culture and life.