Used mainly with year 7 and 8 students, this unit, THE MALI EMPIRE, uses eight sets of slides to illustrate the history of this amazing empire. The topics include: * Timeline of the Empire from 1240 to 1468 The rise of the Mali Empire The governance of the Empire of Mali Trade Culture Mansa Musa I Mali - a centre of learning The Fall of the Empire ** Each lesson has worksheet activities interspersed throughout the slides, to focus attention and stimulate thinking.

Aimed at 5 to 6 year olds, this unit covers the objectives for early learning of history. I have used it with Year 1. The topics help students to group according to different criteria related to history understand what evidence is experience collecting evidence chronicle the development of toys on a simple time line while developing a concept of where they fit in the time line and record using a graph, drawings and labels and time lines. Topics include: Our Favourite Toys Finding out about the Past Toys from different Decades All children played with Toys! Years and Years of Toys Time lines Each topic starts with power point slides and is followed by a worksheet of 2 to 3 pages. Teachers may also choose to do some of the activities between slides.

CLIMATE ZONES AND THEIR NATURAL VEGETATION is a unit of ten lessons. It explores climate zones around the world, their location, natural vegetation and has a brief look at the animal life sustained. Each lesson has power point slides and worksheets.

Using power point slides, these nine lessons cover the topics: Absolute Monarchy in Medieval Times John II The Magna Carta Early beginnings of parliament Early Meetings of Parliament The rise of the Commons. The House of Lords The Commons and the Law Timeline of the emergence of Parliament until 1510 There are worksheet activities for each lesson. This unit has been used mainly with 12 to 13 year old students.

This is a comprehensive unit on the Ancient Greeks, aimed at 9 to 11 year olds. The lessons are presented using power point slides with activities interspersed. The worksheets provide both notes and spaces in which students can record. Topics include: Who were the ancient Greeks? Who were the Minoans? Who were the Mycenaeans? The Three Periods of Ancient Greece City states Athens A day in the life of a Greek girl in Athens Sparta A day in the life of a Greek boy in Sparta Clothing and fashion Greek beliefs Greek gods Greek homes Food and farming Trade Greek architecture and art Ancient Greek Warfare The Peloponnesian Wars Alexander the Great Greek contributions to our lives

A unit in which students explore and identify the way sound is made through vibration and find out how the pitch and volume of sounds can be changed. Using power point presentations, practical activities and worksheets, students identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases. This unit has been used mainly with 8 to 9 year old students. The activities require some everyday items including some musical instruments for the students to work with.

This unit has fourteen stories, each with a set of learning activities. These include comprehension questions, drawings, making deductions, a crossword, writing paragraphs, expressing opinions, making predictions and some creative writing. I have used these with 7 to 10 year old students. I have also used them while teaching the about Vikings in history.

ANIMALS, including HUMANS: Growth, Survival and Health Power point slides are used to introduce each of four topics in this unit: * Growing … growing , growing Life Cycles What animals need to live What we need to keep healthy* Each topic is followed by activities to reinforce the concepts presented. This has been used mainly with 6 to 8 year olds.

A nine lesson unit with power point slides and worksheets helps students to follow the reasons and sequence of events in the formulation of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement and conflict with the Catholics Used mainly with years 7 to 9 , lessons include the titles: Mary I and Edward VI Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne Religious Settlement Opposition to the Religious Settlement Elizabeth and Scotland The Catholic plots to assassinate Elizabeth Causes of the Conflict with Spain War in Ireland Conflict with Spain

This is a five lesson unit describing the time in British history, between monarchs. Lesson titles are: The establishment of the Commonwealth The Rise of Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector Richard Cromwell Life during the Interregnum It has been used mainly with years 7, 8 and 9.

Earth’s Continents is a six-part unit, used mainly with Year Four. It includes the following topics: Land formation The formation of the earth’s continents Continent of Eurasia Continents of North and South America Antarctica, Africa and Australasia Sub-continents Each topic is presented using power point slides and has worksheet activities.

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 Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong. ***There are power point presentations for: *** Christopher Columbus - life and achievements. Neil Armstrong- life and achievements Comparison Three sets of worksheets support this learning. **PLEASE NOTE: *THERE IS A UNIT IN OUR SHOP THAT COMPARES * Neil Armstrong and Marco Polo. This unit on *Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong *contains THE EXACT SAME presentations and worksheets for Neil Armstrong. It is just a different option for comparison.

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?

This unit is aimed at year three and aims to fulfill the objectives: Identify that animals, including humans, cannot make their own food. Recognize that animals, including humans, get nutrition from what they eat. Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types of nutrition. Identify that animals, including humans, need a balanced diet. Each of the following topics is covered using a presentation and is followed by worksheets with activities: Animals, including humans - nutrition Animals, including humans – What is nutrition? Vitamins and proteins Animals, including humans – What is nutrition? Carbohydrates, fibre and water Animals, including humans – How much is enough?

In the course of seven presentations and seven worksheets, this unit helps students to: recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Fossils as scientific evidence Mary Anning Adaptation Evolution Charles Darwin Genetics Chromosomes and DNA Reproduction and inheritance

Black Death and its Social and Economic Impact is a four lesson unit. It includes the topics: What was Black Death? The continuing spread of the Disease. The impact of Black Death on society. The economic effects of Black Death. Suitable for KS3 / Middle School, the unit consists of four sets of power point slides and worksheet activities.

This lesson is called: EGYPT AND THE NILE and consists of slides, notes and activities. It is part of the unit, THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. Lesson 1 objectives: Students will be able to locate the main cities of Egypt and recognise their significance. They will be able to discuss the importance of the Nile in Egypt. The power point presentation includes information relating to: The Nile Valley The driest country in the world The flooding of the Nile A map of key places along the Nile.

A power point slide series and worksheet aimed to enable students to explain the popular theory of how the moon was formed and to discuss how the moon affects life on earth.

"The Roman withdrawal from Britain" download includes a power point presentation and worksheet. The objective is for the students to identify the consequences for the Britons of the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain. This lesson is part of the unit “BRITAIN’S SETTLEMENT by the ANGLES, SAXONS and SCOTS”.