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Interactive Pompeii Powerpoint

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Find your way through the Roman town of Pompeii seeing the ruins as they are now with overlays showing artists impressions of the town as it might have looked in it's heyday. Students/teachers will be able to click on the interactive map to choose where they visit. Simple hyperlinks will lead you around the town with full colour photos of the ruins with overlays showing what each scene would have looked like in the towns heyday. Also includes a look at Herculaneum and the Empress's Villa which was also covered and preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79.
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Battle of the Atlantic

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This powerpoint and accompanying sorting exercise looks at the key battle of World War Two from the perspective of the allies. Information on convoys, tactics and weapons is included along with some wonderfully basic animation demonstrating asdic and depth charges!
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Spanish Armada animated powerpoint

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This fabulous powerpoint goes through the story of the Armada with a slide for each of the stages in the Armada's journey. Animation is used to illustrate the key moves and draw attention to why the Armada failed. Key information such as the Armada's formation, the effects of the weather and the reasons for the Armada's failure are all included.
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Medieval Entertainment

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These resources look at some of the entertainments on offer in Medieval England. The powerpoint has some photos from modern re-enactments of the entertainments, falconry etc and the sheet contains some sources looking at entertainments with a few comprehension questions included.
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Spanish Armada

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This bundle of Armada resources contains wordsearches, timelines, information sheets, sorting exercises, powerpoint quizzes and animation powerpoints of the Armada’s journey and defeat. It would be useful for KS3 students studying the Armada and several of the resources are differentiated.
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Thomas Becket - Trial of Henry II

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These two resources help students work to develop the various roles which would be involved in trying Henry II. Prosecution, defence and other roles in the courtroom all have help sheets allowing students to plan their roles. Access to the Medieval Realms Britain 1066-1500 Textbook would be useful or an alternative source of information about the murder of Thomas. The powerpoint provides an order of play for the trial and leads students through when they come to act it out.
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Spartacists' Uprising

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This powerpoint looks at the Spartacist uprising. It includes some photos from Germany including the sites in the Tiergaten where Luxemburg and Liebknecht were left for dead by the Freikorps. There is an overview of what happened in the uprising and some of the after affects.
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Battle of Britain

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These resources look at the contribution made by foreigners to the Battle of Britain. There is a deliberate pro-immigration element to these resources to help counter racism in my school. There is a powerpoint looking at a misused BNP poster and then the work sheets include information about the contributions made by various nationalities and some comprehension questions.
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Robert Walpole - The UKs first prime minister.

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This simple resource including information, sources and questions looks at Robert Walpole. It includes key information about how Walpole stayed in power, what he accomplished and how he ultimately fell from grace.
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The Glorious Revolution

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This simple resource of sources, information and comprehension Qs looks at an often overlooked part of English history. It is a useful activity to discuss the political changes of the period and cover one of the key turning points in the development of the constitutional monarchy.
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A level Germany powerpoints 1918-1933

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This series of 15 powerpoints and two information sheets covers the main points of German History from the end of World War One to the Rise of Hitler finishing with the Reichstag Fire and Enabling Act. The two info sheets cover the 25 point programme for the embryonic Nazi party and the other covers the election results for all the elections in this period looking at how each party's support changed over time.
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Key battles of World War Two

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This collection of activities has a powerpoint giving an overview of the war, a collection of key info cards giving information about aspects of 21 key battles from the war and finally a quiz on the battles. These are useful as overview/starter activities as an introduction to the war.
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Assessment on the Battle of the Somme using sources.

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History assessment looking to answer the question: How useful are these sources for explaining why the Somme was so bloody? Package includes: sentence starter, powerpoint of instructions for class, peer/self assessment and writing frames.
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Building the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

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This powerpoint looks at the engineering problems faced by Stephenson when he built the Liverpool and Manchester railway. It looks at the four main obstacles he had to surmount and challenges students to come up with a solution to each. Students are then introduced to each of the real solutions that Stephenson arrived at and this can allow discussion around how these would have been built with eighteenth century technology.
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Castle development: How did castles develop and improve over time?

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These two powerpoints look at how castles developed from simple stone keeps into palatial fortresses. The activities focus on Chepstow castle in Wales looking at the changes made to this castle over centuries by its different owners. Various activities in the presentations include planning an attack, spotting developments/improvements and many more!
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Historical story writing - medieval castle

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This collection of resources looks at attacking and defending a castle through the context of a spy gaining entry to the castle and sabotaging it. The structure sheet helps students look at how someone could gain entry to a castle, help the attackers gain entry and then escape. There is also a short quiz to check learning.
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Roman Army assessment

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Assessment looking to answer the question: How useful is this source in helping us find out WHY the Roman Army was so successful? Package includes: powerpoint of instructions for class, sentence starter and peer/self assessment sheet.
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Why did William win the Battle of hastings?

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Assessment looking to answer the question: Why did William win the Battle of hastings? The classic History assessment! Package includes: powerpoint of instructions for class, sentence starter, sorting cards of reasons for causation exercise and peer/self assessment sheet.