Journey Back in Time: Witness the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius! Bring history to life for your Year 8 class! Uncover the drama and devastation of 79 AD with this Mount Vesuvius Eruption Resource Walk in the footsteps of: Pliny the Elder, the curious scholar: Witness the eruption through the eyes of a renowned scientist! Gaius, the brave slave: Experience the chaos and fear from the perspective of a Roman citizen! Livia, the noblewoman: Feel the loss and devastation suffered by the wealthy elite! Maximus, the gladiator: Learn about the raw power of nature from a fearless warrior! Engaging first-hand accounts: Each character brings their unique perspective to the event. Vivid descriptions: Feel the tremors, smell the ash, and witness the fiery destruction! Interactive activities: Analyze primary sources, create timelines, and explore the impact of the eruption. Teacher’s guide: Packed with lesson plans, extension activities, and assessment materials.

A great fun activity involving a treasure hunt style challenge around the school followed by a research activity and group presentation.

Learning Objectives: To identify features of Renaissance art. To assess their impact on art today. A proven fantastic cross-curricular kinaesthetic, research and collaborative lesson that review the popularity and impact of Renaissance architecture and art.

Great guide to medieval religion with a focus on Christianity. Includes comprehension tasks and key words.

A great and useful lesson that introduces this important period in time. Encourages student to research independently. Lesson Objectives: To practice researching and presenting information To assess how these changes have helped progress

Title: How does slavery affect me? Learning objectives: To describe what conditions were like for the people taken To explain why slavery is still an important issue today This lesson has been used and accredited as outstanding within many observations and interviews. This alternative to a carrousel task allows student to stay in their seat yet rotate the resources as it introduced them to Climate Change and Global Warming. It allows teachers to judge prior knowledge, learning and misconceptions students may have. This is combined with excellent starter and plenary resources that consolidate learning objectives and helps teachers plan for the next lesson on this current important theme of historical study. Has been used at KS3, GCSE, IGCE, KS4, MYP and A Level standards.

Includes 5 Tasks reviewing the geographical and historical emergence and importance of Asia.

Learning Objectives: To define the key historical term ‘chronological order’. To practice chronology skills.

Learning Objectives: To identify how this person affected their community. To apply critical thinking by looking at historical sources of information (evidence).

Title: What was the Black Death? Learning Objective: To describe its causes and effects To practice analysing historical sources of information Great overview of the pandemic across middle age Europe - includes accessible information for students and opportunities to apply further logical thinking based on images

Find out aspects of what was life like in ancient Rome, create a Roman soldier jigsaw and design a recruitment poster for the Roman army!

Learning Objectives: To review the impacts that people can have on their community. To consider how significant individuals have changed society. Research task - students to select and analyse a dramatical biographic video clip before completing a profile for a significant individuall from history. A comprehensive template, reflection questions and template example is provided.

Find out aspects of what was life like in ancient Rome, create a Roman soldier jigsaw and design a recruitment poster for the Roman army!

Learning objectives: To outline the reasons why Mexico migrants want to live in the USA. To review some population issues caused by mass migration. Comprehensive lesson including map activities of the USA/Mexico border, crossword suing key words and places, locational knowledge questions and matching exercises reviewing different perspectives of the migration issues.

Highly rated: A fantastic resource that introduces the topic of Ancient Egypt. Contains images, a historical fun map,hieroglyphics tasks and allows students to design their own cartouche, decipher hieroglyphics, research the unique traditions and cultures of the wonderful Historical topic.

Learning Objectives: To look at a range of attitudes linked to warfare To research different aspects of modern warfare Include a great hyperlink to a video clip that reviews a range of different religious responses to this question; as well as from two American people with very different opinions based on the 911 attacks. This is followed by various perspectives on the question from religious viewpoints and and humanist leaders. Includes a starter activity wordsearch to assist strengthening vocabulary.