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The Sixties lessons and worksheets KS2 1960s history topic resources
A set of PowerPoint lessons to teach different aspects of life in the sixties, plus headings and worksheets. It is suitable for teaching children aged 8-11.
It includes:
INTRODUCTION TO THE 1960S - A short introduction explaining what a decade is and how many decades ago the Sixties were. Poses some questions for the children to think about, with a follow up activity.
SIXTIES DAILY LIFE - How people in the 1960s had ‘never had it so good’; Money - Explanation of pounds, shillings and pence with illustrations of the coins and notes; Shopping - how supermarkets started expanding, Green shield stamps, and food eaten in the Sixties; Transport - Expansion of motorways, popular cars, and air transport; Technology - Police call boxes, public telephones, telephones in the home, computers, computer games, the forerunner to the Internet, lasers, calculators. (25 slides)
SIXTIES SCHOOL LIFE - What it was like going to school in the 1960s. (10 slides)
SIXTIES KEY EVENTS - A timeline of events from around the world from 1960 to 1969, with three highlighted events in each year. (11 slides)
SIXTIES HOMES - New housing developments, tower blocks and older houses that needed modernising; How the washing and cleaning was done; Home fashions - kitchens, lounges, ornaments, and furniture; Television, and how it progressed over the decade. (14 slides)
SIXTIES FAMOUS PEOPLE - Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, Alfred Hitchcock, John F Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Muhammad Ali/ Cassius Clay, Mary Quant, Francis Chichester, Andy Warhol, and Twiggy. There is a page for each person, with a short description of what they are famous for. (12 slides)
SIXTIES FASHION - How fashioned changed from the beginning to the end of the decade and how it was influenced by music. (17 slides)
SIXTIES MUSIC - How people listened to music in the Sixties - records and record players; radios and Pirate radio stations, introduction of tape players, jukeboxes; Sixties music fans - Mods and Rockers, Skinheads and Hippies; Sixties bands and singers - The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Chubby Checker, Cliff Richard, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix, and the Woodstock Festival. There is a picture and description of each band / singer, and a their most popular hit of the Sixties. (21 slides)
SIXTIES TOYS - Pictures of popular Sixties toys, with short descriptions. (9 slides)
Plus a set of 11 worksheets with follow-up activities.
Some of the PowerPoints contain links to relevant videos though SafeShare T.v., which filters unwanted adverts from the clip. You may need to check that you can access this in school.
The links were checked before uploading, but if they stop working please feel free to contact me or email me: primaryteachingtools@gmail.com and I will update them.
This pack is an updated version of my previous Sixties pack.
The Viking & Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England:powerpoints, worksheets, activities
A series of PowerPoint lessons, worksheets and activities to teach how the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons fought for the Kingdom of England up to the time of Edward the Confessor.
POWERPOINTS:
1) ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND AD 780
Life in in England before the main arrival of the Vikings towards the end of the 8th century / How the Anglo-Saxons lived / How the towns were structured / The importance of the monks.
2) VIKING RAIDS AND INVASIONS AD 797 - 783
Timeline / Introduces the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as evidence / The first known attack on Britain by the Vikings / The second attack on Lindisfarne/Holy Island / Viking longships / Viking warriors and equipment / Beginning of Viking settlement in England
3) THE VIKINGS SETTLE & ALFRED FIGHTS BACK AD 866 - 927
Viking invasions and settlement / The Heathen Army / York / King Alfred / Guthrum / Danelaw / Alfred the Great and his fight against the Vikings / Edward the Elder / Athelstan / The Battle of Brunanburh
4) VIKING DAILY LIFE
Family life / Clothing / Homes / Daily life / Viking law / Music / Food / Sport / Arts and crafts / Viking beliefs, Asgard and gods, days of the week named after Viking gods / Viking burials
5) ATHELSTAN, ETHELRED AND ANGLO-SAXON LAWS AD 927 - AD 991
Athelstan and government of England / The Witan / Hundreds / Moots / Reeves / Laws / / Punishments / Wergild / Ethelread the Unready
6) THE RETURN AND END OF THE VIKINGS AD 991 - 1066
Further Viking raids / St. Brice's Day massacre / Sweyn Forkbeard / King Canute / Edward the Confessor / Harold Godwinson / William the Conqueror / The Battle of Hastings / The end of the Viking era
7) LOOKING AT EVIDENCE
Place names / Viking sagas / Anglo-Saxon Chronicles / Surnames and DNA / The Bayeux Tapestry / Archaeology / Treasure discoveries / Runestones
RESOURCES TO PRINT (pdf): Most sheets are open-ended worksheets, with an image and lines for research, reports etc.
What I already know about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
What I would like to find out about the Vikings
The arrival of the Vikings
The Vikings attack the monasteries
Danelaw
King Alfred the Great
The Heathen Army
The Treaty of Wedmore
Viking daily life
Anglo-Saxon laws
Athelstan
Ethelred the Unready
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Stanford Bridge
Death of King Harold
Edward the Confessor
King Harold
The Vikings return
Bayeux Tapestry
Viking place names
Viking runes
Topic covers x 3
Viking ships
Viking warriors
Writing border - Edward the Confessor
Writing border - Viking ship
Plus a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (in Word)
Vikings & Anglo-Saxons medium term adaptable plan, with web links.
Toys KS1 topic resources - powerpoints, activity and display pack
A set of powerpoints showing photographs of the most popular toys of the pre-50s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and modern toys; an introduction to the history of toys - going back to dolls in Ancient Greece to computers today; a look at portraits of children from the past playing with toys; a sorting toy activity into old and new, and an old poem about the wonders of a toy shop.
There are also 4 maths powerpoints looking at addition and subtraction in the toy shop, with cards to print for games.
The activities include:
An acrostic poem template
Animal cut-out templates to join together to make a moving toy
Colouring sheets
Pictures of new/old teddy
Puppets for role play
Russian doll set to print and laminate for size ordering
6 x Santa lists to use around Christmas
A thaumatrope template with instructions
3 x cover templates for a topic book
Toy sorting cards - to sort into different materials/ properties.
Toys from the past questionnaire to take home to fill in with parents.
A copy of an old book 'What shall we do next' from 1907 full of games and activities that children played
The Wonderful Toymaker fairy tale to read
An outline planning document with cross curricular links that can be adapted.
DISPLAY
Old toys display - photographs
Children's portraits playing with toys
Toys banner
Toys heading
Toys in the past heading
Toys timeline
History of Trains powerpoint
The PowerPoint is 55 pages long. It covers the history of trains from the first vehicle to be pulled on rails over 200 years ago; steam trains; the locomotive; the Rocket; diesel trains, through to the modern electric trains of today.
It is written in the style of a non-fiction book, with a contents page, index and glossary.
It would be suitable for upper KS1 or lower KS2 and can be used in a history topic or as a non-fiction book in English.
World War II / WW II & VE Day display pack
A set of headings, lettering, banners, posters and images for a WW2 / VE Day display:
WW II HEADING: Prints onto 1 A4 sheet, with the title 'World War II’
WW II BANNER X 2: In 2 sizes, one prints onto 3 A4 sheets, the other 4.
WW II A-Z LETTERING: Lower and upper case letters, plus numbers and punctuation to print and cut out.
WW II IN PHOTOGRAPHS: 15 titled photographs, showing images taken during the war -
The Women’s Volunteer Defence Corps
Rescue workers
Bombing at the library
Air raid warden
Ration book
Refreshments for the soldiers
Dunkirk
The Queen visits an Anderson shelter
Aftermath of a Blitz
Homeless
The Women’s land army
Bombings in Merseyside
Hawker Hurricane
Evacuees
Destroyed houses
WW II POSTERS: 10 A4 sheets containing photographs and explanations of different aspects of WW II -
WW II begins - Outlines the start of the war, with pictures of Neville Chamberlain, Adolph Hitler, and Winston Churchill
The Blitz - Explains what the Blitz was.
Blackouts - Curtains, and reasons why
Air raid shelters
Anderson shelters
Gas masks
Evacuation
Rationing
Participants of WW II
VE day
WW II INSTRUCTIONAL IMAGES: A collection of images made during the war to educate people about gas masks, enemy aircraft, air raid precautions, and fire precautions. (4 pages, with 3 or 4 images on each)
VE Day heading
VE day lettering
Union flag border
Small and large union flags
The Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age display pack: Posters headings timelines banners headings
STONE AGE DISPLAY:
A4 title
A-Z lettering in a stone background
The Stone Age banner
Stone Age timeline
Stone Age artefacts
Stone Age border for display boards
BRONZE AGE DISPLAY:
A4 title
A-Z lettering in a bronze background
The Bronze Age banner
Bronze Age timeline
Bronze Age artefacts
Bronze Age border for display boards
IRON AGE DISPLAY:
A4 title
A-Z lettering in a metallic iron background
The Iron Age banner
Iron Age artefacts
Iron Age border for display boards
Transport topic - the history of cars - powerpoints
5 powerpoints looking at the history of the wheel, the horse and cart and the development of the modern day car.
Walking : The earliest form of transport. why people went on journeys.
Horse and cart: Transport before the railways and canals - looks at dirt tracks, Roman roads, Macadam roads, Stagecoaches, Omnibuses, and horse riding.
Invention and history of the car: A detailed look at the development of the car, from steam engines and the internal combustion engine, to modern cars of today. Looks at different eras in car manufacture - the Brass Era, Vintage Era, and the Classic car.
History of the Wheel: The earliest types of wheel; the spoked wheel, and other wheel inventions.
The Tudors display pack
A set of Tudor display resources to print - posters, titles, banners, and borders.
Headings
Henry VIII Banner: Prints onto 2 A4 sheets, bordered with pictures of his wives.
The Tudors title: 3 versions - black lettering, red lettering, and embedded Tudor Rose lettering
The Tudors A-Z lettering: 2 versions, one with embedded with the Tudor Rose, the other with red lettering.
The Tudors Banner: 2 versions, one with text embedded with the Tudor Rose, the other with red lettering
'The Tudors' lettering to cut out: large lettering, fills 3 A4 pages.
Borders - for display boards
Henry VIII's wives border
Tudor rose border
Posters
The Tudors posters: 12 A4 posters:-
Tudor punishment
Tudor clothes for women
Tudor clothes for men
Tudor world map
Tudor British Isles map
Tudor surgery
Tudor medicine
Tudor houses
Tudor theatre
Tudor explorers (x2)
Tudor artefacts
Tudor woodcuts: 17 Tudor images made for illustrations in printed materials:-
Tudor house building
Tudor fish market
Tudor geographer
Tudor coin makers
Tudor warfare
Tudor fun and games
Tudor shepherds
Tudor hunting lessons
Tudor village life
Tudor beggar
Tudor fool
Tudor printers
Tudor water carrier
Tudor shoe makers
Tudor school punishment
Tudor scribe
Tudor engravers
The Tudor Monarchs: Six posters, each containing a Tudor monarch, with a picture and the dates they reigned, plus an A4 title 'The Tudor dynasty 1485 - 1603'.
The six wives of Henry VIII: Six posters each containing a wife, with the dates they were married, how many children they had, and when and how Henry got rid of them. Also contains a title.
The Tudors timeline: 24 pages of the main events that occurred between 1485 and 1603. The dates are displayed along the top so they can be placed along the wall in a timeline. Each event contains pictures and descriptions.
Tudor coat of arms: The coat of arms of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.
The Tudor Rose: a large Tudor Rose to print
Activities
The Tudors A4 writing border
Tudor rose - black and white
Places of worship - the Church and Christianity powerpoint and activities
A powerPoint lesson plus worksheets.
The PowerPoint is 46 pages long and split into different sections:
What do church buildings look like?
Shows photographs of new and old / large and small churches, and the oldest church in Britain; shows the layout of many church buildings, and explains who goes to church and why.
What do church buildings look like inside?
A large photograph of the inside of the church for children to look at; then shows and explains about different types of furniture found inside a church. (Altar, font, stained glass windows, lectern, pulpit, pews and kneelers, and organ)
What artefacts are found inside churches?
Shows religious artefacts, and explains why they are found in churches. (Crosses, Hymn board, candles, Bible, Tabernacle, chalice, ciborium and patten, statues, and the stations of the cross.)
What symbols might be found inside a church?
The Ichthus, doves, candles, Communion bread, water, colours, bells, incense)
What celebrations might happen in church?
Sunday services, baptism, marriage, funerals.
How should we behave in a church?
Asks questions about appropriate behaviour.
Worksheets (pdf format to print out)
Church building - Shows the inside of a church, for children to label
Church diagram - Shows the layout of a church, in a cross shape
Church objects - Pictures of a font, Chalice and communion bread, an altar, stained glass window, pulpit and church organ for the children to write about.
Design a hassock - A template for designs
Objects worksheet - For the children to choose an object they find in church, and draw, and describe it.
Symbols of Christianity - Pictures of the Ichthus, dove, and cross with space for the children to write about them./ artefacts in a church / symbols / celebrations/ how should you behave in a church.
KS2 history topic The Tudors, Henry VIII and his wives - Powerpoint lessons and activities
A set of lessons and activities looking at the Tudors and Henry VIII
POWERPOINTS
Who were the Tudors?
Explains who the Tudors were, and when they lived. It shows a timeline of British history and where this period fits in. It looks at the Plantaganet dynasty who ruled before the Tudors. the Tudor Rose, how Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at Bosworth, and how the remains of Richard III have recently been discovered.
Who was Henry VIII?
Looks at his parents, his siblings, how he became king and a brief overview of his life.
What was Henry VIII like?
A look at different portraits of Henry showing how he changed over the years with contemporary descriptions of him at different times of his life.
Henry VIII's pastimes
Descriptions of all the pastimes Henry VIII did in his spare time
The wives of Henry VIII
The story of his marriages and wives over time in chronological order and explanations of why he married six times
What did Henry VIII do for his country?
A look at what life was like in Tudor times and how Henry made changes to: religion; the monasteries; the Navy & Mary Rose; coastal defences; Government and the union of Wales and England.
The poor in Tudor times
How the poor lived in Tudor times; it explains the hierarchy of Tudor society, unemployment, workhouses, almshouses and the Poor Laws. It describes poor Tudor homes, punishments and disease amongst the poor.
The lives of rich Tudors
Explains how we know much more about the lives of rich Tudors compared to the poor. It looks at what the rich ate; what they did in their leisure time; schools; clothing; punishments; homes (including styles and rooms). It shows images of two inventories from Tudor homes with a transcription.
How different were the lives of rich and poor Tudors?
Compares different aspects of the two groups: jobs; clothes; homes; food; education and entertainment.
Edward VI
His life story
Mary Tudor
Her life story
Elizabeth I
Her life story
Tudor fun activities and facts
Tudor recipes, facts and origins of words and phrases.
WORKSHEETS/ PRINTABLE RESOURCES IN PDF
Description of Henry VIII: Description written by the Venetian Ambassador in 1519
Difference between rich and poor Tudors: For recording
Farringdon inventory
Inventory of Clement Swallow
Portraits of Henry VIII: 10 different portraits to compare how he looked over the years
Rich and Poor Tudor pictures
The House of Tudor: Pictorial family tree
Tudor family portraits: Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII, Mary I, Elizabeth I and Edward VI on one A4 sheet
Wadley inventory
Wives of Henry VIII: Small portraits
Transport topic - George Stephenson and the history of trains - powerpoints and activities
Two powerpoints looking at how and why trains developed over time, and the Father of the Railways, George Stephenson, plus 3 worksheets.
George Stephenson and locomotives: Looks at James Watt and his steam engine design; Richard Trevithick and his steam engine improvements, and the life of George Stephenson, and how he became known as the 'Father of the Railways'. Tells the story of the first steam locomotives; the Rainhill Trials; the Liverpool and Manchester Railway; and new steam locomotive designs up to 1941. Also briefly and simply explains how steam engines work.
Trains now and then: Shows different parts of a steam locomotive, and looks at pictures of different locomotives, and how they developed from George Stephenson's Rocket, to the modern bullet trains of today.
Steam train worksheets: 3 different worksheets, showing a picture of a steam train to label and caption.
The Rocket worksheet: To compare modern trains with old steam locomotives.
Steam train template: An outline of a steam train, to use for colouring, collage, paint etc.
Natural classroom: Alphabet hessian print bunting display letters and numerals to 20
The bunting has a hessian photograph background, and is in two sizes: 2 letters per page and 1 letter per page. There is a choice of either black font or white font with a black border. The font is Sassoon Infant. The number line goes from 1 to 20.
There are 7 separate pdf files.
Transport topic - canals powerpoint
Powerpoint on the development of canals and canals around the world today. Explains how canals were the method of transporting goods before the railways; how the barges were pulled along by horses; and how they were built.
KS2 History Bronze Age Pack - PowerPoint lessons, activities and display
A set of resources for a unit of work covering the Bronze Age in Britain, looking at the Amesbury Archer, Must Farm and Stonehenge amongst other things.
POWERPOINT (26 PAGES): Description of different aspects of Bronze Age life including
• Sources of information
• Discovery of copper and bronze
• Britain in the Bronze Age
• Religion
• Henges
• Daily life
BRONZE AGE ACTIVITIES: (for recording research)
• Write a report about the Amesbury Archer
• Write a report about Must Farm
• Bronze Age ways of living
• Bronze Age travel
• Bronze Age technology
• Bronze Age religion
• Topic covers (x2) For topic books
• Bronze Age writing border sheets (x2; lined and unlined)
BRONZE AGE DISPLAY:
• A4 title
• A-Z lettering in a bronze background
• The Bronze Age banner
• Bronze Age timeline
• Bronze Age artefacts
• Bronze Age border for display boards
SPaG Year 1 Spelling pack: Adding the endings ing ed and er to verbs
A set of resources to teach the guideline/rule in the Spelling Appendix:
Adding the endings ing ed and er to verbs where no change is needed to the root word
POWERPOINTS:
Adding ing: Explains what a verb is and how ing can be added to verbs where no change in spelling is needed. Ends with an activity
Adding ed: Explains what a verb is and how adding ed changes the tense of the verb to the past tense. It ends with an activity
Adding er: Explains the effect of adding er to a verb and gives examples. Ends with an activity for the children to add er to verbs.
PDF:
Adding suffixes er ing ed: A list of words in a grid to add suffixes to.
Word wheel - Adding ed and ing: Verbs and suffixes for word building activities.
Word wheel - Adding ed, ing and er: Verbs and suffixes for word building activities.
WORD:
Outline adaptable plan
Year 5 science Properties and changes of materials - powerpoints, worksheets and planning
A set of resources for the new science curriculum. It contains:
1a. INTRODUCTION TO THE TOPIC - LO: To find out what the children already know about materials.
WORKSHEET: A sheet for the children to record what they already know and what they would like to find out about materials.
1b. MATERIAL PROPERTIES - LO: To compare and group everyday materials together
POWERPOINT: A look at 12 different properties of materials, with examples of the materials with those properties. It can also be printed out for display.
WORKSHEET 1: Material properties worksheet
2. DISSOLVING - LO: To know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution
POWERPOINT: Explains the meaning of dissolve and gives examples of different materials that can be dissolved.
3. SEPARATING A MIXTURE - LO: To use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated.
POWERPOINT: Looks at different mixtures and how they can be separated, including sieving, filtering and evaporating.
4. USES OF EVERYDAY MATERIALS - LO: give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials
POWERPOINT: Asks the children to study objects to see what properties different materials have. Asks questions about which properties and materials would be best for making certain objects.
5 & 6. REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE OBJECTS - LO: look at dissolving, mixing and changes of state, and reversible and irreversible changes.
POWERPOINT: Explains the meaning of reversible and irreversible changes, giving examples of each. Ends with a quiz where the children have to decide what changes have taken place to certain materials.
7. MATERIALS QUIZ: Recap of all the learning objectives.
POWERPOINT : A quiz
WORKSHEET : Sheet for recording quiz answers
WORKSHEET : Sheet for recording what they have learnt
OTHER RESOURCES
A-Z lettering, with a picture background
A4 Properties and changes of materials title
Materials banner/lettering to cut out
Materials topic booklet front cover - with space for children to draw their own design.
Vocabulary PowerPoint - can be used as a show and printed out for display.
Photo cards - 12 objects made from different materials
Investigation and recording sheets - A folder of blank tables, graphs and planning and recording sheets
Year 5 Materials medium term planning: An outline of the activities and learning objectives with websites and ideas. It can be added to and amended for your own use.
Subordination and co-ordination powerpoint, worksheets and posters: SPaG Year 2 Sentence
A PowerPoint lesson explaining what subordination and co-ordination are with accompanying worksheets and posters, designed to teach the Y2 Sentence objectives.
The set contains:
POWERPOINT:
Subordination and coordination
A 7 page PowerPoint explaining how to connect sentences and clauses using subordination (when, if, that and because) and co-ordination (using or, and or but.)
It gives examples of how to use them in sentences then gives sentence starters for the children to complete using the words above.
ACTIVITIES / WORKSHEETS:
Co-ordination writing sheets x 4: Each sheet has a different picture. The children have to write sentences using the words and, but and or.
Subordination worksheets x 4: Each sheet has a different picture. The children have to write sentences using the words when, if, that and because
DISPLAY:
Two posters explaining subordination and co-ordination with examples and a heading.
Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Captions and sentences
A set of all Phase 3 captions and sentences - powerpoint activities, worksheets and games.
SPaG Year 3 Grammar: Use of the forms a or an
A powerpoint explaining when to use a and when to use an, with an interactive activity for the children to choose the correct form.
Year 1 Common exception word mat
Word mat containing the common exception words to be learnt in Y1