Primary Topic Shop is a team of two people. Richard is a primary teacher and Christa is a graphic designer and photojournalist. Between them, they have the unique ability to create original material for their units. It doesn't hurt they are both very interested in the subject matter! In fact, Richard and Christa lived in Egypt where Richard worked at a British School. Now they live in Scotland and are researching UK history.
Primary Topic Shop is a team of two people. Richard is a primary teacher and Christa is a graphic designer and photojournalist. Between them, they have the unique ability to create original material for their units. It doesn't hurt they are both very interested in the subject matter! In fact, Richard and Christa lived in Egypt where Richard worked at a British School. Now they live in Scotland and are researching UK history.
The Viking Age Timeline lesson has a brief description of major events in the Viking age, a worksheet and an activity.
Pages: 5 (including 2 answer sheets)
Contents:
Information Page
Which Was First Questions
Complete the Timeline Activity
All photos, illustrations and text are original by the author. This is part of a complete unit on Vikings.
Teach your students about eight Aztec gods and goddesses with these illustrated reading pages. The introduction includes interesting facts about the ancient Aztec religion including sacrifices, flower wars and the fifth sun creation myth. This PDF includes information handouts, activities and differentiated reading response worksheets.
Pages: 15 (including 4 answer sheets)
Contents:
4 Information Handouts
Fact File Activity
Trading Card Activity
Match the God Activity
Fill in the Punctuation Activity
Writing Challenge
Reading Response Worksheet
Multiple Choice Worksheet
Answer Sheets
Terms of Use
This lesson describes types of viking weapons and armour. It includes a design-your-own-shield activity and a reading response worksheet. Includes a bonus differentiated maths activity (fractions) and maths puzzles. Aimed at KS2 Y4-6
Pages: 13 (including answer sheets)
Contents:
Information Pages
Design Your Own Shield Activity
Reading Response
Maths Fractions Activities (differentiated)
Maths Puzzles (differentiated)
Answer Sheets
All photos, illustrations and text are original by the author. This is part of a complete unit on Vikings.
Teach your students about fifteen of the main Greek gods and goddesses with illustrated listings, each with an original illustration, the Roman names, role, symbol, a myth and a combination of other fun facts. The introduction features interesting facts about the ancient Greek religion including sacrifices, temples, festivals and Mount Olympus. This PDF includes information handouts, a fact file activity, a printable memory card game, match the Roman and Greek god activity, and differentiated reading response worksheets.
Pages: 19 (including 3 answer sheets)
Contents:
6 Information Handouts
Fact File activity
Printable Memory Card Game
Match the Roman and Greek God Activity
Reading Response / Multiple Choice / True or False (Differentiated Worksheets)
This printable PDF covers life in Rome, Roman baths, clothes, food and life outside the city. The resource includes several worksheets and activities.
Pages: 13 (including 4 answer sheets)
Contents:
2 Information Handouts
Comprehension Questions
Multiple Choice
Design a Bathhouse
Coordinate Challenge
Giving Directions
Answer Sheets
Terms of Use
Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the Aztec Empire. What began as a humble settlement of reed huts and a makeshift temple grew to become one of the biggest cities of the time. This resource covers the legend of Tenochtitlan, chinampas, transportation, the city centre, Templo Mayor, living in the city and the end of Tenochtitlan. This PDF includes information handouts, activities and differentiated reading response worksheets.
Pages: 12 (including 4 answer sheets)
Contents:
2 Information Handouts
Reading Response Worksheet
Multiple Choice Worksheet
Vocabulary Matching Activity
Design a City District Activity
Coordinate Challenge
Answer Sheets
Terms of Use
Activities and reading response questions accompany information sheets covering Who Were The Vikings, Life in the Viking Age, Timeline, Beliefs, Jewellery, Runes, Sagas, Ships, Voyages, Weapons and Review
The Viking Sagas lesson covers a brief history of sagas and examples of a legendary saga, and a historical saga. It includes a write your own saga activity.
Pages: 8 (including 2 answer sheets)
Contents:
Information Pages
Comprehension Questions
Write Your Own Saga Activities
Color Puzzle
Creation Saga Drawing
Answer Sheets
All photos, illustrations and text are original by Christa Galloway, Primary Topic Shop.
Teach your students about the ancient Roman city of Pompeii with reading, worksheets and a fun activity. The PDF resource includes facts about Mount Vesuvius, the story of Pompeii, discoveries from the excavation including the city, trade, food, religion, writing and people. There is a vocabulary page with definitions. Worksheet include find the synonym, multiple choice, comprehension questions.
In the newspaper article activity, students write a newspaper article about the eruption using interviews with Pliny the Younger and the ghost of Pliny the Elder. The interview notes are based on real accounts of the eruption. This activity is differentiated with four different task cards and several newspaper template options and can be done in groups or individually.
Suitable for KS2
Contents:
4 Information Handouts
1 Vocabulary Handout
1 Find the Synonym Activity
2 Pages of Differentiated Reading Response (Comprehension Questions & Multiple Choice)
Newspaper Article Activity with task cards, templates and example
3 Answer Sheets
Ancient Greece was made up of independent city-states that shared a language and a religion but had different laws, governments and currency. This resource has reading passages about city-states, types of governments in Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta. The information is followed up with worksheets and activities.
Pages: 10 (including 3 answer sheets)
Contents:
2 Information Handouts
Comprehension Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
Polis Expert Activity
Compare Athens and Sparta Activity
Make Your Own Polis Activity
Answer Sheets
This PDF includes information about the ancient Roman religion including sacrifices, temples, festivals, shrines and the Greek influence on Roman gods. There are information handouts, a fact file activity, a printable memory card game, match the Roman and Greek god activity, and differentiated reading response worksheets. In addition there are illustrated listings of 15 Roman gods and goddesses.
Pages: 20 (including 3 answer sheets)
Contents
6 Information Pages
Fact File activity
Printable Memory Card Game
Match the God Activity
Comprehension Questions / Multiple Choice / True or False (Differentiated Worksheets)
3 Answer Sheets
All photos, text and illustrations are by the Primary Topic Shop.
Gladiators were fighters who battled each other in contests for the entertainment of Romans. This resource briefly covers who gladiators were, gladiator school, the Colosseum, gladiators as celebrities, politics, animals, armor, weapons and Spartacus. Two worksheets and an activity are also included.
Pages: 8 (including 2 answer sheets)
Contents:
2 Information Handouts
Comprehension Questions
Multiple Choice
Armor Designer Activity
Answer sheets
Ancient Greek philosophers introduced a new way of thinking to the ancient world. Instead of explaining the world through mythology, philosophy was about exploring ideas using logic and reason, inspiring a new way of thinking about big questions.
This resource explores the ancient Greek philosophers, from the Presocratics including Thales, Democritus and Pythagoras to the classic philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The worksheets are geared towards comprehension, and the activities encourage creative thinking, debate and exploring wellness issues like happiness and friendship.
Pages: 18 (including 3 answer sheets)
Contents:
5 Information Handouts
Comprehension Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
Write a Dialogue Activity
Golden Mean Activity (Differentiated)
Discussion Activity
Philosophical Debate Activity
Answer Sheets
This lesson covers Roman battle tactics, recruitment, training, daily life, weapons, organization, legionaries and auxiliaries. There is a differentiated reading response including Comprehension Questions, Multiple Choice and True or False. In the activity, students write a Pros and Cons for joining the Roman army as an auxiliary soldier.
Suitable for Year 3-6.
Pages: 11 (including 3 answer sheets) PLUS a black and white version
Contents:
4 Information Pages
1 Pros and Cons Activity
3 Pages of Differentiated Reading Response (Comprehension Questions, Multiple Choice and True or False)
3 Answer Sheets
(Plus the same again in black and white)
Teach your students about the Latin alphabet and ancient Roman writing with reading, worksheets and a fun activity. The PDF resource includes information about Roman writing including the Latin language and alphabet, old italic, classical Latin and modern Latin alphabets, Roman Cursive. There is also a key of the Roman cursive alphabet and a visual timeline showing the evolution of the Latin alphabet.
Multiple choice questions test reading comprehension and students get to try out reading and writing Roman cursive with a variety of fun activities.
Suitable for KS2.
Pages: 13 (including 4 answer sheets)
Contents:
2 Information Handouts
1 Timeline
1 Discussion Page
1 Decipher the Sentence Activity
1 Writing Fun Activity
1 Secret Message Activity
1 Multiple Choice
1 Matching Activity
4 Answer Sheets
In this lesson, students learn about Greek mythological creatures. Twelve of the main Greek beasts, creatures and monsters are explored in listings, Centaur, Cerberus, Chimera, Cyclops, Harpy, Hydra, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus, Phoenix, Satyr and Siren. Each listing features an original illustration, facts and a short myth. The introduction includes interesting facts about ancient Greek mythological beasts including heroes, natural phenomena, animal attributes and powers. There is also a page exploring three constellations named after mythological beasts. Activities include differentiated reading response, create a monster activity, match the beast activity, constellation task cards and a printable memory card game.
Pages: 38 (including 7 answer sheets)
Contents:
12 Illustrated Listings
Research a Beast Activity
Constellation Page
Constellation Task Cards
Star Charts
Create a Monster Activity
Match the Beast Activity
Printable Memory Card Game
Questions / Multiple Choice / True or False (Differentiated Reading Response)
Questions or comments? Contact me at admin@primarytopicshop.co.uk
All text and illustrations are by Christa Galloway, Primary Topic Shop.
The Viking Runes lesson covers the runic alphabet, uses of runes, runestones and rune casting. It includes a multiple choice worksheet, a de-code the runestone activity and a cryptic Viking message activity. Aimed at KS2 Y4-6
Pages: 7 (including 2 answer sheets)
Contents:
Information Page
De-code the Runestone Activity
Cryptic Viking Message Activity
Rune Master Art Activity
Multiple Choice Worksheets
Answer sheets
All photos, illustrations and text are original by the author. This is part of a complete unit on Vikings.
This free resource is a great introduction to the Aztecs. The reading pages cover who the Aztecs were, where they were, the time period of the Aztec Empire, population, language, what they ate and includes a map of the empire. For reading comprehension, there is a true or false activity and a differentiated cryptic wordsearch with a fill in the blanks activity.
If you find this resource useful, please check out our other Aztec resources!
Pages: 8 (including 3 answer sheets)
Contents:
2 Information Handouts
True or False Worksheet
Cryptic Wordsearch with a Fill In The Blank Activity
3 Answer Sheets
Terms of Use
This free lesson covers the papyrus plant, uses of papyrus, papyrus paper, and making papyrus paper. There is a reading response activity and a making papyrus activity. This lesson is being offered free for as a sample of the Ancient Egypt bundle, but it can be used alone as a lesson. If you like this free resource, please take a look at the rest of the Ancient Egypt bundle. Thanks!
Pages: 5 (including answer sheet)
Contents:
2 Information Handouts
1 Reading Response Worksheet
1 Making Papyrus Activity
Answer Sheet
All photos, illustrations and text by Christa Galloway.
The Ancient Romans were people from Rome and the Roman Empire. The city of Rome was founded in what is now Italy in the eighth century BCE. It grew to rule in Europe, Britain, Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East until the fifth century CE.
This resource is an introduction to our Ancient Romans topic.
Contents:
2 Information Pages
Cryptic Word Search
Answer Sheet