Ten sets of power point slides trace the journey to independence from British rule up to to the second continental congress.
There are activities interspersed amongst the slides and presented in worksheet form for each lesson.
Aimed at students aged 12 to 14, THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION unit covers the following topics:
James - Duke of York
Religious and Political Tension
James, King of Ireland, Scotland and England
The beginning of the Revolution
Planning the invasion
The Invasion
Settlement
The wars against the French (the Nine Years War)
Anne – the last of the Stuarts
Each lesson is presented using power point slides. The slide sequences are interspersed with activities and there is space on the worksheets for students to respond.
Take your students on a journey through the ages of stone, bronze and iron. The presentations correlate with the notes and there are activities in worksheet form for each topic:
Tools and Implements of the three ages
Finding evidence of the three ages
The movement of the Earth’s Surface
How Climate Change affected Life
The Stone Age
A day in the life of Zog
Messages on the Wall
A Monument to the Stone Age: Skara Brae
The Mystery of Stonehenge
The Bronze Age
The Iron Age
Hill Forts of Britannia
Students will be able to answer the question, “Who were the Ancient Greeks?”
Activities include drawing time lines to show a range of information e.g. periods of history, events, significant people; Using a time line to compare periods of history that have been studied.
This resource consists of a power point presentation and worksheet.
This is an introduction to “From the Stone Age to the Iron Age”, using a Power Point presentation to lead the students through the topic. The students will be able to identify the stages by the tools that were made. The presentation supports the notes and worksheet activity.
The lesson includes:
Discussion
Why the names “Stone”, "Bronze”, and “Iron” have been attributed to the ages.
Activities
Identifying artifacts
Group discussion skills - listening and responding
Comprehension and thinking skills
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
Used mainly with students aged 11+, this unit tells the story of the Norman conquest of England using power point slides. It details the kings, battles and changes to the lands, language and way of life. The worksheets can be used to consolidate knowledge and develop skills, comprehension and opinions.
There are 11 lessons.
ELECTRICITY
Used for 10 to 11 year olds, this interesting unit is presented using power point slides and worksheets with activities to support learning.
Topics:
Reminder - What is electricity?
Current and Voltage?
Important electrical components
Investigating voltage and electrical conductors
The power of fruit and vegetables
Investigating resistance
Making a wire loop game
Drawing circuits
Making circuits work
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.
Twenty eight legends and origins are presented in this unit. Each chapter has interesting activities, including:
exploring characters, writing paragraphs, completing flow charts, giving opinions, linking history and legends, drawing and labeling.
The Greeks were wonderful storytellers! Share these rich ancient myths with your KS 2 students. The stories here are retold and followed by interesting worksheet based activities.
The characters from Greek myths feature incidentally in much of our literature. Besides giving a great deal of reading pleasure, knowing the myths helps students to understand the references when they come across them.
Each story and the related activity is saved separately so that you can print one, or several, in any order according to the interests of your students.
PLANTS RESOURCES and LESSON OUTLINES
Growing Seeds
• “Bean Book” to print
• Calendar to print
Observing and recording changes
Caring for a plant
Seeds
• Power Point – Seeds and Plants
• Matching cards
Parts of a plant
• Large and small labels
Trees
• PowerPoint – evergreen and deciduous trees
• Tree life cycle worksheets
• Parts of a tree worksheet
What makes plants grow?
• Worksheet
• PowerPoint – what do plants need to grow?
An interesting set of presentations with notes for students and worksheets, including a section on the history of trading and money and activities for students to learn about managing budgets, business and money.
There are fourteen topics:
Why people trade
Bartering in the Ancient World
Money, trading and business words.
What is money?
The history of money
Things that we should all know about money.
Responsibility - looking after our money
Budgets
Banks and banking
International Currencies
Going into business – A Business Plan
Different Types of Business.
Shares, Stocks and Bonds
Interest and Dividends
Each topic has slides, which indicate when to break for activities and activities related to those slides.
TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY – THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN is a unit studying a significant turning point in British history. This is an aspect of British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Eleven lessons with slides and worksheets cover the following topics:
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party
Nazi expansion in Europe
The War and the rise of Winston Churchill
Fall of France and the Dunkirk miracle
Operation Sea Lion
German aircraft and bombing
British defences and aircraft
The Battle of Britain
Winning the battle
Women heroes of the Battle of Britain
The “Few”
With the festive season imminent, this unit gives a good overview of the origins of festivals celebrated at the end of the year, how these festivals are celebrated and some of the connections between festivals. Themes such as lights, feasts and activities are considered. There are seven power point presentations and seven worksheets covering the following end of year celebrations:
Origins of festivals
Diwali
Thanksgiving
Hanukkah
Winter Solstice (Yule tide)
Christmas
New Year
The curriculum revisits the topic of LIGHT at different stages of the Student’s development. Students build on their prior learning to assimilate new concepts. This unit extends the concepts and ideas studied at about age 7 to 9.
It covers the topics:
How light appears
How we see
Shadows and light
Reflections
Making a periscope
Refraction
Power point presentations scaffold students through the concepts, investigations and activities. Activities are presented in worksheet form with notes and areas for diagrams, comprehension and recording of investigations.
These myths and stories from ancient Egypt can be used on their own, purely as literature and comprehension, or to give colour and background to a study of ancient Egypt.
There are seventeen stories, each with activities (see thumbnails for the types of activities).
I have used these with 8 to 10 year old students. Often, after we have used some in the class, they ask for more, which is always rewarding for a teacher!
This is a five-part grammar program for children from seven through to eleven years old. The program consists of:
First steps in grammar
Walking confidently in grammar
Striding out in grammar
Running hard in Grammar
Sprinting in Grammar
Each level offers lessons with learning activities. There are power point presentations to aid each lesson.
This program consists of 125 lessons divided up into age-level appropriate stages from seven-year-olds to eleven-year-olds. Each lesson has learning activities to consolidate understanding. There are 125 power point presentations altogether.
This three lesson unit outlines the causes of the peasants’ revolt in 1381, taking up arms and the aftermath. It enables students to explore different points of view in a historical perspective, and draws their attention to what may have been the beginning of modern ideas of freedom and human rights.
Each lesson is presented using power point slides and there are learning activities allowing students to express opinions and empathise with different points of view.