This unit gives a good history of the 1707 Act of the Union, Hanoverian Succession and the Jacobite Invasions, using power point slides. There are topics for discussion and space on the worksheets for responses.
The Act of Union of 1707
The Hanoverian Succession
George I and the House of Hanover
The House of Hanover
The Jacobites
The Jacobite Invasion of 1715
The Jacobite Invasion of 1745
This comprehensive unit on Rivers presents the following topics through power point slides:
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The forming of a river
A river’s journey
The water cycle
Rivers sustaining life
River settlements
River transport
River power
Some great rivers of the world
The slides are interspersed with learning activities which can be completed on the corresponding worksheets.
This unit aims to help students continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of British history, noting in particular, the influence of the “Romanisation” of Britain and evidence of this that is visible today.
This unit contains power point presentations and worksheets for each of the following topics:
The beginning of the Roman Empire
From king to senate to emperor
Britain during the Roman Empire
The Roman army in 42 AD.
The Roman conquest and occupation of Britain
Boudicca
Comparing the Roman and Celtic way of life
Romanisation of Britain
Early Christianity
Fall of Rome
Some ways that the Romans have influenced the world
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
This unit consists of ten lessons on the United States War of Independence.
The lessons consist of slides and worksheets for each lesson, on the topics:
*Causes of unhappiness in the thirteen colonies
The First Shots
The British Advance of 1776 to 1777
The Northern Campaign of 1777
Mid Atlantic Stage 1778 to July 1779 French Alliance
Mid Atlantic and Southern Campaign July to December 1779
British and American conflicts of 1780
The Beginning of the End 1781
Facing the End
Winning the War*
I have used this with years 7 to 9 / grades 6 to 8
This is a useful resource for beginning the science curriculum with students in Year 4
Topics:
Finding knowledge
Prediction and Hypothesis
A Fair Test
Setting up a Science Experiment
Collecting data
Analyzing and drawing conclusions
The Scientific process in discovering our COVID vaccines
There are seven power point presentations, seven worksheets and notes for students.
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
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.
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”
"The Roman withdrawal from Britain" download includes a power point presentation and worksheet.
The objective is for the students to identify the consequences for the Britons of the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain.
This lesson is part of the unit “BRITAIN’S SETTLEMENT by the ANGLES, SAXONS and SCOTS”.
Used mainly for 8 to 9 year olds, this lesson helps students to understand
where the Vikings came from and how they were perceived by other nations at the time.
There are power point slides for the lesson and a worksheet to consolidate.