8 x fully resourced lesson packs (one pack contains 2 lessons)- all complete with differentiated, detailed, PowerPoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenaries, LOs to three levels throughout. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
This unit would easy last you a half term and has had about 20 hours worth of planning time put into it.
Also includes a Black History Month Assembly.
Lessons:
Black History overview
The abolition of slavery
KKK
Jim Crow
Emmett Till
Civil Rights Groups
7/8. Martin Luther King (2 x lessons)
Black History Month Assembly
Suitable for KS3 and all editable so easy to adapt.
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in Luther’s Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Reformation Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
This 20 minute script was written by an experienced primary school Head of English who is also, outside of school, an award-winning writer. The script was penned for a high ability Year 4 class but is suitable for performance by any year group in KS2 or 3. The script is deliberately humorous, yet is also full of informative and educational learning opportunities about the ancient Maya culture. The script has 30 parts but these could easily be split or doubled up depending on the number of children involved.
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to the British Empire. There are comprehensive sections on:
-British Empire Overview;
-British Empire Map;
-Major Events/ Stages;
-Timeline;
-Countries/ Territories in the British Empire;
-Key Vocabulary;
-Top Ten British Empire Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3 or A4, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). It is most suitable for students in lower KS3/ upper KS2.
Updated! 24 hours of content (in 20 downloads) - 24 x fully resourced hour long lessons, an assembly, a quiz and 5 displays. All differentiated throughly to three levels, with 45 worksheets to go along with PowerPoints. Created to help any school meet all British Values requirements with ease.
All lessons are fully resourced, highly-rated British Values and Citizenship lessons for KS3 / KS4. All are complete with accompanying worksheets, clips and activities that are well differentiated to three levels.
It’s worth checking your downloads on this if you buy it because I keep adding to it and then you get the new downloads all free.
**Just added - a version of the Identity lesson suitable for low ability / SEN or KS2. This was used with a Year 7 Nurture group. **
I use all of these myself as a Head of Citizenship and I really hope you find them excellent value. I’ve put literally months of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team.
There is enough material here to create numerous off time-table days for different year groups to cover all the British Values / SMSC / Citizenship KS4 and KS3 requirements.
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This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to the The Age of Exploration (sometimes known as The Age of Discovery). It contains comprehensive sections on:
The Age of Exploration Overview;
Overview;
Key People (Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Abel Tasman);
The Age of Exploration Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Key Vocabulary;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). It is most suitable for students in KS2/ lower KS3. Another version of this organiser is available for younger children.
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Henry VIII as a part of their history study. It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in His Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Henry VIII Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for KS2 students learning or revising knowledge relating to the Tudors. It contains comprehensive sections on:
Tudor Monarchs - date of reign, biography, spouse info, and key facts;
Major Events and Key Information;
Everyday Life in the Period;
Timeline of Major Events;
Key Vocabulary.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
KS3 RE COMPLETE PACKAGE from EC Publishing- Includes lessons, assessments and schemes of work. mark schemes, feedback sheets, homework projects, all divided into half terms. Contains new and exciting content, all written with consultation of a collection of UK city SACRES, so the pack follows the instruction that RE should be ‘in the main, Christian’ (this is about 60%).
All of the content is in the three ‘Complete’ downloads, but some of the lessons included have also been added as single resources so you can get a good look at the content. The pack is also available on the EC website, here.
All lessons are complete with at least one hour-long PowerPoint per lesson, accompanying differentiated worksheets, GCSE -style prep-tasks, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and all are well differentiated to three levels throughout.
Units covered:
Year 7
1 Introduction and overview lesson
2) Religious Festivals
3) Christianity
4) World Religions - Beliefs , Life and Death
5) Sikhism
6) End of year RE fun lesson
Year 8
Exploring Islam
Exploring Judaism
Exploring Hinduism and Judaism
Religion, Peace and Conflict
Philosophy and Ethics
Religion and the Afterlife
Year 9
New religions, alternative movements and cults
Exploring Christian denominations
Religion, science, medicine and ethics
Religion and Human Rights
…
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE + RE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here:
One Year of KS3 RE
Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE
One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE
One Year of Citizenship and British Values
Complete Year 7 and 8 RE
Complete Careers and Employability
AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
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This 20 minute script was written by an experienced primary school Head of English who is also, outside of school, an award-winning writer. The script was penned for a Year 6 class but is suitable for performance by any year group in KS2 or 3. The script is deliberately humorous, yet is also full of informative and educational learning opportunities about the life of William Shakespeare. The script has 26 parts but these could easily be split or doubled up depending on the number of children involved.
Please note that this assembly script focuses on the life of William Shakespeare (ie his birth, background, family life, move to London and his death) rather than the plays themselves.
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge relating to the The Age of Exploration (sometimes known as The Age of Discovery). It contains comprehensive sections on:
The Age of Exploration Overview;
Overview;
Key People (Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Abel Tasman);
The Age of Exploration Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Key Vocabulary;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). It is most suitable for students in KS1/ lower KS2. Another version of this organiser is available for older children.
This is a presentation on the tudor queen, Elizabeth I.
Use it as part of a lesson or for an assembly for KS1, KS2 or KS3.
The presentation covers the period before her birth, her childhood, how she became queen, her life as a queen and the difficulties she faced during her rule. The last part of the presentation includes some interesting questions to provoke discussion.
If you have a love for the** greatest mind that ever lived**, need some activities to support teaching his story with students or simply want to celebrate his birthday on 15th April, then this pack of resources is a must.
It contains a 16-question worksheet regarding Leonardo Da Vinci, an activity which requires students to name some of his paintings, a wordsearch of 30-related words (which should get some inquisitive conversations going) and of course an answer file for the questions / naming activity.
All images used within the resources are licensed as free to use for all purposes, on free image-sharing websites.
Now includes Andrew Tate lesson - Perfect for meeting the new PSHE Statutory guidelines, this pack has been created from the popular EC Resources PSHE lessons to match one of the new PSHE Association optional frameworks - the ‘Thematic Framework’, from their model programme builder. This is one of a variety of ways to order your PSHE content and follows the PSHE Association’s new, suggested order for content within their three categories: Living in the Wider World, Relationships and Health and Wellbeing.
PSHE Association Theme:
Summer 1 Relationships
Topic – Addressing Extremism and Radicalisation
Community cohesion and challenging extremism
**This pack is mapped against the latest DfE guidance and uses the PSHE Association Core themes (code references: R5, R6, R9, R10, R14, R28, R29, R30, R31, R34, L24, L26, L27, L28, L29) for the 2020 Requirements (Statutory Health and RSE).
**
Learning Outcomes for this unit
about communities, inclusion, respect and belonging
about the Equality Act, diversity and values
about how social media may distort, mis-represent or target information in order to influence beliefs and opinions
how to manage conflicting views and misleading information
how to safely challenge discrimination, including online
how to recognise and respond to extremism and radicalisation
All lessons are editable, differentiated at least three ways so you can be Ofsted and DfE guidance-ready and ensure your pupils have the very best PSHE education. Each pack contains a variety of activities, an hour-long PowerPoint, a clip with questions, a literacy focus task, new key-term introductions, reading aloud materials, assessment opportunities, progress checkers and creative tasks.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Check out our PSHE Packages here:
Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE
One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE
One Year of Citizenship and British Values
Complete Year 7 and 8 RE
Complete Careers and Employability
AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
The rest of the Thematic Packages can be found here:
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4 x detailed and editable, one hour lessons to introduce students to history skills. The pack includes:
History Skills Introduction - A fun Year 7 History lesson which can be used either on a transition day or in the first week at secondary school as an introduction to history. The lesson focuses on familiarising students with the key skills they will be using throughout history lessons in KS3- source analysis, source comparison, chronology and literacy through history (spag and essay skills). It includes engaging teamwork tasks, fact-finding activities and lots of introduction to new key terms.
History Skills - Evidence. A detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson all about how to assess evidence / sources for usefulness, with PowerPoint and accompanying worksheets. It’s editable and very easy to pick up and run with.
The lesson lasts one hour and is very easy to just pick up and use. The lesson is best suited to Year 7 (but could be used with an older, perhaps lower ability group as a refresher) . The download includes: a one hour PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, clip tasks and more.
History Skills - The Ice Man. A detailed and well differentiated, editable history skills lesson with a focus on the importance of using evidence. This hour long lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) was created for Year 7 (but could be used with a different group) to illustrate the importance of source work as historians (and those working in archeology) in order to gain a detailed picture of the past. The lesson focuses on the story of the Ice Man and how he died and came to be buried and preserved he was.
Students will use evidence to create a detailed profile of the Ice Man’s last days and explore the artifacts he left behind and the clues left for historians to decipher.
History Skills - Pompeii. A detailed and well differentiated, editable history skills lesson with a focus on the importance of using evidence. This hour long lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) could be used with any KS3 group to illustrate the importance of source work as historians (and those working in archeology) in order to gain a detailed picture of the past. The lesson focuses on the story of the Pompeii and the evidence left behind that historians have pieced together to create an accurate view of the disaster.
Students will use evidence to create a detailed profile of the last days of Pompeii and explore the site left behind and the clues left for historians to decipher.
One half term’s worth (7 hours including assessment and detailed scheme of work) of lessons exploring world religions and belief suitable for Year 7 (or maybe Year 8).
Each lesson contains a detailed PowerPoint and worsksheets, well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task, a variety of activities, information packs, clips with differentiated questions, clear measurable LOs, new key-term introductions and other activities.
The pack is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow.
Lessons included:
Introduction to world religions
Tradition, fact and belief
Does God exist?
Religious pilgrimages
Places of worship
Religious leaders
Religion, belief and conflict (the Reformation)
Assessment and markscheme
Scheme of work
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Check out our RE and PSHE Packages here:
One Year of KS3 RE
Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE
One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE
One Year of Citizenship and British Values
Complete Year 7 and 8 RE
Complete Careers and Employability
AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
We also run psheresources.com and you can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
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This resource contains an interesting and informative 50-slide PowerPoint presentation on American Independence Day which takes place on the fourth July.
The presentation focuses on:
the key events leading to the Revolutionary War
the Stamp Act and The Tea Act
the Boston Tea Party
the setting up of Congress
the Revolutionary War
the United States of America Flag
the Declaration of Independence
the Statue of Liberty
Independence Day celebrations
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to a short video on the history of Independence Day, Independence Day parades and firework displays and the United States national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.
Please note that the watermark on the preview images is not present on the resource itself. The resource can be found in the zip file when you download it.
If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. As a token of appreciation, you can have a free resource of your choice up to the same value as your purchased resource. Just email inspireandeducate@aol.co.uk with your user name, the resource you have reviewed and the resource you would like for free.
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Fourth July - American Independence Day Quiz
Check out your pupils’ understanding and knowledge of American Independence Day with this accompanying 36-question PowerPoint quiz.
Fourth July - American Independence Day Puzzle Pack
The puzzle pack contains a set of nine differentiated word searches, anagram puzzles, and crosswords. The pack includes three word searches, four anagram puzzles, and two crosswords.
Save money and buy three resources in a bundle at a discounted rate:
Fourth July - American Independence Day - Presentation, Quiz and Puzzle Pack
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This is a fully editable, 50-question PowerPoint quiz on Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes and Fireworks. it is an ideal resource for use in lessons/ assemblies around Bonfire Night / Guy Fawkes Night. There are 3 multiple choice answers.
It can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is provided to record answers.
Sample questions:
What did Guy Fawkes change his Christian name to?
What religion was Guy Fawkes?
Which monarch was reigning at the time of the Gunpowder Plot?
How many barrels of gunpowder are said to have been hidden under the House of Lords?
When arrested what false name did Guy Fawkes give?
In which country were fireworks invented?
Who was the Catherine Wheel firework named after?
How old do you need to be before you are allowed to buy fireworks?
In ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ which character is famous for fireworks?
In the Harry Potter stories by J. K. Rowling one of the characters is named Fawkes, what kind
of creature is it?
The PowerPoint also contains a hyperlink to the world’s top ten firework displays.
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Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot Presentation
This resource contains a fully editable, 45-slide PowerPoint on Guy Fawkes and his role in the Gunpowder Plot and how this has resulted in Bonfire Night. The PowerPoint ends with questions for discussion. There are hyperlinks to two videos about Guy Fawkes and Gunpowder Plot.
Bonfire Night and Firework Safety Presentation
This is 70-slide presentation on fireworks and firework safety. It includes a history of fireworks, firework records, interesting facts about fireworks, the law and fireworks, the firework code and how to stay safe on Bonfire Night. It also contains links to firework Guinness World Records, Handel’s firework music, three firework safety videos - one for very young children, one for primary aged pupils and one for secondary pupils.
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These 480 History task cards are perfect for your lesson plans and topic. They are suitable for KS3 and GCSE History students. They feature different activities including knowledge retrieval practice, Multiple Choice and spot the mistakes amongst other History related activities.
Contents Knowledge Retrieval Topic Task Card bundle
20 x Set of 24 Different sets of topic Task Cards with a range of activities and styles in editable and PDF versions
20 x Teacher Answer Sheets - All answers covered
Student Fill in Activity Sheets that can be used with the cards (Optional)
** TOPIC CARD SETS INCLUDED**
Industrial Revolution
the great war
World War 2
KS4 Revision Skills
Medieval England
The Stuarts
The Tudors
KS3 History Skills
Weimar Germany
American West
Nazi Germany
Medicine Through TIme
Migation and Empires
Western Front
The Vikings
Elizabethan England
Crusades
Terrorism
English Monarchs
America Civil War
Each Topic Task card is matched to the theme of the set and includes numbering and answers designed by our History Specialist .
Cards can be printed in colour or black and white.
How to use Knowledge Retrieval Topic Task Cards?
These cards are perfect as an extension task, starter or plenary and as a means of testing knowledge upon completion of a unit. For a short task (extension/starter/plenary), you can simply give them one or two cards and differentiate which cards are given according to the students level or their areas needing improvement. For an end of unit, you could hand the cards out to different groups and have them switch the cards after a certain period of time (e.g. one group gets multiple choice, one group gets spot the mistakes, one group gets photocards, etc.).
Benefits of using this new style of Sociology T&L activity
Set of retrieval activities
Motivating for students
Bitesize tasks
Fun way to revise a topic
Allow for differentiation
Copy, cut and laminate – use over and over again
Versatile and can be used in many different ways
If you leave a nice review to email us at thecre8tiveresources@gmail.com for an extra treat for your students
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Nazi Germany
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Weimar and Nazi Germany
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Elizabethan England
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This slideshow contains sample slides from a 45-slide PowerPoint on Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot. See below for details
Guy Fawkes and The Gun Powder Plot Presentation
This resource contains a fully editable, 45-slide PowerPoint on Guy Fawkes and his role in the Gunpowder Plot and how this has resulted in bonfire night.
The content includes references to
Guy Fawkes’ religious background
The intolerance of James I towards Roman Catholics
The Plot
The anonymous letter
Guy Fawkes arrest, trial and execution
The conspiracy theory
The Act of Thanksgiving
The PowerPoint ends with questions for discussion.
In 2002 in a poll conducted by the BBC, Guy Fawkes was named the 30th Greatest Briton. What do you think about Guy Fawkes and his planned role in the gunpowder plot? Was he a hero or a terrorist?
Do you think Guy Fawkes and the conspirators should have been sentenced to death and hung, drawn and quartered?
What do you think about James I and his treatment towards, and intolerance of, Catholics?
The PowerPoint contains hyperlinks to two videos about Guy Fawkes and Gunpowder Plot.
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This activity (an information gap about the life of Edmond Albius) was posted for Black History Month. It has now been updated and more pictures added. I notice that there are now more websites about the slave who discovered how to fertilise the vanilla orchid, particularly in French. Similar activities on: www.collaborativelearning.org/historyblack.html