Easter Story (2 hours of resources)- An hour long lesson with a mix of activities. Pack includes, Powerpoint, worksheets, clips and is well differentiated. It also includes an Easter Quiz.
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What caused the fall of the Mayan civilization?
This KS2 history lesson explores possible scenarios and causes.
Children work in ‘Time Teams’ to discuss and formulate ideas.
A clear and informative PowerPoint is used to introduce the lesson.
Print off a set of ‘Clue Cards’ for each Time Team.
Use the printable worksheet so the children can record and explain their ideas.
Everything you need for the lesson, simply download, print and away you go!
Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx planning, resources and smart notebook for 3 weeks writing an adventure story.
Week 1 contains 1 bank holiday - 4 days planning and resources including 1 day using talk for writing to learn the structure of the story
Week 2 - 5 days planning and resources teaching and embedding the skills needed for writing an adventure story
Week 2 - 5 days planning and resources based on modeling and then writing own stories
A full lesson for KS2 about Victorian schools, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
What were Victorian schools like?
In this lesson pupils will compare their own experiences of school to life in a Victorian classroom. Pupils will learn about key changes in the Victorian period regarding who could go to school. Then they will have the opportunity to role play being a Victorian school pupil, completing three different activities from Victorian classrooms: drill, nature drawing and handwriting in the copperplate style.
Objectives:
To find out how rules about who could go to school changed over the Victorian period
To compare Victorian schools with modern day schooling
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
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Introduction to the Victorians: (FREE): A full lesson for KS2 introducing the Victorian period, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Who Was Queen Victoria?; A full lesson for KS2 exploring the life and significance of Queen Victoria, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Inventions: A full lesson for KS2 about famous Victorian inventions, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Industrial Revolution A full lesson for KS2 exploring the impact of the Industrial Revolution, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Railways A full lesson for KS2 about the introduction of the railways, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Working Children A full lesson for KS2 exploring the topic of jobs for Victorian children, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Clothing A full lesson for KS2 investigating Victorian clothing, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Crime and Punishment A full lesson for KS2 about crime and punishment in the Victorian period, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Ancient Greeks: 10 lessons for KS2
A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Ancient Greece topic.
What you get:
10 lesson Powerpoint files
10 detailed lesson plans
Teachers’ notes, including curriculum coverage
Pupil activity sheets for all lessons
About the Unit
The ten sessions in this unit aim to give an overview of life in Ancient Greece, including a focus on its achievements and influence on the western world. As with all of the KS2History unit plans, there is an emphasis on allowing pupils to consider the sources of evidence that form our understanding of this period of world history.
Aims of the Unit
To gain an overview of significant people, places and events from Ancient Greece
To contrast daily life in Ancient Greece with modern day lifestyles ! To consider broader historical context, particularly with regards to the expansion of the Ancient Greek empire and lasting legacy
To become familiar with historical sources, debates and accurate vocabulary relating to Ancient Greece
Lessons in the Pack
Who were the Ancient Greeks?
Why were Athens and Sparta so different?
What was Alexander the Great’s impact on the Greek empire?
Why did a small Greek army win the Battle of Marathon?
What were the Ancient Greek gods known for?
What happened at the Ancient Greek Olympic Games?
What were the Ancient Greek philosophers famous for?
Did the events of the Trojan Horse story really happen?
What was daily life like for children in Ancient Greece?
How significant is the legacy of Ancient Greece for life today?
This pack contains everything you need to teach this unit, including differentiated activity ideas so that it can be adapted to the needs of your class. The Powerpoint text is also editable.
This pack is brought to you from Ks2history.com.
Extremely fun and engaging unit of work based on this fantastic new Carnegie award shortlisted book!
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A six week unit of work based on chapters 1-6 of the book ‘When the Sky Falls’ with comprehension tasks, writing tasks, history WW2 objectives and activities and a plenty of challenges included throughout.
History inspired activity researching and writing a leaflet (non-chronological report) about rationing in the war.
Narrative and poetry writing activities.
Role playing and listening to music.
PowerPoint** for chapters 1-6 with 60 slides.
X30 sets of success criteria for each writing task included.
x30 sets of extract analysis for each genre ready to print.
x 30 Writing checklists for each writing genre included.
Comprehension worksheet PDFs included
History focus including substantive knowledge and vocabulary for WW2 topic.
Extensive Vocabulaly and comprehension linked to the domains for all 6 chapters
Comprehension and critical thinking challenges
Comprehension answers included
Writing tasks with a clear structure: ideas to inspire; text analysis; plenty of SPAG opportunities ; writing activities, editing and publishing
Planning overview.
Suitable for KS2
Writing opportunities:
Write a rationing leaflet (non-chronological report)
Narrative writing: continuation of chapter 6 (Blitz street scene).
Poetry writing
If you are interested in more writing opportunities and history activities including an evacuee research topic, letter writing and designing and writing about a lighthouse in the war- you may be interested in my ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ unit.
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Or purchase my two book bundle: Letters from the lighthouse alongside ‘When the Sky Falls’
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A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Anglo-Saxon topic. This KS2History planning pack includes 10 detailed lessons plans, each with accompanying pupil resource sheets and Powerpoint slides.
The ten sessions in this unit aim to give an overview of the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain and to highlight some of the major changes during this period. There is an emphasis on allowing pupils to consider the sources of evidence that form our understanding of this period of British history.
The aims of the unit for pupils are:
To gain an overview of the significant people and events during the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain.
To contrast everyday life during the Anglo-Saxon period with modern British lifestyles.
To consider broader historical themes of invading and settling before a time when Britain was unified under a single monarch.
To become familiar with historical sources and accurate vocabulary relating to the Anglo-Saxon period.
This pack contains everything you need to teach this unit, including differentiated activity ideas so that it can be adapted to the needs of your class. The Powerpoint text is also editable.
The planning pack covers the following lessons:
Who were the Anglo-Saxon invaders?
Why did the Anglo-Saxons want to settle in Britain?
What was it like in an Anglo-Saxon village?
What kind of clothes did the Anglo-Saxons wear?
How was Anglo-Saxon Britain ruled?
Who was Alfred the Great?
What was Anglo-Saxon food and drink like?
How did the Anglo-Saxons write things down?
How did the Anglo-Saxons find out about Christianity?
What was the mystery of Sutton Hoo?
This pack is brought to you from Ks2history. #lovehistory #maymadness
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Easy to follow PowerPoint art lesson for KS2
Perfect for Years 5 and 6
Lots of images and easy to follow explanations and examples
The lesson covers the following points…
What is Anglo-Saxon Art?
What examples of Anglo-Saxon Art are there?
Where can I find Anglo-Saxon Art?
What are the features of Anglo-Saxon Art?
The children are then challenged to design their own Anglo-Saxon sword handle.
Resource sheets with hand drawn examplesof the key features are provided.
The PowerPoint guides the children and teacher through the design process - step by step - with hand drawn illustrated examples for each slide.
Everything you need for a successful lesson!
Romans in Britain: 10 lessons for KS2
A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Roman Britain topic.
WHAT YOU GET
10 detailed lesson plans
10 Powerpoint files
Teachers’ notes including curriculum coverage
Pupil activity sheets for all lessons
**** About the Unit****
The ten sessions in this unit aim to give an overview of the history of Roman Britain, including the main events of the period and the way in which Britain changed as a result. A focus is given to the impact of the Roman occupation, to its legacy on modern Britain and to gaining an appreciation of the evidence that forms our understanding of this period of world history.
Aims of the unit
To gain an overview of the impact of the Roman Empire on Britain, including its lasting legacy
To consider how different historical sources help us to know about Roman Britain
To research what it might have been like to live in Britain during the period of Roman occupation.
** Lessons in the Unit**
Where did the Roman Empire come from?
How did the Roman army help to expand the Roman Empire?
What was Britain like before the Romans invaded?
How did Britain become part of the Roman Empire?
Who was Boudica and how did she rebel against the Romans?
What did the Romans build after they settled in Britain?
What were houses like in Roman Britain?
What can archaeological sites tell us about Roman Britain?
How did bathhouses provide leisure for Romans in Britain?
What lasting impact did the Romans leave in Britain?
This pack contains everything you need to teach this unit, including differentiated activity ideas so that it can be adapted to the needs of your class. The Powerpoint text is also editable.
This resource is brought to you by KS2History.com.
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A lesson for KS2 about the lasting legacy of Ancient Greece, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and printable activity sheets.
This lesson is part of our popular Ancient Greece Pack for Key Stage 2.
Lesson: How significant is the legacy of Ancient Greece for life today?
In this lesson, pupils will explore some of the key legacies from Ancient Greece that influence life today. They will consider the significance of each legacy in terms of its impact on their own life, before working in a group to complete a ranking challenge to decide the most significant legacy.
Objectives:
To explore the influence of Ancient Greece on various areas of modern life
To consider the significance of different legacies on life today
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This primary history resource has been created by KS2History.com.
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ANIMAL FARM LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE ANIMAL FARM COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of George Orwell’s allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Orwell.
All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including:
- The Russian Revolution;
- Old Major’s Dream;
- The Rise of the Pigs;
- Dictatorship;
- Squealer;
- The Ending (Orwell’s Message)
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Victorians topic. This KS2History planning pack includes 10 detailed lessons plans, each with accompanying pupil resource sheets and Powerpoint slides.
The ten sessions in this unit aim to give an overview of the Victorian period in Britain and to highlight some of the major changes during this period. There is an emphasis on allowing pupils to consider the sources of evidence that form our understanding of this period of British history and to make links to modern times.
The aims of the unit for pupils are:
To gain an overview of the significance of the Victorian period within the wider narrative of British history
To contrast everyday life during the Victorian period with modern British lifestyles.
To consider some of the major changes and their effects during this period, including the impact of the Industrial Revolution and the railways, and to consider different perspectives on these changes.
To study significant people and events during this period.
To become familiar with historical sources and accurate vocabulary relating to the Victorian period.
This pack contains everything you need to teach this unit, including differentiated activity ideas so that it can be adapted to the needs of your class or year group. The Powerpoint text is also editable.
The planning pack covers the following lessons:
Introduction to the Victorians
Who was Queen Victoria?
Which famous inventions came from the Victorians?
What was the Industrial Revolution?
How did the Victorians respond to the new railways?
What was life like for working Victorian children?
How did Lord Shaftesbury improve the lives of Victorian children?
What were Victorian schools like?
What kind of clothes did the Victorians wear?
What was Victorian crime and punishment like?
This pack is brought to you from Ks2history.com. #lovehistory #maymadness
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This lesson will help children to understand the roles of women during the Second World War. They will learn about the different roles played by women and why, and have the opportunity to delve deeper through their own research.
This resource includes:
PowerPoint detailing the different roles held by women in WW2. Throughout the PowerPoint, there are various discussion questions to pose to your class - opportunities for partner talk/reflection/think, pair, share and feeding back to the class. Timed activities to boost engagement. Links to videos to add more context.
Three differentiated tasks to complete. You can either complete all of the tasks or choose the most fitting task(s) for your class and ability levels.
Task 1 - Hot Seat activity.
Task 2 - Fact file.
Task 3 - Diary entry.
(More information on each task in PowerPoint and lesson plan).
Scaffolding/models to support independent tasks (word mat of different roles / hot seat question bank / fact file template).
Lesson plan for teacher
fully editable in Word, download cool free fonts from Dafont for a fresh appearance. Add an overview of learning for parents and send out at the start of each half term/ term.
Editable headings and content.
Victorians - Victorian Inventions (KS2)
This lesson discusses the major Victorian inventions and inventors that helped fuel the industrial revolution. It includes a Victorian timeline of inventions. 5 British Victorian Inventors, Alexander Graham Bell, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, James Starley, Sarah Guppy and George Jennings.
This lesson is in PowerPoint format and can be taught as it is or changed to suit individual classes. Detailed PowerPoint Lesson with 13 slides.
This lesson comes with a suggested activity or task that is also attached. The task for this lesson, Children can choose two pictures of Victorian inventions and then fill in a detective/investigative worksheet.
Now updated to include a research article to save time.
Learning objectives
• To learn about Victorian inventions and how they have impacted our lives today
A brand new, fun and educational escape room, centred around ancient Egypt and the mysterious disappearance of a missing artifact. Work against the clock to solve the mystery before the dawn of the winter solstace, practicing history skills, critical thinking skills, teamwork and much more.
Created with a target age of 11 to 14, this challenging escape room should provide a fun and educational end-of-year activity for your students!
Set in the ancient Egypt exhibit at the British Museum, the escape room requires the students to follow a set of clues in their quest to find a missing scroll, believed to contain the secrets of the ancient Egyptian sun god, Ra.
Professor Evelyn Westwood, the renowned archaeologist who discovered it, has vanished under mysterious circumstances, and the scroll has gone with her.
By solving a collection of puzzles, your students will be guided from room to room on their quest to find a sacred missing artifact, the lost scroll of Ra.
You can view the introductory video here.
While the escape room is intended to be challenging, there is a great deal of support available to help your students in their quest, including explainer videos and animated hints/solutions that can accessed on the main PowerPoint.
Perfect for a fun tutor time activity, to be completed over the course of a week, or as a fun lesson before the Christmas holidays.
This timeline activity is a hands-on visual way for students to see the changes that have been made in the history of flight, from the first hot air balloons to the modern passenger Boeing 747.
This timeline focuses on seven key developments in the history of planes from the first hot air balloon in 1783 to the modern Boeing 747 airliner in 1970.
The timeline has four differentiated options so that you can meet the needs of your students or there is the option to make a foldable version which is a mini-book that could be taped into the students’ books or they could take it home.
What’s included?
Timeline and real photos to match up to the dates
Differentiated with simple or detailed captions, and the easiest version has the photos and captions already together so students need to match it to the date, and the most difficult level students need to match the photo to the caption and write in the date
Interactive foldable with visual step-by-step instructions
11 pages included.
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26 Activities to learn all about Scotland past and present!
Activities included:
Map skills
Culture
Scottish Clans
Dialect
Famous Scots
Scottish Inventors
Loch Ness Monster
Wars of Independence
William Wallace
Robert the Bruce
Mary Queen of Scots
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Highland Clearances
Scottish Parliament
I have updated a typo on the page ‘The Battle of Stirling Bridge’ after one of my pupils pointed out an error, it said ‘Sirling Bridge’.
A full lesson for KS2 about crime and punishment in , including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
What was Victorian Crime and Punishment like?
In this lesson pupils will learn about typical crimes from the Victorian period and different kinds of punishments that were given. Pupils will have the opportunity to act as Victorian judges and will read a series of case studies, awarding appropriate punishments for each. Pupils will link what they have learned to wider issues about modern day crime and punishment.
Objectives:
To find out about typical crimes and punishments in the Victorian period
To compare Victorian punishments to the modern day justice system.
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
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Introduction to the Victorians: (FREE): A full lesson for KS2 introducing the Victorian period, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Who Was Queen Victoria?; A full lesson for KS2 exploring the life and significance of Queen Victoria, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Inventions: A full lesson for KS2 about famous Victorian inventions, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Industrial Revolution A full lesson for KS2 exploring the impact of the Industrial Revolution, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Railways A full lesson for KS2 about the introduction of the railways, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Working Children A full lesson for KS2 exploring the topic of jobs for Victorian children, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Schools A full lesson for KS2 about Victorian schools, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Clothing A full lesson for KS2 investigating Victorian clothing, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
A highly-detailed and complete teaching sequence for teaching children how to write a high-quality persuasive letter.
Included are:
Two high-quality end of KS2 standard persuasive letters to use as an example and reference.
A Planning proforma.
A whole PowerPoint teaching sequence that has activities, probing questions and learning opportunities related to:
What is a persuasive letter?
Analysis of the text type.
Comparing two letters (activity included!)
The structure of a persuasive letter
Planning
Writing a high-quality introduction
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (First person pronouns, The passive voice, Fronted adverbials, Past tense verbs, Punctuation for Parenthesis)
Writing for effect (Emotive language, sentence structure)
Editing and redrafting
Responding to feedback
Celebrating success
Designed to save you hours and raise attainment, this is an excellent resource to get the best out of your whole cohort.
This lesson allows students to identify and describe the many changes which happened in Britain during the period of the Industrial Revolution. The lesson allows students to contrast what Britain was like in c.1750 and by c.1900. The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson learning aims
Slide 3: A slide to help students discuss and learn the definition of the term ‘Industrial Revolution’
Slide 4: An introduction to the changes of the Industrial Revolution
Slide 5: Lesson Warm Up Activity: What changes have you experienced in your lifetime?
Slide 6: Starter Activity: Spot the difference between the two paintings of Britain (c.1750 and c.1900)
Slide 7: Historical Source/Interpretation Activity
Slide 8: Documentary Link and Activity about the changes of the Industrial Revolution
Slide 9: An outline of the main learning task
Slide 10: Printable lesson fact sheet
Slide 11/12: Printable worksheets based on the fact sheet
Slide 13: Challenge Activity 1 – What was the impact of the Industrial Revolution?
Slide 14: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 15/16: Learning Review Quiz with answers revealed.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.