We provide quality resources for teachers and homeschoolers on Ancient and Medieval History, our domain of expertise.
Here you will always find lesson plans for your students, together with plenty of engaging activities and supporting material.
Make sure to check out our collections where we gather, on a specific theme, articles (over 50 are audio), definitions, images (sometimes 3D), videos, maps from our website to help with class preparation and to make connections.
Make history relevant!
We provide quality resources for teachers and homeschoolers on Ancient and Medieval History, our domain of expertise.
Here you will always find lesson plans for your students, together with plenty of engaging activities and supporting material.
Make sure to check out our collections where we gather, on a specific theme, articles (over 50 are audio), definitions, images (sometimes 3D), videos, maps from our website to help with class preparation and to make connections.
Make history relevant!
A lesson plan to present your students with everything they need to know about the Viking Age in general (includes STEM activities!):
important characters
warfare
ships
women
food
runes
It includes many links towards reliables resources for :
articles,
audio articles
several great videos
3D objects
fantastic very detailed STEM activities from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Enjoy your teaching!
Teaching ideas for your classroom: Start your class with a sound extract of Beowulf performed in old English or a Led Zeppelin song including Tho! To go with it, plenty of wonderful articles (many of them audio articles), videos, and pictures on:
Odin
Freyja
Thor
Loki
Freyr
Edda
Beowulf
Don’t forget to check out the videos and web links on this collection, they are great addition to engage your students!
Lesson plan, worksheets and keys, discussion leads and (optional) project: this activity has been designed to fit a 30-45-minute slot for your class.
It can be used by any teacher and educator and is suitable for on-line teaching.
We hope it will help your students grasp the seriousness of the current Covid-19/Coronavirus situation and better understand their civic responsibilities in response to it.
We wish you all the best in these challenging times.
Take care and be safe!
Here is a little game to introduce Halloween into your social studies class without going off-topic! Instructions and lesson plan included.
Instructions
• Print the PDF
• Cut out each of the 8 cards
• Cut out the parts of the cards that you want to be matched. For example, you could cut out the description and leave the title and picture together
• Mix the cards and have the students match the illustration and its definition for each card in small groups
This game will allow your students to discover some of the most fearsome creatures, gods and goddesses from ancient times!
**Ancient Japan - Discovering Shinto: The power of rituals and beliefs. ** - 27 pages of lesson plan and engaging activities. All you need to teach on that subject included in this resource and ready to print!
Objectives
● Discover a new religion: Shinto.
● Raise awareness in the classroom about personal values.
● Engage pupils to reflect on their community and their own beliefs and rituals: Where do they come from? Are they important? Do they evolve with time?
● Engage pupils into talking about religions.
● Practice pupils’ analytical and oral presentation skills.
Content - 27 pages
● Detailed course plan divided into two units, each of which has sub-units teachable separately to fit your schedule.
● Varied resources, and ready-to-print activities.
● The Microsoft Word format allows you to adapt the course content and worksheet to the specific needs of your pupils.
● Homework in lieu of assessments; however, you’re free to use them or any other worksheets as and when you see fit.
● Marking grids for teachers, skill sheets for the pupils.
Table of Content
Unit 1: Are some beliefs universal?
Background
Collecting data
Discovering Shinto
Critical brainstorming
Homework/Assignment
Unit 2: A religion based on rituals
Background
Homework Review
Understanding key notions
Analysing a text
Homework/Assignment
Supporting material
Worksheet 1 Your values
Worksheet 2 Key Concepts in Shinto
Key Concepts in Shinto
Worksheet 3 Values versus beliefs - Essay
Tips to write a good essay
Marking grid - Essay
Worksheet 4 Rituals versus beliefs
Worksheet 5 No prophet, no holy texts?
Worksheet 6 Presentation: Your own values, beliefs and rituals… over time.
Marking grid- Oral presentation
Note: Cover image by James Blake Wiener.
We have prepared three lesson plans including classroom activities, assignments, homework, and keys as well as:
Multiple choice quiz questions in an excel format.
Glossary of keywords and concepts in an excel format.
Open questions adaptable for debates, presentations, and essays.
Recommended resources to provide you and your students with a comprehensive. list of trustworthy references on the topic (includes all media types: videos, texts, primary resources, maps, podcasts, 3D models, etc.).
Tools to give your students such as tips to write a great essay.
Tools to make your life easier, such as marking grids.
Make sure to check out our games and quizzes on this topic too!
All our education material is varied and built to develop middle and high-school students’ skills to succeed in social studies. You will also find several alternatives in the lesson plans to allow for differentiation and adaptation to your students’ level of ability.
This pack includes all of the following topics:
Gift of the Nile
Barter, Beer, and Bread
Nile, Red Sea, and Mediterranean Trade
We are a non-profit organization and it is one of our goals to provide quality material to teachers by building engaging courses and finding reliable sources. If you want to join our team of volunteers and help us create great teaching resources, please contact us.
We have prepared five lesson plans including classroom activities, assignments, homework, and keys as well as:
Multiple choice quiz questions in an excel format.
Glossary of keywords and concepts in an excel format.
Open questions adaptable for debates, presentations, and essays.
Recommended resources to provide you and your students with a comprehensive. list of trustworthy references on the topic (includes all media types: videos, texts, primary resources, maps, podcasts, 3D models, etc.).
Tools to give your students such as tips to write a great essay.
Tools to make your life easier, such as marking grids.
Make sure to check out our games and quizzes on this topic too!
All our education material is varied and built to develop middle and high-school students’ skills to succeed in social studies. You will also find several alternatives in the lesson plans to allow for differentiation and adaptation to your students’ level of ability.
This pack includes all of the following topics:
Old Kingdom - Kings & Pyramids
Middle Kingdom - The Classical Age
New Kingdom - Pharaohs & Empire
The Hyksos, & the Amarna Period
Famous Female Pharaohs
We are a non-profit organization and it is one of our goals to provide quality material to teachers by building engaging courses and finding reliable sources. If you want to join our team of volunteers and help us create great teaching resources, please contact us.
**Discover Shinto through its beliefs, values and rituals ** - 25 pages of lesson plan, activities, homework and assignments, keys and marking grids. All you need to teach on that subject: included and ready to print in this resource!
Objectives
● Discover a new religion and its gods: Shinto.
● Engage pupils to reflect on their community and own values. Why do we do what we do in our everyday lives?
● Raise awareness in the classroom about values and accountability.
● Engage pupils into talking about their feelings and how to handle them.
● Practice pupils’ analytical and oral presentation skills.
Content - 25 pages
● Detailed course plan divided into two units of about 60 to 90 minutes each. Each unit has sub-units which you can teach separately as well, to fit your schedule better.
● Varied resources, and ready-to-print activities.
● The Microsoft Word format allows you to adapt the course content and worksheet to the specific needs of your pupil.
● Homework in lieu of assessments; however, you’re free to use them or any other worksheets as and when you see fit.
Table of Contents
Unit 1: Shinto, a religion with a twist
Introduction
Video and Questions
Mime game
Homework/Assignment
Unit 2: Amaterasu and Susanoo
Homework Review
Collecting & Summarising data
Homework/Assignment
Supporting material
Worksheet 1 Discovering Shinto
Worksheet 1 - KEYS Discovering Shinto
Worksheet 2 Charade game
Worksheet 3 Shinto shrine complex
Worksheet 4 A special person…
Worksheet 5 Relationships: collecting data
Worksheet 6 Amaterasu and Susanoo
Worksheet 7 Presentation
Marking grid - Oral presentation
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This Ancient Egypt Teaching Resource Bundle is a collection of teaching resources that you can download for free.
Our teaching resources and lesson plans are adapted to students’ different levels of ability as well as teaching environments: Teachers and educators can use them in their classroom but also at home or in online classes, with small and easy adjustments.
This bundle includes:
21 lesson plans
Worksheets
Quizzes and open questions (including answers)
Key terms glossary
Recommended resources
Timeline
Maps
The following subject areas are covered, around which we have also created online Quizlets.
Daily Life & Afterlife
Geography, Economy & Trade
Government
Kingdom of Kush
Ptolemaic Dynasty
Religion & Mythology
This lesson pack on empires and warfare in ancient Mesopotamia includes the following content:
Two Lesson Plans
=> Assyrian & Akkadian Empires
=> Mesopotamian Warfare
Additional Materials
=> Open Questions / Essay Questions
=> Quiz Questions
=> Recommended Resources
=> Vocabulary List
=> Answer Keys
=> Teacher Instructions
Materials are included in Word, PDF and Excel formats.
World History Encyclopedia is a non-profit organization with the mission to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.
Cover image copyright Humankind / Amplitude / SEGA, used with permission.
This lesson pack on daily life in ancient Mesopotamia includes the following content:
Three Lesson Plans
=> Social Classes
=> Food, Fashion & Social Events
=> The Family Unit
Additional Materials
=> Open Questions / Essay Questions
=> Quiz Questions
=> Recommended Resources
=> Vocabulary List
=> Answer Keys
=> Teacher Instructions
Materials are included in Word, PDF and Excel formats.
World History Encyclopedia is a non-profit organization with the mission to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.
Cover image copyright Humankind / Amplitude / SEGA, used with permission.
5 lesson plans including classroom activities, assignments, homework and keys as well as:
Multiple choice quiz questions in an excel format
Glossary of keywords and concepts in an excel format
Open questions adaptable for debates, presentations and essays
Recommended resources to provide you and your students a comprehensive list of trustworthy references (includes all media types: videos, texts, primary resources, maps, podcasts, 3D models, etc.)
Your 5 lesson plans will allow you to teach:
Roman society
Roman citizenship across the periods (Kingship, Republic and Empire)
Roman elections
From Kingship to Republic
From Republic to Empire
BONUS! Free game about famous Roman emperors and their achievements!
All our education material is varied and built to develop middle and high-school students’ skills to succeed in social studies.
You will also find several alternatives in the lesson plans to allow for differentiation and adaptation to your students’ level of ability.
Check out our other resources on Ancient Rome on our shop:
Daily life
Religions
Warfare and battles
Innovations and architecture
Economy and trade
Fall of Rome
Rome’s legacy
Tools to give your students such as tips to write a great essay
Tools to make your life easier, such as marking grids
Let us know what you think!
We are a non-profit organization and it is one of our goals to provide quality material to teachers by building engaging courses and finding reliable sources.
This activity can be done in class as a discussion, given as homework or assignment for an essay or a presentation. It includes keys and all the material needed. You can just print and roll with it in your class without preparation!
In this activity your students:
observe the factors which led to some cities, states or civilizations fall in antiquity
get an opportunity to think and discuss climate change, linking the past and present
share their feelings about what they consider as threats to their world (might it be their neighborhood, city, state or planet)
get inspired on what they could do to change things
Although today climate change has become a much bigger and more globalized problem than in the past, ancient peoples did have to contend with local events that severely disrupted or even ended their way of life as they knew it. This resource examines the Bronze Age Collapse, the fall of the Maya Civilization and other historical events to explore which factors caused them.
Detailed lesson plan divided into three units with varied materials, sources, and ready-to-print activities. Homework, assessment and all keys included
Unit 1: The Three Kingdom Period (Kingdoms of Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla )
Unit 2: Unified Kingdom of Silla
Unit 3: Historical Negationism
Materials provided:
Background information for teachers; an article, maps and a timeline from the World History Encyclopedia website
Videos
All of the worksheets used in this course plan can be found in this document, ready to print.
This lesson pack on Geography, Economy and Trade in ancient Mesopotamia includes the following content:
Two Lesson Plans
=> Mesopotamia’s Geography
=> Resources & Trade in Mesopotamia
Additional Materials
=> Open Questions / Essay Questions
=> Quiz Questions
=> Recommended Resources
=> Vocabulary List
=> Answer Keys
=> Teacher Instructions
Materials are included in Word, PDF and Excel formats.
World History Encyclopedia is a non-profit organization with the mission to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.
Cover image copyright Old World / Mohawk Games, used with permission.
We have prepared three lesson plans including classroom activities, assignments, homework, and keys as well as:
Multiple choice quiz questions in an excel format.
Glossary of keywords and concepts in an excel format.
Open questions adaptable for debates, presentations, and essays.
Recommended resources to provide you and your students with a comprehensive list of trustworthy references on the topic (includes all media types: videos, texts, primary resources, maps, podcasts, 3D models, etc.).
Tools to give your students such as tips to write a great essay.
Tools to make your life easier, such as marking grids.
Make sure to check out our games and quizzes on this topic too!
All our education material is varied and built to develop middle and high-school students’ skills to succeed in social studies. You will also find several alternatives in the lesson plans to allow for differentiation and adaptation to your students’ level of ability.
This pack includes all of the following topics:
Home & Leisure
Social Classes & Women
Burial & the Egyptian Afterlife
We are a non-profit organization and it is one of our goals to provide quality material to teachers by building engaging courses and finding reliable sources.
Four lesson plans including classroom activities, assignments, homework, and keys as well as:
Multiple choice quiz questions in an excel format
Glossary of keywords and concepts in an excel format
Open questions adaptable for debates, presentations, and essays
Recommended resources to provide you and your students with a comprehensive list of trustworthy references on the topic (includes all media types: videos, texts, primary resources, maps, podcasts, 3D models, etc.)
Tools to give your students such as tips to write a great essay
Tools to make your life easier, such as marking grids
All our education material is varied and built to develop middle and high-school students’ skills to succeed in social studies. You will also find several alternatives in the lesson plans to allow for differentiation and adaptation to your students’ level of ability.
This pack includes all of the following topics:
Greek Forces
The Persian Wars
The Peloponnesian Wars
Alexander’s Macedonian Empire
We are a non-profit organization and it is one of our goals to provide quality material to teachers by building engaging courses and finding reliable sources.
We have prepared three lesson plans including classroom activities, assignments, homework, and keys as well as:
Multiple choice quiz questions in an excel format.
Glossary of keywords and concepts in an excel format.
Open questions adaptable for debates, presentations, and essays.
Recommended resources to provide you and your students with a comprehensive list of trustworthy references on the topic (includes all media types: videos, texts, primary resources, maps, podcasts, 3D models, etc.).
Tools to give your students such as tips to write a great essay.
Tools to make your life easier, such as marking grids.
Make sure to check out our games and quizzes on this topic too!
All our education material is varied and built to develop middle and high-school students’ skills to succeed in social studies. You will also find several alternatives in the lesson plans to allow for differentiation and adaptation to your students’ level of ability.
This pack includes all of the following topics:
Economy & Geography of Kush
Pyramids of Kush
Kings & Queens of Kush
We are a non-profit organization and it is one of our goals to provide quality material to teachers by building engaging courses and finding reliable sources. If you want to join our team of volunteers and help us create great teaching resources, please contact us.
We have prepared three lesson plans including classroom activities, assignments, homework, and keys as well as:
Multiple choice quiz questions in an excel format.
Glossary of keywords and concepts in an excel format.
Open questions adaptable for debates, presentations, and essays.
Recommended resources to provide you and your students with a comprehensive list of trustworthy references on the topic (includes all media types: videos, texts, primary resources, maps, podcasts, 3D models, etc.).
Tools to give your students such as tips to write a great essay.
Tools to make your life easier, such as marking grids.
Make sure to check out our games and quizzes on this topic too!
All our education material is varied and built to develop middle and high-school students’ skills to succeed in social studies. You will also find several alternatives in the lesson plans to allow for differentiation and adaptation to your students’ level of ability.
This pack includes the following topics:
Balance & Harmony
Egyptian Gods & Mythology
Egyptian Religion & Worship
We are a non-profit organization and it is one of our goals to provide quality material to teachers by building engaging courses and finding reliable sources. If you want to join our team of volunteers and help us create great teaching resources, please contact us.
This lesson pack on government and religion in ancient Mesopotamia includes the following content:
Three Lesson Plans
=> Rise of City States
=> Temples & Divine Kingship
=> Code of Hammurabi
Additional Materials
=> Open Questions / Essay Questions
=> Quiz Questions
=> Recommended Resources
=> Vocabulary List
=> Answer Keys
=> Teacher Instructions
Materials are included in Word, PDF and Excel formats.
World History Encyclopedia is a non-profit organization with the mission to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.
Cover image copyright Old World / Mohawk Games, used with permission.