Interactive and adaptable PowerPoint presentations; Word and PDF resources useful for group tutorials; assemblies; Citizenship and special days.
Created by experienced teacher in:
Learning Difficulties/SEN
Entry Level provision
Citizenship
Graduate/post graduate qualifications in History; Politics; Law; Education and SEN.
Interactive and adaptable PowerPoint presentations; Word and PDF resources useful for group tutorials; assemblies; Citizenship and special days.
Created by experienced teacher in:
Learning Difficulties/SEN
Entry Level provision
Citizenship
Graduate/post graduate qualifications in History; Politics; Law; Education and SEN.
History: Ancient Greek Olympics – 776BC- 393AD
1. PowerPoint presentation about ancient Greek Olympics
2. PowerPoint quiz on the ancient Greek Olympics
3. Ancient Greece Olympics work book – Five tasks and word search.
Team Building Challenge: Treasure Hunt Quiz
PowerPoint based quiz, with two sets of 32 questions:
1. General questions
2. Questions about Europe
The questions about Europe were set to coincide with the EU referendum and Euro 16.
However, the PowerPoint can be used with any questions, and is fully editable
A bundle of activities about British values.
All resources are editable.
1. British Values: An Introduction
PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
• Identify the different parts of Britain
• Define ‘Britishness’
• Define ‘values’
• Identify British values
• Describe British values
• Know that sharing values doesn’t mean you have to be British
• Make a British values guide
• Create a British values flag
Task sheets; quiz sheets and word search.
2. British values bingo cards: Seven editable bingo cards, each showing images that represent the diversity of Britain.Can be used to identify by name or theme and encourage and what they are.
3. British values dominoes cards: 32 editable
dominoes cards. 32 editable dominoes cards, each showing images that represent the diversity of Britain.
Can be used to identify by name or theme and encourage discussion and answers about British values and what they are.
4. British values workbook:
• We all live in Britain, what do you think British values are? List some British values.
• Describe how your school promote individual liberty; tolerance and respect?
• Define ‘extremism’ and ‘tolerance’. Add examples of extremism and tolerance you know about.
• Record information about the diverse celebrations that take place in Britain.
• Find out about, record information and tell other people about a famous person not born in Britain, or who parents were not born in Britain.
• Answer written questions about British values.
• Find out about, record information and tell other people about a famous person not born in Britain, or who parents were not born in Britain.
• Answer written questions about British values.
5. What’s more British than – You say game. PowerPoint Speaking and listening activity (25 slides).
PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes
• Define key words: extremism and tolerance
• Identify why extremism is dangerous
• Identify why tolerance is important
• Say how you can challenge extreme ideas
Tasks:
Task 1: Define key words: extremism and tolerance.
Work with a partner to define ‘extremism’ and ‘tolerance’.
You can use either an online or hard copy dictionary to help you.
Add examples of extremism and tolerance you know underneath your definitions.
Task 2: In groups, discuss why you think extremism can be dangerous. Write at least three points of how you would challenge someone who held these views. Feedback your points to the whole class.
Task 3: In a group discuss why you think tolerance of others ideas and opinions is important. Write down at least three of your ideas and feedback to the whole class.
Plus:
• Worksheets for all tasks
• Reading and writing activity
• Extremism and tolerance word search
PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
• Identify the different parts of Britain
• Define ‘Britishness’
• Define ‘values’
• Identify British values
• Describe British values
• Know that sharing values doesn’t mean you have to be British
• Make a British values guide
• Create a British values flag
Task sheets; quiz sheets and word search.
Two PowePoint quizzes based on the BBC programme Pointless.
Each is an adaptable and interactive quiz with 16 categories of questions.
One hundred people were surveyed.
Your aim is to find the answers with the lowest points.
If you give an incorrect answer, your team will score the maximum 100 points.
Hopefully, you can find a pointless answer somewhere on the board.
1. Categories:
• Football
• Soaps
• Super Heroes
• Music
• Flags
• History
• Logos
• TV
• Geography
• Olympics
• Game Shows
• Comedy
• Songs
• European Union
• Religion
• Countries
2. Categories:
• Football
• Soaps
• Christmas Films
• Boy Bands
• Flags
• History
• X Factor
• One Direction
• Christmas
• Game Shows
• Comedy
• Songs
• Strictly Come Dancing
• Musicals
• Countries
122 slides in total.
British Values: Brexit or Bremain: The European Union Introduction; History; Institutions and Referendum Bundle
1. European Union Introduction: PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
Demonstrate an awareness of:
• What the EU is and when it began
• Who’s in the EU
• When the UK joined the EU and about the 1975 referendum
• What the EU is for and what it does
• Know about the Euro and the EU flag
Demonstrate knowledge about the EU by taking part in a quiz
Produce a fact sheet about a member state of the European Union
Highlight; colour and label EU member states
Solve the EU anagrams
Plus: task sheets; quiz sheets and word search activity
In total:
84 slides/pages
20 slide quiz on the EU
2. EU Referendum: PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
• Demonstrate an awareness of the European Union
• Demonstrate an awareness of the reasons why there is a referendum being held in the UK in June.
• Write a balanced argument, supporting reasons for and against Britain’s proposed withdrawal from the European Union.
• What would you do? Decide and state how you would vote and why.
Plus: task sheets; quiz sheets and word search activity
In total 60 slides/pagers
12 slide quiz on the EU
3. EU History and Institutions: PowerPoint presentation and quiz about the history and institutions of the European Union.
Editable work book on the history and institutions of the European Union.
Task 1: Make a timeline of what you think are the key dates in the history of the European Union. Compare and discuss your choices with others in your group.
Task 2: Answer questions about the history and institutions of the European Union.
Task 3: Fill in the blanks in the text to record information about the history of the European Union.
Task 4: Research Task: Treaties are the primary source of EU law. Find out when these treaties were signed and why they were important in the history of the European Union.
Task 5: Identify these key figures in the history of the European Union and write a short account of their role in the history of the European Union. (Winston Churchill; Robert Schuman and Charles de Gaulle.)
4. European Union Deal No Deal; Based on the TV game show, this in an interactive PowerPoint based quiz with 20 multiple choice questions
5. Bringo! Two sets of 10 Editable bingo cards showing the member states of the EU. One set are already labelled; the other set is not.
Television and theme tunes (x 3)
Three PowerPoint based quizzes about television.
1 and 2: Quizzes about TV programmes; people and characters.
Questions on:
• Cartoons
• Game shows
• Soaps
• Comedy
• Soaps
• Science fiction
• Reality shows
• Talent shows
There are 60 questions in total.
Each question is in multi parts.
The points available for each are shown in brackets besides each part.
3. A quiz where contestants have to name well known theme tunes.
1: Berlin Olympics 1936 - 80 years on
Contents:
1(a). PowerPoint presentation about the Berlin Olympics in August 1936.
Includes slides on the stars of the games; the modern nature of the games; the Nazis and the Olympics; football controversy and a quiz about the ’36 Olympics.
1(b). Berlin Olympics work book.
Includes tasks on writing a mini biography of one of the key figures involved in the ’36 games; answering written questions about the Berlin Olympics and writing a report as a journalist working in Berlin in August 1936.
2: Olympics Deal or No Deal; Based on the TV game show, this is an interactive PowerPoint based quiz.
There are 20 multiple choices questions about the Olympics Games.
Players need to:
• Choose a numbered box and pick an answer to a question.
• Click on an answer and, if right, the answer will go green.
• Click next and the banker will make a points offer.
• Deal, and they keep all the points, and someone else gets to play.
• Don’t deal and they play on.
• If answered incorrectly, they’re out of the game and lose all the points
• It at the end teams are level, there’s a tie breaker to decide who wins
British Values Bundle that could be useful to link to the upcoming General Election.
PowerPoint presentations and quizzes and task sheets about:
• Individual Liberty
• Rule of Law
• Democracy
• Tolerance and Respect
• Diversity
Bundle of PowerPoint presentations; quizzes and task sheets that look at the history of the EU and Brexit.
Could be useful to link to the upcoming General Election.
History/World Wars Bundle
PowerPoint presentations; quizzes, and task sheets covering:
• Battle of the Somme - 100 years on
• D Day
• VE and VJ Day
• Remembrance Day
• The Holocaust
• The Russian Revolution
• The Berlin Olympics
World Wars Bundle
PowerPoint presentations; quizzes, and task sheets covering:
• Battle of the Somme - 100 years on
• D Day
• VE and VJ Day
• Remembrance Day
Employability Skills: Time: Units of Time and Telling Time
PowerPoint quizzes and activities on the units of time and telling time.
Could be useful to introduce or recap the topic with entry level students working on employability and independent living skills and in preparation for work placements.
I have used these resources with entry level learners with moderate learning difficulties.