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.
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
Adaptable PowerPoint about The 12 Days of Christmas song and it's possible Christian meanings.
The Twelve Days of Christmas is usually seen as simply a song for children with secular origins.
However, some have suggested that it is a song of Christian instruction, perhaps dating to the 16th century religious wars in England, with hidden references to the basic teachings of the Christian Faith.
The following slides depict each of the 12 days in turn, first with images from the song and then the possible Christian meanings.
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.
Shakespeare Day: Two PowerPoint presentations that include:
Sections:
• Early life
• Married life
• The actor
• The writer
• The theatre in the 16th Century
• The language of Shakespeare
• Movies and TV based on Shakespeare
• His death
• His legacy
Learning outcomes:
Take part in quizzes to:
1. Identify key features of Shakespeare’s life and work
2. Identify the plays in which still well-known phrases are used by Shakespeare
3. Identify movies and TV programmes based on or influenced the work of Shakespeare
You say, we pay
Task sheets; quiz sheets and word search
St George’s Day
British Values
Tolerance; tolerance; respect; diversity; rule of law and inclusivity
PowerPoint presentation including:
Sections:
• St George – Patron Saint of…?
• Who celebrates St George’s Day?
• St. George and Georgia
• St George’s Cross
• Who was St George?
• St George and England?
• St George and the dragon?
• St. George’s Day in Manchester and George as a Black British icon
• The Tomb of St George
• George of Lydda and Al Khader
Learning outcomes
Identify and highlight countries that celebrate St George’s Day
Take part in a quizzes about St. George’s Day:
1. Patron Saint and celebrations
2. St. George – His life and death
3. St George and England
4. St George and Manchester
5. St. George and Al Khader
Make a flag for St. George’s Day
PowerPoint presentations:
• You Say game: St. George’s Day and What’s more English than…?
• What’s more English than…?
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.
Quiz: Deal or No Deal
Based on the TV game show, this is an interactive PowerPoint based quiz.
There are 20 multiple choices questions.
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
TV Quizzes x 2: Pointless and Deal or No Deal
Based on the BBC programme Pointless, an adaptable and interactive PowerPoint based quiz with 16 categories of questions.
One hundred people were surveyed.
The aim is to find the answers with the lowest points.
An incorrect answer, the team will score the maximum 100 points.
Categories:
• Football
• Soaps
• Super Heroes
• Music
• Flags
• History
• Logos
• TV
• Geography
• Olympics
• Game Shows
• Comedy
• Songs
• European Union
• Religion
• Countries
Deal or No Deal: Based on the TV game show, this is an interactive PowerPoint based quiz.
There are 20 multiple choices questions.
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 brea
PowerPoint presentation and work book to mark the the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
1. PowerPoint presentation.
2. Work book:
Task 1: Find out about the events and chronology of the Battle of the Somme. Make a timeline of events.
Task 2: Answer these questions.
1. Describe the role of Commonwealth soldiers in the
Somme campaign and its effects on their communities and countries.
2. Account for the role of the Pals Battalions in the Battle of the Somme.
Task 3: Task 3: You are a soldier on the Somme on July 1 1916. You have been keeping a diary; add your comments for this day.
Task 4: Write a mini biography about one of the key figures involved in the Battle of the Somme, focusing on their role in it.
Task 5: Read the quotes. Which do you agree with? Based on the quotes write your own account of the first day at the Somme.
3.PowerPoint presentation about World War One: 1916 covering:
Who fought in World One?
1916: An introduction
Month by month timeline including:
• Conscription for British men
• Battle of Verdun
• Where is Verdun?
• Easter Uprising in Ireland
• Battle of Jutland
• Battle of the Somme
• Where is the Somme?
• Tanks and air raids used for the first time
• Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
• 1916: Imagine…The noise
• Shelled and shocked
Employability/Work Skills: Money: Payment Methods
PowerPoint presentation to introduce or recap money management; methods of payments.
Methods of paying for goods and services
• Cash
• Cheques
• Debit and credit cards
• Direct debits and standing orders
• Online and phone banking
Employability Skills: Social Media: What not to do
Key Words: Social Media
PowerPoint presentation and task sheets on the topic of social media; what not to do when using and how it can affect your career prospects.
Would be useful for entry level students studying for any employability qualifications or in preparation for work placements.
Employability Skills: Health and Safety at Work: PPE (Personal Safety Equipment)
PowerPoint presentation with Word task sheets to introduce and or recap the topic of PPE in at work.
Would be useful for entry level students studying for any employability qualifications or in preparation for work placements.
Revision: Russian Revolution 1917: Russian Roulette
Interactive PowerPoint game/quiz, with questions on the Russian Revolution 1917.
Groups choose a number (1-40) for the chance to answer questions and win the revolution.
Landing on a yellow hammer and sickle gains the group the chance to answer a question about the 1917 Russian Revolution.
But: They must to avoid the imperial crown. If a group does, it loses its rights to answer a question. If a group lands on three crowns, it is overthrown and is out the game.
The first team to reach 21 hammer and sickles are the revolutionary winners.
Included (as a Word document) are 40 questions with answers).
Interactive quiz of the year (2015)
Round 1: The year in questions (Month by month - 12 questions)
Round 2: Movies 2015 (10 questions)
Round 3: General knowledge (10 questions)
PowerPoint presentation
Rounds of questions on:
Easter: What do you know about Easter
New movies – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and The Jungle Book
World flags
UK TV soaps
70 slides in total.
History of Christmas
Christmas is banned!
Interactive, adaptable, animated PowerPoint about Christmas covering:
History of Christmas
Christmas is banned!
Who’s Father Christmas?
Who’s Santa Claus?
Who’s St Nicholas?
Christmas around (some of) the World
Christmas true or false quiz
Christmas songs quiz
Christmas craft idea
How many ways can you say “Merry Christmas”?