With the festive season imminent, this unit gives a good overview of the origins of festivals celebrated at the end of the year, how these festivals are celebrated and some of the connections between festivals. Themes such as lights, feasts and activities are considered. There are seven power point presentations and seven worksheets covering the following end of year celebrations:
Origins of festivals
Diwali
Thanksgiving
Hanukkah
Winter Solstice (Yule tide)
Christmas
New Year
In developing their historical perspective, students learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally for example, the first aeroplane flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited with inventing the airplane. They were the first to make a successful human flight with a craft that was powered by an engine and was heavier than air. This unit tells their story:
Meet the Family
Growing Up
It’s off to Work we Go!
Building Gliders
Building Planes
There are five power point presentations and five worksheets.
This unit is a study of a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history: Early Islamic civilization, including a study of Baghdad c. AD 900.
Lessons include:
The beginning of the Islamic civilization
Important aspects of Islam
Time line of the early Islamic civilization
The rise and fall of Baghdad
Daily life in Baghdad
Center of learning
Early Islam civilization Trade
Early Islamic Art
The important cities in the Islamic civilization
Legacy of the Islam civilization
This unit presents a society that provides contrasts and intersection with European history:
Benin (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300
Ten power points with corresponding worksheets provide opportunities to reflect on historical information and give informed responses. There is consistent emphasis on historical resources.
Topics:
Oral tradition of the Kingdom of Benin
Time line of the Benin civilization
Establishment of the Edo Kingdom
Edo kings
Edo City (Benin City)
The Edo gods
The religious practices
The Edo (Benin) arts and crafts
Farming activities and Trade
The demise of the Benin Kingdom
There is still much that archaeologists need to learn about the Indus Valley Civilization. This unit explores the reasons for this, including the importance of evidence, while giving insight into:
The Origins of the Indus civilization
Discovery of the Indus (Harappan) civilization
Cities
Society
Farming
Trade
Engineering and science
Arts and crafts
8 lessons are covered through slides and worksheets.
With nine power point presentations and nine worksheets for the unit***** Plants***** for 7 to 8 year olds, this unit covers the topics:
What do the parts of plants do?
What do plants need to grow well?
Do plants really need water to grow? Experimenting
Do plants really need light to grow? Experimenting
Do different plants have different needs?
How does water move around a plant?
What are flowers for? Pollination
What are flowers for? Producing seeds
Seed dispersal
The lesson objectives are clearly stated at the start of each lesson.
Some simple items are needed for the investigations in lessons 3, 4 and 6.
This ten-part series uses power point presentations and worksheet activities to cover
Sexual and asexual reproduction
Reproduction in flowering plants
Flowering plants life cycles
Reproduction in non-flowering plants
Mammal life cycles
Bird life cycle
Amphibian life cycle
Insect life cycles
Work project - differences in life cycles
*Richard Attenborough
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Finding lost treasure! People dream of this!
Students enjoy these true stories of modern discoveries of long lost treasure.
Each story is followed by activities. Answers are included.
Titles include:
Saddle Ridge Hoard
Galloway Hoard of Viking Treasure
Gold coins from a Spanish Fleet
Million-dollar baseball cards
The Constable hanging under the stairs.
Treasure from the Crusades
Burial Hoard of a First Century Princess
Gold while weeding
Students identify that: humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement in a four-part teaching pack.
Slides supported by worksheet sets with learning activities, cover the topics:
What is a skeleton?
Why do we need a skeleton? – Protection
Why do we need a skeleton? – Support
Why do we need a skeleton? – Movement
**Living Things and their Habitats **is a comprehensive 16 lesson unit covering the following topics:
The Environment
Habitats
Flowering and Non-Flowering plants
Classification of animals
Vertebrates: Mammals
Vertebrates: Birds
Vertebrates: Reptiles
Vertebrates: Fish
Vertebrates: Amphibians
Invertebrates: Insects
Invertebrates: Spiders
Invertebrates: Worms
Invertebrates: Slugs
Micro-organisms
Micro-organisms and health
Differences between animals, plants and micro-organisms
Each of the above topics has a power point presentation, notes and a worksheet.
This unit is aimed at year three and aims to fulfill the objectives:
Identify that animals, including humans, cannot make their own food.
Recognize that animals, including humans, get nutrition from what they eat.
Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types of nutrition.
Identify that animals, including humans, need a balanced diet.
Each of the following topics is covered using a presentation and is followed by worksheets with activities:
Animals, including humans - nutrition
Animals, including humans – What is nutrition? Vitamins and proteins
Animals, including humans – What is nutrition? Carbohydrates, fibre and water
Animals, including humans – How much is enough?
Seven lessons with power point presentations and lesson activities in worksheet form.
Topics:
The main internal organs
Blood
Heart
Blood vessels
Respiration
Lungs
Exercise for the heart and lungs
Lesson activities include:
Comprehension activities; Expression of opinion giving reasons; Survey on healthy lifestyle; Planning exercise; Drawing and labeling diagrams.
Animals including Humans: Eating and Digestion:
There are eight presentations, plus corresponding notes and worksheets for students.
They cover the following topics:
Eco systems – consumers and producers
Consumers in the food chain
Human teeth
Teeth in animals
Mouth and the tongue
The Throat and Oesophagus
The stomach and intestines
The different ways that animals digest food
This set of power Point presentations and worksheets should be used with your rock and soil samples to enable students:
to visualise how the three types of rocks are formed and relate this to the rock samples they have
to compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
to recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
to explore different soils and identify similarities and differences between them and
to investigate what happens when rocks are rubbed together
The lessons are:
Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - colour
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – lustre
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - hardness
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - cleavage
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – minerals and crystals
What is Soil?
How did the power of the British monarchy evolve over time? Explore this with your students using twelve lesson power point presentations, worksheets and content pages.
The chapters include:
Monarchs since 1066 (Try this chapter free)
Royalty, power and religion
William the Conqueror – Absolute Power
John I
Establishment of a Parliament
Tudors take back power
Charles I
The Commonwealth of England
The threat of James II
Anne and political parties
Victoria – remaking the monarchy
The House of Windsor**
Explore this ancient civilization with your students. Use the ten power point presentations to provide information and visual context. Ten worksheets form part of this pack for students to interact with the information and notes.
The following topics are covered:
The Maya Civilization (This lesson is available free on TES)
Maya City States ± 600AD
Society
Religion
Warfare
Agriculture and Trade
Writing And Literacy
Mathematics, Astronomy and The Calendar
Maya Art
Maya Architecture
In this lesson: The Maya Civilization is depicted through slides.
Students will be able to place important events in the Maya civilization on a time line.
They will also be able to offer reasons for their decline.
There is a Time line activity in the worksheet and a comprehension activity from the text.
While this is a standalone lesson, the rest of the series explores other interesting aspects of the Maya culture and life.
This is a comprehensive unit on the Ancient Greeks, aimed at 9 to 11 year olds. The lessons are presented using power point slides with activities interspersed. The worksheets provide both notes and spaces in which students can record.
Topics include:
Who were the ancient Greeks?
Who were the Minoans?
Who were the Mycenaeans?
The Three Periods of Ancient Greece
City states
Athens
A day in the life of a Greek girl in Athens
Sparta
A day in the life of a Greek boy in Sparta
Clothing and fashion
Greek beliefs
Greek gods
Greek homes
Food and farming
Trade
Greek architecture and art
Ancient Greek Warfare
The Peloponnesian Wars
Alexander the Great
Greek contributions to our lives
The lesson, presented using a power point presentation, aims to enable students to place the Shang Dynasty on a time line. They will be able to discuss how the primary evidence at Yin Xu informed archaeologists.
The worksheet contains a time line activity and a comprehension activity related to the text.
This free download contains both the power point and the worksheet.
Students will be able to answer the question, “Who were the Ancient Greeks?”
Activities include drawing time lines to show a range of information e.g. periods of history, events, significant people; Using a time line to compare periods of history that have been studied.
This resource consists of a power point presentation and worksheet.