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.
Adaptable PowerPoint about the Winter Soltice, covering:
When is it?
What is it?
What are its roots?
Why is it celebrated?
Who were the Druids?
What are its symbols?
How it celebrated today?
Winter Soltice craft idea
Soltice Song by Finley and Pagdon
PowerPoint presentation about Hannukah, the Jewish festival of light. Covers:
When is it?
How long does it last?
Who celebrates Hannukah?
What is Hannukah?
What is a menorah?
How is Hannukah celebrated today?
Hannukah facts
Hannukha craft idea
Russian Revolution 1917: A Timeline
PowerPoint presentation and task sheets featuring the key figures and events that led to the Bolsheviks seizing power and the end of the Romanov dynasty in 1917.
1. PowerPoint presentation and PDF copy
2. Three A3 PDF task sheets:
• Completed photo timeline
• Photo timeline: Add text to complete
• Blank document to add photos and text to make a timeline
3. A4 PDF/Word task sheets
Christmas 2016: When Christmas Was Banned: Puritan England 1644-1660
PowerPoint presentation and quiz covering the period in the 17th Century when Christmas was banned in England.
History: Berlin Olympics 1936 - 80 years on
Contents:
1. 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.
2. 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.
PowerPoint presentations; quizzes and task sheets on some of the history of the Summer Olympics, including the original ancient Greek games; Berlin 1936; London (1908;1948 and 2012) and previous host cities.
Revision: Russian Revolution 1917.Quiz
PowerPoint quiz on the Russian Revolution 1917.
Thirty questions with multiple choice answers on the Russian Revolution 1917.
PowerPoint presentations; quizzes and task sheets on the English legal system/court structure; criminal and civil law; the rule of law and parliamentary sovereignty.
PowerPoint presentation; activities and task sheets on the Titanic disaster of April 14-15 1912.
• Sections:
• Construction
• White Star Line
• Captain Smith
• Maiden voyage
• On board
• Titanic quiz: 1
• A Night to Remember
• Third Class Life on the Titanic
• Titanic facts
• Titanic Now
• Timeline
• Titanic quiz: 2
• Who was to blame?
• Titanic: Impact
• Titanic: Truth or myth?
Learning outcomes:
• Identify the main reasons why the Titanic sank.
• Analyse the main reasons why the Titanic sank.
• Evaluate which reason was the most important in causing the Titanic to sink.
• Identify reasons why so many people died on the Titanic
• Analyse the most important cause of people losing their lives on the Titanic.
• Evaluate the main reason so many people died on the Titanic.
Tasks:
Task 1: In a group, discuss and decide who was responsible for Titanic sinking.
Task 1/2: Take part in a quiz about Titanic.
Task 3: Answer a question about Titanic
Task 4: Write a news story reporting the sinking of Titanic.
British Values: Rule of Law/Parliamentary Sovereignty
Introduction to Rule of Law/Parliamentary Sovereignty
PowerPoint presentations and work book:
• Discuss and describe what could happen if there were no laws.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the rule of law.
• Take part in a quiz about the rule of law.
• Define key terms about the rule of law; rights and responsibilities.
• Answer a written question about the rule of law.
• Make a Bill of Rights.
GCSE History: Weimar Germany 1918-19: News Task Lesson
PowerPoint presentation and associated resources that cover Topic 1.1 of Edexcel’s modern depth study: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39.
Key Topic 1.1: The origins of the Republic: 1918–19:
The legacy of the First World War
The abdication of the Kaiser; the armistice and revolution, 1918–19
The setting up of the Weimar Republic
The strengths and weaknesses of the new Constitution
Students plan and take part in a press conference before producing a news item (print; video or podcast copy) on the new Weimar Republic.
Linked to Exexcel’s modern depth study paper, but suitable and adaptable for use for other awarding bodies’ specifications.
Video shows some of the resources I have made about this subject.
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
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).