Our resources have been written to a high standard and fine tuned in the classroom. The History Academy's goal is to share best practice at an affordable price so that you can focus on your own priorities. During my 34 years in challenging schools, I have published resources for Heinemann, Pearsons, Hodder, Folens, BBC and Boardworks. If you would like to receive updates, create your own customised bundle or join our team, then contact us via our Facebook or Linkedin pages.
Our resources have been written to a high standard and fine tuned in the classroom. The History Academy's goal is to share best practice at an affordable price so that you can focus on your own priorities. During my 34 years in challenging schools, I have published resources for Heinemann, Pearsons, Hodder, Folens, BBC and Boardworks. If you would like to receive updates, create your own customised bundle or join our team, then contact us via our Facebook or Linkedin pages.
This excellent resource can used to suit a range of learners both in lower and upper school. Dingbats make an excellent starter, mini plenary or plenary to help spice up the learning and help students learn important key words, concepts and facts through a series of card games.
I usually get my students to play one of the following games:
Game 1: Read out the key words until your partner or group have guessed the topic at the top of the card.
Game 2: Try and describe the topic without using the key words until your partner has correctly guessed the topic.
Game 3: Describe the topic using Pictionary
Game 4: Describe the topic using charades
I usually add an element of competition by getting my students to keep a score of how well they have done in the back of their books. You’d be amazed at seriously they take the competitive element, but this all helps to serve the greater good by engraining the key words and concepts that they need to learn for this topic.
Another great way of using this resource is to give out one card and ask individuals or groups to prepare a discussion or a talk for 4 minutes on the topic card. Again this helps to improve their speaking and listen skills and by default their ability to write about the topic.
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Roy
Dingbats are a great starter, mini plenary or plenary that can add a bit of fun to any lesson, whilst helping students learn important key words for the lesson.
This great resource is designed to help students understand and learn about the different types of evidence that historians use as well introduce them to some of the key words that we use like biased and reliable. The resource has been provided them in Microsoft Word so you can easily adapt them for your own classes.
There are three main ways that you can use them. Game 1 involves getting students to read out the key words until the other guesses the topic correctly. Game 2 involves additional challenge and stretch by getting students to describe the topic without using any of the key words on the card. The third game, which adds an additional layer of fun or challenge involves playing a round of Pictionary or Charades.
I normally give my students 3 minutes of each round to help activate the learning and warm up the class. You could also have a freestyle round where students decide which game they want to play linked to their learning style. If you are trying to engage some under achieving boys, add some competition and get them to keep score in the back of their books.
I would recommend printing them off on card and getting your students to cut them out. Then put the cards into an envelope for class use.
If you are a student then keep them in your pocket and use them as a flash card to help you learn the key facts, If there is a term that you do not understand then as your teacher or do some extra research.
From a revision perspective, you can print off the cards and get your students to learn the key words for a test or for their exams. These are a win, win resource. The kids will love them and they will help to improve your results.
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Anyway, have fun using our resources with your students.
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Roy
These graphic organisers can be printed off as worksheets or used on your Interactive Whiteboard for a wide range of subjects and topics to help students analyse sources or compare and contrast ideas.
This unit is designed to build upon the previous module by examining in depth the history of Conisbrough Castle. It will allow students to look at the strategic decisions that were taken to site the castle, its impact on the local area as well as to look in detail at how it was built and aspects of everyday medieval life.
This module is also designed to fulfil the requirements of the new KS3 National Curriculum order for history by doing a depth study of an aspect of local history. However, it should be noted that all the modules that are taught at KS3 are in some way linked back to local history as well as contextualised with references to the modern world.
The main resources for this module have been developed over the years by the history department in cooperation with the Mexborough Heritage Society, the Ivanhoe Trust, English Heritage and Becta. In 2001 the Virtual Tour of Conisbrough Castle was given a national teaching award by Becta for the innovative use of ICT.
I have also included all the relevant lesson resources that are mentioned in the scheme of work as well as my award winning booklet on Conisbrough Castle, which has embedded a wide range of differentiated activities. My students always enjoy this module which centers on a unique grade 1 listed building which is a world heritage site. Check out the videos on You Tube of Conisbrough Castle. I have included some of my own video clips taken on my phone.
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Roy
This unit is designed to allow students to investigate how William consolidated his control of Britain after the Norman invasion. It starts by looking at the 'Harrying of the North' by William and how he ruthlessness wiped out all opposition to his rule. The second unit looks at how he rewarded his supporters and tightened his control by introducing the Feudal System. Whilst studying this unit it is important to emphases the importance of doing 'homage' and taking the 'oath of allegiance' as William placed considerable importance on this aspect. His key justification for the Norman invasion was his claim that King Harold was an oath breaker and that his victory was a vindication of the just by God. The fourth unit looks at the Domesday Book and how land and wealth was distributed. Please make sure you point how to your students how much land and wealth was given to the Church as the Pope had supported his invasion. The final two units look at the roles played by different types of castles in helping William consulate his control.
This resource is best used alongside the Heinemann History series which is referred to in the scheme of work. It represents excellent value as I have included all the relevant lesson resources along with two literacy mats to help students write a persuasive letter to their local Lord explaining why they should replace the Motte and Bailey Castle with a Square Keep Castle. This work makes an excellent display and assessment work, especially if students age their work with tea bags or coffee.
All my students have thoroughly enjoyed this scheme of work as it lends itself to memorable educational moments that will last them a lifetime.
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Roy
This unit is designed to allow students to investigate the Norman invasion and build upon the source skills that students began to develop in the introductory module.
The first three units looks at why the Romans, Saxons, Vikings and the Normans have invaded Britain. From a geographical point of view Britain has always been a rich country because of our temperate climate. This allows farmers to produce up to three crops per year, unlike our European counterparts. This makes Britain a rich prize for any War Lord. It is important to stress that British society was multicultural by 1066 as emphased by the place names activity.
Units 4 to 7 deal specifically with the Norman Conquest and are primarily focused on the key question, why did William win the Battle of Hastings. Each unit is carefully crafted to get students to write a PEE’d / PEEL’d paragraph addressing the key question. Students must be trained up into peer / self assessing their answers.
This package of resources includes all the PowerPoints and worksheets that I use with this scheme of work. They are sold separately on this site, so to buy them all together at a discount price is a real bargain!
In terms of differentiation, the aims, objectives, outcomes and starters allow for students to access at different levels. The worksheets include DART strategies, missing word, true and false statements etc. as well as high end questions. Feel free to adapt to suit the needs of your students.
This unit is designed to introduce students to the National Curriculum History as well as measure their existing historical knowledge and skills and set them individual targets for the rest of the term.
The first unit sets out classroom expectations and allows for an introduction to the course, whilst the second two units look at the important issues of how historians find out about the past using evidence. The tasks and activities have also been designed specifically to get students to structure their answers using PEE/ PEEL. This will be rigorously reinforced throughout the first half of Year 7 along with next steps peer assessment.
This scheme of works well alongside the Heinemann History series as referenced in all the resources. If you like these resources, why not check out my other schemes of work, with lesson resources that I have posted on the TES website.
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Roy