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Industrial Revolution:
Now including an online self-marking homework task
From a Scheme of Work on the Industrial Revolution. Target is KS3 but all assessments throughout are GCSE and use Edexcel criteria. Each lesson contains a lesson plan, quick start guide, printable resources, mini plenaries, challenge questions, mark schemes, writing frames, lots of differentiation, a nice mix of activity types and a lesson specific EAL activity sheet. There are 14 lessons in total, but each lesson has enough material to last 2 or 3 lessons for even high ability classes.
Most lessons include some high-level source analysis.
The lessons also include a link to a site hosting a self-marking End of Unit quiz and a revision guide which make for nice homework activities. The SOW has been used for several years (with continual updates and improvements) at a very successful History department in an outstanding school.
If used at KS3 it also acts as a grounding for any History of Medicine modules they might encounter at KS4 (hence the focus on public health and inventions).
The SOW covers the following topics:
Introduction to the Industrial Revolution (free)
Population Boom (free)
Factories
Coal Mining
Transport
Robert Stephenson
Industrial Revolution inventors
Child Labour
Public Health Problems
Public Health Solutions & Government Intervention
Source Question on the Big Stink
Luddites
British Empire
Source Question on Empire
Revision Guide & EAL activities.
WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Industrial Revolution:
From a Scheme of Work on the Industrial Revolution. Target is KS3 but all assessments throughout are GCSE and use Edexcel criteria. Each lesson contains a lesson plan, quick start guide, printable resources, mini plenaries, challenge questions, mark schemes, writing frames, lots of differentiation, a nice mix of activity types and a lesson specific EAL activity sheet. There are 14 lessons in total, but each lesson has enough material to last 2 or 3 lessons for even high ability classes.
Most lessons include some high-level source analysis.
The lessons also include a link to a site hosting a self-marking End of Unit quiz and a revision guide which make for nice homework activities. The SOW has been used for several years (with continual updates and improvements) at a very successful History department in an outstanding school.
If used at KS3 it also acts as a grounding for any History of Medicine modules they might encounter at KS4 (hence the focus on public health and inventions).
The SOW covers the following topics:
Introduction to the Industrial Revolution (free)
Population Boom (free)
Factories
Coal Mining
Transport
Robert Stephenson
Industrial Revolution inventors
Child Labour
Public Health Problems
Public Health Solutions & Government Intervention
Source Question on the Big Stink
Luddites
British Empire
Source Question on Empire
Revision Guide & EAL activities.
WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Inspired by Naomi Klein’s incredible book “No Logo”.
Includes:
Literacy, Numeracy and source interpretation settler activity.
Agree/Disagree statements.
Literacy/book quote comprehension activity.
Sweatshop research activity.
PEEKA paragraph guidance and writing structure for a follow up ‘No Logo’.
Differentation:
Stretch activities.
WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
8 PowerPoint based flag quizzes, each with a stretch literacy task.
Qatar World Cup Flags 2022
Russia World Cup Flags 2018
African Flags
European Flags
American Flags
Caribbean Flags
Caribbean Territories Flags (Tough!)
EU Flags
Hope they help!
A task to last a few lessons.
Students to watch a video by the Economist on how 5 experts would spend $1bn to ‘save the oceans’ and then expand the task themselves to create a business plan for how to spend $qbn to save the earth.
A template helps them structure their research and present their projects to the class.
To tie in with Dubai COP28 but can be used at any time - of for any COP.
I doubt they’ll agree to save the world anytime soon, so I imagine this lesson can be reused and recycled again and again :)
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
One lesson from a a 6 part series of lessons on the history and development of the environmental movement.
The lessons look at:
• Apollo 8 and the Moonrise photo
• Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”
• The Montreal Protocol 1987 (The Ozone agreement)
• The Paris Climate Agreement 2015
• The global development of Green political movements
• The global development of environmental activism
Each lesson is self contained, with all the resources required at the end of the PowerPoint. They are brilliant for a case study at the end of Year 9 History or for a higher level study of politics.
We hope they help.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
One lesson from a 6 part series of lessons on the history and development of the environmental movement.
The lessons look at:
• Apollo 8 and the Moonrise photo
• Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”
• The Montreal Protocol 1987 (The Ozone agreement)
• The Paris Climate Agreement 2015
• The global development of Green political movements
• The global development of environmental activism
Each lesson is self contained, with all the resources required at the end of the PowerPoint. They are brilliant for a case study at the end of Year 9 History or for a higher level study of politics.
We hope they help.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
One lesson from a a 6 part series of lessons on the history and development of the environmental movement.
The lessons look at:
• Apollo 8 and the Moonrise photo
• Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”
• The Montreal Protocol 1987 (The Ozone agreement)
• The Paris Climate Agreement 2015
• The global development of Green political movements
• The global development of environmental activism
Each lesson is self contained, with all the resources required at the end of the PowerPoint. They are brilliant for a case study at the end of Year 9 History or for a higher level study of politics.
We hope they help.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Get your day off to a great start with a settled tutor session or a fun class reward activity. Also included is a bonus literacy question and an extension task that sees the pupils’ write a paragraph on the topic! Ideal for quick History lesson recaps as well.
17 Caribbean Territory flags.
Hope it helps.
Part of a range of tutor activities found at Wolsey Academy
Have you tried one of Wolsey Academy’s Learning Worlds yet?
Our Learning Worlds make for engaging homework and class tasks. Pupils take on the role of a protagonist and relive key historical or fictional events.
From 1066 to the modern day. From Shakespeare to Orwell. We’re making Learning Worlds to cover them all - and plenty more besides.
Told in a format pupils love they complete the tasks at home and come to class equipped with a completed taskbook – ready to delve deeper into the analysis and debate.
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Janesville: An American Story, by Amy Goldstein. 2017.
The 2017 Business Book of the Year. It tells the story of Janesville, Wisconsin, home of a large GM car factory – until it closed in 2008. This is the story of what happened next.
To understand modern America, you need to understand Janesville.
Teaching as I do mostly foreign children the view from outside is that America is still a land of wealth and opportunity. To see its people, react and vote, in a manner that suggests otherwise is deeply puzzling. Outside the country the US voter’s desperation for change looks merely like ignorance and hatred for everyone else. Outsiders need to understand that large parts of this once mighty nation have essentially been gutted thanks to globalisation and technological change.
This lesson hopes to address that need. With a strong focus on EAL needs and vocabulary it tries to tell the story of the negatives of globalisation. It is part of a wider mini-SOW on Globalisation I have made especially for EAL students. I’d highly recommend teaching this lesson in the context of the wider SOW so students get a real appreciation of the larger forces at work.
Hope it helps.
WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
A lesson designed for EAL learners in the Middle East but can be adopted for any class with learning support needs. Includes stretch tasks to keep students engaged. Uses a simplified criteria/marking rubric to guide students towards good progress. Writing frames and peer assessments for final tasks.
Looks at four different factors: Latitude, altitude, wind patterns and distance from the sea. Students also study relief rainfall and ocean currents.
A lesson designed for EAL learners in the Middle East but can be adopted for any class with learning support needs. Includes stretch tasks to keep students engaged. Uses a simplified criteria/marking rubric to guide students towards good progress. Writing frames and peer assessments for final tasks.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
A PowerPoint to run a CPD session on this amazing new opportunity for teachers and educators. It features a demonstration of the power of Generative AI and a prompt sheet for design and technology teachers to get the most out of the tech.
Hope it helps.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
A 35-slide revision pack for the Rivers SOW for Year 7-8 Geography. 32 flash cards, 5 online quizzes, 6 revision activities and 1 snakes and ladders revision game (with an editable template), topics are:
The Water Cycle
River Drainage Basins
Waterfalls
Erosion
River Landforms
Used this for several years with my KS3 classes and it gets good a good reception each time, especially the quizzes. Recently updated it to include a new style of flash card that incorporates opportunities for comprehension and dual coding activities. Also make excellent Quiz-Quiz Trade resources for lessons on any of the 5 topics.
For more resources, please visit wolseyacademy.com
Hope it helps.