A professionally designed Christmas quiz for teachers of Classical Civilisation to use with KS3-5 students, featuring 60 well-presented questions and an answer sheet. The quiz also includes a word-search (on screen) and a couple of anagram rounds. Fifty of the questions are all Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject specific and deal either with GCSE terminology of “fun facts”. Differentiation can easily be achieved by changing quiz group sizes. The quiz is suitable for KS3-5. Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.

This workbook is suitable for homework, classwork or distance learning: it will help your students to get more from watching documentaries and videos. This colourful printable booklet includes ten learning sessions spread over twenty pages. This teaching resource is designed for KS3 History and deals with topics relating to The Plague and important historic epidemics. The workbook includes links to ten different documentaries or lengthily videos and straight-forward note-taking and comprehension activities so as to structure and foster engagement with the documentary whilst enhancing student learning. The twenty-page workbook was designed with homework in mind and contains ten different homework sessions. I would suggest using the booklets as a simple way to take care of ‘every other homework’ and use it to supplement your other approaches to homework: just print the booklets out and give them to your students. You can also use the booklets just as well in a classroom setting and they are incredibly easy to use such that even a non-specialist cover-teacher could make use of them. They’re also an ideal way to bolster your distance learning provisions in times of student absence. Over time the links in this workbook may expire, I’ll try to update them from time to time but the workbook is easy to edit - so make sure you check that the links still work before printing and update any broken/defunct links that might crop-up! I’ve done my best to include links to the best videos available for this topic: teachers should ensure that the video links included are suitable for their specific classes.

This ‘Fun Philosophy Lesson’ is focused on philosophical and ethical issues that relate to history, the challenges faced by historians, and the study of history. This resource is designed for students aged 8-16. This download uses our innovative new format for philosophy education, you can download a FREE SAMPLE by clicking here. It is one of over fifty new philosophy & ethics teaching resources that uses this format. The resource cannot be edited. This interactive multi-use learning session is of particular interest to History Teachers; it focuses on a wide range of topics such as: The value of studying history The forces that shape the unfolding of history Objectivity and bias in the study of history The ethical responsibilities of historians Different ways of approaching history Moral relativism in studying history   We’ve aimed to cover as many issues as possible when it comes to finding engaging philosophical and ethical issues for young learners to debate and discuss in relation to history! The big question asked in this session is “To what extent can we ever truly know what life was like for people in the past?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical and ethical questions such as: What would happen if studying history was banned and all history books were destroyed? Why do you think history is taught in schools? Can one person really change the course of history? Does history show humanity making ‘progress’, what do we mean by the term ‘progress’ and is it a valid concept? What are the potential consequences of misrepresenting the past? Are some actions objectively evil: regardless of the time, place, culture and situation in which they occurred?   Students will also analyse and evaluate an eclectic mix of philosophical and ethical claims such as: “The interpretation of history can never be truly objective” “Nothing shapes history more than technological advances” “If I had a time-machine I would prefer to go forwards than backwards in time” “The fall of empires is primarily due to moral decay.” “Since the victors write the history, we cannot trust most historical accounts” This session uses our unique format for philosophy teaching resources and features an integrated menu that allows teachers to select from a variety of starter, main, plenary, assessment and end-of-lesson reflection activities. The file is a non-editable PowerPoint Show: no planning or preparation is required, just run the file and the intuitive menu system will make delivering a powerful philosophy session very easy!