Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
Download this popular two-week unit for Year 5/6 based on 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and other poetry by Tennyson.
In this unit, pupils will read and listen to the dramatic poems 'The Kraken' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. Pupils will consider how the sounds and language patterns come alive when the poems are read aloud. Children will work towards creating their own poems about heroic battles and then they will perform them aloud.
The aims of the unit for pupils are:
• To listen to classic and narrative poems by Tennyson
• To identify poetic devices and to explain their effects
• To research the literary influences of classic poetry
• To prepare and perform a poem to an audience
• To engage with a poet’s use of imaginative language to create battle scenes.
The PDF file contains 10 full literacy lesson plans, copies of the poems and all accompanying pupil resources. Perfect for National Poetry Month!
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Download our popular Stone Age to Iron Age lesson planning bundle containing 10 full lesson plans for KS2.
This resources contains a bundle of history lessons that make up a complete unit covering the topic ‘Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’. Each file contains a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint slides and pupil resource sheets. There are also there extra comprehension resources included.
Lessons in this unit include:
Prehistory Timelines (Lesson for KS2)
Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers (Lesson for KS2)
Stone Age Cave Art (Lesson for KS2)
Stone Age Artefacts & Evidence (Lesson for KS2)
Skara Brae (Lesson for KS2)
Stonehenge Mysteries (Lesson for KS2)
Bronze Age (Lesson for KS2)
Bronze Age Grave Goods (Lesson for KS2)
Iron Age Hillforts (Lesson for KS2)
Iron Age Art (Lesson for KS2)
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Instructions for making a model woolly mammoth.
This resource could be used as a DT lesson to go with the Stone Age topic, as a stand alone fun project or as a part of literacy work about instructional texts.
This is a fun introduction to verbal or written instructions in literacy. Pupils give each other instructions to draw the pictures on the cards and see how closely they can match the real picture!
A bundle of resources based on Tennyson's sea monster poem 'The Kraken', including a week-long unit plan, a copy of the poem, worksheets and activities.
The activity allows pupils to look at the poetic devices used in Poe's 'The Raven' and to investigate how each device contributes to the changing poetic mood.
This activity helps pupils to collect evidence from Poe's 'The Raven' poem to help them to decide whether this
type of poetry is lyric. They can then use this to prepare for a written argument or a class debate.
This worksheet allows pupils to research the context of Charge of the Light Brigade by using the web to retrieve and record information about the Crimean War.