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17 lessons, Fully Resourced
16 Guided Reading Worksheets
The Computer Revolution -
Meant as a cross department study with the Humanities and ICT/Computer Science. This is 1 lesson from a series of 17 (see below).
Each lesson is well constructed and fully resourced (all resources contained at the end of each PowerPoint to avoid multiple files). Lessons include a varied sequence of activities building up content and skills to answer a large essay question in lesson 17 on the nature of change and continuity thanks to the computer revolution, and a speculative discussion of the impact of future developments.
The series also runs parallel to a 17 part ‘Guided Reading’ pack on the same topic. Each lesson is paired with an extended piece of computing literature – for ease these extracts have been included inside the PowerPoints but you can access the reading as a separate bundle, and for free at Wolsey Academy
The lessons are as follows:
Enigma and Turing (free)
The History of Women in Computing (free)
The Microchip and Moore’s Law
The PC, GUI and Microsoft
How Video Games Shaped Our World
Mid-Unit Test and Revision
Impact of the Internet
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (free)
Covid Track and Trace
Quantum Computing (free)
Artemis and Space X
Facial Recognition
Digital Divide
DeepMind, AI, AlphaGo and ChatGPT (free)
Emerging Technologies and their impact
Cybersecurity case studies
Revision keyword flash cards and essay assessment.
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A series of 7 lesson covering key topics in module 1.1 Business Organisation and Environment: Introduction to Business Management of the International Baccalaureate Business Management topic. Each lesson comes with key word flash cards, a range of activities and case studies. Ideal for an expert and non-expert teacher alike to deliver the essential content their students need to develop their understanding.
The other lessons are as follows:
Overview and the Economic Problem
Ice Braker Entrepreneur Task
What is Business?
Economic Sectors
Why start a business?
Starting a Business
Business Plans
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Napoleon, Nelson and Trafalgar
1 lesson from a series of 7 on the Napoleonic Wars, The Royal Navy and the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
The lessons are as follows:
Napoleon and the threat to Britain
The Making of Nelson’s Navy
Horatio Nelson – Hero?
Life in Nelson’s Navy
The Battle of Trafalgar
Napoleon and Trafalgar Pokémon revision game
Each lesson works as a standalone, but they are designed to be taught in sequence, with each lesson adding a new layer of context and skills ready for the final writing task in lesson 4. Each lesson comes with 4 Pokémon style key word cards which are all gathered with a range of factor and skill word cards in the 5th lesson – this allows students to use them in their writing.
Each lesson includes a range of activities and resources all contained within the same PowerPoint file for ease of use.
The activities are as follows:
Lesson 1: Napoleon and the threat to Britain
• French Revolution context
• Trading card keywords activity
• Napoleon info cards and CV writing task
• Napoleon’s conquests and the Continental System
• Comprehension questions
Lesson 2: The Making of Nelson’s Navy
• Age of sail video and question/answers
• Assemble a fleet discussion task with prompts
• 8 Factors of success – table fill
• PEE prioritisation task
• Writing a letter to family task
• Trading card keyword activity
• Reading comprehension questions
Lesson 3: Nelson v Villeneuve (and life on a sailing ship)
• Nelson video and question/answers
• Reading comprehension questions
• Trading card keyword activity
• Nelson’s Victories place and describe map activity
• Nelson: Hero and Villain extended reading and debate task
Lesson 4: Life in Nelson’s Navy
• Video and questions
• Teach Roulette – life as a sailor group task
• Nautical English terms task
• Write a diary entry as a sailor task
• Trading Card Activity
Lesson 5: The Battle of Trafalgar
• Recap task
• Events of the day info slides (enabling teacher talk)
• Extended reading – Bernard Cornwell – the gruesome side of a war at sea
• Cartoon strip of the battle with info slides
• Why did Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar? Essay task to include all factors studied thus far (the recap reminder sheet from activity 1 is useful here).
• Trading Card Activity
Lesson 6: Battle of Trafalgar Keyword Trading Card Game
• 20 Pokémon style keywords
• 11 General factor history and skill cards
• An excellent and engaging way to stimulate writing tasks!
Bonus: Trafalgar History Club Activity
• Flag making – Re-create Nelson’s famous flag signals!
• Battle Snowballs – create the line of battle, act out the fight and see who wins in the rematch!
Visit the Wolsey Academy website for more excellent resources and History games - free to play.
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This is a series of 18 lessons to take students through a IGCSE Business Studies module on People in Business (Unit 2) CIE & Edexcel
In this series of lessons on business studies, we explore the importance of people in business. From understanding the impact of leadership styles to recognizing the significance of employee motivation and communication, this course delves into the key elements of managing and leading people in the workplace. With real-world examples and practical exercises, students will gain valuable insights into how to build effective teams and foster a positive organizational culture.
The lessons are as follows:
Motivation Theories
Incentives
Role of Management
Organisational Structure
Leadership Styles
Trade Unions
Recruitment
Training
Employment Law – Discrimination
Employment Law – Health and Safety
Employment Law – Unfair Dismissal
Employment Law – Wage Protection
Workforce Planning
Internal and External Communications
Methods of Communication
Direction of Communications
Revision Flash Cards
Practice Exam
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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.
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Overview: This lesson covers innovations in video game consoles from 1961 onwards. It has a relay activity followed by a written paragraph with peer assessments. Complete with differentiation sheets, plenaries, starters, lesson plan and pedagogy justifications.
Cardinal’s Corner: Do not be deceived.
This is an incredibly rich and well written book. Yes, it is about video games. But that does not in any way detract from its quality as a piece of writing. The author, David Sheff, is famed for having done one of the last interviews with John Lennon and his articles have appeared in all sorts of publications. It is essentially a history of one of the most culturally important companies of the late twentieth (and early twenty first) century. Nintendo as a company is over a hundred years old and the stories goes right back to its early days in Kyoto as a maker of card games (I’ve actually been lucky enough to visit their original office when on vacation).
I got this book free with a computer game magazine when I was in high school. I read it all in about a week – not bad for a 13 year old kid. When I came to re-read it as an adult I found it equally as fascinating and if pushed I would say this was probably my favourite book of all time. It is oozing with anecdotes and provides a depth of historical contexts – from how the Nintendo company survived the second world war to a Cold War legal battle with the Soviet Union over the video game rights to Tetris.
A fascinating read – and one that be found on pdf here.
Video games are a hugely important part of our recent culture, they’re something that all our pupils are familiar with and they provide a hugely important learning tool. Even commercial games are uniquely powerful at teaching children. I was once astonished in one of my worst Year 9 classes when a child started talking with some confidence about the work of Leonardo De Vinci and asked, entirely unprompted, “Wasn’t he important during the Renaissance?”. Of course, what had he been playing? Assassins Creed. That same game series incidentally hires historical consultants to get as an accurate picture of the past, in the same way that Hollywood movies do. One of the Assassin Creed games features an accurate model of Colonial Boston – based on maps and drawings of the times – in which the player explores and meets key characters, like Benjamin Franklin. I also, perhaps flippantly, swear that is a good grounding in Civilization 2 that got me my GCSE in History and an unhealthy obsession with Sim City that let me cruise to top grades in GCSE Geography. Games are not to be dismissed as learning tools.
Indeed, my hunch is that in the near future games will do most of the teaching for us. Keep checking back at Wolsey Academy’s Learning Worlds page to see how that’s coming along.
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17 practice papers for Edexcel IGCSE English Literature Macbeth exam.
(Open book exam).
Each paper comes with a Edexcel style front sheet and a choice of two questions (1 character, 1 theme).
Excellent for revision and independent study.
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Back to back completed flash cards.
Features the type of text, the audience and purpose (TAP) and breaks down literature devices used into linguistic and structural - provides quotes and explanations for each one. Most also include paragraph and line references to quickly locate the quote during revision.
Ready to print and use.
The anthology consist of:
Touching the Void
Your Guide to Beach Safety
Climate Change Webpage - Greenpeace UK
Climate Change: The Facts
A Game of Polo With A Headless Goat
A Passage to Africa
The Explorer’s Daughter
Explorers, or Boys Messing About? Either Way, Taxpayer Gets Rescue Bill
Taking On The World
Chinese Cinderella
UPDATE: Some of these texts may no longer appear in the current exam but may be good for practicing for mock papers etc.
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IGCSE Business Studies – Operations Management
Complete Unit 4 of the IGCSE CIE Business Studies course.
Entire unit contains 9 lessons, 1 revision lesson, 56 flash cards, 9 quizzes and countless case study style quesitons.
Each lesson contains:
• A wide range of activities
• Content Slides
• Business Case Studies
• All Resources Required
• Online quizzes
• Flash Cards.
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Operations Management lessons include:
Productivity
Inventory
Methods of Production
Technology and Production
Business Costs
Economies of Scale
Break Even Point
Quality Production
Location Decisions
Revision Lesson
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Covers a range of topics and company case studies.
Each lesson begins with an introduction to the case study context, before moving on to the theory to be learned and then ends with an example style questions where students need to combine elements from the two.
Skills covered include (but are not limited to…):
Break Even Points
Market Share
Distribution Methods
Market Segments
Location Factors
Tax and Government Policy
Inflation
Patents
Outsourcing
Finance Options
Unions
Types of Businesses
Business Growth
Microfinance
Entrepreneurial Characteristics
Index Funds
Private Equity
Commodity Markets
Globalisation
Companies covered include (but are not limited to…):
Microsoft
Activision
IKEA
Netflix
Apple
American Airlines
IndiGo Airlines
Blackrock
Purdue Pharma
SpaceX
Jamie’s Italian
ARM
Adidas
Iveric Bio
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One lesson from a series of 10 lessons used recently to teach Key Stage 3 which much success. There is a great range of activities and the students really engaged with the subject. Each lesson is fully resourced and ready to teach from the box. Each includes options for adaption up or down depending on class level. Each lesson builds up students’ skills ready for an assessment in lesson 10, but also develops soft skills of group work, presentation, research and problem-solving.
The lessons are as follows:
• Raiders or Settlers? Push and Pull Factors
• Viking Mythology & Top Trumps
• Women in the Viking Age
• Trade and Longboats
• Lindisfarne
• Edmund the Martyr
• Bluetooth, Forkbeard & Canute
• The Kyivan Rus
• The Viking Discovery of America
• Assessment
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6 Lessons covering all aspects of the Russian Civil War with a range of activities that build up student’s knowledge and essay writing skills.
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.
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.
Hope it helps.
A series of 10 lessons used recently to teach middle and high school classes. There is a great range of activities and the students really engaged with the subject. Each lesson is fully resourced and ready to teach from the box. Each includes options for adaption up or down depending on class level. Each lesson builds up students’ skills ready for an assessment in lesson 10, but also develops soft skills of group work, presentation, research and problem-solving.
The lessons are as follows:
• Raiders or Settlers? Push and Pull Factors
• Viking Mythology & Top Trumps
• Women in the Viking Age
• Trade and Longboats
• Lindisfarne
• Edmund the Martyr
• Bluetooth, Forkbeard & Canute
• The Kyivan Rus
• The Viking Discovery of America
• Assessment
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Lesson on the causes of the American war of Independence. Aims to build students ability to categorise factors into headings and write an extended piece of analysis.
Lesson Includes:
Teacher video of the lesson (ideal for distance learning)
Recap activity of previous lesson on colonial America.
Teacher Talk Stimulus Context Slide
Research task with 7 factor info sheets in the resources section – support sheet for differentiation.
Categorisation task.
Three writing support slides with exemplar sentences and structure guide for all levels of learner.
Google quiz (self marking)
7 x flash cards for key factors
Part of a wider bundle of lessons on American History.
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This series of lessons covers everything that you need from the** first half of module 1 **of CIE Business Studies IGCSE: Business Activity
In total the Module 1 series of lessons (Part A & B) includes: 10 case studies, 19 packs of flash cards, 17 Google Quizzes and 23 lesson PowerPoints.
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The Economic Problem > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Specialisation > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
The Purpose of Business > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
The Economic Sectors > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Mixed Economy > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Mid-Topic Revision 1 > Lesson activities> >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quizzes
Entrepreneurs > Lesson activities >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Business Plan > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Business Size > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Business Growth > Lesson activities> Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Problems with Growth > Lesson activities> Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Example Assessment>Lesson activities
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This lesson is from a scheme of work that covers everything you need from module 1 of CIE Business Studies IGCSE: Business Activity.
In total the Module 1 Scheme of Work includes: 10 case studies, 19 packs of flash cards, 17 Google Quizzes and 23 lesson PowerPoints.
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Mid-Topic Revision 2 > Lesson activities >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quizzes
Mid-Topic Assessment>Lesson activities
Mid-Topic Assessment Feedback>Lesson Activities
Types of Business – Sole Traders and Partnerships > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Types of Business – Ltd and Plc > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Franchising > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Public Corporations > Lesson activities>Case Study >Key word flash cards pack
Business Objectives > Lesson activities>Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Stakeholder Objectives > Lesson activities> Google Quiz.
Stakeholder Conflict > Lesson activities>Key word flash cards pack>Google Quiz.
Unit 1: Business Activities > Keyword Flash card pack> Google Quizzes
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This lesson is from a scheme of work that covers everything you need from module 5 of CIE Business Studies IGCSE: Finance
In total the Module 5 Scheme of Work includes: 59 flash cards, 14 Google Quizzes and 14 lesson PowerPoints (including a revision lesson).
Each lesson in the series come with
a. Activities to complete
b. Key word flash cards
c. Information to revise from and assist teacher talk
d. A unique Google quiz to assess understanding & progress
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Business Need for Finance
Internal and External source of Finance
Short & Long Term Finance Options
Factors in choosing Finance Options
Cash Flow
Cash Flow Forecasts
Working Capital
Importance of Accounts
Income Statements
Balance Sheets
Ratio Analysis
Liquidity Ratios
Uses and Users of Accounts
Revision for Unit 5
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11 lessons that cover everything you need for the External Influences section of IGCSE Business Studies. It is modelled on the CIE specification but has also been used successfully to teach Edexcel spec.
In total this Module 6 Scheme of Work includes: 53 flash cards, 7 Google Quizzes and 11 lesson PowerPoints (including a revision lesson).
Each lesson in the series comes with:
a. Activities to complete
b. Key word flash cards
c. Information to revise from and assist teacher talk
d. Link to a Google quiz that covers the topic
For more resources and to buy the complete Business Studies IGCSE bundle at a steep discount, please visit Wolsey Academy.
Lessons in the series include:
Government Economic Objectives
Fiscal Policy
Monetary & Supply Side Policies
Business Responses to Economic Policies
Business Activities and the Environment
Non-Economic Pressures on Businesses
Business & Ethics
Globalisation & Multinationals
Globalisation Issues
Exchange Rates
Revision lesson with resources
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The Cold War IGCSE Edexcel
One lesson from over forty on the Cold War, designed for the IGCSE Edexcel specification but instantly transferable to any other GCSE (or non-GCSE) curriculum.
It begins before the Second World War, with the origins of Communist thinking and the Russian Revolution and continues right through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR.
Each lesson comes with a range of activities, keyword cards and assessments. Focus on developing analytical and writing skills.
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