A lesson looking at the transformation of Octavius into Augustus and the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Along the way students learn the story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra before preparing for a debate on the historical legacy of Augustus - was he a wise ruler or a Republic destroying tyrant? Lessons includes: 6 keyword cards A keyword match up The narrative of Mark Antony and Cleopatra along with a scaffolded summary task. Video on the Augustus debate. Preparation sheets to help students get ready for the debate. Homework task for comprehension questions. 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. We hope it helps. W.

One lesson from the French Revolution & Napoleon SOW (10 lessons) we have been teaching for a while but recently jazzed up some cartoon illustrations and streamlined/added some activities. Each lesson comes with a range of activities and a focus, some build up essay writing skills, others focus on debates, others are more creative tasks. All resources included at the end of each PowerPoint, designed to be as ‘pick up and play’ or ‘pick up and modify’ as possible to help you out. Content wise you can see below, starts with the Enlightenment as context and then roams into Napoleon’s rise, his wars and eventually downfall at Waterloo. Have had excellent engagement with this SOW. The lessons are as follows: The Enlightenment Causes of the Revolution Tennis Court Oath & The Bastille Constitution and the Republic The Terror Napoleon’s Rise To Power Napoleon the General Peninsular War & The Rifles Battle of Waterloo 1815 Napoleonic Law and Legacy 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. Hope it helps. W

One lesson from the French Revolution & Napoleon SOW (10 lessons) we have been teaching for a while but recently jazzed up some cartoon illustrations and streamlined/added some activities. Each lesson comes with a range of activities and a focus, some build up essay writing skills, others focus on debates, others are more creative tasks. All resources included at the end of each PowerPoint, designed to be as ‘pick up and play’ or ‘pick up and modify’ as possible to help you out. Content wise you can see below, starts with the Enlightenment as context and then roams into Napoleon’s rise, his wars and eventually downfall at Waterloo. Have had excellent engagement with this SOW. The lessons are as follows: The Enlightenment Causes of the Revolution Tennis Court Oath & The Bastille Constitution and the Republic The Terror Napoleon’s Rise To Power Napoleon the General Peninsular War & The Rifles Battle of Waterloo 1815 Napoleonic Law and Legacy 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. Hope it helps. W

One lesson from the French Revolution & Napoleon SOW (10 lessons) we have been teaching for a while but recently jazzed up some cartoon illustrations and streamlined/added some activities. Each lesson comes with a range of activities and a focus, some build up essay writing skills, others focus on debates, others are more creative tasks. All resources included at the end of each PowerPoint, designed to be as ‘pick up and play’ or ‘pick up and modify’ as possible to help you out. Content wise you can see below, starts with the Enlightenment as context and then roams into Napoleon’s rise, his wars and eventually downfall at Waterloo. Have had excellent engagement with this SOW. The lessons are as follows: The Enlightenment Causes of the Revolution Tennis Court Oath & The Bastille Constitution and the Republic The Terror Napoleon’s Rise To Power Napoleon the General Peninsular War & The Rifles Battle of Waterloo 1815 Napoleonic Law and Legacy 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. Hope it helps. W

One lesson from the French Revolution & Napoleon SOW (10 lessons) we have been teaching for a while but recently jazzed up some cartoon illustrations and streamlined/added some activities. Each lesson comes with a range of activities and a focus, some build up essay writing skills, others focus on debates, others are more creative tasks. All resources included at the end of each PowerPoint, designed to be as ‘pick up and play’ or ‘pick up and modify’ as possible to help you out. Content wise you can see below, starts with the Enlightenment as context and then roams into Napoleon’s rise, his wars and eventually downfall at Waterloo. Have had excellent engagement with this SOW. The lessons are as follows: The Enlightenment Causes of the Revolution Tennis Court Oath & The Bastille Constitution and the Republic The Terror Napoleon’s Rise To Power Napoleon the General Peninsular War & The Rifles Battle of Waterloo 1815 Napoleonic Law and Legacy 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. Hope it helps. W

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 lesson looking at this pivotal moment in world history. The consequences have profoundly shaped the globe ever since - essential for students to understand this event which occurred before they were born but who nonetheless are growing up in the world it shaped. Lesson includes: Context slide Video and questions Timeline sort activity Cause, Event and Consequence factor sort. Focus on longer term consequences. Paragraph writing (PEEKA technique) exercise with a modeled answer. 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.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam 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.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam 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.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam 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.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam 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.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam 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.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam 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.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam 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.

In 1607, the Jamestown Colony was established in Virginia, becoming the first permanent English settlement in North America. In this lesson, students will learn about the motivations behind its founding, the challenges faced by the colonists, and their interactions with the Native Americans, as well as the lasting impact of this historic event. In this lesson, students will… Study the context of the topic Sort a timeline of the events into the correct order. Watch a video and answer questions on the content. Study real (and some fictional) quotes from the people involved and discuss what they reveal about the past. Categorise factors that led to, or shaped, the past. Prioritize those factors during group work. Agree on a grading matrix for answering a written question. Read an example answer and look for what went well and even better if. Try writing your own answer to the topic question. This is a lesson in a large series of American History lessons created by Wolsey Academy. Each lesson has been taught to high-school students successfully for a number of years. 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. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.

A Business Studies GCSE case study focussing on the IndiGo purchase of 500 A320 AirBus jets, the biggest purchase of aircraft ever. The lesson uses this as an introduction to the theory behind fixed and variable costs, behind capital expenditure and economies of scale (and the different types thereof). We 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. #betterteachingbetterplant

A case study for Business Studies students. It takes as the focus Beyonce’s concert in Sweden and the resulting mini-inflation spike caused by the influx of high spending fans to the country. It was enough to tip Sweden over its inflation target. The lesson looks at details of her trip, the supply and demand shortages it caused and then has several slides on the theory of inflation and what causes it. It ends with a case study style question to answer. It also includes keyword flash cards for revision and games. We 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. #betterteachingbetterplant

Discover the remarkable achievements and complex culture of the Mound Builder civilization(s) with this full resourced lesson, featuring interactive resources, group activities and a focus on writing and analysis skills. In this lesson, students will… Study the context of the topic Sort a timeline of the events into the correct order. Watch a video and answer questions on the content. Study real (and some fictional) quotes from the people involved and discuss what they reveal about the past. Categorise factors that led to, or shaped, the past. Prioritize those factors during group work. Agree on a grading matrix for answering a written question. Read an example answer and look for what went well and even better if. Try writing your own answer to the topic question. This is a lesson in a large series of American History lessons created by Wolsey Academy. Each lesson has been taught to high-school students successfully for a number of years. 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. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.

In 1619, the first Africans were brought to Virginia as slaves, marking the beginning of African slavery in North America. In this lesson, students will learn about the origins of slavery in America, the experiences of enslaved Africans, and the legacy of slavery and its impact on American society and culture. In this lesson, students will… Study the context of the topic Sort a timeline of the events into the correct order. Watch a video and answer questions on the content. Study real (and some fictional) quotes from the people involved and discuss what they reveal about the past. Categorise factors that led to, or shaped, the past. Prioritize those factors during group work. Agree on a grading matrix for answering a written question. Read an example answer and look for what went well and even better if. Try writing your own answer to the topic question. This is a lesson in a large series of American History lessons created by Wolsey Academy. Each lesson has been taught to high-school students successfully for a number of years. 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. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.