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The History of India
This is one lesson from a series of 11 on the History of India.
Each lesson includes as a minimum:
• A context slide for teacher talk/intro
• A reading comprehension task
• A sorting/categorising activity of factors/causes.
• A writing task with support and guidance.
All resources are included within the same PowerPoint for ease of organisation. They have proved very effective with our High School classes.
The 11 lessons are as follows:
The Mughals (free)
The East India Company
The Battle of Plessey (free)
The Tiger of Mysore
The Mahratta
Revision & Feedback lesson for unit at half way point
Trucial States, UAE & Oman
The First War of Indian Independence (1857)
Amritsar Massacre & Indian Independence Movement
India, Gandhi and the Second World War
Bengal Famine 1947 (free)
Indian Independence and Partition
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The History of India
This is one lesson from a series of 11 on the History of India.
Each lesson includes as a minimum:
• A context slide for teacher talk/intro
• A reading comprehension task
• A sorting/categorising activity of factors/causes.
• A writing task with support and guidance.
All resources are included within the same PowerPoint for ease of organisation. They have proved very effective with our High School classes.
The 11 lessons are as follows:
The Mughals (free)
The East India Company
The Battle of Plessey (free)
The Tiger of Mysore
The Mahratta
Revision & Feedback lesson for unit at half way point
Trucial States, UAE & Oman
The First War of Indian Independence (1857)
Amritsar Massacre & Indian Independence Movement
India, Gandhi and the Second World War
Bengal Famine 1947 (free)
Indian Independence and Partition
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.
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China: Conflict, Crisis and Change 1900 – 1989. Designed for the Edexcel IGCSE Breadth Study but features a wide range of activities and approaches, and is in depth enough, that makes it excellent for all China history courses.
It is a standalone SOW (e.g. you don’t need to refer to a text book) and each lesson is self-contained, with all the information and resources required to deliver at least a Good rated lesson if not an Outstanding one.
Assessment & activity types are introduced and revisited based on a retrieval grid to ensure maximum learning and imbedding of skills and knowledge. Each lesson is estimated to take 45-60 minutes to complete but in my experience many can stretch over 2 or even 3 lessons depending on teacher judgement.
Each lesson features as a minimum:
Numeracy & Literacy challenges.
Keywords (to add to a student glossary).
EAL support sheets.
Stretch and challenge activities.
Teacher Quick Start Guide.
Literacy support mats.
Homework extension task mats.
Context slide for the lesson.
Part 1: Lessons included:
Intro to China & Course Set Up. (with online self-marking quiz)
Boxer Rebellion Causes & Events
Boxer Rebellion Consequences & Reforms
The 1911 Revolution
4th May Movement
Sun Yet-Sen, Chiang Kai-Shek & Guomindang
Recap Lesson 1: 1900 – 1926 (with online self-marking quiz)
The United Front & The Communist Party
Expeditions, Massacres and Exterminations 1926 – 1934
Recap lesson 2: 1926 – 1934 (with online self-marking quiz)
The Long March 1934-35
Consequences of the Long March
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 Science teachers to get the most out of the tech.
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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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Perfect for History Club sessions – or active and creative lessons - at primary or secondary level. Includes information and video about the topics and a fun practical activity (which can often take more than one session to complete). All sessions include a weekly advertising poster for display boards, websites and screens around the school. Also included is a loyalty card for students to claim rewards after attending enough lessons.
Designed by Wolsey Academy and tried and tested with secondary students in the UK.
Topics are as follows:
Ancient Egypt – Drama Production
Battle of Trafalgar 1805 – Arts and Craft.
Guy Fawkes, 1605 – Gunpowder Hunt.
Charles Lindbergh, 1927 – Design & Fly a Plane.
Pirates – Make a Movie.
Thanksgiving – Fancy Dress and Card Design
Benjamin Franklin – Make and fly a Kite.
Tudor Christmas – Card Making.
Battle of Atlantic – Code Breaking Game
Medieval Coat of Arms – Research and Heraldry Making.
Brunel – Bridge Building
Darwin –Voyage of the Beagle, Art Competition.
D-Day – Landing Craft Construction and Testing
World Cup History – Kit Designs
Battle of Quebec – Crane Construction
Angkor Wat – Sunrise Drawings
Historical Fashion – Clothing Designs
Henry Ford – Assembly Line Competition
Roman Army – Shield Design and Battle Tactics Role Play
Local History: Ipswich Town Football Club – Badge Design.
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Perfect for History Club sessions – or active and creative lessons - at primary or secondary level. Includes information and video about the topics and a fun practical activity (which can often take more than one session to complete). All sessions include a weekly advertising poster for display boards, websites and screens around the school. Also included is a loyalty card for students to claim rewards after attending enough lessons.
Designed by Wolsey Academy and tried and tested with secondary students in the UK.
Topics are as follows:
Ancient Egypt – Drama Production
Battle of Trafalgar 1805 – Arts and Craft.
Guy Fawkes, 1605 – Gunpowder Hunt.
Charles Lindbergh, 1927 – Design & Fly a Plane.
Pirates – Make a Movie.
Thanksgiving – Fancy Dress and Card Design
Benjamin Franklin – Make and fly a Kite.
Tudor Christmas – Card Making.
Battle of Atlantic – Code Breaking Game
Medieval Coat of Arms – Research and Heraldry Making.
Brunel – Bridge Building
Darwin –Voyage of the Beagle, Art Competition.
D-Day – Landing Craft Construction and Testing
World Cup History – Kit Designs
Battle of Quebec – Crane Construction
Angkor Wat – Sunrise Drawings
Historical Fashion – Clothing Designs
Henry Ford – Assembly Line Competition
Roman Army – Shield Design and Battle Tactics Role Play
Local History: Ipswich Town Football Club – Badge Design.
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.
Comprehensive lesson analysing Thomas Hardy’s poem ‘Drummer Hodge’ 1899.
Use MITSL grids, extensive reference to the criteria (iGCSE Edexcel) and model answers to prepare students for essay planning and then writing.
Features stretch questions,literacy support, numeracy cross overs and multiple printed resources to support all learners.
Example questions designed to look like a real exam paper to prepare students for the conventions of the exam hall.
Used to great effect in a high achieving International School. Took about two lessons to complete in full and then a third lesson to allow for in depth and criteria led reflection and improvements.
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A stand alone lesson or a great introduction to a variety of topics - using Fortnite trackers as a (worryingly successful) hook.
Includes:
Business Studies: Mini-Business Case study of Epic Games and it’s unique business model + comparisons to others
ICT: Excel formulas, SUM, AVERAGE, adding charts, calculating % increases and using conditional formatting.
Maths: Understanding and practice of % increases
Features stretch activities and literacy questions, literacy and numeracy settler activity, peer assessments and a plenary quiz.
Excel features demonstrated in a series of video clips (embedded in the PowerPoint).
~ Every time my students were given a chance they’d be checking their stats on Fortnite tracker - I figure if pupils are interested in stats this is too good an opportunity to pass up. If you can’t beat them - join 'em.
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This series of 6 lessons cover all the database skills required to use MS Access competently and develops students theoretical knowledge of key database terms and concepts. Ideally suited for any educational curriculum but specially modelled around the EDEXCEL IGCSE ICT ).
Each lesson builds towards a Ferrari World theme park (UAE) case study and contains:
• A literacy, numeracy, think settler activity.
• Flash cards for all key words
• Explainer slides
• A range of activities.
• Videos (in both MP4 & YouTube links)
• Access to a google quiz for effective student progress checks and retrieval practice (2 quizzes in total – basic and an advanced quiz)
Lesson topics:
• Data Types and Data Entry (incl. 1 teacher tutorial video)
• Key Relationships and Key Types (incl. 1 teacher tutorial video)
• Validation & Sorting (incl. 2 teacher tutorial videos)
• Queries & Operators (incl. 4 teacher tutorial videos)
• Reports & Mail Merge (incl. 2 teacher tutorial videos)
• Revision (37 flashcards and a range of revision activities)
Purchasing the whole scheme of work provides you with a passcode for a dedicated webpage with links to everything.
These lessons have been used with English as Additional Language students to great effect within an International School setting.
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Lesson on the French-Indian War (or 7 Years War). Perfect lesson to teach to provide context to the American of Independence that is to come.
Lesson Includes:
Teacher Talk Stimulus Context Slide
Recap activity of previous lesson on colonial America.
Timeline card sort activity (resources at the end of the PowerPoint)
Consequences discussion and question slide.
Source analysis and comprehension task.
Causes, events and consequences categorisation task.
Extended writing task.
Literacy mat for EAL/G&T support.
Part of a wider bundle of lessons on American History.
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This lesson sets the scene for the Cold War by looking at how the Allies worked together during the Second World War. The Lend-Lease programme, the Arctic Convoys and Stalin’s disappointment with the invasion of Italy all feature to build the back story of the Cold War.
This lesson includes:
2. Grand Alliance 2/8
a. Lesson Activities
b. 4 question Google quiz plenary
c. 4 keyword Flash Cards
From an 8-part bundle on the origins of the Cold War – please see below for the specific details of this numbered lesson in the sequence.
1. Cold War Origins 1/8
a. Lesson Activities
b. 5 Question Google Quiz plenary
c. 7 key word flash cards
d. 5 Russian Revolution Extension Task Activity Sheets
2. Grand Alliance 2/8
a. Lesson Activities
b. 4 question Google quiz plenary
c. 4 keyword Flash Cards
3. Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine 3/8
a. Video lesson (teacher voice over of lesson)
b. Lesson Activities
c. 5 Question Google Quiz Plenary
d. 5 keyword Flash Cards
4. Causes of the Berlin Blockade 4/8
a. Video lesson (teacher voice over of lesson)
b. Lesson Activities
c. 5 Question Google Quiz Plenary
d. 5 keyword Flash Cards
5. Events of the Berlin Blockade 5/8
a. Lesson Activities
b. 5 Question Google Quiz Plenary
c. 5 keyword Flash Cards
6. Consequences of the Berlin Blockade 6/8
a. Lesson Activities
b. 6 Question Google Quiz Plenary
c. 6 keyword Flash Cards
7. Who was the blame for the Cold War? 7/8
a. Lesson Activities (Exam Practice – Source Based Questions)
b. 4 Question Google Quiz Plenary
c. 4 keyword Flash Cards
8. Cold War Origins Revision Lesson 8/8
a. 4 x Revision Tasks
b. 32 x keyword flash cards
c. 32 Question Google Quiz
Taught as part of the CIE IGCSE Option B course – however – perfectly suited for any course of study. It includes in total: 8 lessons, 32 keyword flash cards, 7 Google quizzes, 2 teacher video lessons.
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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
Hope they help!
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
Analysis of Accounts
Liquidity Ratios
Uses and Users of Accounts
Revision for Unit 5
Design for CIE but covers 99.9% of the same stuff as the Edexcel Business Studies Finance module (I have used these resources for both).
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IGCSE Business Studies – Operations Management
Each lesson contains:
• A wide range of activities
• Content Slides
• Business Case Studies
• All Resources Required
• Online quizzes
• Flash Cards.
We hope it helps.
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
You can access and download all the lessons for IGCSE Business Studies at Wolsey Academy (Google us).
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This is part of a series of 7 lessons (and 3 Guided Reading Activities) about the New Deal. It is aimed at A Level/IB students and focusses on the New Deal’s policies, their impact, the opposition to them and the historiography of them since. All the lessons contain all the resources within them required for the students to successfully research and answer the questions. Where external sources have been used for evidence, they have been cited.
The other lessons in the series are as follows:
What was it? > A deep dive look at the key alphabet agencies and their impact.
Impact of the New Deal > A look at 4 cross sections of US society/economy and the impact the alphabet agencies had, for better or worse.
The Second New Deal > An investigation into the reasons why a Second New Deal was required and how they laid the foundation for the modern welfare state.
Opposition to the New Deal > A research exercise (with materials to research) of the key opposition figures to the New Deal and their philosophies.
The impact of the Second World War > How the Second World War ‘saved’ FDR from the ‘Roosevelt Recession’ and how it changed the political landscape. Included in this lesson is the Guided Reading activity for the War’s impact (resource 8)
The historiography of the New Deal > A look at two opposing interpretations (resources 9 and 10) and then an activity looking at six different historical interpretations of the New Deal followed by a class debate.
An essay question focussing on the impact of the New Deal – was it mostly economic or political in nature? Students are guided through the process of preparing, structuring and then writing the essay.
An extended reading activity on the Second World War’s impact on the New Deal
An extended ready activity looking at criticism of the New Deal
An extended reading activity looking at support for the New Deal, especially the WPA.
We hope these resources help you teach this vital and interesting topic.
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If you teach History, Business or ICT we have superb resources ready to go on our website – we also have 5 free to play History games that are ideal for engaging lower (and older) year groups in History.
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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!
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Third lesson from a series of 3 allowing students to develop their knowledge of how the Royal Navy developed during the 19th century and how this eventually led to HMS Dreadnought. The role of Admiral Fisher in encouraging the construction of these ships, the Arms Race it led to and then the final, but inconclusive, clash at Jutland in 1916.
These lessons provide vital context to the origins of the First World War.
Each lesson works well as a stand alone lesson but each lesson builds on the context of the former.
The lessons are constructed as follows:
1. Origins of the Arms Race – Fisher’s Reforms to the Royal Navy
a. Navy post-Trafalgar, context slides (teacher talk and debate)
b. Historian quote question and discussion x 2
c. Video extract and questions
d. 7 Reform Factors and Table completion activity
e. Letter home to family on the reforms
f. Plenary: Reading comprehension task
2. HMS Dreadnought and the Arms Race
a. Historiography task and questions
b. HMS Dreadnought special features label task
c. Video extract and questions
d. PEEKA Paragraph writing x 2 – with peeka template and Dreadnought fact sheet.
e. Plenary: Reading comprehension task
3. The Battle of Jutland, 1916
a. Keyword recap writing task
b. Context slides (teacher talk and debate)
c. Video extract and questions x 2
d. Describe the conditions task
e. Eye witness source table (with 6 eye witness accounts)
f. Who won? – debate prompts
g. Jack Cornwell reading comprehension task.
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The History of Ancient Persia
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 enable students to engage with the content of the Persia Empire while building up transferable skills in historical writing, source analysis and creative projects. Each lesson also includes model answers, criteria and stretch/support activities.
The lessons are as follows:
The Artifacts of Persia. A collection of primary sources that students study. They then create a presentation on the question “what type of people were the Ancient Persians?”
The King of Kings: An overview of the reigns of Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes.
Life in Persia: A project-based lesson with all the materials needed for students to present on Persian law, religion and the role of women.
The Fall of Babylon: A brief look at the Babylonian Empire, a timeline of its fall to Persia and a study of the causes, events and consequences surrounding the fall of the Great city.
The Age of Kings – A look at the magnificence and splendour of the travelling household court of the Persian Kings
Persia v Athens and the Battle of Marathon: What happened, why did it happen and what legacy did it leave?
Athens & Sparta: The allies that kept Persia at bay, a look at their similarities and differences.
Battle of Thermopylae: How did it create the legend of the 300? Is there any truth in it?
Battle of Salamis: How did the Greeks defeat a much larger Persian army?
Persian achievements: Art, Science, Architecture, Mathematics.
Persian Medicine
Alexander the Great
The sacking of Persepolis
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The History of Ancient Persia
Each lesson is well constructed and fully resourced (all resources are contained at the end of each PowerPoint to avoid multiple files). Lessons include a varied sequence of activities building up content and skills to enable students to engage with the content of the Persia Empire while building up transferable skills in historical writing, source analysis and creative projects. Each lesson also includes model answers, criteria and stretch/support activities.
The lessons are as follows:
The Artifacts of Persia. A collection of primary sources that students study. They then create a presentation on the question “what type of people were the Ancient Persians?”
The King of Kings: An overview of the reigns of Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes.
Life in Persia: A project-based lesson with all the materials needed for students to present on Persian law, religion and the role of women.
The Fall of Babylon: A brief look at the Babylonian Empire, a timeline of its fall to Persia and a study of the causes, events and consequences surrounding the fall of the Great city.
The Age of Kings – A look at the magnificence and splendor of the traveling household court of the Persian Kings
Persia v Athens and the Battle of Marathon: What happened, why did it happen and what legacy did it leave?
Athens & Sparta: The allies that kept Persia at bay, a look at their similarities and differences.
Battle of Thermopylae: How did it create the legend of the 300? Is there any truth in it?
Battle of Salamis: How did the Greeks defeat a much larger Persian army?
Persian achievements: Art, Science, Architecture, Mathematics.
Persian Medicine
Alexander the Great
The sacking of Persepolis
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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.
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We hope it helps.