Welcome to my humanities teaching resources shop, where I provide educators with the tools they need to inspire and engage their students in the exploration of history, Geography and Philosophy. My store is a one-stop-shop for high-quality, affordable resources that are designed to help teachers bring the joys of humanities into the classroom.
Welcome to my humanities teaching resources shop, where I provide educators with the tools they need to inspire and engage their students in the exploration of history, Geography and Philosophy. My store is a one-stop-shop for high-quality, affordable resources that are designed to help teachers bring the joys of humanities into the classroom.
Colourful, bright, and informative History key words posters for your classroom display. Words include:
chronology
significance
continuity
change
consequence
historian
evidence
cause
provenance
diversity
A Keystage 3 History lesson exploring the British Welfare state. This lesson covers the problems 1930s Britain was facing, the Beveridge report, and a look into how the NHS formed.
This lesson includes links to a few helpful videos. For the first video, you need to make an account on that website to view it.
The lesson finishes with a creative writing task - learners must pretend they are William Beveridge and make a speech to parliament.
Who were the Romans?
A middle school History lesson that explores the very start of Roman civilization. In this lesson, your learners will explore when in time Roman civilization existed, why the Romans chose Rome as their place to settle, and what the tale of Romulus and Remus has to do with it all.
This lesson follows Bloom’s Taxonomy in terms of the levels of skills being used. Learners will identify, explain, and justify throughout the lesson.
This lesson includes:
A chronological ordering task
The link to an informative video appropriate for learners of this age group
A matching task where learners have to identify reasons the Romans settled where they did
A storyboard of Romulus and Remus where learners have to draw a picture to represent each stage
A writing task where learners have to be a estate agent trying to sell Rome
What was the Industrial Revolution? Full lesson including PowerPoint and worksheets. Aimed at Middle School students or KS3, also works for home schooled students.
Learning objectives to be met in lesson:
Identify what the Industrial Revolution was
Explain what caused the Industrial Revolution
Evaluate the impacts of the Industrial Revolution
Lesson includes:
Key terms
Timeline chronology task to plot when the IR happened compared to other events
Video task with questions
Paired discussion tasks
Reading comprehension task
Extended writing task
Worksheet to consolidate learning on primary and secondary sources for History. Aimed at young historians ages 11-13.Stretch and challenge option for both tasks.
Question 1 Structure Sheet for AQA History: Migration, Empires and People c790-Present Day.
This sheet summarises how to answer the ‘How useful is Source A for a Historian studying X’ question in the Migration, Empires and People paper.
This resource includes sentence starters, a structure guide, and what learners should include.
Perfect for laminating to hand out when practicing questions or to send home with learners for revision!
Who were the Romans?
A KS3 History lesson that explores what life was like for the Romans. Can also be adapted for KS2. In this lesson, your learners will explore the ruins of Pompeii and get a feel for what life would be like for teenagers like them 2000 years ago.
This lesson follows Bloom’s Taxonomy in terms of the levels of skills being used. Learners will identify, explain, and justify throughout the lesson.
This lesson includes:
‘Blurt’ recall task
Discussion task comparing life today to what learners think life would have been like in the Romans era
A Pompeii virtual tour with Google maps, where learners consider what they can see and what we can infer about Romans life from that
A video task with premade questions for learners to answer
A diary entry task where learners have to take on the point of view of a Roman teenager. Success criteria included.
A plenary task where learners have draw round their hand and give one fact they have learnt today for each finger.
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Hi all,
I am in the process of making and uploading a KS3 Romans History unit. This can also be adapted for KS2.
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This bundle currently includes:
Who were the Romans?
What was the Roman Empire?
What was Roman life like?
In the future it will also include:
How did the Romans fight?
What religion were the Romans?
What did the Romans do for fun?
-Were the Romans civilised?
What was the Roman Empire?
A KS3 History lesson that explores what we mean by an Empire and what the Romans got up to with theirs!
This lesson follows Bloom’s Taxonomy in terms of the levels of skills being used. Learners will identify, explain, and justify throughout the lesson.
This lesson includes:
An Empire identifying discussion task
A map skills task
A video task with questions
A fact file task with template and information sheet
An information sorting task answering the question ‘was the Roman Empire good or bad?’
A writing task applying the previous task, including writing frames