This is a useful resource for beginning the science curriculum with students in Year 4
Topics:
Finding knowledge
Prediction and Hypothesis
A Fair Test
Setting up a Science Experiment
Collecting data
Analyzing and drawing conclusions
The Scientific process in discovering our COVID vaccines
There are seven power point presentations, seven worksheets and notes for students.
This unit has fourteen stories, each with a set of learning activities. These include comprehension questions, drawings, making deductions, a crossword, writing paragraphs, expressing opinions, making predictions and some creative writing.
I have used these with 7 to 10 year old students. I have also used them while teaching the about Vikings in history.
Twenty eight legends and origins are presented in this unit. Each chapter has interesting activities, including:
exploring characters, writing paragraphs, completing flow charts, giving opinions, linking history and legends, drawing and labeling.
An interesting set of presentations with notes for students and worksheets, including a section on the history of trading and money and activities for students to learn about managing budgets, business and money.
There are fourteen topics:
Why people trade
Bartering in the Ancient World
Money, trading and business words.
What is money?
The history of money
Things that we should all know about money.
Responsibility - looking after our money
Budgets
Banks and banking
International Currencies
Going into business – A Business Plan
Different Types of Business.
Shares, Stocks and Bonds
Interest and Dividends
Each topic has slides, which indicate when to break for activities and activities related to those slides.
TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY – THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN is a unit studying a significant turning point in British history. This is an aspect of British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Eleven lessons with slides and worksheets cover the following topics:
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party
Nazi expansion in Europe
The War and the rise of Winston Churchill
Fall of France and the Dunkirk miracle
Operation Sea Lion
German aircraft and bombing
British defences and aircraft
The Battle of Britain
Winning the battle
Women heroes of the Battle of Britain
The “Few”
These myths and stories from ancient Egypt can be used on their own, purely as literature and comprehension, or to give colour and background to a study of ancient Egypt.
There are seventeen stories, each with activities (see thumbnails for the types of activities).
I have used these with 8 to 10 year old students. Often, after we have used some in the class, they ask for more, which is always rewarding for a teacher!
Working Scientifically 5 is a good introduction to scientific methods and terminology.
It covers:
Creativity in Science
Planning to experiment
The main variables that may affect investigative results
Communicating conclusions
Evaluating accuracy of conclusions
Five presentations are used to illustrate the important concepts above. Each is followed by activities for learning in worksheet form.
Seven lessons with power point presentations and lesson activities in worksheet form.
Topics:
The main internal organs
Blood
Heart
Blood vessels
Respiration
Lungs
Exercise for the heart and lungs
Lesson activities include:
Comprehension activities; Expression of opinion giving reasons; Survey on healthy lifestyle; Planning exercise; Drawing and labeling diagrams.
Animals including Humans: Eating and Digestion:
There are eight presentations, plus corresponding notes and worksheets for students.
They cover the following topics:
Eco systems – consumers and producers
Consumers in the food chain
Human teeth
Teeth in animals
Mouth and the tongue
The Throat and Oesophagus
The stomach and intestines
The different ways that animals digest food
Use the six power point presentations to introduce your students to the scientific methodology and concepts:
How Science has had a positive and negative effect over time
Following the Scientific Method
Exploring scientific ideas
Getting accurate results
Recording and concluding
Limitations of tests
Follow up with the six sets of notes and worksheets for each lesson.
This ten-part series uses power point presentations and worksheet activities to cover
Sexual and asexual reproduction
Reproduction in flowering plants
Flowering plants life cycles
Reproduction in non-flowering plants
Mammal life cycles
Bird life cycle
Amphibian life cycle
Insect life cycles
Work project - differences in life cycles
*Richard Attenborough
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With nine power point presentations and nine worksheets for the unit***** Plants***** for 7 to 8 year olds, this unit covers the topics:
What do the parts of plants do?
What do plants need to grow well?
Do plants really need water to grow? Experimenting
Do plants really need light to grow? Experimenting
Do different plants have different needs?
How does water move around a plant?
What are flowers for? Pollination
What are flowers for? Producing seeds
Seed dispersal
The lesson objectives are clearly stated at the start of each lesson.
Some simple items are needed for the investigations in lessons 3, 4 and 6.
This seven lesson unit carries the students through the why and how of a turning point in history – Pearl Harbor.
Lesson topics, with slides and worksheets:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes President
A Changing World
The League of Nations
The Road to Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Pearl Harbor Attacked
America enters the War
Follow the path of the English campaigns against Scotland and Wales, from 1066.
Ten lessons with learning activities and ten power point presentations. The unit covers:
Scotland and Wales at the time of William the Conqueror
The relationship between England and Wales
The relationship between England and Scotland
The establishment of the Welsh Marches
Edward I’s conquering of Wales
The aftermath of the defeat of Wales
Edward I’s control of Scotland
Rebellion: William Wallace
Resistance: Robert the Bruce of Scotland
Continuing conflict
Used mainly with Year 7 / Grade 6.
This is a five lesson unit describing the time in British history, between monarchs.
Lesson titles are:
The establishment of the Commonwealth
The Rise of Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector
Richard Cromwell
Life during the Interregnum
It has been used mainly with years 7, 8 and 9.
I have used this series of lessons with students aged 12 to 14. The power point slides are full of information for teaching the topic and there are learning activities for each lesson.
Lessons cover the following:
James I and Charles I
Personal Rule and the Causes of Rebellion (1629 to 1640)
The Bishops Wars and the Return of Parliament (1640 to 1642)
The Beginning of the First Civil War
The Advance of the Parliamentarians
The Second Civil War – the capture, escape, recapture, trial, and execution of Charles I
Timeline of Charles I’s reign
Conflict in Ireland and Scotland
The Third Civil War
The Renaissance is an eleven part unit.
It covers the topics:
The beginning of the Renaissance in Europe
Causes of the Renaissance
The Northern Renaissance
Timeline of the Renaissance
The rebirth of the classical ideas through art
Great Art works of Renaissance
Architecture and Science
Renaissance Exploration
Literature and the Renaissance
Geniuses of the Renaissance
The end of the Renaissance
It has been used mainly for years 8, 9 and 10.
There are power point slides and learning activities for each topic / lesson.
NATURAL RESOURCES is a good unit to help students understand the different aspects of our natural resources and the dangers of the demands. Presented with a set of slides for each of eight lessons, the interspersed activities give students an opportunity to engage with the ideas presented.
Topics include:
Understanding natural resources
Renewable and non-renewable resources
Using natural resources for energy
Benefits of trees as a natural resource
Human’s increasing demand for resources
Farming Activities
Mining and Minerals
Sustainability of natural resources
This comprehensive unit on Rivers presents the following topics through power point slides:
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The forming of a river
A river’s journey
The water cycle
Rivers sustaining life
River settlements
River transport
River power
Some great rivers of the world
The slides are interspersed with learning activities which can be completed on the corresponding worksheets.
This unit gives a good overview of the origins of festivals celebrated during the winter season, how these festivals are celebrated and some of the connections between festivals. Themes such as lights, feasts and activities are considered. There are seven power point presentations and seven worksheets covering the following winter celebrations:
Celebrating!
Diwali
Thanksgiving
Hanukkah
Yule tide (Winter Solstice)
Christmas
New Year