www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
Each download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets you need. Lesson differentiated/structured/scaffolded so that all your students can access the information and progress.
The lessons are fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, source analysis/think pair share tasks, written comprehension tasks, mini plenaries, at least one exam style question and at least one plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
Suitable for KS3 and easy to adapt.
Please see our other resources in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
A differentiated task for students to collect information on Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights groups. The aim is to see the importance the role each group played in achieving Civil Rights.
A fun task which can be used to collect important information prior to a literacy based task.
Black History Month Quiz: A fun quiz, perfect for form time on current and past black icons and history. Easy to use, just opens in powerpoint and all you need to do is click on the answers, which are revealed to be correct or incorrect. Lasts around 20 minutes.
A fun quiz, designed for form time, lasting around 15 minutes that can be used in Remembrance week. The linked clips from Blackadder are optional, they are short two minute videos designed to compliment the answers to the questions.
Safer Internet Day resource pack - suitable for upper KS2 or lower KS3. The pack includes a PowerPoint full of information as well as activities, a scavenger hunt, literacy and clip tasks and measurable LOs. It is designed to last an hour and everything is editable, well-differentiated and all information included, so you can just pick it up and go.
The slides shown are just a preview sample.
20 hours of our best 20th Century History lessons. All 20 downloads contain fully resourced lesson packs - all with thoroughly differentiated PowerPoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenaries, LOs to three levels throughout.
The lessons are suitable for KS3 or 4, with some having been used for KS4. All are amendable and editable. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by two experienced History teachers from UK secondary schools. All lessons have been highly-rated by Tes users.
Over 20 hours of very detailed and well differentiated history lessons with a focus on 20th century conflict. This would be ideal for an upper KS3 group.
There is enough content here for one term of history lessons and the bundle includes three-way differentiated PowerPoints, source analysis packs and guidance, practice GCSE exam style questions, loads of clip and questions activities, homework, literacy focus tasks - everything you need to teach outstanding history lessons and training your classes up ready for History GCSE. Some lessons are doubles.
Each lesson pack is tried and tested by a history UK department and is editable, engaging and full of content.
A 7 hour unit (6 lessons, one is a double) covering the Reformation and the religious turmoil (and more) in Tudor Times. Everything is editable, contains detailed PowerPoints and accompanying worksheets, and is ready to go.
Included:
What was the Reformation, why did it happen?
How was Henry VIII involved in the Reformation, why did he change the Church?
What can we learn from sources about Henry VIII’s reign?
Does Mary Tudor deserve her name, ‘Bloody Mary’? Why?
What happened with Elizabeth I’s reign? Why did she kill her cousin?
An overview of the religious turmoil in Tudor Times (includes Edward’s reign).
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Black History Month resource pack - an assembly, a quiz and 3 hours (more just added!) of lessons which could be used over PSHCE, Tutor Time or Drop Down Days - two giving an overview of Black history up until the present day and one focusing on the famous speech of Martin Luther King.
Chinese New Year resources - the pack includes a PowerPoint full of information about the ancient myths behind Chinese New Year, how the festival is celebrated today and the symbolism behind the celebrations. The pack also includes two clips with questions, a quiz and a creative activity - making Chinese lanterns and describing ancient symbolism (instructions included).
This bundle contains a variety of lessons and activities for your to complete with your students during the Christmas term, or on your last day for some educational fun before you break up.
Included:
A History of Christmas lesson - this lesson covers where our traditions today have come from.
History Christmas Quiz - a fun and silly quiz covering the most popular aspects of the KS3 curriculum
An Egyptian themed end-of-term escape room. Can you crack the codes and solve the mystery of the lost scroll of Ra?
A British History themed escape room, covering 1066 to the present day.
All resources are editable, fun and easy to pick up and use.
An hour long PowerPoint with differentiated tasks throughout, clip link and accompanying task focusing on Remembrance Day and the significance of poppies. Designed by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
The images have just been uploaded so you can see some of the content of the lesson. The actual PowerPoint is in the zip file.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources