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1 Lesson from a series of 28 lessons on UAE Social Studies (History). Each lesson contained keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills that students can use in their regular lessons too. A key focus is obviously on Historical skills, but also Geographic, Business as well as general skills of research, debate and presentation. Several lessons have been inspired by lectures given at the NYU Abu Dhabi by experts in their fields.
The lessons begin with the formation of the Arabian landmass and end with the Arabs on Mars! Fairly comprehensive history. All lessons have been made with cultural sensitivities in mind.
The lessons are:
Historical Overview of the UAE
Jebel Faya
The Magan People
Bronze Age Trade
Wadi Suq and Umm Al Na
The Iron Age
Pre-Islamic Arabia
The Prophet Muhammad and the arrival of Islam
Battle of Dibba 632CE
Mecca and Madina
Khalid ibn al-Walid
The Portuguese and the Persian Gulf
The Islamic Era & Hormuz
Bedouin Traditions
Pirate Coast & Trucial States
The Pearl Trade
Diary of a Dhow Driver
Qasr Al Hosn
Emirati Homes and Architecture
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Founding of the UAE 1971
Famous Emiratis
Famous Ex-Pats
UAE The Global Crossroads
The Dubai Miracle
Sovereign Wealth Funds
UAE Space Program
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A lesson setting the scene for the study of Elizabeth I.
The lesson is structured as below:
Complete a ‘what do you know now and then’ task
A reading comprehension task
Summarise the most important aspects of today’s learning
Categorise the main factors
Use the grading criteria to assess two example answers.
Write your own answer.
Return to the first task and add in the new knowledge you have learned.
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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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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.
One lesson from a 6 part series of lessons on the history and development of the environmental movement.
The lessons look at:
• Apollo 8 and the Moonrise photo
• Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”
• The Montreal Protocol 1987 (The Ozone agreement)
• The Paris Climate Agreement 2015
• The global development of Green political movements
• The global development of environmental activism
Each lesson is self contained, with all the resources required at the end of the PowerPoint. They are brilliant for a case study at the end of Year 9 History or for a higher level study of politics.
We hope they help.
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.
A 6 part series of lessons on the history and development of the environmental movement.
The lessons look at:
• Apollo 8 and the Moonrise photo
• Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”
• The Montreal Protocol 1987 (The Ozone agreement)
• The Paris Climate Agreement 2015
• The global development of Green political movements
• The global development of environmental activism
Each lesson is self contained, with all the resources required at the end of the PowerPoint. They are brilliant for a case study at the end of Year 9 History or for a higher level study of politics.
We hope they help.
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 29-lesson series on the rise of, and life in, Nazi Germany. It takes you from the origins of the Weimar Republic all the way through to the end of the Second World War.
Each lesson has a range of activities and is fully resourced, with all printable resources at the end of each PowerPoint for your convenience. These lessons have been used with great success at Wolsey Academy and students seem to really enjoy them while developing strong skills and retaining the knowledge required to succeed in their final exams.
We hope they help.
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 29-lesson series on the rise of, and life in, Nazi Germany. It takes you from the origins of the Weimar Republic all the way through to the end of the Second World War.
Each lesson has a range of activities and is fully resourced, with all printable resources at the end of each PowerPoint for your convenience. These lessons have been used with great success at Wolsey Academy and students seem to really enjoy them while developing strong skills and retaining the knowledge required to succeed in their final exams.
We hope they help.
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.
From a series of 5 lessons taking KS3 through Central Asian History, highlighting many topics not covered by the traditional curriculum but which nonetheless are highly important to a developed and balanced appreciation of world history.
The five lessons are:
The Mongols
The Silk Roads
The Timurid Empire
The Ottomans
The Mughals
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.
This is one lesson from a completely fully resourced and integrated series of 17 lessons on the Russian Revolution. It was designed for GCSE History but has also been used very effectively at KS3 level.
Each lesson contains as a minimum:
• Recap from previous lesson
• Keyword flashcards (in a unique ‘Pokémon card style’ template!)
• Writing skill challenges building up to fully developed PEEKA paragraphs (these increase in complexity as you move through the lessons)
• Text with comprehension questions
• A ‘reverse engineer’ essay question task.
• A model paragraph with a ‘how can you improve?’ task
• Stretch questions.
• Video links.
The 17 lessons are as follows:
Russia and its discontents (free)
1905 Revolution (free)
The First World War (free)
Rasputin
February Revolution
Mod-Module Revision Tasks and Knowledge Check
Provisional Government
October Revolution
Bolsheviks & Constituent Assembly
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russian Civil War
Russian Civil War – Why did the Reds win?
Russian Civil War – War Communism
Russian Civil War – Kronstadt Naval Mutiny
Russian Civil War – New Economic Policy
Russian Civil War – Lenin’s Legacy
End of unit – all revision cards, revision tasks, assessment questions, models and criteria.
Hope they help.
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#BetterTeachingBetterPlanet
The Computer Revolution -
Meant as a cross department study with the Humanities and ICT/Computer Science. This is 1 lesson from a series of 17 (see below).
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 answer a large essay question in lesson 17 on the nature of change and continuity thanks to the computer revolution, and a speculative discussion of the impact of future developments.
The series also runs parallel to a 17 part ‘Guided Reading’ pack on the same topic. Each lesson is paired with an extended piece of computing literature – for ease these extracts have been included inside the PowerPoints but you can access the reading as a separate bundle, and for free at Wolsey Academy.
The lessons are as follows:
Enigma and Turing (free)
The History of Women in Computing (free)
The Microchip and Moore’s Law
The PC, GUI and Microsoft
How Video Games Shaped Our World
Mid-Unit Test and Revision
Impact of the Internet
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (free)
Covid Track and Trace
Quantum Computing (free)
Artemis and Space X
Facial Recognition
Digital Divide
DeepMind, AI, AlphaGo and ChatGPT (free)
Emerging Technologies and their impact
Cybersecurity case studies
Revision keyword flash cards and essay assessment.
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.
#BetterTeachingBetterPlanet
The Computer Revolution -
Meant as a cross department study with the Humanities and ICT/Computer Science. This is 1 lesson from a series of 17 (see below).
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 answer a large essay question in lesson 17 on the nature of change and continuity thanks to the computer revolution, and a speculative discussion of the impact of future developments.
The series also runs parallel to a 17 part ‘Guided Reading’ pack on the same topic. Each lesson is paired with an extended piece of computing literature – for ease these extracts have been included inside the PowerPoints but you can access the reading as a separate bundle, and for free at Wolsey Academy.
The lessons are as follows:
Enigma and Turing (free)
The History of Women in Computing (free)
The Microchip and Moore’s Law
The PC, GUI and Microsoft
How Video Games Shaped Our World
Mid-Unit Test and Revision
Impact of the Internet
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (free)
Covid Track and Trace
Quantum Computing (free)
Artemis and Space X
Facial Recognition
Digital Divide
DeepMind, AI, AlphaGo and ChatGPT (free)
Emerging Technologies and their impact
Cybersecurity case studies
Revision keyword flash cards and essay assessment.
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.
#BetterTeachingBetterPlanet
1 Lesson from a 29-lesson series on the rise of, and life in, Nazi Germany. It takes you from the origins of the Weimar Republic all the way through to the end of the Second World War.
Each lesson has a range of activities and is fully resourced, with all printable resources at the end of each PowerPoint for your convenience. These lessons have been used with great success at Wolsey Academy and students seem to really enjoy them while developing strong skills and retaining the knowledge required to succeed in their final exams.
We hope they help.
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.
5 paper HL/SL Paper 1s for Rights and Protest.
Broken down into bitesize slides, with the sources and mark schemes.
Our students have found this approach to be much more manageable than the somewhat overwhelming IB past papers.
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.
This is the second lesson in a series of four on the Black Death.
Discover the haunting tale of the Black Death in Europe through this captivating bundle of four interactive lessons designed for secondary school students. Dive into the causes, symptoms, cures, and consequences of this devastating historical event that shaped the course of European history.
Engage in a thrilling free-to-play online RPG game that transports you to the medieval world, allowing you to navigate the challenges of the Black Death firsthand. Immerse yourself in the era as you make critical decisions, interact with historical figures, and witness the impact of the plague on society.
Complementing the game, a comprehensive workbook accompanies the lessons, providing an opportunity to deepen your understanding through thought-provoking activities and reflective exercises. Step into the shoes of medieval inhabitants, analyzing primary sources, and critically examining the effects of the Black Death.
Unleash your curiosity, sharpen your historical analysis skills, and embark on an unforgettable journey through one of the most devastating chapters in European history. Prepare to be captivated, challenged, and enlightened as you explore the causes, symptoms, cures, and far-reaching consequences of the Black Death.
The series of lessons comprises of:
Black Death Causes and Spread
Black Death Symptoms
Black Death Cures
Black Death Consequences
A workbook (Codex) for the free to play RPG game.
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.
1 Lesson from a 29-lesson series on the rise of, and life in, Nazi Germany. It takes you from the origins of the Weimar Republic all the way through to the end of the Second World War.
Each lesson has a range of activities and is fully resourced, with all printable resources at the end of each PowerPoint for your convenience. These lessons have been used with great success at Wolsey Academy and students seem to really enjoy them while developing strong skills and retaining the knowledge required to succeed in their final exams.
We hope they help.
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 29-lesson series on the rise of, and life in, Nazi Germany. It takes you from the origins of the Weimar Republic all the way through to the end of the Second World War.
Each lesson has a range of activities and is fully resourced, with all printable resources at the end of each PowerPoint for your convenience. These lessons have been used with great success at Wolsey Academy and students seem to really enjoy them while developing strong skills and retaining the knowledge required to succeed in their final exams.
We hope they help.
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.
This is one lesson from a series of 6 lessons that focus on the History of Toys. Each lesson is fully resourced with anything that needs printing at the end of the PowerPoint ready in a print friendly format.
The idea is to engage students with historical skills (comprehension, chronology, factor sorting, factor prioritisation and paragraph writing) using content they are already familiar and passionate with. We have had a lot of success with these lessons in our school and use them as both introduction to history lessons as well as at the end of year as reward topics to study. They are fun and academically rigorous!
We hope they helps!
The six lessons cover the History of…
Lego
Funko Pops
My Little Pony
Power Rangers
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Transformers
Each lesson includes as a minimum:
• Reading Comprehension Task
• Video and questions
• Timeline sort
• Success Factors behind the brand
• Bespoke activity to expand the brand
• Exam style writing question with exemplar and writing support slide.
• All resources included within the PowerPoint.
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.
4 paper HL/SL Paper 2s for Authoritarian States and Superpower Rivalries.
Broken down into bitesize slides and mark schemes.
Our students have found this approach to be much more manageable than the somewhat overwhelming IB past papers.
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.
IB History HL
Past Papers
3 x Paper 3s HL and Mark Schemes
The Americas:
The Great Depression, Politics in Latin America & The Cold War in the Americas.
3 paper HL Paper 3s for Americas: The Great Depression, Politics in Latin America & The Cold War in the Americas
Broken down into bitesize slides and mark schemes.
Our students have found this approach to be much more manageable than the somewhat overwhelming IB past papers.
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.