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 Medina 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 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.

The Cold War IGCSE Edexcel One lesson from over forty on the Cold War, designed for the IGCSE Edexcel specification but instantly transferable to any other GCSE (or non-GCSE) curriculum. It begins before the Second World War, with the origins of Communist thinking and the Russian Revolution and continues right through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR. Each lesson comes with a range of activities, keyword cards and assessments. Focus on developing analytical and writing skills. 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.

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.

Supports up to 4 teams or houses (can do more with a bit of modification). Breaks events down into Boys & Girls - provides results in a bar chart ‘live’ as the events unfold and generates an overall ‘house’ score. Set up to support 12 different activities (can do more with some modification). Really worked well with our sports day and the students loved seeing the scores come in on the big screen as the day unfolded. 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.

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: China History IGCSE: Intro to China & Course Set Up. (with online self-marking quiz) China History IGCSE: Boxer Rebellion Causes & Events China History IGCSE: Boxer Rebellion Consequences & Reforms China History IGCSE: The 1911 Revolution China History IGCSE: 4th May Movement China History IGCSE: Sun Yet-Sen, Chiang Kai-Shek & Guomindang China History IGCSE: Recap Lesson 1: 1900 – 1926 (with online self-marking quiz) China History IGCSE: The United Front & The Communist Party China History IGCSE: Expeditions, Massacres and Exterminations 1926 – 1934 China History IGCSE: Recap lesson 2: 1926 – 1934 (with online self-marking quiz) China History IGCSE: The Long March 1934-35 China History IGCSE: Consequences of the Long March 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.

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. 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

Industrial Revolution: From a Scheme of Work on the Industrial Revolution. This lesson includes two sources, a video task, a writing activity, a Quiz-Quiz-Trade knowledge acquisition task and a hot seat plenary. Also includes two EAL support sheets and a stretch writing mat. Starts with a ‘quick start’ lesson guide. All resources easily printable from the one PowerPoint. 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 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. 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. Hope it helps.

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. 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. Hope it helps.

A 35-slide revision pack for the Rivers SOW for Year 7-8 Geography. 32 flash cards, 5 online quizzes, 6 revision activities and 1 snakes and ladders revision game (with an editable template), topics are: The Water Cycle River Drainage Basins Waterfalls Erosion River Landforms Used this for several years with my KS3 classes and it gets good a good reception each time, especially the quizzes. Recently updated it to include a new style of flash card that incorporates opportunities for comprehension and dual coding activities. Also make excellent Quiz-Quiz Trade resources for lessons on any of the 5 topics. For more resources, please visit wolseyacademy.com Hope it helps.

Lesson on the causes of the American war of Independence. Aims to build students ability to categorise factors into headings and write an extended piece of analysis. Lesson Includes: Teacher video of the lesson (ideal for distance learning) Recap activity of previous lesson on colonial America. Teacher Talk Stimulus Context Slide Research task with 7 factor info sheets in the resources section – support sheet for differentiation. Categorisation task. Three writing support slides with exemplar sentences and structure guide for all levels of learner. Google quiz (self marking) 7 x flash cards for key factors Part of a wider bundle of lessons on American History. 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. Hope it helps.

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 Ratio Analysis Liquidity Ratios Uses and Users of Accounts Revision for Unit 5 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.

3 of 22 lessons that together teach the entire Vietnam Conflict, 1945-1975. Ideal for all specifications. Each lesson comes with a range of activities, flash cards for revision and assessments and checks throughout. Almost all include a written assessment with guidance and activities that ask students to consider a range of different historical interpretations of the events. All resources needed for the lesson are self-contained within the PowerPoint with printer friendly versions ready to go. The lessons are as follows: Vietnam Overview and Timeline Colonial Vietnam General Giap Dien Bien Phu 1954 Geneva Accords 1954 Domino Theory & McCarthyism Ho Chi Minh The Vietcong Strategic Hamlet Program Overthrow of Diem 1963 Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964 Vietcong Tactics US Tactics Khe Sanh, Tet & Hue Nixon Doctrine & Vietnamization Opposition to the War – Media & Atrocities My Lai Massacre 1968 Opposition to the War – Students, Kent State and the Draft Support for the War – Hard Hats Peace and the Fall of Saigon 1975 Why did the US Fail? 80 Flashcards Wolsey Academy is a non-profit with every penny we make going to good causes, see our website, Wolsey Academy (Google us), for more information and to access free History games and lots more resources. Hope it helps. W.

1 of 22 lessons that together teach the entire Vietnam Conflict, 1945-1975. Ideal for all specifications. Each lesson comes with a range of activities, flash cards for revision and assessments and checks throughout. Almost all include a written assessment with guidance and activities that ask students to consider a range of different historical interpretations of the events. All resources needed for the lesson are self-contained within the PowerPoint with printer friendly versions ready to go. The lessons are as follows: Vietnam Overview and Timeline Colonial Vietnam General Giap Dien Bien Phu 1954 Geneva Accords 1954 Domino Theory & McCarthyism Ho Chi Minh The Vietcong Strategic Hamlet Program Overthrow of Diem 1963 Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964 Vietcong Tactics US Tactics Khe Sanh, Tet & Hue Nixon Doctrine & Vietnamization Opposition to the War – Media & Atrocities My Lai Massacre 1968 Opposition to the War – Students, Kent State and the Draft Support for the War – Hard Hats Peace and the Fall of Saigon 1975 Why did the US Fail? 80 Flashcards Wolsey Academy is a non-profit with every penny we make going to good causes, see our website, Wolsey Academy (Google us), for more information and to access free History games and lots more resources. Hope it helps. W.

This series of lessons will explore the rich and diverse history of Ukraine, from the ancient civilization of Kievan Rus to the present day. Students will learn about the country’s cultural and political heritage, including its struggles for independence and democracy, and its contributions to art, literature, and science. The 10 lessons are as follows: The emergence of the Kievan Rus in the 9th century The Mongol Invasion in the 12th century The Union of Lublin in 1569 The Cossack Uprising in the 17th century The Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century The Ukrainian War of Independence in 1917-1921 The Holodomor Famine of 1932-1933 The Chernobyl Disaster of 1986 The Orange Revolution of 2004 The Euromaidan protests in 2013-2014 In each 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 historical perspectives of the topic. A study of images and artifacts from the period and what they can teach us. Sort factors into order of relevance and significance 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. Tackle a stretch task to take your learning further These lessons have been created by Wolsey Academy. Each lesson has been taught to high-school students successfully. 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. Slava Ukraïni!