This lesson is titled “What can we learn from The Mayflower?” This lesson begins with a Starter Activity in which the class are invited to decide which one of 5 statements about The Mayflower is not true (there WAS a baby born on the ship and named after the ocean!). There are then 6 slides of background information to allow teacher exposition, and the lesson title is introduced along with aims and graduated objectives (all will/most will/some will). Students then create a pop-up ship using the instructions given, before reviewing 19 artifacts and inferences. The class then present these before the lesson plenary in which they peer assess using the 5-criteria rubric. I hope your students get as much from this lesson as mine do. This lesson was written for high achieving high school students but can work for slightly younger students too. I’d be so grateful if you can follow me and find time to add a positive review if you enjoyed this lesson. If you do, let me know by emailing me at danguiney78@gmail.com and I’ll send you any extra lesson from the site totally free of charge as my way of saying thank you, as well as adding you to my mailing list for freebies and great deals. Wishing you a terrific day. Dan @ Dan’s History Highway

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see other’s points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This lesson is titled “What really happened to the lost colony of Roanoke?” This lesson begins with a Starter Activity in which the class are invited to discuss what they would think if they were John White in 1590, returning to the empty colony. There are then 5 slides of background information to allow teacher exposition and the lesson title is introduced along with aims and graduated objectives (all will/most will/some will). The main activity is a 20-piece card sort whereby students divide information into three different scenarios (they assimilated with Native Americans, they were attacked, and that they drowned trying to sail back to England). From this they then create a 3-5 minute TV news report explaining what they feel happened using the evidence they have handled. The class then present these before the lesson plenary in which they are asked to vote on the most likely of the 3 scenarios by raising 1, 2, or 3 fingers. I hope your students get as much from this History Mystery as mine do. This lesson was written for high achieving high school students. **I’d be so grateful if you can follow me and find time to add a positive review if you enjoyed this lesson. If you do, let me know by emailing me at danguiney78@gmail.com and I’ll send you any extra lesson from the site totally free of charge as my way of saying thank you. ** Wishing you a terrific day.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see other’s points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This lesson is titled “What was life like in Jamestown?” The lesson begins with a true or false starter activity to introduce the topic. The Key Question is then introduced along with aims and graduated objectives (all will/most will/some will). There are then 9 slides of background information to allow for teacher exposition. The class then begin their main task in which they play Snakes & Ladders. As they do so they make mind maps on food & farming, Native Americans, work & daily life, and disease & health (they are color-coded). There is then a fill in the gaps activity to test knowledge learned. They are then prepared for the written task. Aims and objectives are revisited. The lesson concludes with a plenary in which students come to the board and write answers on the speech bubble diagram. I hope your students get as much out of this lesson as mine always do. **I’d be so grateful if you can find time to add a positive review and follow me if you enjoyed this lesson. As a way of saying thank you email me at danguiney78@gmail.com and let me know any one other lesson you’d like from the store and I’ll send it free of charge and add you to my mailing list, so you’ll get to hear from me once in a while about freebies and great lessons. Wishing you a terrific day.

King Tutankhamun Collaborative Art Project – Ancient Egypt Activity for Middle & High School Turn your classroom into an Ancient Egyptian art studio with this King Tutankhamun Collaborative Drawing Project! This engaging, no-prep group activity lets students work together to recreate a stunning large-scale portrait of King Tut, the legendary boy pharaoh of Egypt. With 20 printable pages, each student contributes a section of the final masterpiece, making it perfect for history, art, or world civilizations lessons. What’s Included? 20-Page Collaborative Drawing – Each student completes one section of the portrait, creating an eye-catching Ancient Egypt classroom display when assembled. No-Prep, Print & Go – Just print the pages, distribute them, and let students paint, color, or shade their sections. Cross-Curricular Learning – Perfect for combining Ancient Egypt history lessons with visual arts projects. Works with Any Medium – Use watercolors, colored pencils, markers, or crayons—whatever fits your classroom best. Perfect for Group Work – Encourages teamwork, creativity, and collaboration, making it great for history projects, bulletin board displays, and interactive learning. Why This Ancient Egypt Activity is a Must-Have Hands-On & Interactive – Gets students actively engaged in learning about Ancient Egypt while fostering creativity. Supports Art & History Curriculum – Ideal for teachers covering Ancient Civilizations, Pharaohs, and World History. Perfect for Middle & High School – Works in classrooms, homeschool settings, and distance learning. Creates a Stunning Classroom Display – A beautiful Ancient Egypt-themed bulletin board or hallway showcase. Who Is This For? History & Art Teachers looking for a fun, collaborative project Middle & High School Students studying Ancient Egypt, King Tut, or Pharaohs Educators who need a no-prep, print-and-go group activity Bring King Tutankhamun to Life in Your Classroom Make learning about Ancient Egypt engaging and interactive with this King Tut Collaborative Art Project! Whether you’re teaching World History, Art, or Ancient Civilizations, this is the perfect addition to your curriculum. Download today and watch your students create an unforgettable masterpiece. Bonus: Get a Free Lesson If you leave a review, you can choose any free lesson from my store as a thank-you. How to Claim Your Freebie: Browse my store and pick any free lesson you’d like. Email me at danguiney78@gmail.com with the subject line “Freebie” and let me know which free lesson you’d like. I’ll send it over—and you’ll be added to my exclusive mailing list for occasional freebies and special offers. Your support helps me create more high-quality resources, and I love giving back to teachers who make learning exciting for students.

The title of this lesson is “Gold rush - What was life like for a ‘49er?” The lesson begins with a Starter Activity in which students are invited to guess which of a series of statements about the Gold Rush is false. This then leads into the Key Question and aims and objectives (which are graduated by all will, most will, and some will). There are then 7 slides of background information to enable teacher exposition before students begin the main task of placing up to 24 cards chronologically to tell a narrative of a day in the life of a miner in this period. They then place these onto a rollercoaster chart to explain highs and lows. Aims and objectives are revisited, and the lesson concludes with a voting plenary as well as an exit task (they are given some aluminium foil as they exist – 10% will have gold candy in and the rest leave empty-handed). This lesson was written for high achieving high school students, and I hope yours learn as much from it as much as mine. **I’d be so grateful if you can find time to add a positive review if you enjoyed this lesson and to follow me. As a way of saying thank you email me to let me know (danguiney78@gmail.com) and I’ll send you any free lesson of your choice from the site, as well as adding you to my email list so you’ll get to hear about great freebies and lessons. ** Wishing you a terrific day.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This thirty-nine-page pack is the incredibly detailed and complete set of notes I have written for my students. It is basically an entire course on the I.B. Paper 1 Move to Global War in one pack! Notes are broken down into the following sections: How can we explain Japanese expansion in the move to Global War? How did Japan move to Global War? How did Italy fit into inter-war European geopolitics? Why was the international response to the Abyssinian Crisis so weak? How and why did German foreign policy develop? I am confident you will love this resource because there is nothing on the Internet which I have found which offers the same level of breadth and detail on this topic. Your students will find the notes supremely useful and they will help them achieve examination success.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan After reading through the background information students sift through the twenty four incredibly detailed evidence cards provided to create columns which show how power, politics and people explain the reasons Caesar was killed on the Ides of March. This is an ideal task to help scaffold student responses to a piece of extended written work or timed assessment. I hope your students enjoy this lesson as much as mine do.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This forty six-page pack is the incredibly detailed and complete set of notes I have written for my students. It is basically an entire course on inter-war USA in one pack! Suitable for G.C.S.E, AP, A Level, and I.B. students. Notes are broken down into the following sections: What was the impact of the First World War on the USA? What were American attitudes towards immigrants? Prohibition: causes, events and consequences How did the US economy change? How did society and culture change? What was life like during the Great Depression and how did Herbert Hoover react? Why did FDR win the Nineteenth Thirty Two US election? How did Roosevelt’s New Deal change America? Who opposed the New Deal and why? I am confident you will love this resource because there is nothing on the Internet which I have found which offers the same level of breadth and detail on this topic. Your students will find the notes supremely useful and they will help them achieve examination success.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan My students love playing this to introduce or recap subject knowledge. Simply cut out and laminate the forty-two dominoes and ask students to match the question up with the correct answer. I hope your students enjoy the activity as much as mine do. Works really well as a starter, plenary or stand-alone activity.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This forty three-page pack is the incredibly detailed and complete set of notes I have written for my students. It is basically an entire course on Twentieth Century in one pack! Suitable for G.C.S.E, AP, A Level, and I.B. students. Notes are broken down into the following sections: What were the causes and events of the revolution? How was China ruled after the revolution? How significant was the May 4th movement? Why did Mao triumph? What changes did Mao make to the economy? What was life like in China under Mao? How successful were Deng’s reforms? Why were people killed on June 4? I am confident you will love this resource because there is nothing on the Internet which I have found which offers the same level of breadth and detail on this topic. Your students will find the notes supremely useful and they will help them achieve examination success.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This 36-page pack is the incredibly detailed and complete set of notes I have written for my students. It is basically an entire course on Stalin’s Russia in one pack! Suitable for 16+ including GCSE, AP, A Level, and IB students. Notes are broken down into the following sections: How did Stalin come to power by 1928? How successful were Stalin’s economic policies? How did Stalin control the Soviet Union through purges? How did Stalin control the Soviet Union through the cult of personality? *What was the impact of the Second World War on the Soviet Union? I am confident you will love this resource because there is nothing on the Internet which I have found which offers the same level of breadth and detail on this topic. Your students will find the notes supremely useful and they will help them achieve examination success.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan Students are given character cards, some pro and some anti dropping the bomb ranging from Einstein and Churchill to Hirihito and Stalin. In groups each side then works through 36 cards which are teeming with precisely selected historical detail, some of which support the dropping of the A-bomb and some of which argue against it. This activity prepares students exceptionally well for a debate about one of the most keenly argued historical topics - the dropping of the atomic bombs - and can also be used to help students structure an extended written response to this question. The cards are colour coded for students who require additional differentiation. This is one of my best lessons year on year and I hope it gets your students talking, evaluating, and arguing - especially in this nuclear world which we live in today.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan After reading through the background information students sift through the 21 evidence cards provided to create columns which show how skill, luck, mistakes, and technology explain the outcome of the Battle of Hastings. This is an ideal task to help scaffold student responses to a piece of extended written work or timed assessment. Cards are colour-coded for differentiation.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This activity includes twenty detailed cards which are shaded to show the political, social and economic impact of the Black Death. Students acquire exceptionally precise and carefully selected historical detail and learn about the impact on salaries, the creation of the British pub, and the growth of the perfume industry as well as the many negative aspects of the disease. Its one of the lessons my students really enjoy because they get the opportunity to question previously held assumptions which in turn gives their ability to argue a case greater texture and resonance. I really hope you enjoy this as much as I do - makes for a great debate preparation task as well as a precursor to an extended piece of assessed written analysis.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan I’ve designed this lesson as a History mystery to get your students to really engage with evidence handling and to think like Historians. I am confident that the level of detail and precision in my resources is much stronger than you will find elsewhere (because of the amount of pride I take in my own historical research). During this series of activities students read through background information before siphoning through 16 detailed evidence cards about Suffragette activity in the horse race known as the 1913 Epsom Derby. The class then complete a History mystery grid based on their findings. I hope you enjoy this lesson as much as my students do! It is an excellent lesson in helping students comb through evidence to form historical interpretations.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan Over 200 revision flash cards based on key people and events from Weimar and Nazi Germany. Simply print, cut out, and fold. These took me forever to create but they are my number one ‘go to’ revision tool for my exam classes and have had wholly positive feedback. Also works extremely well as an end of unit activity whereby students can use the cards to create a visual mind-map / layout of the course. Give them to your students before exams to ensure their subject knowledge is spot on!

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This is one of my most popular lesson activities. Here students will collate information to both sides of the historiographical debate and make links between their factors to create a visual map which they can use for an extended piece of written analysis. I am especially proud of the level of precision and detail in the historical content here as this is a niche area of mine formed whilst working for the Royal British Legion on the Somme a few years ago. The 60 cards are broken down and colour-coordinated for differentiation purposes into personality, tactics, technology, and politics in order to promote a factor-led response. I really hope you enjoy this activity and that your students get as much from it as mine do.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This resource features a starter in which students compare two sources on life in 1930s USA using a VENN diagram. The PowerPoint then provides some background information before inviting students to break down 22 factor-led thought bubbles into columns (these are colour-coded into social, economic, cultural and political). Students then use this information to create a written account of what life was like before concluding with a fun singing plenary. I really enjoy delivering this lesson (partly because Hoover is my favourite US President!) and hope you find it useful!

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan This is one of my most detailed and most enjoyable lessons. Students are issued with a suspect character card of their own (there are 21 including Druitt, Kosminski, and Chapman) and then have to siphon their way through 13 very detailed pieces of evidence to find information that suggests they might be the notorious serial killer. For example, Polish butcher John Pizer might argue that he is local (Evidence A), has an expert knowledge of anatomy (B), and came from Poland where there were a large number of Jews (Evidence L). Students then present their cases and the class vote on who makes the best case. This is an excellent lesson designed to engage students and get them to question evidence, structure, and present their findings. I hope you enjoy it as much as my students do.

“My purpose is to engage students in dialogue so they can see others’ points of view – in a world that needs this more than ever. I do this by sharing lessons on this site which connect students with the past and inspire critical thinking. Please read below to find details about this one.” Dan My students love this project! In this 14 page pack you will find background information on the Industrial Revolution as well as information cards on 20 different inventions ranging from John Kay’s Flying Shuttle through to James Watt’s Steam Engine. Students need to research their invention and make a case for its historical significance using specific criteria (durability, importance at the time, number effected etc). The class then present to the Dragon’s (for me its usually SLT). This mini-project really brings the past to life and is one of the highlights of my teaching career. I hope you enjoy it as much as my students do.