I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
Five different activities that work on the ability to use timelines in different ways as well as considering centuries and the years that form each century.
Included is:
A timeline labelled with BC and AD
A blank timeline
An activity that requires events from history to be sorted on to a timeline
An activity that requires events from history including dates and centuries to be sorted on a timeline
An activity that requires periods of time to be marked on a timeline
An activity that requires periods of time and events within these periods of time to be marked on a timeline
An activity sheet with questions and answers linked to centuries.
A planning overview resource to support the teaching of Science, History and Geography across KS2. Every KS2 topic is included with each planning overview following the same structure:
Knowledge children must know - This provides a minimum level of what is expected for children to know by the end of the unit and provides consistency across classes. This also helps ensure progression and cohesion between topics.
Ways of knowing they know - Ideas for checking understanding and knowing that children have learnt the minimum level of knowledge.
Vocabulary - Key vocabulary across the unit that children will need to understand
Other links - Links to other subjects and ideas for investigations (science) for each topic
The geography then runs slightly differently in that instead of cross-curricular links, it highlights which areas of the curriculum you are meeting.
These sheets help start the planning process by making it clear what children should know by the end for staff to then use and link together in a sequence of learning. This then feeds through KS2 as it ensures a minimum level of knowledge that supports progression and cohesion across the curriculum.
There are missing elements such as local fieldwork for geography which needs teaching and some match local needs for our context so these would need changing to match your local area. Because of mixed classes, the Geography and History work over two years though with an additional history of choice added each year though this could be changed to fit single year groups.
A PowerPoint that focuses on informing children about Holocaust Memorial Day. Included is a range of information, maps to show particular points e.g. where the Soviet Union was and who is there now as well as how far the camps spread. There are also then videos taken from Newsround for children to watch to deepen their understanding and provide them the opportunity to hear survivors talk.
A simple knowledge organiser for World War 1 that introduces some of the major countries involved, some of the key events and dates and a map of 1914 Europe.
An activity that requires children to find some of the European countries involved in the First World War. There are two sets of differentiated maps, with a set of blank maps of 1914 Europe and a set of blank maps of modern day Europe. Also included is a labelled map of 1914 Europe to support children. This is a useful activity for beginning to look at the First World War as it gives children the opportunity to explore countries involved and consider the proximity to one another whilst providing the chance to see how much the European map has changed in the past 100 years.
A sample of the following resource:
A fact file about Tutankhamun that is also a reading comprehension. This includes three differentiated worksheets with 11 questions each and answers included to test children's comprehension knowledge as well as learning about Tutankhamun at the same time.
The full resource can be found at:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/tutankhamun-reading-comprehension-11756740
A fact file about Tutankhamun that is also a reading comprehension. This includes three differentiated worksheets with 11 questions each and answers included to test children's comprehension knowledge as well as learning about Tutankhamun at the same time.
Three different activities based on learning about the Vikings. These include:
An activity that gives children the opportunity to create their own Viking shield. Included is a design template that includes the iron boss on already and two pages of design ideas that might help children decide what they want to do.
A blank map activity that can be used to get children to show where Vikings originate from as well as where they settled. Children can then map out the potential journey the Vikings took to get to the various places through the use of arrows. Included is a map of Europe showing where the Vikings settled and raided to support children.
Activities that can be used when teaching the Vikings in KS2. Included is a map activity that requires children to colour the map based on Danelaw and a set of questions that then finishes with a mini-essay style question where children have to apply their knowledge to respond to a statement.
A collection of schemes of work and resources for KS2 History in one easy place.
Included so far are schemes of work for:
Maya
Industrial Revolution (Combined with Geography)
Battle of Britain
Local Study of Nottingham Castle
Skills sessions
The Interwar Years
Also included are assessment grids that work as best fit and a range of fact files/ knowledge organisers that can be stuck in books at the start of a topic.
An activity that gives children the opportunity to create their own Viking shield. Included is a design template that includes the iron boss on already and two pages of design ideas that might help children decide what they want to do.
A help mat for writing paragraphs in response to questions, following the PEAK paragraph model with an example and different phrases included that children may want to include in their own writing.
Six lessons that focus on the geography of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Included are all the resources needed to run the lessons including the presentations, differentiated resources and unit of work planning.
The third of six lessons that focus on the geography of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Included are all the resources needed to run the lesson including the presentation, differentiated resources and unit of work planning.
This lesson focuses on identifying change in Nottingham over history and why this change occured.