Takes students through key castle types -asks them to decide which is better and why ? Use with labelling activity. Great for lower ability but adapt for higher.

Students compare two historic eruptions.Create fact files, watch clips, present Venn diagram. Lasts two lessons.

Ideal for people who use Powerpoint. Map pins included. Right click to edit and move. Could be lollies for rewards ?

Roald Dahl’s GENESIS & CATASTROPHE. Some questions attached. Takes 1/2 hour.

A lesson based on material and ideas on the National Archive site. Students examine documents from the time and complete their own investigation into the plot and its outcomes.

Lesson asks students to choose and compare between jobs NOW and THEN. Utterly gross jobs, utterly interested students.

Template to help students keeps a daily tab on their lives throughout this defining moment in our modern history. Lesson to accompany this journal. Students simply add as they progress and can copy and paste items they think will be of interest in the future.

Students read first hand account of Black Death in Italy. Students answer questions. Answers on slides and photocopy.

lesson suitable for most year groups. A brief clip on the origins of WW1 and a song to complete plus discussion.

Slides from POWERPOINT for the creation of a FAMILY TREE. Keeps them busy and fosters conversation with fellow isolators.

Students organise and date various things along a river of time in the classroom. You could bring in quite a lot of the objects yourself or simply print the pictures. For each object there is an info slide which reveals the date at the end. Date cards are also ready for you on the last slide. This will be the best lesson you teach in a long while.

Students read a source from contemporary witness to the lifestyle of Marie-Antoinette. Four tasks, homework and pictures. Mais, Oui !

Lesson asks students to decide which jobs were the worst to do and to compare them with modern day worst jobs. Gross jobs, engrossed students.

students hear an interview with a survivor of the Titanic sinking. They create their own notes which will form the basis of the rest of the lesson/subsequent lesson. The bare bones are here.

Lesson consolidates information and questions how this marked the end of Feudalism. Lower level but adaptable. See part two.

Lesson requires students to work together as ambassadors and complete a 3 part investigation into some aspects of the queen. Stick the worksheets in the corridor or room and let them investigate. £ areas are, childhood, attitude to marriage and what she looked like.

Project/lesson on how things might have been if events had taken a different turn. Challenging and fun.\nBasic worksheet included. Adaptable for all Eras !

Lesson uses a song to explore war attitudes. Gap filling listening exercise included.

Lesson asks this question and wonders if humanity deserves a second chance after our present record. Worksheet included. Can easily be adapted to different levels, cultures etc. Feedback please !

Revision exercise on the main events of 1066. Students create newspaper reports. Print out on A3 paper for best results.