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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Second part of Enquiry into The Black Death ask students to produce a newspaper front page consolidating their knowledge. Includes regular progress checks for observations and newspaper template already done. Use an A3 paper for best effect. See part one.

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

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

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.

Series of slides which ask students to write a tweet for a real historical character. Clearly transferable to fictional. Works well with all age groups and could be tweeted to a class hash tag ?

Here are some slides which could help present a topic. Students fill in the speech/thought bubbles. Can be adapted for a ' fun' lesson. Feedback please !

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.

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 !

Students write from the perspective of a person in a Victorian photograph. All included. Warning: Can be very moving.

Brief outline of lesson comparing winter 1963 with current weather. Students can draw on their experiences and interview those who remember The Big Freeze.

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.

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