Interactive and adaptable PowerPoint presentations; Word and PDF resources useful for group tutorials; assemblies; Citizenship and special days.
Created by experienced teacher in:
Learning Difficulties/SEN
Entry Level provision
Citizenship
Graduate/post graduate qualifications in History; Politics; Law; Education and SEN.
Interactive and adaptable PowerPoint presentations; Word and PDF resources useful for group tutorials; assemblies; Citizenship and special days.
Created by experienced teacher in:
Learning Difficulties/SEN
Entry Level provision
Citizenship
Graduate/post graduate qualifications in History; Politics; Law; Education and SEN.
Olympics Games
Contents:
PowerPoint presentations and quizzes
Learning outcomes:
• Know key Olympic symbols
• Know key facts about the Rio Olympics
• Know the venues that will host events
• Identify the five continents will be represented at Rio
• Identify 55 of the countries that will compete at the games
• Recall 25 of the athletes who won medals at the London Olympics
• Answer 10 questions about previous Olympic Games
Rio 2016 work book Tasks:
1. Imagine you are a journalist who is covering the Olympic Games in Rio. Write a report about your first day in Brazil.
2. Produce a fact sheet about the Rio Olympics. It should include information on:
• The host city
• Venues
• Medal events
• The athletes
3. Label the South American countries
4. Write a mini biography about one of the key figures involved in a past Olympic Games.
History: Berlin Olympics 1936 - 80 years on
Contents:
PowerPoint presentation about the Berlin Olympics in August 1936.
Includes slides on the stars of the games; the modern nature of the games; the Nazis and the Olympics; football controversy and a quiz about the ’36 Olympics.
Berlin Olympics work book.
Includes tasks on writing a mini biography of one of the key figures involved in the ’36 games; answering written questions about the Berlin Olympics and writing a report as a journalist working in Berlin in August 1936.
History: Ancient Greek Olympics – 776BC- 393AD
1. PowerPoint presentation about ancient Greek Olympics
2. PowerPoint quiz on the ancient Greek Olympics
3. Ancient Greece Olympics work book – Five tasks and word search.
1: Berlin Olympics 1936 - 80 years on
Contents:
1(a). PowerPoint presentation about the Berlin Olympics in August 1936.
Includes slides on the stars of the games; the modern nature of the games; the Nazis and the Olympics; football controversy and a quiz about the ’36 Olympics.
1(b). Berlin Olympics work book.
Includes tasks on writing a mini biography of one of the key figures involved in the ’36 games; answering written questions about the Berlin Olympics and writing a report as a journalist working in Berlin in August 1936.
2: Olympics Deal or No Deal; Based on the TV game show, this is an interactive PowerPoint based quiz.
There are 20 multiple choices questions about the Olympics Games.
Players need to:
• Choose a numbered box and pick an answer to a question.
• Click on an answer and, if right, the answer will go green.
• Click next and the banker will make a points offer.
• Deal, and they keep all the points, and someone else gets to play.
• Don’t deal and they play on.
• If answered incorrectly, they’re out of the game and lose all the points
• It at the end teams are level, there’s a tie breaker to decide who wins
Two PowerPoint presentations
1. Based on the BBC programme Pointless, an adaptable and interactive quiz with 16 categories of questions.
One hundred people were surveyed.
Your aim is to find the answers with the lowest points.
If you give an incorrect answer, your team will score the maximum 100 points.
Hopefully, you can find a pointless answer somewhere on the board.
Categories:
• Football
• Soaps
• Super Heroes
• Music
• Flags
• History
• Logos
• TV
• Geography
• Olympics
• Game Shows
• Comedy
• Songs
• European Union
• Religion
• Countries
79 slides in total
2. Summer Quiz
Seven rounds:
• The Solar System
• The Olympics
• Geography
• History
• Summer
• TV
• Sport
93 slides in total
European Union: Brexit: What Now?
Brexited; What Now?
1. PowerPoint presentation about the decision of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
It looks at what might happen to the UK economy; the United Kingdom itself and immigration, as well as the ways in which the country could leave the European Union.
2. European Union: Brexit: What Now? Work Book
Task1: Write a mini biography about one of the key figures involved in the referendum campaign, focusing on their role in it.
Task 2: Imagine you were a reporter in Manchester just before the result of the referendum left.
Write an article about that historic night.
Task 3: Answer a set of written questions.
Task 4: Read the following quotes from historians about the UK’s exit from the EU.
Which do you agree with? Based on the quotes write your own account of Britain’s future following the result of the referendum.
The Vote
Task 5: Study the date shown.
Make a bar chart or pie chart of the results of first the national results and then the regional results.
Find out the results for the area in which you live.
3. PowerPoint presentation looking back at the last referendum in 1975 and comparing it with the 2016 campaign.
British Values: Brexit or Bremain: The European Union Introduction; History; Institutions and Referendum Bundle
1. European Union Introduction: PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
Demonstrate an awareness of:
• What the EU is and when it began
• Who’s in the EU
• When the UK joined the EU and about the 1975 referendum
• What the EU is for and what it does
• Know about the Euro and the EU flag
Demonstrate knowledge about the EU by taking part in a quiz
Produce a fact sheet about a member state of the European Union
Highlight; colour and label EU member states
Solve the EU anagrams
Plus: task sheets; quiz sheets and word search activity
In total:
84 slides/pages
20 slide quiz on the EU
2. EU Referendum: PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
• Demonstrate an awareness of the European Union
• Demonstrate an awareness of the reasons why there is a referendum being held in the UK in June.
• Write a balanced argument, supporting reasons for and against Britain’s proposed withdrawal from the European Union.
• What would you do? Decide and state how you would vote and why.
Plus: task sheets; quiz sheets and word search activity
In total 60 slides/pagers
12 slide quiz on the EU
3. EU History and Institutions: PowerPoint presentation and quiz about the history and institutions of the European Union.
Editable work book on the history and institutions of the European Union.
Task 1: Make a timeline of what you think are the key dates in the history of the European Union. Compare and discuss your choices with others in your group.
Task 2: Answer questions about the history and institutions of the European Union.
Task 3: Fill in the blanks in the text to record information about the history of the European Union.
Task 4: Research Task: Treaties are the primary source of EU law. Find out when these treaties were signed and why they were important in the history of the European Union.
Task 5: Identify these key figures in the history of the European Union and write a short account of their role in the history of the European Union. (Winston Churchill; Robert Schuman and Charles de Gaulle.)
4. European Union Deal No Deal; Based on the TV game show, this in an interactive PowerPoint based quiz with 20 multiple choice questions
5. Bringo! Two sets of 10 Editable bingo cards showing the member states of the EU. One set are already labelled; the other set is not.
British Values: Brexit or Bremain: The EU: History; Institutions and Referendum Bundle
1. EU Referendum: PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
• Demonstrate an awareness of the European Union
• Demonstrate an awareness of the reasons why there is a referendum being held in the UK in June.
• Write a balanced argument, supporting reasons for and against Britain’s proposed withdrawal from the European Union.
• What would you do? Decide and state how you would vote and why.
Plus: task sheets; quiz sheets and word search activity
In total 60 slides/pagers
12 slide quiz on the EU
1. EU History and Institutions: PowerPoint presentation and quiz about the history and institutions of the European Union.
2. Editable work book on the history and institutions of the European Union.
Task 1: Make a timeline of what you think are the key dates in the history of the European Union. Compare and discuss your choices with others in your group.
Task 2: Answer questions about the history and institutions of the European Union.
Task 3: Fill in the blanks in the text to record information about the history of the European Union.
Task 4: Research Task: Treaties are the primary source of EU law. Find out when these treaties were signed and why they were important in the history of the European Union.
Task 5: Identify these key figures in the history of the European Union and write a short account of their role in the history of the European Union. (Winston Churchill; Robert Schuman and Charles de Gaulle.)
3. European Union Deal No Deal; Based on the TV game show, this in an interactive PowerPoint based quiz with 20 multiple choice questions
Players need to:
• Choose a numbered box and pick an answer to a question.
• Click on an answer and, if right, the answer will go green.
• Click next and the banker will make a points offer.
• Deal, and they keep all the points, and someone else gets to play.
• Don’t deal and they play on.
• If answered incorrectly, they’re out of the game and lose all the points
• It at the end teams are level, there’s a tie breaker to decide who wins
4. Bringo! Two sets of 10 Editable bingo cards showing the member states of the EU. One set are already labelled, the other set is not.
PowerPoint presentation; activities and task sheets on the Titanic disaster of April 14-15 1912.
• Sections:
• Construction
• White Star Line
• Captain Smith
• Maiden voyage
• On board
• Titanic quiz: 1
• A Night to Remember
• Third Class Life on the Titanic
• Titanic facts
• Titanic Now
• Timeline
• Titanic quiz: 2
• Who was to blame?
• Titanic: Impact
• Titanic: Truth or myth?
Learning outcomes:
• Identify the main reasons why the Titanic sank.
• Analyse the main reasons why the Titanic sank.
• Evaluate which reason was the most important in causing the Titanic to sink.
• Identify reasons why so many people died on the Titanic
• Analyse the most important cause of people losing their lives on the Titanic.
• Evaluate the main reason so many people died on the Titanic.
Tasks:
Task 1: In a group, discuss and decide who was responsible for Titanic sinking.
Task 1/2: Take part in a quiz about Titanic.
Task 3: Answer a question about Titanic
Task 4: Write a news story reporting the sinking of Titanic.
Two PowerPoint presentations, with activities and task sheets, remembering and celebrating the two international football tournaments that have taken place in England: The World Cup in 1966 and Euro ’96.
1. World Cup 1966: PowerPoint presentation including quiz
Task and quiz sheets
Cross curricular activities
Task 1: Identify the teams that competed in the 1966 World Cup
Task 2: Complete a fact sheet about one of the English cities that hosted the tournament
Task 3: Complete a fact sheet about one of the nations that took part in the tournament
Task 4: Create a storyboard of some of the events that happened during the World Cup.
Produce a news bulletin or report about one of the events that happened during the World Cup.
Write an account of the controversy over whether England and West Germany rigged the tournament.
Why was the North Korean win over Italy such a shock?
Task 5: Research what other countries have chosen for their World Cup mascots? What is the mascot for the 2016 Euros? Design a mascot for the Euros.
2. Remembering Euro ‘96
Contents of pack:
PowerPoint presentation including quiz
Task and quiz sheets
Cross curricular activities
Task 1: Match the names of the Euro teams to where they are on the map of Europe
Task 2: Find information and complete a fact sheet about one of the English cities that hosted the Euros
Task 3. Find information and complete a fact sheet about one of the countries that took part in ’96
Linked to British values: Tolerance; tolerance; respect; diversity; rule of law; democracy and freedom of choice.
PowerPoint presentation including:
Sections:
• What is VE Day?
• What was World War Two?
• Who fought in World War Two?
• How many died in World War Two?
• 8 May: VE Day
• 1945: British Values
• VE Day quiz: What do you know about VE Day?
Learning outcomes:
• Identify how VE Day reflects British values
• Take part in a quiz to demonstrate knowledge of VE Day and the Second World War
• Answer a written questions VE Day; the Second World War and British values
Task sheets; quiz sheets and word search.
PowerPoint presentation and quiz about VJ Day
Fruit: A bundle of activities about basic fruits
1. Based on the BBC TV programme A Question of Sport, PowerPoint game about basic fruits (16 slides)
2. ‘You Say...’ game, good for encouraging speaking and listening; working in a team; respecting taking rights, teams have to describe a series of fruits without using key words.
3. Fruit bingo: A set of editable bingo cards (6 cards, each showing 6 fruits).
4. Fruit dominoes: 48 editable fruit dominoes cards.
Money: Coins and Notes
PowerPoint presentations; SMARTBoard presentations and task sheets to introduce or recap recognizing UK and Euro coins and notes, as well as a look at UK old money.
A bundle of activities about British values.
All resources are editable.
1. British Values: An Introduction
PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
• Identify the different parts of Britain
• Define ‘Britishness’
• Define ‘values’
• Identify British values
• Describe British values
• Know that sharing values doesn’t mean you have to be British
• Make a British values guide
• Create a British values flag
Task sheets; quiz sheets and word search.
2. British values bingo cards: Seven editable bingo cards, each showing images that represent the diversity of Britain.Can be used to identify by name or theme and encourage and what they are.
3. British values dominoes cards: 32 editable
dominoes cards. 32 editable dominoes cards, each showing images that represent the diversity of Britain.
Can be used to identify by name or theme and encourage discussion and answers about British values and what they are.
4. British values workbook:
• We all live in Britain, what do you think British values are? List some British values.
• Describe how your school promote individual liberty; tolerance and respect?
• Define ‘extremism’ and ‘tolerance’. Add examples of extremism and tolerance you know about.
• Record information about the diverse celebrations that take place in Britain.
• Find out about, record information and tell other people about a famous person not born in Britain, or who parents were not born in Britain.
• Answer written questions about British values.
• Find out about, record information and tell other people about a famous person not born in Britain, or who parents were not born in Britain.
• Answer written questions about British values.
5. What’s more British than – You say game. PowerPoint Speaking and listening activity (25 slides).
PowerPoint presentations and quiz (20 questions) about Shrove Tuesday Lent.
Beginning on Ash Wednesday after Shrove Tuesday, Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. This year Lent starts on March 1.
Could be useful to introduce or recap the topics of Shrove Tuesday and Lent in the run up to Easter.
Six PowerPoint presentations.
Quizzes:
• Easter quiz
• A Big Quiz
• Geography quiz
• Logos quiz
• Super heroes quiz
• 2015: Quiz of the year
Over 200 slides, with quiz questions covering e.g. history; geography; logos; world maps; Easter; movies; TV; general knowledge and super heroes.
Would need adaptation for US learners.
Team Building Challenges (Bundle)
PowerPoint based activities and Word task sheets.
A set of tried and tested team building challenges that can all be carried out indoors or outdoors:
• Treasure Hunt Quiz
• ABC of Me
• Fab Flags
• The Egg Drop
• The Fashion Show
• Human Bingo
• Water Carry
• Build a Paper Tower