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.
Contents of pack:
PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Aims:
• Raise awareness of British values and individual liberty
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
• Identify your values.
• Identify British values.
• Take part in a quiz about British values to identify liberties and why we have them.
• Answer a question about British values.
• Make a poster about British values.
Plus:
• Task sheets
• Writing task
• Word search
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).
ontents of pack:
PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Aim
Understand what democracy is and how this works within society.
Learning outcomes
• Define different types of government
• Match key words with definitions
• Find and state examples of representative democracy
• Know that the UK is a constitutional monarchy and a representative democracy
• Know the different political parties in the UK and their policies
• Create a political party and policies
• Take part in an election
• Answer written questions about democracy
Plus:
• Task sheets
• Writing task
• Democracy word search
REALLY FOR UK AUDIENCE. WOULD NEED ADAPTION BY US TEACHERS.
Contents of pack:
PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Aims:
Understand that we are all unique, similar but different
Understand that different types of people are important to help us work together as a community
Learning outcomes:
Define the key word ‘stereotype’
Identify types of stereotyping
State how stereotyping can be dangerous or harmful
Show an awareness of how to challenge stereotypes
Seven interactive tasks about stereotyping
Plus:
• Task sheets
• Fact or opinion activity
• Writing task
• Stereotypes word search
Answers to task quizzes built into the presentation.
Could be useful for, but would need adapting, for US teachers.
The Court Structure
1. PowerPoint presentation and quiz on the court structure in England and Wales. (31 slides)
2. Work book with tasks on the court structure in England and Wales. (12 pages)
3. Two Word bases activities based on the court structure in England and Wales.
Criminal and Civil Law
1. PowerPoint presentation on why we have laws; how our lives are affected by law; and the differences between criminal and civil law. (23 slides)
2. Work book with tasks on criminal and civil law. (14 pages)
Contents of pack:
PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Aims:
• Identify how the rule of law protects and promotes the well-being and safety of citizens.
• Consider the link between rights and responsibilities.
• Explore how rights and responsibilities protect individuals and equality between groups.
Learning outcomes
• Discuss and describe what could happen if there were no laws.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the rule of law.
• Take part in a quiz about the rule of law.
• Define key terms about the rule of law; rights and responsibilities.
• Answer a written question about the rule of law.
• Make a Bill of Rights.
Plus:
• Task sheets
• Writing task
• Word search
British Values: Introduction
PowerPoint presentation:
• Identify the different parts of Britain
• Define ‘Britishness’
• Define ‘values’
• Identify British values
• Describe British values
• Know that sharing values doesn’t mean you must be British
• Make a British values guide
• Create a British values flag
British Values: Individual Liberty
PowerPoint presentation and work book introducing the idea of individual liberty, covering:
Aim:
• Raise awareness of British values and individual liberty
Learning outcomes
• Identify your values.
• Identify British values.
• Take part in a quiz about British values to identify liberties and why we have them.
• Answer a question about British values.
• Make a poster about British values.
According to Ofsted, 'fundamental British values' are:
• democracy.
• the rule of law.
• individual liberty.
• mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith.
Eights sets of work books/task sheets about the British values listed above.
PowerPoint presentations; quizzes and task sheets on the English legal system/court structure; criminal and civil law; the rule of law and parliamentary sovereignty.
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.
Shakespeare Day:
Two PowerPoint presentations that include:
Sections:
• Early life
• Married life
• The actor
• The writer
• The theatre in the 16th Century
• The language of Shakespeare
• Movies and TV based on Shakespeare
• His death
• His legacy
Learning outcomes:
Take part in quizzes to:
1. Identify key features of Shakespeare’s life and work
2. Identify the plays in which still well-known phrases are used by Shakespeare
3. Identify movies and TV programmes based on or influenced the work of Shakespeare
You say, we pay
Task sheets; quiz sheets and word search
British Values: Rule of Law/Parliamentary Sovereignty
Introduction to Rule of Law/Parliamentary Sovereignty
PowerPoint presentations and work book:
• Discuss and describe what could happen if there were no laws.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the rule of law.
• Take part in a quiz about the rule of law.
• Define key terms about the rule of law; rights and responsibilities.
• Answer a written question about the rule of law.
• Make a Bill of Rights.
GCSE History: Weimar Germany 1918-19: News Task Lesson
PowerPoint presentation and associated resources that cover Topic 1.1 of Edexcel’s modern depth study: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39.
Key Topic 1.1: The origins of the Republic: 1918–19:
The legacy of the First World War
The abdication of the Kaiser; the armistice and revolution, 1918–19
The setting up of the Weimar Republic
The strengths and weaknesses of the new Constitution
Students plan and take part in a press conference before producing a news item (print; video or podcast copy) on the new Weimar Republic.
Linked to Exexcel’s modern depth study paper, but suitable and adaptable for use for other awarding bodies’ specifications.
Video shows some of the resources I have made about this subject.
PowerPoint presentation and work book to mark the the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
1. PowerPoint presentation.
2. Work book:
Task 1: Find out about the events and chronology of the Battle of the Somme. Make a timeline of events.
Task 2: Answer these questions.
1. Describe the role of Commonwealth soldiers in the
Somme campaign and its effects on their communities and countries.
2. Account for the role of the Pals Battalions in the Battle of the Somme.
Task 3: Task 3: You are a soldier on the Somme on July 1 1916. You have been keeping a diary; add your comments for this day.
Task 4: Write a mini biography about one of the key figures involved in the Battle of the Somme, focusing on their role in it.
Task 5: Read the quotes. Which do you agree with? Based on the quotes write your own account of the first day at the Somme.
3.PowerPoint presentation about World War One: 1916 covering:
Who fought in World One?
1916: An introduction
Month by month timeline including:
• Conscription for British men
• Battle of Verdun
• Where is Verdun?
• Easter Uprising in Ireland
• Battle of Jutland
• Battle of the Somme
• Where is the Somme?
• Tanks and air raids used for the first time
• Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
• 1916: Imagine…The noise
• Shelled and shocked
British Values: Tolerance and Respect: Stereotypes
PowerPoint presentation and work book that covers:
Aims:
Understand that we are all unique, similar but different
Understand that different types of people are important to help us work together as a community
Learning outcomes:
Define the key word ‘stereotype’
Identify types of stereotyping
State how stereotyping can be dangerous or harmful
Show an awareness of how to challenge stereotypes
Seven interactive tasks about stereotyping
Revision: Russian Revolution 1917: Russian Roulette
Interactive PowerPoint game/quiz, with questions on the Russian Revolution 1917.
Groups choose a number (1-40) for the chance to answer questions and win the revolution.
Landing on a yellow hammer and sickle gains the group the chance to answer a question about the 1917 Russian Revolution.
But: They must to avoid the imperial crown. If a group does, it loses its rights to answer a question. If a group lands on three crowns, it is overthrown and is out the game.
The first team to reach 21 hammer and sickles are the revolutionary winners.
Included (as a Word document) are 40 questions with answers).
GCSE History: Weimar Germany 1918-20: Quiz
PowerPoint quiz on Germany 1918-20. Thirty questions, with multiple choice answers. Topic 1.1 of Edexcel’s modern depth study: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39.
Key Topic 1.1: The origins of the Republic: 1918–19:
The legacy of the First World War
The abdication of the Kaiser; the armistice and revolution, 1918–19
The setting up of the Weimar Republic
The strengths and weaknesses of the new Constitution
Linked to Exexcel’s modern depth study paper, but suitable and adaptable for use for other awarding bodies specifications.
Video shows slides from some of my Weimar resources.
The Holocaust: A Timeline
PowerPoint presentation; quiz and task sheets looking at the Holocaust chronologically from 1933 to 1948.
Could be useful for those studying the rise of Nazi Germany and/or the Holocaust.