www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
KS3 Slavery to Civil Rights : 13 lessons (at least 16 hours of content) following the complete story of discovery of the New World and start of the slave trade to the complete Civil Rights fight and Martin Luther King. Also includes a cover lesson and additional source question pack which could be set as homework.
Lessons include: Black history overview, exploration of the new world, slavery introduction, triangle trade, middle passage, plantations, abolition, underground railroad with Harriet Tubman, Jim Crow, KKK, Emmett Till, civil rights, Martin Luther King and more.
There is easily enough material for a whole term - you may find some of the lessons last more than one hour.
The unit was originally taught to Year 8, but has had extra challenges added to suit it to Year 9 over the last year too. Every lesson is differentiated to at least three levels of challenge, has source analysis tasks, peer or mini-assessments, clip tasks with differentiated questioning, essay or literacy focus tasks for GCSE skills prep. This is inclusive of all the standards you’d expect - starters, plenaries, measurable LOs, well presented Powerpoints and easy to follow worksheets with instructions.
Safer Internet Day resource pack - suitable for upper KS2 or lower KS3. The pack includes a PowerPoint full of information as well as activities, a scavenger hunt, literacy and clip tasks and measurable LOs. It is designed to last an hour and everything is editable, well-differentiated and all information included, so you can just pick it up and go.
The slides shown are just a preview sample.
This bundle contains a variety of lessons and activities for your to complete with your students during the Christmas term, or on your last day for some educational fun before you break up.
Included:
A History of Christmas lesson - this lesson covers where our traditions today have come from.
History Christmas Quiz - a fun and silly quiz covering the most popular aspects of the KS3 curriculum
An Egyptian themed end-of-term escape room. Can you crack the codes and solve the mystery of the lost scroll of Ra?
A British History themed escape room, covering 1066 to the present day.
All resources are editable, fun and easy to pick up and use.
20 hours of our best 20th Century History lessons. All 20 downloads contain fully resourced lesson packs - all with thoroughly differentiated PowerPoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenaries, LOs to three levels throughout.
The lessons are suitable for KS3 or 4, with some having been used for KS4. All are amendable and editable. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by two experienced History teachers from UK secondary schools. All lessons have been highly-rated by Tes users.
Each download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets you need. Lesson differentiated/structured/scaffolded so that all your students can access the information and progress.
The lessons are fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, source analysis/think pair share tasks, written comprehension tasks, mini plenaries, at least one exam style question and at least one plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
Suitable for KS3 and easy to adapt.
Please see our other resources in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
Black History Month resource pack - an assembly, a quiz and 3 hours (more just added!) of lessons which could be used over PSHCE, Tutor Time or Drop Down Days - two giving an overview of Black history up until the present day and one focusing on the famous speech of Martin Luther King.
Over 20 hours of very detailed and well differentiated history lessons with a focus on 20th century conflict. This would be ideal for an upper KS3 group.
There is enough content here for one term of history lessons and the bundle includes three-way differentiated PowerPoints, source analysis packs and guidance, practice GCSE exam style questions, loads of clip and questions activities, homework, literacy focus tasks - everything you need to teach outstanding history lessons and training your classes up ready for History GCSE. Some lessons are doubles.
Each lesson pack is tried and tested by a history UK department and is editable, engaging and full of content.
Valentine’s Day resource pack. with a gory twist. The pack includes a PowerPoint full of information about the history behind Valentine’s Day, why the festival is celebrated today in the way it is and how the Romans and Christian Church changed the mid-February celebrations to suit their own objectives. The pack also includes a clip task with differentiated questions, a quiz and a creative SMSC activity - making historically accurate Valentine’s Day cards. Everything is editable, well-differentiated and all information included, so you can just pick it up and go.
The slides shown are just a preview sample.
An hour long, fully resourced lesson with PowerPoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task focusing on the various Civil Rights groups. Designed by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
A differentiated task for students to collect information on Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights groups. The aim is to see the importance the role each group played in achieving Civil Rights.
A fun task which can be used to collect important information prior to a literacy based task.
This bundle includes 11 lessons covering the Cold War, and Terrorism:
Cold War
Introduction to the Cold War
Soviet Expansion
Berlin Blockade
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Terrorism
Types of terrorism
Radicalisation
Suffragettes
IRA
Israel and Palestine
Al Qaeda
The download includes all lesson powerpoints (containing all activity tasks, clip links etc), worksheets and information sheets. All lessons are easy to use and editable. All activities are differentiated 3 ways where possible.
All these lessons are also available individually and as topic bundles here:
Cold War: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-cold-war-12192363
Terrorism: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/terrorism-ks3-history-12078335
Genocide: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/genocide-12114524
You can find many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
A fun and creative history project lesson for students in the last week of term. Could be used for activities week in Humanities or just as a reward lesson the last time you see your class for the summer.
Very easy to set up - you will just need a few balloons, string, sellotape, felt tips and a bag of old clothes. The students work in small groups to research and recreate a famous historical figure (info sheets and clip tasks included - all instructions on Powerpoint). The lesson can last as long as you want it to, and I gave prizes of sweets at the end for the best one - but that’s optional! My students really enjoyed it and we took pictures at the end for the school website.
Hopefully yours will love it too.
I’m going to be adding lots more free History lessons over the coming months. Follow me to see when they’re uploaded! :)