KS 1 students study the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
In this unit, students will compare aspects of life in different periods, using the lives of Marco Polo and Neil Armstrong.
***There are power point presentations and worksheets for: ***
Marco Polo - life and achievements.
Neil Armstrong- life and achievements
Comparison
**PLEASE NOTE: **THERE IS A UNIT IN OUR SHOP THAT COMPARES Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong. This unit on *Marco Polo and Neil Armstrong *contains THE EXACT SAME presentations and worksheets for Neil Armstrong.
This unit has been used with Year 6, 7 and 8.
Starting with a Timeline of Events this unit describes the settlement of Europeans in North America.
Topics following include:
Reasons for the European settlements
Establishing colonies
Life for early settlers
Pocahontas
War with Native American tribes
The arrival of the Quakers in the United States.
The beginning of King Phillip’s War.
The conclusion of King Phillip’s War
The Bacon Rebellion
King William’s War
The Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693
Power point slides for every lesson make presentation easy and there are worksheet activities for each lesson.
A series of lessons about the characters and events central to the War of the Roses. The topics include:
The House of Lancaster and the Hundred Years’ War
The House of York
Civil war begins
The struggle for a Yorkist crown
Edward V and Richard III
Henry Tudor and Battle of Bosworth Field
Timeline of the War of the Roses
I have used these lessons mainly with Year 7 students. Each topic has a power point presentation and lesson activities.
Used mainly with year 7 and 8 students, this unit, THE MALI EMPIRE, uses eight sets of slides to illustrate the history of this amazing empire.
The topics include: *
Timeline of the Empire from 1240 to 1468
The rise of the Mali Empire
The governance of the Empire of Mali
Trade
Culture
Mansa Musa I
Mali - a centre of learning
The Fall of the Empire
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Each lesson has worksheet activities interspersed throughout the slides, to focus attention and stimulate thinking.
This unit consists of eleven lessons aimed at students in Year 7 to 10, Grade 6 to 9. Each lesson has power point slides and worksheets.
Topics include:
The Power of the Catholic Church
Causes of the Reformation
Timeline of the Reformation
Martin Luther
Huldrych Zwingli
English Reformation – Henry VIII
English Reformation - Henry VIII the Supreme Head of the Church
English Reformation - Henry VIII Establishing the Church of England
English Reformation – Bloody Mary and Elizabeth I
John Calvin
John Knox
Prepared for Year 5 students, this unit covers the following aspects of the topic, “South America”
Location
Countries
Important Cities
Physical Features
Climate Zones
Natural Biomes
Human Geography
Human Geography – Mining and Industry
Human Activities – Agriculture
Each aspect is presented with power point slides and there is follow up in the form of worksheet activities.
The first in a series of presentations and worksheets, this chapter focuses on
Why people trade
Students will discuss how the need for trade developed.
There is an exercise in which students will recall negotiating with others. There is also a drawing and labeling exercise.
The presentation can be used by the teacher to introduce and develop the topic, “Why People Trade”. The notes correlate with the presentation and are followed by the activities.
Working Scientifically 5 is a good introduction to scientific methods and terminology.
It covers:
Creativity in Science
Planning to experiment
The main variables that may affect investigative results
Communicating conclusions
Evaluating accuracy of conclusions
Five presentations are used to illustrate the important concepts above. Each is followed by activities for learning in worksheet form.
Seven lessons with power point presentations and lesson activities in worksheet form.
Topics:
The main internal organs
Blood
Heart
Blood vessels
Respiration
Lungs
Exercise for the heart and lungs
Lesson activities include:
Comprehension activities; Expression of opinion giving reasons; Survey on healthy lifestyle; Planning exercise; Drawing and labeling diagrams.
Animals including Humans: Eating and Digestion:
There are eight presentations, plus corresponding notes and worksheets for students.
They cover the following topics:
Eco systems – consumers and producers
Consumers in the food chain
Human teeth
Teeth in animals
Mouth and the tongue
The Throat and Oesophagus
The stomach and intestines
The different ways that animals digest food
This set of power Point presentations and worksheets should be used with your rock and soil samples to enable students:
to visualise how the three types of rocks are formed and relate this to the rock samples they have
to compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
to recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
to explore different soils and identify similarities and differences between them and
to investigate what happens when rocks are rubbed together
The lessons are:
Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - colour
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – lustre
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - hardness
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - cleavage
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – minerals and crystals
What is Soil?
Use the six power point presentations to introduce your students to the scientific methodology and concepts:
How Science has had a positive and negative effect over time
Following the Scientific Method
Exploring scientific ideas
Getting accurate results
Recording and concluding
Limitations of tests
Follow up with the six sets of notes and worksheets for each lesson.
This unit is aimed at year three and aims to fulfill the objectives:
Identify that animals, including humans, cannot make their own food.
Recognize that animals, including humans, get nutrition from what they eat.
Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types of nutrition.
Identify that animals, including humans, need a balanced diet.
Each of the following topics is covered using a presentation and is followed by worksheets with activities:
Animals, including humans - nutrition
Animals, including humans – What is nutrition? Vitamins and proteins
Animals, including humans – What is nutrition? Carbohydrates, fibre and water
Animals, including humans – How much is enough?
Finding lost treasure! People dream of this!
Students enjoy these true stories of modern discoveries of long lost treasure.
Each story is followed by activities. Answers are included.
Titles include:
Saddle Ridge Hoard
Galloway Hoard of Viking Treasure
Gold coins from a Spanish Fleet
Million-dollar baseball cards
The Constable hanging under the stairs.
Treasure from the Crusades
Burial Hoard of a First Century Princess
Gold while weeding
**Living Things and their Habitats **is a comprehensive 16 lesson unit covering the following topics:
The Environment
Habitats
Flowering and Non-Flowering plants
Classification of animals
Vertebrates: Mammals
Vertebrates: Birds
Vertebrates: Reptiles
Vertebrates: Fish
Vertebrates: Amphibians
Invertebrates: Insects
Invertebrates: Spiders
Invertebrates: Worms
Invertebrates: Slugs
Micro-organisms
Micro-organisms and health
Differences between animals, plants and micro-organisms
Each of the above topics has a power point presentation, notes and a worksheet.
This ten-part series uses power point presentations and worksheet activities to cover
Sexual and asexual reproduction
Reproduction in flowering plants
Flowering plants life cycles
Reproduction in non-flowering plants
Mammal life cycles
Bird life cycle
Amphibian life cycle
Insect life cycles
Work project - differences in life cycles
*Richard Attenborough
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Students identify that: humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement in a four-part teaching pack.
Slides supported by worksheet sets with learning activities, cover the topics:
What is a skeleton?
Why do we need a skeleton? – Protection
Why do we need a skeleton? – Support
Why do we need a skeleton? – Movement
With nine power point presentations and nine worksheets for the unit***** Plants***** for 7 to 8 year olds, this unit covers the topics:
What do the parts of plants do?
What do plants need to grow well?
Do plants really need water to grow? Experimenting
Do plants really need light to grow? Experimenting
Do different plants have different needs?
How does water move around a plant?
What are flowers for? Pollination
What are flowers for? Producing seeds
Seed dispersal
The lesson objectives are clearly stated at the start of each lesson.
Some simple items are needed for the investigations in lessons 3, 4 and 6.
In developing their historical perspective, students learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally for example, the first aeroplane flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited with inventing the airplane. They were the first to make a successful human flight with a craft that was powered by an engine and was heavier than air. This unit tells their story:
Meet the Family
Growing Up
It’s off to Work we Go!
Building Gliders
Building Planes
There are five power point presentations and five worksheets.
This seven lesson unit carries the students through the why and how of a turning point in history – Pearl Harbor.
Lesson topics, with slides and worksheets:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes President
A Changing World
The League of Nations
The Road to Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Pearl Harbor Attacked
America enters the War