A comprehensive unit outlining the development of women’s rights and the fight for suffrage. Power point slides and worksheet activities can be used to follow each lesson.
The following topics are covered:
Standing Up for Women’s Rights
Opposing Women’s Suffrage
Fighting for Freedom in the UK
The Call gets Louder in the US
World War 1 and the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Black Women’s Suffrage
18th and 19th Century – Women’s Suffrage Around the World
20th and 21st Century – Women’s Suffrage Around the World
Used with students in Year 7, 8 and 9 (Grade 6, 7 and 8)
his unit on the Geography of India is presented using power point slides. There are activities interspersed at appropriate intervals in the slides. These can be completed by the students on the corresponding worksheets. The power point slides are duplicated in note form for the students.
The unit covers the following topics:
Position of India
Important Cities in India
Physical Geography
Climate
Rivers of India
Vegetation and wild life
Population of India
People and Government
Mining and Industry
Communication and Transport
Agriculture
Economic Challenges
This unit gives a good history of the 1707 Act of the Union, Hanoverian Succession and the Jacobite Invasions, using power point slides. There are topics for discussion and space on the worksheets for responses.
The Act of Union of 1707
The Hanoverian Succession
George I and the House of Hanover
The House of Hanover
The Jacobites
The Jacobite Invasion of 1715
The Jacobite Invasion of 1745
This comprehensive unit on Rivers presents the following topics through power point slides:
*
The forming of a river
A river’s journey
The water cycle
Rivers sustaining life
River settlements
River transport
River power
Some great rivers of the world
The slides are interspersed with learning activities which can be completed on the corresponding worksheets.
Events before, during and as a consequence of The First World War are presented in this twelve part unit.
Topics covered are:
Victoria and Albert’s vision for Europe
Alliances in Europe
Tensions in Europe
War is Declared – 1914 and 1915
Ottomans and Italians enter the War - 1914 and 1915
Trench Warfare
War - 1916
A new type of warfare
War - 1917
War - 1918
Ending the war – The Treaty of Versailles
Ending the War – a new world
Each topic can be used as one lesson. There are discussion activities interspersed in the power point slides with space to record on worksheets.
Human Settlement is described using power point slides interspersed with worksheet activities.
Topics covered:
The Earliest Humans
Site and Situation of early human settlements
Urban, suburban and rural communities
Migration
Settlement sizes
Settlement patterns
The Function of Human Settlements
A history of the Qing Dynasty including lessons on:
The Chinese Dynasties
The Rise of the Manchu
Establishing the Qing Dynasty in China
Stabilizing the Empire
High Qing Era (1683 to 1796)
Kangxi Emperor (1651 to 1722)
High Qing Era (1683 to 1796)
Yongzheng Emperor (1722 to 1735) High Qing Era (1683 to 1796)
Qianlong Emperor (1722 to 1796)
Decline and Fall (1896 to 1911)
The Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion.
The control of the Qing Dynasty by the Dowager Empress Cixi (1662 to 1908)
The Xuantong Emperor and Uprisings in China
The Wuchang uprising and the Xinhai revolution
Puyi – the “Political Football”
There are power point slides with activities interspersed and worksheets for each lesson.
NATURAL RESOURCES is a good unit to help students understand the different aspects of our natural resources and the dangers of the demands. Presented with a set of slides for each of eight lessons, the interspersed activities give students an opportunity to engage with the ideas presented.
Topics include:
Understanding natural resources
Renewable and non-renewable resources
Using natural resources for energy
Benefits of trees as a natural resource
Human’s increasing demand for resources
Farming Activities
Mining and Minerals
Sustainability of natural resources
This unit aims to help students continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of British history, noting in particular, the influence of the “Romanisation” of Britain and evidence of this that is visible today.
This unit contains power point presentations and worksheets for each of the following topics:
The beginning of the Roman Empire
From king to senate to emperor
Britain during the Roman Empire
The Roman army in 42 AD.
The Roman conquest and occupation of Britain
Boudicca
Comparing the Roman and Celtic way of life
Romanisation of Britain
Early Christianity
Fall of Rome
Some ways that the Romans have influenced the world
An interesting unit, which I have used mainly for 5 to 7 year olds. It includes the topics:
Our Homes
Why do we need Houses?
Living in a Castle
The Castle
Who’s Who in the Castle
The ideas are presented using power point slides. There are simple worksheet activities. One activity requires mud for making a small house.
A series of eight lessons on the Enlightenment in Britain and Europe. Each lesson is presented using power point slides and there are worksheet-based learning activities for each.
The topics covered are:
From Renaissance to Reformation to Enlightenment
Early Enlightenment 1637 to 1730
High Enlightenment 1730 to 1780
Late Enlightenment 1780 to 1804
The Royal Society
Great Enlightenment Philosophers
Great Enlightenment Scientists
Great Enlightenment Artists
I have used it mainly with Year 9 and 10
Mughal India is described using power point slides covering the following topics:
Origins of the Mughal Empire
The Mughal Dynasty (1526 to 1857)
Barbur (1526 to 1530) and Humayan (1530-1540 and 1555 to 1556)
Akbar the Great (1556-1605)
Jahangir (1605-1627) and Shah Jahan (1628-1658)
Aurangzeb (1658-1707)
Decline of the Mughal Empire
Later Mughal Rulers
Mughal India and the British East India Company (EIC)
The Legacy of Mughal Architecture
The Legacy of Mughal Art and Literature.
Mughal Empire Administration
Mughal Economy and Trade
Mughal Technology and Innovations
Each set of slides is sufficient for one lesson and they are interspersed with activities, with printable worksheets.
Origins of the Mughal Empire consists of a series of power point slides describing the topic. It is sufficient for one lesson
OBJECTIVES
I can discuss the origins of the Mughal Empire.
I can explain how Babur justified becoming the leader of an invading force.
I can identify and provide solutions for the greatest challenge that Babur would face.
ACTIVITIES:
Establishing the origin of the word Mughal.
Discussion of the origin of the Mughal Empire.
Imagining the challenges that Babur faced in his invasion of the Indian sub-continent.