Bonjour!<br /> <br /> Here’s a free quiz about France with 33 colourful slides. It can be used at the beginning of the year or at the end. I usually have students to work in teams on it. The first 17 slides contain the questions and possible answers to choose from. The other slides contain the answers! This quiz was based on the bigger quiz with 107 slides which can be found <a href="https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/general-culture-french-quiz-powerpoint-and-student-booklet--quiz-culture-general-en-francais-11052610">here</a><br /> <br /> <br /> Enjoy. It’s a great tool to recap about music, monuments, food, brands, culture, geography, history, sports etc.

<p>A KS3 graphics DT project that introduces students to packaging, materials associated with packaging and graphic communication techniques.</p> <p>Full term project with slides and workbook.</p> <p>The project will first introduce students to packaging and its history. They will learn how packaging has evolved over time. They will speciifcially focus on packaging of food items and learn about the important factors that need to be considered when packaging food. Students will then be given a design context to explore using subject specific methods of context exploration. They will be introduced to design briefs and specifications and then follow the design process of generation design ideas and developing them through modelling, they will be introduced to NETS and the aesthetic elements that need to be considered with graphic communication.</p> <p>A great project to introduce students to graphic design. 49 slides that have been structured into outstanding lessons with clear objectives and success criteria. I have delivered this project for years and students enjoy the process.</p> <p>Slides and booklet are completely editable for your own SOW and teaching style.</p>

<p>Students work book and PowerPoint for the whole unit.<br /> Both include the following topics:</p> <p>22 Engagement patterns of different social groups and the factors affecting participation.<br /> 23 Commercialisation, sponsorship, and the media.<br /> 24 Positive and negative impacts of sponsorship and the media.<br /> 25 Positive and negative impacts of technology.<br /> 26 Conduct of performers and introduction to drugs.<br /> 27 Sporting examples of drug taking.<br /> 28 Advantages/disadvantages to the performer/the sport of taking PED’s.<br /> 29 Spectator behaviour and hooliganism, including strategies to combat hooliganism.</p>

Bonjour!<br /> <br /> Here’s a free quiz about France with 33 colourful slides. It can be used at the beginning of the year or at the end. I usually have students to work in teams on it. The first 17 slides contain the questions and possible answers to choose from. The other slides contain the answers! This quiz was based on the bigger quiz with 107 slides which can be found here : <br /> <br /> https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/general-culture-french-quiz-powerpoint-and-student-booklet--quiz-culture-general-en-francais-11052610<br /> <br /> <br /> Enjoy. It’s a great tool to recap about music, monuments, food, brands, culture, geography, history, sports etc.

<p>This resources provides photographs of masks from a variety of different locations and cultures for students to draw from. This activity is designed to fit in to an existing scheme of work, perhaps on cultural objects and artefacts. Ideal as a cover task.</p>

<p>This is a full, in depth collection of presentations that covers the entire OCR A Level PE Socio-cultural issues unit of work.</p> <p>You can pick these up and start teaching (or revising) immediately to gain the best grades possible for all students!</p> <p>It covers all 6 topics within the course with various numbers of presentations that split each topic into manageable chunks:</p> <ol> <li>Emergence and Evolution of Sport (4 presentations)</li> <li>Global Sporting Events (2 presentations)</li> <li>Ethics and Deviance (3 presentations)</li> <li>Commercialisation and the Media (2 presentations)</li> <li>Routes to Sporting Excellence in the UK (1 presentation)</li> <li>Modern Technology in Sport (1 presentation)</li> </ol> <p>So in total you get 13 presentations that will make life extremely easy and reduce the workload!!</p> <p>Enjoy!!</p>

<p>ENGAGING HISTORY POWERPOINTS<br />       Mr. Harms has designed a number of PowerPoint and Keynote presentations with key Social Studies Concepts and Critical Thinking Questions to help students understand history. Designed by a teacher for teachers, this PowerPoint focuses on “Neolithic Cultures”.</p> <p>Overview<br />      These history presentations are designed to give students an overview of how Early humans and the development of farming . Students will be shown maps, animations and descriptions of some of the major events in the development of Civilizations.</p> <p>Customizable       The presentation is totally customizable, allowing you to add your own pictures, graphics and animations to take what we’ve done even farther.</p> <p>Benefit<br /> What is your time worth? Our basic pricing system for History Presentations is 10 cents per slide.  Some title slides may only take 30 seconds to create, but complex slides with animations and coordinated builds for complicated topics may take 30 minutes or more.  It’s not unusual for a presentation to take between 3 and 7 hours of work.  What could you do with 6 or 7 free hours?</p> <p>Topics Included      <br /> The Topics include: Neolithic Cultures, Catal Huyuk, Pre-Civilization, Jericho, Skara Brae, Complexity, Archeology, Yangshao, Stone Henge, Superhenge, Ground Penetrating Radar</p> <p>Included in The Presentation Package:<br /> 1.    Keynote Presentation<br /> 2.    Power Point Presentation<br /> 3.    Text edit file of the outline of the presentation and presenter’s notes.<br /> The package is a digital download (Zip File) of these three items.</p> <p>Modern World History Presentations      <br /> We have a number of PowerPoints related to Ancient World History. These units are proven to engage students in a way that text books and documentaries can’t. Hundreds of teachers are using these lesson plans to bring history to life for students. It’s a unit you’ll use year after year.</p> <p>Source: <br /> McDougal Littel’s World History: Patterns of Interaction<br /> Module 1 The Beginnings of World History<br /> Lesson 4 “Neolithic Cultures”</p> <p>​​These materials were prepared by Harms LLC and have neither been developed, reviewed, nor endorsed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, publisher of the original  WORLD HISTORY: Patterns of Interaction work on which this material is based.</p>

This is a chronology in summary form of twenty of the key events in the cultural history of India with dates and key events from the last 4500 years. I think this resource is of use for a teacher's own research or to use as a student activity.<br /> At the end of the document there is a suggested activity where students can use the information to create a timeline of Indian cultural history. I have my students follow the directions as listed at the end of the chronology.<br /> The work in selecting and compiling this chronology is my own. My main research resource for this information was from India: A History by Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund. For areas of cultural history that I felt Kulke neglected, I also consulted A History of Asia, 5th edition by Rhoads Murphey.

This is a chronology in summary form of twenty five of the key events in the cultural history of China. There follows a four page chronology of Chinese history with dates and key events from the last 7000 years. At the end of the document there is a suggested activity where students can use the information to create a timeline of Chinese cultural history. I have my students follow the directions as listed at the end of the chronology. I think this resource is of use for a teacher's own research or to use as a student activity. <br /> The work in selecting and compiling this chronology is my own. My main research resource for this information was The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley.<br /> The download includes a pdf of the chronology itself and a suggested activity, which could be modified.

This is a chronology in summary form of twenty-two of the key events in the cultural history of Japan with dates and key events from the last 5000 years.<br /> I think this resource is of use for a teacher's own research or to use as a student activity.<br /> At the end of the document there is a suggested activity where students can use the information to create a timeline of Japanese cultural history. I have my students follow the directions as listed at the end of the chronology.<br /> The work in selecting and compiling this chronology is my own. My main research resource for this information was from Morton and Olenik's book Japan: Its History and Culture. The timeline was developed, focusing on events that help address issues of culture, transmission, and geography.

Ideas and practical activities to create a local history study and support other curriculum areas.<br /> Use your local history as a teaching resource for cross-curricular work covering history, literacy, art, geography and maths; wherever you live and whatever period or geography your local history may include. <br /> <br /> Written 2015, with the new national curriculum KS2 in mind but adapts to KS1 and KS3 in places. <br /> <br /> Includes five example case studies of projects by schools and museum or heritage sites working together to test out activity responding to the new curriculum, covering these overarching themes:<br /> - Investigating a heritage site (through the ages and a timeline)<br /> - Investigating a local street (in this instance Victorian but transferable to other periods)<br /> - Investigating a historical period (Stone, Bronze and Iron ages)<br /> - Creative engagement with maths (using the art / design of Blackpool Illuminations to cover the full KS1 &amp; 2 maths curriculum)<br /> - Exploring the local town (in this instance a coastal town with a migratory mining history)<br /> <br /> Each case study includes<br /> - Description of a topic or activity<br /> - Objectives and outcomes of the activity<br /> - Practical activity suggestions to include in topics / lesson plans<br /> - Top tips<br /> - Links to further resources<br /> <br /> Current History links<br /> - the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements<br /> - significant historical events, people and places in their own locality<br /> - changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age<br /> - a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066<br /> - ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901<br /> <br /> The resource was originally commissioned by Curious Minds and is freely available to download.<br />

<p>A complete poetry unit for KS3 (recommended year 8 but can be adapted for years 7 and 9).</p> <p>This scheme of work includes 18 fully planned and resourced lessons covering both classic and contemporary poetry spanning the 19th to 21st centuries. The scheme explores cultures from each continent with a focus on British culture.</p> <p>Resources included:</p> <ul> <li>226 slide PPT with teacher notes, guidance and options for adaptive teaching (more challenging/accessible slide options)</li> <li>Poetry booklet with full text of 15 poems</li> </ul> <p>Poems included:</p> <ul> <li>‘The British’ by Benjamin Zephaniah</li> <li>‘God Save the King’ (English National Anthem)</li> <li>‘Black’ by Dave (song - excerpt used)</li> <li>‘Checking Out Me History’ by John Agard</li> <li>‘The New Colossus’ by Emma Lazarus</li> <li>‘The Hill We Climb’ by Amanda Gorman</li> <li>‘Night of the Scorpion’ by Nissim Ezekiel</li> <li>‘Haiku’ by Matsuo Basho (titles vary from translation)</li> <li>‘Ballad of the Totems’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal/Kath Walker</li> <li>‘Africa My Africa’ by David Diop</li> <li>‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ by William Wordsworth</li> <li>‘Welcome to Tottenham’ by Giovanni Rose</li> <li>‘Island Man’ by Grace Nichols</li> <li>‘Refugees’ by Brian Bilston</li> <li>‘Game Changer’ by Solli Raphael</li> </ul> <p>Medium term plan:<br /> Week 1: Introduction and critical analysis of British culture<br /> Week 2: Close analysis of ‘Checking Out Me History’ and introduction to American culture<br /> Week 3: Exploration of American, Indian, and Japanese poetry<br /> Week 4: Exploration of Australian and African poetry, then back to British poetry (19th century poem)<br /> Week 5: Assessment Preparation: Comparison of 19th century and modern British poem (plus alternate assessment task for struggling students)<br /> Week 6: Reading Assessment and creative writing/spoken language tasks</p>

<p>This lesson investigates the history of Christmas and Christmas traditions from medieval times to today. Students will learn about where our modern traditions of pulling crackers and sending Christmas cards originated as well as the creation of Santa Claus!</p> <p>This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.<br /> It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, timeline activity, card sort, consolidation explanation question and challenge plenaries.</p> <p>Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.</p> <p>Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:<br /> <a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory">https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory</a></p> <p>If you are happy with your resource, <strong>PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW</strong>! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at <strong><a href="mailto:discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com</a></strong> and we’ll try to solve them for you.</p> <p>We have a wide range of KS3 &amp; GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts!</p> <p>Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!</p>

<p>The PowerPoint is 55 pages long. It covers the history of trains from the first vehicle to be pulled on rails over 200 years ago; steam trains; the locomotive; the Rocket; diesel trains, through to the modern electric trains of today.<br /> It is written in the style of a non-fiction book, with a contents page, index and glossary.<br /> It would be suitable for upper KS1 or lower KS2 and can be used in a history topic or as a non-fiction book in English.</p>

<p>Written in the first person, this one page cultural reading talks about a flamenco dancer. Also covered is the history and cultural significance of this dance in Spain. This reading is in the present tense and therefore appropriate for beginners.</p> <p>A glossary covers all new words and 7 true/false reading comprehension questions complete the handout.</p> <p>Answer Key included.</p>

<p>This assembly is based on this year’s theme- reclaiming the Narrative as well as highlighting how easily false narratives have spread.</p> <p>Examines the role of racial bias in the media and politics in the UK and the riots of 2024 as well as the insideous nature of the anti-Haitian rhetoric from some in the USA.</p> <p>Idea is to promote awareness of the danger of misinformation and to encourage students to challenge one sided narratives especially if they are hateful.</p> <p>Includes a house competition which can be amended for your school and a script for the assembly if you need it.</p> <p>Images are for illustrative purposes only. Includes a fully editable powerpoint and word document.</p>

<p>Lesson 2 Design</p> <p>This lesson aims to examine black designers (fashion, engineering, taxidermy).</p> <p>The purpose of this unit is celebrate the positive achievements in Black History and Culture, which is lacking in the curriculum.</p> <p>The lesson is designed with an RS padegogy, but can be adapted to other subjects.</p>

<p>Lesson 1 Explore</p> <p>This lesson aims to examine black explorers.</p> <p>The purpose of this unit is celebrate the positive achievements in Black History and Culture, which is lacking in the curriculum.</p> <p>The lesson is designed with an RS padegogy, but can be adapted to other subjects.</p>

<p>As it is almost impossible to cover breadth at KS3, I have designed these cultural capital homework tasks. Women’s history captures different time periods to give students a more in-depth look of the lives of women.<br /> This resource is free. I have also designed others, just look at my shop to find out more.</p>