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.
PowerPoint presentation/quiz and task sheets about Valentine’s Day
Learning outcomes:
• Choose four new vocabulary words from the PowerPoint and find the definitions either using the PowerPoint or a dictionary.
• Demonstrate an understanding of Valentine’s Day by taking part in a quiz.
• Answer a written question about Valentine’s Day.
• Write a mini biography
The Queen: 65 Years – Sapphire Jubilee
PowerPoint presentation/quiz that includes:
Learning outcomes:
• Choose four new vocabulary words from the PowerPoint and find the definitions either using the PowerPoint or a dictionary.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Queen by taking part in a quiz.
• Answer a written question about British values and the Queen.
Task sheets and word search activity.
Citizenship: General Election: 2017: Electoral Wipeout: Game
Interactive PowerPoint game show quiz, with questions on the General Election; government and politics.
Parties (teams) choose a number (1-40) for the chance to answer questions; gain votes and win the election.
But: They must to avoid the wipeout numbers, or they lose votes, or are even eliminated from the election.
The first team to reach 21 votes wins the election, under the game’s first past the post system.
Included (as Word documents) are 40 questions (with multiple choice answers) and 32 questions (with single answers).
Summer 2017; Quiz: Football: Premier League Towns and Cities
30 questions on the geography and history of the towns and cities of the 20 clubs that will compete in the Premier League during the 2017-18 season.
May Day: An Ancient Celebration
May Day marks the transition from winter to summer season and is a time of ancient celebrations and festivals.
PowerPoint presentation and quiz on the pagan and Roman roots of May Day.
Citizenship: General Election 2017: May Day: Labour Day
May Day marks the transition from winter to summer season and is a time of ancient celebrations and festivals.
But it also has a long tradition of being associated with labour; workers’ rights and political protest
PowerPoint presentation and quiz on the political roots of May Day.
Could be useful in the light of the upcoming General Election.
Europe Day: May 9: Europe and the EU
PowerPoint presentation about Europe and the European Union
• What the EU is and when it began
• Who’s in the EU
• When the UK joined the EU and about the 1975 referendum
• What the EU is for and what it does
• Know about the Euro and the EU flag
Bonfire Night
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
1. PowerPoint presentation about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
2. Bonfire Night: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot workbook
Task 1 and 2; Reading; comprehending and writing task about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.
Task 3:
Task 3(a): Watch a video about the Bonfire Night celebrations in the UK. Put the numbers in order as you hear them.
Task 3(b): Watch the video again and write more information about each of the number in Task 3(a).
Task 4: Write a mini biography about the people associated with the Gunpowder Plot and Bonfire Night:
• James 1st
• Guy Fawkes
• The plot conspirators
• Robert Catesby
Remembering Titanic: PowerPoint presentation; activities and task sheets on the Titanic disaster of April 14-15 1912.
• Sections:
• Construction
• White Star Line
• Captain Smith
• Maiden voyage
• On board
• Titanic quiz: 1
• A Night to Remember
• Third Class Life on the Titanic
• Titanic facts
• Titanic Now
• Timeline
• Titanic quiz: 2
• Who was to blame?
• Titanic: Impact
• Titanic: Truth or myth?
Learning outcomes:
• Identify the main reasons why the Titanic sank.
• Analyse the main reasons why the Titanic sank.
• Evaluate which reason was the most important in causing the Titanic to sink.
• Identify reasons why so many people died on the Titanic
• Analyse the most important cause of people losing their lives on the Titanic.
• Evaluate the main reason so many people died on the Titanic.
Tasks:
Task 1: In a group, discuss and decide who was responsible for Titanic sinking.
Task 1/2: Take part in a quiz about Titanic.
Task 3: Answer a question about Titanic
Task 4: Write a news story reporting the sinking of Titanic.
The festival of Vaisakhi: PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
• Research and write an account of the festival of Vaisakhi.
• What do the Five Ks stand for. Find out and report back to your class, informing other groups of their meaning.
• Discuss and state the ways in which people of faith can give help and support to others in a community.
Task sheets; quiz sheets and word search
The Queen at 90: PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
• Choose four new vocabulary words from the PowerPoint and find the definitions either using the PowerPoint or a dictionary.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Queen by taking part in a quiz.
• Answer a written question about British values and the Queen.
Task sheets and word search activity.
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.
PowerPoint presentation that includes:
Learning outcomes:
Demonstrate an awareness of:
• What the EU is and when it began
• Who’s in the EU
• When the UK joined the EU and about the 1975 referendum
• What the EU is for and what it does
• Know about the Euro and the EU flag
Demonstrate knowledge about the EU by taking part in a quiz
Produce a fact sheet about a member state of the European Union
Highlight; colour and label EU member states
Solve the EU anagrams
Plus: task sheets; quiz sheets and word search activity
In total:
84 slides/pages
20 slide quiz on the EU
Rio 2016: Olympics Games
Contents:
1. PowerPoint presentations and quizzes
2. Learning outcomes:
• Know key Olympic symbols
• Know key facts about the Rio Olympics
• Know the venues that will host events
• Identify the five continents will be represented at Rio
• Identify 55 of the countries that will compete at the games
• Recall 25 of the athletes who won medals at the London Olympics
• Answer 10 questions about previous Olympic Games
3. Rio 2016 work book: Tasks:
1. Imagine you are a journalist who is covering the Olympic Games in Rio. Write a report about your first day in Brazil.
2. Produce a fact sheet about the Rio Olympics. It should include information on:
• The host city
• Venues
• Medal events
• The athletes
3. Label the South American countries
4. Write a mini biography about one of the key figures involved in a past Olympic Games.
Euro 2016
Contents of pack:
PowerPoint presentation including quiz
PDF task and quiz sheets
Cross curricular activities
Task 1: Name the countries that will take part in the Euros
Task 2: Match the names of the Euro teams to where they are on the map of Euros
Task 3: Find information and complete a fact sheet about one of the French cities hosting the Euros
Task 4: Find information and complete a fact sheet about one of the countries taking part in the Euros
Task 5: Research what other countries have chosen for their Euros mascots? What was the mascot for the 1996 Euros when England was the host nation? Design a mascot for the Euros.
Task 6: Find out how France has prepared to welcome lots of visitors to their country in 2016. How have security concerns affected the preparations? Design an advert for the 2016 Euros.
Remembering Euro ‘96
Contents of pack:
PowerPoint presentation including quiz
Task and quiz sheets
Cross curricular activities
Task 1: Match the names of the Euro teams to where they are on the map of Europe
Task 2: Find information and complete a fact sheet about one of the English cities that hosted the Euros
Task 3. Find information and complete a fact sheet about one of the countries that took part in ’96
Easter 2018: Easter Around the World: Activities
Twenty-Eight A3 PDF printable task sheets in zipped file for students to complete; present and display their findings about Easter around the world.
1. Twenty-six task sheets, each featuring a different country, with one left sheet blank to be used as seen fit by teacher or student.
2. One task sheet for the whole group to record the different names for Easter across the world.
3. A word search featuring 25 countries.
The activities include colouring nations’ flags and researching and writing about how Easter is celebrated across the globe.
Students can work individually; in a pair or in a group.
Summer Quiz
Seven rounds:
• The Solar System
• The Olympics
• Geography
• History
• Summer
• TV
• Sport
93 slides in total
Adaptable and would need amending for US students.
Citizenship: British Values: The European Union – Brexit So Far…
Bundle of PowerPoint presentations and quizzes aon the EU, it’s history and institutions and Britain’s exit from it.
1. Brexit so far, after the High Court decision.
2. European Union: Brexit: What Now? Work Book
Five tasks to reflect on the Brexit decision.
3. PowerPoint Brexit EU quiz
4. An introduction to the EU.
5. !975 Referendum
One Euro ’16 PowerPoint quiz
Two Euro ’16 activities:
1. Euro ’16 by dice:
This game on your own or with friends.
Needed is one six sided dice.
Instructions:
Throw the dice once for each team per match to decide the result of each fixture.
The value for each face of the dice is:
1 = 1 goal
2 = 2 goals
3 = 3 goals
4 = 1 goal
5 = 0 goals
6 = 0 goals
The top two teams in each group qualify, along with the top four third placed teams.
In the knockout rounds, if the score is 0-0, throw the dice for each team again to get a result after extra time.
If the teams are still level, throw for each team once more to decide who wins on penalties. This time each face of the dice is the face value.
Results can be recorded in the work book.
2. Select your own squad activity:
Students might be supporting a team, or not. They might be collecting stickers, or not.
They might be collecting stickers, or not.
This activity allows them to select and make their own squad of players.
The players can all be well known; not know well at all, or a mixture of the two.
They choose 23 players. They can be from one country or from as many countries as they like.
They then find a photo of each player and paste each player’s picture on to a square on the next sheet.
They should try to select a balanced squad e.g. you need three goalkeepers so three spaces should be filled with goalkeepers.
Both documents can be downloaded as editable Word documents.
Euro '16: Quiz and games bundle
Contents of pack:
1. To mark the upcoming Euro 2016 football tournament in France, a PowerPoint quiz.
It is 50 slides in total with questions on countries; cities teams and players.
2. Euro ’16 by dice: This game can be played on your own or with friends.
Needed is one six sided dice.
3. Select your own squad activity: Students might be supporting a team, or not. They might be collecting stickers, or not. They might be collecting stickers, or not. This activity allows them to select and make their own squad of players.
4. Euro 16 Deal No Deal; Based on the TV game show, this is an interactive PowerPoint based quiz. 20 multiple choice questions about Euro ‘16.
5. Euro 16 bingo cards.