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!
An easy to read and assemble, colourful display explaining the main events which formed the British constitution as we know it today. It can be used for either Britsih Values, History or Citizenship.
Please note the first few files are just previews so you can view this easily on Tes, the final high quality copy is a PDF.
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! :)
A fully resourced KS3 lesson about the trade routes that developed when the Old World met the New and how Europe was changed by the new discoveries from the Americas. Complete with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying tasks.
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A detailed and well differentiated introduction to terrorism - a 90 min - 2 hour, editable history lesson all about the different types of terrorism. This lesson serves as the introduction lesson to our Terrorism unit (which is suitable for upper KS3).
Students will investigate the different types of terrorism and explore what makes someone a terrorist as well as different ideas and opinions about terrorism from a historical perspective.
This lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) was created for Year 9 (but could be used with a different KS3 group) and could also be useful as a KS3 Citizenship lesson.
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.
You can find more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
A differentiated and editable history lesson all about The Stolen Generations, what it was like for native Australians at the time of British rule and whether or not an apology from a later Prime Minister is really ever going to be enough to make up for the travesties forced onto the Aboriginal people.
This lesson lasts around 50 minutes (or an hour and a half if you manage to book laptops as suggested) and is very easy to just pick up and use. This is most suitable for a KS3 class (created for Year 8).
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, source tasks and more.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
This easy, free, fun activity can be used in any subject and is perfect to spice up revision lessons. All you need is a topic that can be divided into three categories - the kids are given the templates and they do all the hard work!
This pack includes an instruction Powerpoint and template packs for making revision / subject knowledge cubes. These are great for using as display pieces or for revision too!
I have permission to freely share this idea (as given in the Tes author group for any author) from Twitter’s wonderful Mr Fitzgibbon. Check him out on twitter for loads more creative ideas! https://twitter.com/mrfitzhist
Check out loads more history and geography resources - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
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A light-hearted Kitchener poster to encourage your students to turn off social media / TV and start revising!
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
If you’re also teaching Citizenship GCSE or PSHE next year, why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with almost 4000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
A light-hearted Henry VIII poster to encourage your students that if they don’t like the grade (cough…cough wife) they have, to keep trying hard until they do.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
If you’re also teaching Citizenship GCSE or PSHE next year, why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with almost 4000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
Two KS3 History Home Learning booklets - the focus of these packs is terrorism . All ready to go, with both editable versions (in the zip files) and PDFs included. Plenty of work to keep your students occupied for the week, with well differentiated tasks for every activity.
If you like this pack, we have more to upload this week and as usual, many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
SAVE AROUND 60% BY BUYING THIS BUNDLE OF 53+ HOURS OF LESSONS!
This bundle includes:
World War One – causes and fighting (11 lessons)
World War Two - Causes, battles and Nazi Germany (20 lessons)
The Cold War (8 lessons)
Genocide (8 lessons)
Terrorism (6 lessons)
For more description on each topic, please see links below.
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. Activities are differentiated 3 ways where possible.
These topics and lessons are also available individually here:
World War One: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-i-gcse-11743517
World War Two: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-ii-ks3-12080728
Cold War: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-cold-war-12192363
Genocide: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/genocide-12114524
Terrorism: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/terrorism-ks3-history-12078335
You can find many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS (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 day in the life of a Medieval Monk, storyboard and questions worksheet.
Whole lesson that goes with this can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medieval-monks-lesson-11519200
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.
Colonialism + Slavery to Civil Rights : 15 lessons - 16 hours (two will last two hours) following the complete story of discovery of the New World and start of the slave trade, right through to abolition, the KKK, Jim Crow, the complete Civil Rights fight and Martin Luther King to Barack Obama. There is easily enough material for a whole term.
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.
DOUBLE LESSON - A detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson all about how William the Conqueror consolidated his power. The lesson focuses in detail on castles, the feudal system, bringing allies from Normandy and the Domesday Book.
This lesson lasts around 2 hours and is very easy to just pick up and use. This is suitable for any KS3 class (and could be used for KS4 - it’s full of exam-style source questions).
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, source questions, exam style practice questions, clips, group tasks and more. Acitivities are differentiated 3 ways where possible.
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.
This lesson can be used on its own or along with our other lessons on the Normans or medieval kings, all available in our TES store: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=21074955&q=norman&shop=History_Geeks
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
An hour long PowerPoint with differentiated tasks throughout, clip link and accompanying task focusing on Remembrance Day and the significance of poppies. Designed by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
The images have just been uploaded so you can see some of the content of the lesson. The actual PowerPoint is in the zip file.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
Black History Month Quiz: A fun quiz, perfect for form time on current and past black icons and history. Easy to use, just opens in powerpoint and all you need to do is click on the answers, which are revealed to be correct or incorrect. Lasts around 20 minutes.
A double (2 hour long), fully resourced KS3 lesson about the role of women, children and workers under the Nazi regime. Complete with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying tasks.
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