I have a passion for History and communicating knowledge in an engaging form. I have 20 years experience of teaching History, Geography, English, Religious Studies and Citizenship.
I have a passion for History and communicating knowledge in an engaging form. I have 20 years experience of teaching History, Geography, English, Religious Studies and Citizenship.
The Top 12 Most famous Women of all time Word Search Pack
Top 12 Famous Women
A list of the most famous women from around the world.
Princess Diana (1961–1997) Princess of Wales, married to Prince Charles. Later divorced. Known for her humanitarian and charity work.
Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) Third Prime Minister of India, 1966-77 and 1980-84. Influential in shaping post-war Indian constitution and society.
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) Queen of Great Britain during nineteenth century. Oversaw dramatic rise in prominence of Great Britain and her Empire.
Mary Magdalene (4 BCE–40 CE) Devotee of Jesus Christ. Present at Christ’s crucifixion and the first person to see Jesus after his resurrection.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994 ) Wife of John F. Kennedy. Cultural and fashion icon of the 1960s.
Cleopatra (69 BCE–30 BCE) Last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt. Had relationship with Roman rulers Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) Young girl who inspired French to revolt against British rule. Burnt at the stake for witchcraft.
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) Actress, model and icon of post war America.
Mother Teresa (1910–1997) Nun and charity worker. Mother Teresa dedicated her life to serving poor and disadvantaged.
Anne Frank (1929–1945) Jewish diarist who documented her life in hiding in an Amsterdam attic during the Nazi occupation. Died in Belsen concentration camp.
Oprah Winfrey (1954– ) Chat show host and icon of American women. Winfrey’s chat show and book club are very influential.
Rosa Parks (1913–2005) Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man indirectly led to some of the most significant civil rights legislation of American history.
List of Top 100 Famous People
A list of famous people, chosen mainly from the nineteenth, twentieth or twenty-first centuries. This list includes famous actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, writers, artists and humanitarians.
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962) American actress, singer, model
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) US President during American civil war
Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Macedonian Catholic missionary nun
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) US President 1961 – 1963
Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) American civil rights campaigner
Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) South African President anti-apartheid campaigner
Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) British Prime Minister during WWII
Bill Gates (1955 – ) American businessman, founder of Microsoft
Muhammad Ali (1942 – 2016) American Boxer and civil rights campaigner
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Leader of Indian independence movement
Top 10 Scientists of all Time Word Search Pack
Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) Newton was a polymath who made investigations into a whole range of subjects including mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy. In his Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, he laid the foundations for classical mechanics, explaining law of gravity and the laws of motion.
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) Pasteur contributed greatly towards the advancement of medical sciences developing cures for rabies, anthrax and other infectious diseases. Also invented the process of pasteurisation to make milk safer to drink. He probably saved more lives than any other person.
Galileo (1564–1642) Creating one of the first modern telescopes, Galileo revolutionised our understanding of the world, successfully proving the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way around. His work Two New Sciences laid the groundwork for the science of Kinetics and strength of materials.
Marie Curie (1867–1934) Polish physicist and chemist. Discovered radiation and helped to apply it in the field of X-ray. She won the Nobel Prize in both Chemistry and Physics.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) Revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) for his discovery of the Photoelectric effect, which formed the basis of Quantum Theory.
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) Darwin developed his theory of evolution against a backdrop of disbelief and scepticism. He collected evidence over 20 years, and published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859).
Otto Hahn (1879–1968) Hahn was a German chemist who discovered nuclear fission (1939). He was a pioneering scientist in the field of radio-chemistry, and discovered radioactive elements and nuclear isomerism (1921). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944.
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Tesla worked on electro-magnetism and AC current. He is credited with many patents from electricity to radio transmission, and played a key role in the development of modern electricity.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) Maxwell made great strides in understanding electro-magnetism. His research in electricity and kinetics laid the foundation for quantum physics. Einstein said of Maxwell, “The work of James Clerk Maxwell changed the world forever.”
Aristotle (384 BCE–322 BCE) A great early Greek scientist who made many researches in the natural sciences including botany, zoology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology and geometry.
Top 10 Inventors of all Time
Ten of the greatest inventors who helped change the world.
1. Thomas Edison (1847–1931) Edison filed over 1000 patents. He developed and innovated a wide range of products from the electric light bulb to the phonograph and motion picture camera.
2. The Wright Brothers Successfully designed, built and flew the first powered aircraft, showing that man could fly. One of most important inventions of Twentieth Century.
3. Benjamin Franklin (1705–1790) Polymath who discovered electricity and invented the Franklin stove.
4. Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian-born scientist who emigrated to the US. He was a brilliant scientist who played a key role in the development of AC electricity, through the AC induction motor, transformer, and Tesla coil. His method of AC electricity has been the template for global electricity use.
5. Charles Babbage (1791–1871) Created first mechanical computer, which proved to be the prototype for future computers. Considered to be the ‘Father of Computers’.
6. James Watt (1736–1819) Inventor of the steam engine, which was critical in the industrial revolution. His invention of a separate condensing chamber greatly improved the efficiency of steam.
7. Alexander Bell (1847–1922) Credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Also worked on optical telecommunications, aeronautics and hydrofoils.
8. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) One of the greatest ever minds. He invented models that proved workable 3-500 years later.
9. Galileo (1564–1642) Developed a powerful telescope and confirmed revolutionary theories about the nature of the world. Also developed an improved compass.
10. Tim Berners Lee Developed the http:// protocol for the internet, making the World Wide Web freely available.
Entrepreneurs Word Search Pack
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Edison
JP Morgan
The Wright Brothers
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Walt Disney
Milton Hershey
Nikola Tesla
Steve Jobs
John D. Rockefeller
Levi Strauss
Oprah Winfrey
Explorers Word Search Pack
Roald Amundsen
Neil Armstrong
Daniel Boone
Christopher Columbus
Captain James Cook
Vasco da Gama
Sir Francis Drake
Edmund Hillary
Henry Hudson
Lewis and Clark
Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Pizarro
Marco Polo
Juan Ponce de Leon
Sacagawea
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Juan Ponce de Leon
Leif Erikson
Sir Walter Raleigh
John Cabot
Charles Darwin
Summary handouts with great pictures/images
This is very useful for homework, discussion/group and research activities.
Sir Winston Churchill
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Diana, Princess of Wales
Charles Darwin
William Shakespeare
Sir Isaac Newton
Elizabeth I
John Lennon
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Oliver Cromwell
Abigail Adams
Amelia Earhart
Susan B. Anthony
Clara Barton
Nellie Bly
Hillary Clinton
Marie Curie
Princess Diana
Amelia Earhart
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth II
Anne Frank
Helen Keller
Joan of Arc
Rosa Parks
Sally Ride
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mother Teresa
Margaret Thatcher
Harriet Tubman
Queen Victoria
Oprah Winfrey
Benazir Bhutto
Indira Gandhi
Famous Black African Americans and Civil Rights Word Search Pack
42 word searches - An awesome collection
Superb value pack - an awesome resource to have!!
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
Ida B Wells
Frederick Douglas
Booker T Washington
Garrett Morgan
Bessie Coleman
Louis Armstrong
Jesse Owen
Joe Lewis
Jackie Robinson
Ruby Bridges
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
Emmett Till
James Meredith
Marcus Garvey
Medgar Evers
Malcolm X
Maya Angelou
Muhammad Ali
Martin Luther King Jnr
Assassination of MLK
Jim Crow Laws
John Brown
Scott Joplin
The Amistad
Joseph Cinqué
The Dred Scott Decision 1857
Sojourner Truth
NAACP
The Birth of a Nation Film 1915
The Scotsboro Case 1931
Brown v Board of Education 1954
The Little Rock 9
The March on Washington
Murder in Mississippi 1964
Black Power
Excellent for introductions/recap - ask the students to research the relevance of the words. Excellent to print to A3!!!