Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
Planning and resources for primary teachers from http://www.ks2history.com. Our history topics include Stone Age to Iron Age, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Victorians, Shang Dynasty etc and the list is expanding each month, with literacy units to link to the topics too.
Our popular resources have been tried and tested in hundreds of classrooms.
Download our popular Ancient Egypt lesson planning bundle containing 10 full lessons.
This resource contains a bundle of history lessons that make up a complete unit covering the Ancient Egyptians topic. Each file contains a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint slides and pupil resource sheets.
The planning pack covers the following lessons:
Who were the Ancient Egyptians?
Why was Ancient Egypt the ‘Gift of the Nile’?
Who were the Ancient Egyptian pharaohs?
Why did the Ancient Egyptians build the pyramids?
What did the Ancient Egyptians do for fun?
What was mummification in Ancient Egypt?
Who were the Ancient Egyptian gods?
What did Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics mean?
What was discovered inside Tutankhamun’s tomb?
Who was Cleopatra and how is she remembered?
These lessons are written for KS2 and are aligned to the National Curriculum in the UK but can be easily adapted to other curriculums too. The lesson plans include differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
This bundle is brought to you by KS2History.com.
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A full lesson for KS2 exploring the importance of the River Nile to the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. The resource includes a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Why was Ancient Egypt the ‘Gift of the Nile’?
In this lesson, pupils will play a map-work game in pairs to help them to investigate the basic geography of Ancient Egypt. Then they will learn about the important natural resources provided by the River Nile and its role in farming. Pupils will use their new knowledge to create an information poster about the Nile and an optional extension activity will challenge pupils to explore modern-day maps of Egypt to make comparisons.
Objectives:
To understand the importance of the River Nile in Ancient Egypt
To give examples of the natural resources
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
This primary history resource is created by KS2History.
A Bundle of 10 history lessons that make up a whole unit of work for Y3/4 on the topic 'Romans in Britain'.
Each individual file includes a detailed lesson plan and pupil resource sheets.
Download our popular two-week literacy unit of poetry planning for Years 1 and 2. This unit is perfect to go with a living things topic and is built around objectives from the National Curriculum.
In this unit, children will read and listen to nature poems by Christina Rossetti and consider how the sounds and language patterns come alive when the poems are read aloud. Pupils will have the opportunity to create their own versions of the nature poems and to perform them.
The aims of the unit for pupils are:
• To listen to classic poems being read aloud
• To identify patterns of language and recurring phrases
• To use the voice in different ways to express ideas
• To perform a poem off by heart
The PDF file contains 10 full literacy lesson plans, copies of the poems and all accompanying pupil resources. Perfect for National Poetry Month!
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Going to Sea Poetry Pack
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A FREE full lesson for KS2 introducing the topic of Ancient Egypt. The resource includes a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint slides and pupil resource sheets.
Who were the Ancient Egyptians?
This lesson introduces the Ancient Egyptians topic and helps pupils to set this early civilization into its wider historical context of time and place. After looking at a historical source to find details and generate questions, pupils will create a timeline of key events from the period.
Objectives:
To find out when and where the Ancient Egyptians lived
To use a timeline to explore key events from Ancient Egyptian times
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
This is the first lesson from the KS2History Ancient Egyptians Planning Pack for KS2.
Download this popular two-week unit for Year 3 based on classic performance poetry.
A two-week literacy unit of work for Year 3, containing lesson plans and pupil resources, looking at some of Carroll's funny poems and nonesense verses including the famous 'Jabberwocky'.
In these lessons pupils will:
- read and listen to classic poems by Lewis Carroll
- use comprehension skills to tackle nonesense poetry
- engage imaginatively with classic narrative poems
- create their own Jabberwock creatures
- write their own versions of the poems
- make props for a dramatic performance
- prepare and give a performance to an audience
The poems include 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', 'A Strange Wild Song' and 'Jabberwocky'.
The performance at the end of the unit would be perfect for World Poetry Day or to use in a poetry performance or assembly.
Check out our other resources for Year 3 in our store
A full lesson for KS2 exploring the life and significance of Queen Victoria, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Who was Queen Victoria?
In this lesson, pupils learn about Queen Victoria and the impact of her reign. After exploring the facts about her monarchy, pupils will consider the legacy she left behind and create newspaper reports from the week of her death. Pupils will finish the lesson by pretending to be directors of a new film about Victoria’s life.
Objectives:
To find out about the life of Queen Victoria
To think about why Victoria became such a popular monarch
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
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Victorians Full Unit for KS2: A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Victorians topic.
Introduction to the Victorians: (FREE): A full lesson for KS2 introducing the Victorian period, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Inventions: A full lesson for KS2 about famous Victorian inventions, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Industrial Revolution A full lesson for KS2 exploring the impact of the Industrial Revolution, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Railways A full lesson for KS2 about the introduction of the railways, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Working Children A full lesson for KS2 exploring the topic of jobs for Victorian children, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Schools A full lesson for KS2 about Victorian schools, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Clothing A full lesson for KS2 investigating Victorian clothing, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Crime and Punishment A full lesson for KS2 about crime and punishment in the Victorian period, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
A ten-lesson history unit study on Benin AD 900-1300 for Y3/4 (2nd/3rd Grade).
The pack contains lesson plans, pupil resources and teachers' guides.
Everything you need to teach this fascinating period of history.
This unit covers the following questions:
1. What was the Kingdom of Benin?
2. How was the Kingdom of Benin first established?
3. What did the people of Benin Kingdom believe?
4. Why did the first dynasty of Ogiso come to an end in AD 1180?
5. What were the Obas like as leaders?
6. What did ordinary people do for jobs in the Kingdom of Benin?
7. What was Benin Kingdom art like?
8. What happened to Benin Kingdom after the period AD 900-1300?
9. What was left after Benin Kingdom was destroyed?
10. What have we learned about this period of history?
A lesson for KS2 about the lasting legacy of Ancient Greece, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and printable activity sheets.
This lesson is part of our popular Ancient Greece Pack for Key Stage 2.
Lesson: How significant is the legacy of Ancient Greece for life today?
In this lesson, pupils will explore some of the key legacies from Ancient Greece that influence life today. They will consider the significance of each legacy in terms of its impact on their own life, before working in a group to complete a ranking challenge to decide the most significant legacy.
Objectives:
To explore the influence of Ancient Greece on various areas of modern life
To consider the significance of different legacies on life today
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Ancient Greeks Lessons Pack for KS2: A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Ancient Greece topic.
This primary history resource has been created by KS2History.
In this activity pupils will investigate who Lady Fu Hao might have been by imagining some of the artefacts found in her tomb. The activity will help pupils to learn about how people in Shang times were often buried with a tomb full of treasures to take with them to the afterlife.
A full lesson for KS2 about Victorian clothes, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
What kind of clothes did the Victorians wear?
This lesson is designed to help pupils to understand how clothing and class status were linked in Victorian times. Pupils will engage with historical sources to make observations about clothing, and then compare rich and poor clothing. Pupils will learn how sewing and clothes making were important skills and will have a go at making their own Victorian sewing sampler.
Objectives:
To use historical sources to make observations about Victorian clothing
To compare clothes for rich and poor people from Victorian times
To design a sewing sampler
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
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Victorians Full Unit for KS2: A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Victorians topic.
Introduction to the Victorians: (FREE): A full lesson for KS2 introducing the Victorian period, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Who Was Queen Victoria?; A full lesson for KS2 exploring the life and significance of Queen Victoria, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Inventions: A full lesson for KS2 about famous Victorian inventions, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
A full lesson for KS2 about the introduction of the railways to Victorian Britain, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
How did the Victorians respond to the new railways?
This lesson looks at the introduction of the railways during the Victorian period. Pupils will think about their own experiences of rail travel and consider what travel was like before the railways were built. They will learn about how the new railways impacted people in positive and negative ways using case studies and role play activities, before writing a letter to explain one character’s perspective on the new railways.
Objectives:
To find out how the introduction of the railways changed travel and trade
To explain different viewpoints about the new railways
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
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Introduction to the Victorians: (FREE): A full lesson for KS2 introducing the Victorian period, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Who Was Queen Victoria?; A full lesson for KS2 exploring the life and significance of Queen Victoria, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Inventions: A full lesson for KS2 about famous Victorian inventions, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Industrial Revolution A full lesson for KS2 exploring the impact of the Industrial Revolution, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Working Children A full lesson for KS2 exploring the topic of jobs for Victorian children, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Schools A full lesson for KS2 about Victorian schools, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Clothing A full lesson for KS2 investigating Victorian clothing, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
Victorian Crime and Punishment A full lesson for KS2 about crime and punishment in the Victorian period, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
A full lesson for KS2 about Sutton Hoo (an Anglo-Saxon burial site discovered in England), including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
What was the mystery of Sutton Hoo?
In this lesson, pupils will learn about the mystery of Sutton Hoo. Pupils will go on a treasure hunt to find out about some of the grave artefacts discovered at Sutton Hoo and they will discuss what deductions can be made from them. Pupils will look at the evidence and decide what kind of person was at the heart of the burial.
Objectives:
To explore the significance of the Sutton Hoo discovery
To investigate artefacts from an Anglo-Saxon grave
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
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Anglo-Saxons Unit for KS2: A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Anglo-Saxon topic.
What was it like in an Anglo-Saxon village? A complete lesson for KS2
Where did the Anglo-Saxons come from? A complete lesson for KS2
A full lesson for KS2 about Stone Age hunter-gatherers, including a detailed lesson plan, Powerpoint and pupil resource sheets.
How did hunter-gatherers survive in the Stone Age?
In this lesson pupils find out who the ‘hunter-gatherers’ were and how they survived in Stone Age Britain. Pupils will learn the difference between ‘threats’ and ‘assets’ provided by the natural habitat and then they go on their own survival treasure hunt around the school grounds.
Objectives:
To find out about how hunter-gatherers lived in Stone Age Britain
To explore how Stone Age people survived against threats
The lesson plan includes differentiation ideas to adapt the activities for the needs of your class.
This is the second lesson in the popular Stone Age to Iron Age Unit for KS2.
This primary history resource was created by kS2History.
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A bundle of resources based on the poem 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', including two lesson plans, a printable poem, the abridged poem for pupils to read, a worksheet and a comic strip activity.
Lesson 4. Time to Worship: What were the religious beliefs of the Shang Dynasty?
In this lesson pupils will find out about the different gods that Shang people worshipped. They will investigate how people responded to different situations by feasting, worshipping or making sacrifices. Pupils will have a chance to create storyboards of different worship scenarios.
The PDF file contains the full lesson plan and three pupil activity sheets.
For Upper KS2.
This resource will allow pupils to find out how to make their own oracle bones from clay and they will use a symbols key to write their own questions on them using Shang ideograms. The sheet includes a set of instructions for making clay bones and a handy key to Shang symbols.
1. Introduction: What was the Kingdom of Benin?
This lesson introduces the Kingdom of Benin. Pupils will use atlases to find out where the Kingdom of Benin used to be located. Then they will set this period into the wider context of British and World History and make their own timelines.
The PDF file contains the full lesson plan and two pupil activity sheets.
For Upper KS2.
