I started putting this booklet together in 2015 to help keep lesson plans, tutor time and assembly topics fresh and relevant for the students. Each year it has grown as new days and events have been suggested and added. The celebrations, or days of note, range from religious holidays, medical awareness days, charity fundraising events and include a few fun ones such as No Homework Day, Chocolate Day, World UFO Day, and Naked Teaching Day(!) This year I have added a ‘Sport Fixtures’ page which highlights big sporting events, their dates and the countries hosting them, as well as emphasizing those events which are ‘moveable feasts’, and so change dates each year. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This wordfill worksheet introduces your students to the Roman Colosseum, from what its function was, who built it and what went on there Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This project-based unit can be used as an individual or group activity, or assessment. The students are tasked to create a leaflet for the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust to help promote fund-raising and raise awareness to preserve the Antarctic huts used by explorers of the past. A breakdown of the leaflet is given which includes the format to be used, including the colour scheme of the Antarctic tartan. Each page is assigned a topic including the front cover, who the AHT are, information about Antarctica and a set of rules to be followed by visitors and tourists. Several websites are given to help with research, although independent research is encouraged, and a 3 minute film looking at why people wish to visit Antarctica, and the impacts they can have, has been included. In addition, a 22-page booklet produced by the Britain’s Antarctic Heritage gives an insight to their aims, the history of the area and what they wish to accomplish in the future. A range of activities can be incorporated within this project, including, gathering research from print and video, annotating maps, their thoughts, and ideas. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

February can appear to stretch long into the distance: there’s the afterglow of Christmas and hopeful New Year’s resolutions, but it’s grey and cold outside. It can often be a struggle to last until the first blooms of spring so why not take a short time each day to think about all the things we are thankful for and can look forward to, to help melt away the winter blues…

New Year is a great time to reflect on the past year and set goals for the new one. This worksheet/poster helps the students to look back over and share what they are proud of from 2022, look forward to 2023, and set goals and achievement they wish to accomplish. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This booklet introduces and teaches the students how to read longitude and latitude, as well as help students develop their descriptive, sensory and research skills. The students investigate the two teams who raced to the poles in in 1911 and study the problems caused by the increasing number of tourists visiting Antarctica. Ways to reduce these impacts are discussed in addition to whether the students think Antarctica should be protected or not. The booklet is concluded with the students designing a leaflet to help promote funding to preserve the huts used by Robert Scott’s Antarctic Exhibition team. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, annotating thoughts, and ideas, and using senses to describe their findings. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

Hindus believe life is divided into four stages called ‘ashramas’: student, householder, wise person and old person. Each stage is different and has its own set of duties. After death it is believed we are reincarnated in accordance with how we have lived our lives. These worksheets discuss the four stages and their importance, giving the students the opportunity to create their own modern versions. In addition, they discuss what they believe happens to us after we die which can lead to an interesting conversation as students air their different views. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

Every good fairy tale needs a setting, a goodie, a baddy and a few magical objects thrown in. Roll the dice and see where your classes or tutor groups imagination takes you… Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This PowerPoint lesson plan introduces the students to what an avalanche is, the categories and their triggers – both physical and human. During the lesson the students have the opportunity to demonstrate an avalanche using flour and instant mash potato! The lesson concludes with a choice of activities including a cartoon style answer, comic strip, information sheet or blog for tourists, newspaper article or short essay answering why avalanches happen and their impacts. Want to receive credits for future purchases? Please go to ‘My Purchases’ and select ‘Provide Feedback,’ fill out the quick form and each time you leave feedback, TPT will give you credits towards your future purchase. We really value your comments to help us create products to help you in the classroom – Thank you in advance. Please follow us on TPT by clicking on the green star next to our store name, and like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This unit consists of three double-sided worksheets which look to investigate the differences between Antarctica and the Artic, the animals to be found there and how humans are affecting these delicate environments through the impact of global warming. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research, annotating maps, their thoughts, and ideas and completing a wordsearch. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This PowerPoint lesson plan introduces students to drawing, – with step-by-step instructions -interpreting and finding patters in climate graphs. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This unit of work helps students to investigate the many aspects of weather and climate, beginning with their differences, why it’s important for us to study and try to understand it and how we observe and record weather. We study climate by reading and drawing climate graphs and maps. We look at Britain’s physical features and the effect this has on climate. The students study the hydrological cycle, why it rains, the various types of rainfall, and how we use rainwater. Depressions, anticyclones and whether thunderstorms are our friend or foe are investigated as well as the clothing associated with extreme weathers. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print, word-fills, reading and drawing climate graphs, map reading, personification, picto and flow diagrams and personal observation. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 30-minute lesson investigates how thunderstorms are created, the four main characteristics of a thunderstorm – thunder and lightning, hail, wind, and rain – and their positive and negative effects. The students use the information gathered to individually answer ‘Thunderstorms: Friend or Foe?’ and are encouraged to debate their answers. The students take part in a group activity to gather research from printed articles and discuss their points of view after individually answering the lessons chief question. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This unit of work introduces students to the significance of water from its source through to it being bottled and being a course of conflict. The features of rivers are explored along with the hydrological cycle and how rivers are used. The students carry out and write up an investigation studying how different surfaces react to water which leads into the human and physical causes of flooding, looking specifically at the Queensland Floods and the social, economic, and environmental impacts. Hard and soft engineering techniques are discussed within a ‘decision making exercise.’ Water as a right and conflict is debated. Drawing upon The Ilisu Dam, Turkey, the students debate from various countries points of view its construction. This leads to the debate around bottled water and how fact and opinion can sway viewpoints. The human and physical impacts of shortage of water are reviewed in addition to short and long-term aid. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet, including, gathering research from print and video, annotating maps, students thoughts and ideas, drawing graphs, participating in group investigations and discussions, and writing up their findings appropriately. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

I started putting this booklet together in 2015 to help keep lesson plans, tutor time and assembly topics fresh and relevant for the students. Each year it has grown as new days and events have been suggested and added. The celebrations, or days of note, range from religious holidays, medical awareness days, charity fundraising events and include a few fun ones such as No Homework Day, Chocolate Day, World UFO Day, and Naked Teaching Day(!) Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This booklet helps students with important information, hints and tips to avoid plagiarising sources they use in their coursework or controlled assessments. After describing what plagiarism is, we look at tips to consider when examining various sources such as the internet, search engines, databases, books, and journals. What to consider when evaluating whether a source is trustworthy is then examined. The booklet discusses Using Harvard Standard Referencing. The difference between references and a bibliography are explained and how to correctly use them in work. We learn how to citate the internet, books including specific chapters, single/multiple authors, journals, film, and music sources. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation, Instagram @willsoneducation and Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

Seven fun brainteasers and images which could be used as lesson starters or displayed in the classroom and corridor in a Geography department. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 50 page booklet allows students to explore China through a variety of activities both students and teacher lead. Chapters include, amongst others: Where Are We Talking About? What Do You Know About China? Why Travel to China? What Is The Climate Like in China? What Is our Population Like? What’s Happening To China’s Population? What’s Happening To The Age Of China? China’s Culture A Taste Of China Gung Hey Fat Choy! Playing With Paper Britain’s Best Beverage China’s Threatened Wildlife The Great Wall The Terracotta Army The Forbidden City Tiananmen Square Three Gorge Dam Transnational Companies In China

This booklet introduces students to the global links within sports, specifically football. We investigate the origin of top players and how these have changed over twenty years. Child labour, shanty towns and The Atlanta Agreement are discussed in relation to Brazil readying itself to host the 2014 Word Cup. The unit concludes with the students considering whether they think Brazil should have held the World Cup having considered the social economic and environmental impacts. A range of individual and group activities are incorporated within this booklet including map reading and annotating, gathering research from print and students drawing their own conclusions from materials gathered. Please like and follow us on Facebook @WillsonEducation or Pinterest @willsoned for more exciting resources, activities, and upcoming events to incorporate into your lessons.

This 13 page booklet helps students to develop their fieldwork skills but looking at a specific location, Box Hill in Surrey. Titles include: Where Is Box Hill? Background To Box Hill A Hill For All Seasons Sketching Box Hill Environmental Survey At Box Hill Measuring Litter At Box Hill Box Hill Flowers