This is one lesson from a series of 7 lessons that focus on the Space Race, From Sputnik to Apollo. Each lesson is fully resourced with anything that needs printing at the end of the PowerPoint ready in a print friendly format. The idea of this series of lessons is to introduce students to key historical skills using content they are familiar with and find engaging. We have had huge success with these lessons at Wolsey Academy with students often demanding that we teach more of them. The work produced from these lessons has also been exceptional, with the main activity in each lesson being scaffolded and supported in a number of ways. For details of each lesson please see below. If purchasing just one lesson, make sure you have seen the details for that one below. In the lesson preview you will see the lesson structure in the road map slide. We hope it helps. The 7 lessons: Sputnik 1957 Yuri Gagarin Project Mercury Earthrise Apollo 8 Apollo 11 Apollo Conspiracies Debunked Cold War Space Race Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

Enhance your upper high school curriculum with our detailed teaching resource tailored for students investigating Castro’s rise to power and the Cuban Missile Crisis. This resource provides a thorough overview of Batista’s dictatorship, the inception of Castro’s M26 movement, his period in exile, and his eventual return to power. It also delves into Kennedy’s strategic responses and Castro’s alliances with the USSR, giving students a full spectrum of understanding. Designed to engage and assess, the resource includes a series of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) to help quickly evaluate student comprehension. This makes for an excellent, straightforward homework assignment or an in-class activity. Additionally, enrich your students’ learning with a featured extract from Max Hastings’ “Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis”, bringing an expert’s perspective into the classroom. This teaching resource is ideal for educators looking to provide a concise yet comprehensive look at a crucial period in modern history. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

The Cold War IGCSE Edexcel One lesson from over forty on the Cold War, designed for the IGCSE Edexcel specification but instantly transferable to any other GCSE (or non-GCSE) curriculum. It begins before the Second World War, with the origins of Communist thinking and the Russian Revolution and continues right through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR. Each lesson comes with a range of activities, keyword cards and assessments. Focus on developing analytical and writing skills. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

One lesson from a 6 part series of lessons on the history and development of the environmental movement. The lessons look at: • Apollo 8 and the Moonrise photo • Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” • The Montreal Protocol 1987 (The Ozone agreement) • The Paris Climate Agreement 2015 • The global development of Green political movements • The global development of environmental activism Each lesson is self contained, with all the resources required at the end of the PowerPoint. They are brilliant for a case study at the end of Year 9 History or for a higher level study of politics. We hope they help. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

This is one lesson from a series of 7 lessons that focus on the Space Race, From Sputnik to Apollo. Each lesson is fully resourced with anything that needs printing at the end of the PowerPoint ready in a print friendly format. The idea of this series of lessons is to introduce students to key historical skills using content they are familiar with and find engaging. We have had huge success with these lessons at Wolsey Academy with students often demanding that we teach more of them. The work produced from these lessons has also been exceptional, with the main activity in each lesson being scaffolded and supported in a number of ways. For details of each lesson please see below. If purchasing just one lesson, make sure you have seen the details for that one below. In the lesson preview you will see the lesson structure in the road map slide. We hope it helps. The 7 lessons: Sputnik 1957 Yuri Gagarin Project Mercury Earthrise Apollo 8 Apollo 11 Apollo Conspiracies Debunked Cold War Space Race Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

A KS3 lesson looking at the legacy of Christopher Columbus. It features: Mind map development task (starter and plenary) Video links, questions and stretch questions. 5 Columbus sources and analysis grid. Debate preparation and debate rules. PEEKA paragraph writing task - with scaffold, modelled paragraph and analysis of the model paragraph. A timed writing task (with pacman timer…) Extension tasks and further reading. Literacy support task WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps.

The Computer Revolution - Meant as a cross department study with the Humanities and ICT/Computer Science. This is 1 lesson from a series of 17 (see below). Each lesson is well constructed and fully resourced (all resources contained at the end of each PowerPoint to avoid multiple files). Lessons include a varied sequence of activities building up content and skills to answer a large essay question in lesson 17 on the nature of change and continuity thanks to the computer revolution, and a speculative discussion of the impact of future developments. The series also runs parallel to a 17 part ‘Guided Reading’ pack on the same topic. Each lesson is paired with an extended piece of computing literature – for ease these extracts have been included inside the PowerPoints but you can access the reading as a separate bundle, and for free at Wolsey Academy. The lessons are as follows: Enigma and Turing (free) The History of Women in Computing (free) The Microchip and Moore’s Law The PC, GUI and Microsoft How Video Games Shaped Our World Mid-Unit Test and Revision Impact of the Internet Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (free) Covid Track and Trace Quantum Computing (free) Artemis and Space X Facial Recognition Digital Divide DeepMind, AI, AlphaGo and ChatGPT (free) Emerging Technologies and their impact Cybersecurity case studies Revision keyword flash cards and essay assessment. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

The Computer Revolution - Meant as a cross department study with the Humanities and ICT/Computer Science. This is 1 lesson from a series of 17 (see below). Each lesson is well constructed and fully resourced (all resources contained at the end of each PowerPoint to avoid multiple files). Lessons include a varied sequence of activities building up content and skills to answer a large essay question in lesson 17 on the nature of change and continuity thanks to the computer revolution, and a speculative discussion of the impact of future developments. The series also runs parallel to a 17 part ‘Guided Reading’ pack on the same topic. Each lesson is paired with an extended piece of computing literature – for ease these extracts have been included inside the PowerPoints but you can access the reading as a separate bundle, and for free at Wolsey Academy. The lessons are as follows: Enigma and Turing (free) The History of Women in Computing (free) The Microchip and Moore’s Law The PC, GUI and Microsoft How Video Games Shaped Our World Mid-Unit Test and Revision Impact of the Internet Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (free) Covid Track and Trace Quantum Computing (free) Artemis and Space X Facial Recognition Digital Divide DeepMind, AI, AlphaGo and ChatGPT (free) Emerging Technologies and their impact Cybersecurity case studies Revision keyword flash cards and essay assessment. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

ICT > IGCSE > Edexcel > Unit 3 > Operating Online > Digital Communication Unit 3, Edexcel, IGCSE ICT. 26 Lessons in total – including three progress check & quiz lessons. These lessons were made for students in the Middle East and have a strong focus on EAL and keyword acquisition/application. Each lesson has 1-8 keywords on easy to use cards that fit into the lesson activity and also make excellent printable revision resources (the end of unit test lesson features them all in one place). Each lesson begins with a different active learning activity, a mini-plenary and a written or creative ICT task requiring the correct application of the keywords. All have stretch questioning to the main activities. All include keyword literacy worksheets. Wolsey Academy has had a lot of success with this SOW with EAL students who have really progressed in their understanding of the technical vocabulary involved with the ICT IGCSE. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps.

Quick and easy comprehension task for Christopher Columbus and a look at his legacy. Used with year 8 students as a homework task. Includes 5 questions (answers on second page) and an extension task. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

A lesson for year 7 (or any year group) to introduce the topic of UAE Social Studies and recap on the some basics of the UAE . It includes questions and prompts throughout, a time line card sort activity and it ends with a student led project on each Emirate - including a grading criteria. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. This lesson’s content includes: Where is the UAE? What are the names of the 7 Emirates The Sheikhs of the UAE The basic Government structure The basic timeline of the UAE Create a project on each Emirate Present your project and meet a criteria We hope it helps :)

This is one lesson from a series of 7 lessons that focus on the Space Race, From Sputnik to Apollo. Each lesson is fully resourced with anything that needs printing at the end of the PowerPoint ready in a print friendly format. The idea of this series of lessons is to introduce students to key historical skills using content they are familiar with and find engaging. We have had huge success with these lessons at Wolsey Academy with students often demanding that we teach more of them. The work produced from these lessons has also been exceptional, with the main activity in each lesson being scaffolded and supported in a number of ways. For details of each lesson please see below. If purchasing just one lesson, make sure you have seen the details for that one below. In the lesson preview you will see the lesson structure in the road map slide. We hope it helps. The 7 lessons: Sputnik 1957 Yuri Gagarin Project Mercury Earthrise Apollo 8 Apollo 11 Apollo Conspiracies Debunked Cold War Space Race Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Ideal for Royal Weddings/Coronations! Get your day off to a great start with a settled tutor session or a fun class reward activity. Also included is a bonus literacy question and an extension task that sees the pupils write a paragraph on the topic! 12 Members of the Royal Family and 3 Royal Palaces to guess plus the literacy questions. Hope it helps. Part of a range of tutor activities found at Wolsey Academy Have you tried one of Wolsey Academy’s Learning Worlds yet? Our Learning Worlds make for engaging homework and class tasks. Pupils take on the role of a protagonist and relive key historical or fictional events. From 1066 to the modern day. From Shakespeare to Orwell. We’re making Learning Worlds to cover them all - and plenty more besides. Told in a format pupils love they complete the tasks at home and come to class equipped with a completed taskbook – ready to delve deeper into the analysis and debate. Contact us at: thomas@wolseyacademy.com @wolseyacademy

A great little project for social studies students in the UAE. Students are guided through the steps needed to make their own UAE themed monopoly game, a great recap and revision task - or students can be asked to do their own research to begin with (e.g. what sort of attractions would they include, why, give some details etc). Then there are some templates at the end that can be blown up on a large A3 page to help them get started. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #betterteachingbetterplanet

A selection of MAD/DIRT time templates we have used in recent years for ICT, History and English - but can be easily adapted for any topic. Also includes a home made 5 minute lesson plan template. Hope it helps. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

11 x Past Papers 5 x Paper 1s, Sources and Mark Schemes (Rights and Protest) 3 x Paper 3s HL and Mark Schemes (Superpower Rivarly) 3 x Paper 3s HL and Mark Schemes (The Americas) The Great Depression, Politics in Latin America & The Cold War in the Americas Broken down into bitesize slides and mark schemes. Our students have found this approach to be much more manageable than the somewhat overwhelming IB past papers. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

8 PowerPoint based flag quizzes, each with a stretch literacy task. Qatar World Cup Flags 2022 Russia World Cup Flags 2018 African Flags European Flags American Flags Caribbean Flags Caribbean Territories Flags (Tough!) EU Flags Hope they help!

This is one lesson from a completely fully resourced and integrated series of 17 lessons on the Russian Revolution. It was designed for GCSE History but has also been used very effectively at KS3 level. Each lesson contains as a minimum: • Recap from previous lesson • Keyword flashcards (in a unique ‘Pokémon card style’ template!) • Writing skill challenges building up to fully developed PEEKA paragraphs (these increase in complexity as you move through the lessons) • Text with comprehension questions • A ‘reverse engineer’ essay question task. • A model paragraph with a ‘how can you improve?’ task • Stretch questions. • Video links. The 17 lessons are as follows: Russia and its discontents (free) 1905 Revolution (free) The First World War (free) Rasputin February Revolution Mod-Module Revision Tasks and Knowledge Check Provisional Government October Revolution Bolsheviks & Constituent Assembly Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russian Civil War Russian Civil War – Why did the Reds win? Russian Civil War – War Communism Russian Civil War – Kronstadt Naval Mutiny Russian Civil War – New Economic Policy Russian Civil War – Lenin’s Legacy End of unit – all revision cards, revision tasks, assessment questions, models and criteria. Hope they help. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet