This activity is designed to aid student writing and build up literacy. Students roll a pair of dice and find the emoji that corresponds to this, they then have to use the emoji in their first sentence e.g. If they landed on the crown it could be “The King’s barons stormed into the village collecting men for his army.” They then repeat to find out their next topic to include. This works well as a way of building literacy into a lesson or I usually print these out and set this as a homework task. Setting a maximum and minimum amount of rolls, and setting a competition to create the most creative story.

This sheet recaps the voting patterns in Supreme Court cases. As well as their nomination and confirmation statistics.

This lesson looks at the reasons why the war ended and how the peace talks were carried out and what was agreed. This lesson is very teacher led but with some activities for students to carry out. There is a work sheet for them to fill in as the PowerPoint is gone through (only if needed, I gave it to students who struggle with presentation and need some sentence starters). There are challenge tasks to stretch students.

Created for a revision task where students roll dice to decide upon an emoji and must then link it in someway to something we have learnt about the topic e.g House = Model villages such as Bournville and Port Sunlight or fire = cauterization. It worked well with by lower ability students having something to visualize we then began explaining and describing in more detail. Students take it in turns rolling the dice if they land on the someone as someone else they need to think of a different connection. I have also used this in lesson in conjunction with some of my other revision board games

A great activity to get students to recap and revise a topic in history. Print the emoji grids off onto paper or sticker paper. Printing 9 slides to a page works perfectly. Students stick the emoji review sheet into their books and annotate the images linking them to the topic they have been studying. Students have to think about what they have learnt. Students can then be challenged to make links between the different points they make. For example for a topic on the USA, the Beer would link to Prohibition and students would then describe prohibition. For medicine through time the slot machine may represent the factor of luck and students would then explain how luck impacted medicine. It had been made to allow for a wide scope of topics but you can easily switch and change some of the emojis to make it more relevant.

A chronology activity for the korean war (Conflict and tension) styled around the tv show play your cards right. Students have to say whether each event came before or after the previous one, click on them to reveal the date.

These cards are simple, print and laminate. All you need to do is buy scratch card stickers, easy to find on the internet, and place them on the cards over the reward words. Or you can mix silver paint and fairy liquid and paint on them and this can be scratched off. These work well as prizes in lessons as students are excited to see what they have won. Used them for rewards for good lesson work and homework

A resource that works well for a recap topic. Students then roll dice and answer the question or describe/give facts/ explain the topic. Works well as a revision task at the end of a topic.

A plenary task inspired by GET ME OUT OF HERE. Students choose a plate and if its a creepy crawly they answer a question if its a star they choose another person to answer.

I always struggle when planning what homework should be set and then moaning about having increased my own workload with more marking. So I created this to solve those problems, every so often I get students to take this sheet home and to explain to an adult at home what they have learnt. The parents them comment what has been explained to them to ensure they have done it. I then expanded it to allow parents to have a dialogue and ask any questions about their child’s learning and work. This helped to increase parental engagement which was low and reduced marking on Homework. I have done this with all different years. I allowed students to also do this with other members of staff including their tutors and homework club if they have issues at home.

Print out, cut up, fold in half, laminate and add to key ring. I leave these on the table in resources trays with other things such as glues, scissors, pens etc. I use these for multiple choice questions to get quick AFL for factual recall. I pose the question for 1 min then the answers come up and students have to hold up the correct answer card. These can also be used for voting in class and in debates

There is two different version for this recap lesson with very different tasks. Choose which one would best fit your class A lesson that recaps the methods William used to keep control, culminating in students answering a GCSE style question about which method was the most important to William’s reign over England. A writing frame is included to help with less able students. Students look at the problems William faced and try and work out which method would have solved it. There are help sheets to prompt students.

Instructions Students take it in turns to shoot down key words. Students must define key words if they are correct they can click the bulls-eyes and it will be shot at. Or Students can be timed and see how many can be shot down within a minute. The high scorers name and score can be included in the white boxes.

Students press the spin button and what ever it lands on students have to write down as much as they can remember about that topic. Words can be changed as class learns more. Every time the button is pressed it will land on a different word.

A timer that works well for spotlight and quickfire questioning. Choose one student to sit in front of the projected screen whilst other students then have a minute to ask as many questions before the Zombie moves forward and attacks. The screen flickers and the zombie moves bit by bit. This works well for a competition to see how many questions each student can answer. Comes with Zombie Sound effects which can be switched off if desired.

A timer that works well for spotlight and quickfire questioning. Choose one student to sit in front of the projected screen whilst other students then have a minute to ask as many questions before the crying angel moves forward and attacks. This works well for a competition to see how many questions each student can answer. Have introduced a leader board for each class. Comes with sound effects with eerie music which can be switched off if desired.

A timer that works well for spotlight and quickfire questioning. Choose one student to sit in front of the projected screen whilst other students then have a minute to ask as many questions before the mummy moves forward and attacks. This works well for a competition to see how many questions each student can answer. Have introduced a leader board for each class. Comes with sound effects with Egyptian tomb themed music which can be switched off if desired.

Split the class into groups. Students must pick the key words that they think are the hardest as these are worth most marks. Students take turns going through the key words the team with the highest score wins.

This lesson approaches the Titanic from a different angle looking at what the titanic reveals about the Edwardian period. Students look at a range of sources from pictures, menus, etc to back up points about the Edwardian. There is a worksheet, GCSE styled question, with sentence starters and a model answer. Students also have a literacy focus where they need to correct mistakes to the model answer. The homework tasks involve students getting given a passenger to investigate. Students loved this as each student got a unique passenger with their own boarding pass which they fed back their findings to in the next lesson.

A lesson aimed at students learning about the main long term causes of the First World War, looking at Militarism, Alliance, Imperialism and Nationalism. Students build up their knowledge and then practice a GCSE describe question about each. There are sentence starters and key words for each question for the lower ability and challenge tasks for each activity to stretch your top end.