I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
A collection of schemes of work and resources for KS2 History in one easy place.
Included so far are schemes of work for:
Maya
Industrial Revolution (Combined with Geography)
Battle of Britain
Local Study of Nottingham Castle
Skills sessions
The Interwar Years
Also included are assessment grids that work as best fit and a range of fact files/ knowledge organisers that can be stuck in books at the start of a topic.
An academic poster that explores routes of how to spend the sport premium to ensure that the impact is felt in school years after the funding has stopped. Created over three years ago, but still relevant in terms of ensuring outstanding physical education across schools and ensuring that funding is spent in a sustainable manner.
A range of reading comprehensions linked to famous people, either currently or from a period of history including politicians, scientists and activists.
A bundle of reading comprehensions related to famous people that links to any work around Black History Month, focussing on significant figures and their lives whilst also developing comprehension abilities.
Two fully planned and resourced schemes of work for writing information texts.
Included are:
Fully planned, differentiated and resourced unit of work looking at information texts, writing an information text about the white elephant from The Firework-Maker's Daughter. Included are all the slides, planning and resources needed to run each lesson, with 10 lessons that focus on key features of information texts and work on different skills before completing their own independent writing. Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable between Year 3 and Year 7.
Skills include: planning, reading comprehension, using generalisers, peer-assessing writing, creating a glossary and structuring a text with sub-headings and a topic phrase.
Fully planned, differentiated and resourced unit of work looking at information texts. Included are all the slides, planning and resources needed to run each lesson, with 14-15 lessons that focus on key features of information texts and work on different skills before completing their own independent writing. Written for Year 5 but easily adaptable between Year 3 and Year 7.
Skills include: researching and planning, reading comprehension, using generalisers, creating a glossary and structuring a text with sub-headings and a topic phrase.
Also included are a set of guided reading activity cards.
A simple set of letters that can be used as a peer marking code for children to use when assessing others writing. These are basic but are effective for getting children to consider the key elements of the writing and being able to mark it quickly and effectively.
They could also be used for staff to mark writing with children then responding to these to improve their own, whilst saving time writing lengthy comments.
Writing moderation grids that include all the statements for the three standards from the newly released writing assessment framework for the 2017-18 academic year for Key Stage Two.
A list of stories that link History and English together. This certainly isn't a comprehensive list but gives a good start to finding stories that link to historical topics.
Topics include:
Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt, with Prehistoric stories included
Vikings and the Middle Ages
16th and 17th Century
18th and 19th Century
1900-1939
World War Two and Post-War Britain
U.S.A History
An eleven lesson sequence that gives a brief introduction and overview of events in Europe following the end of the First World War. The sequence will focus on the end of the war and what followed with the Treaty of Versailles, some of the key events in the 1920's, the change in British politics, the rise of Hitler and the following actions that broke the Treaty of Versailles and policy of appeasement. All of the resources needed to run the lessons are included such as presentations and activities as well as the planning. These lessons have been written with upper KS2 and lower KS3 in mind but should be easily adaptable for KS4 students as well.
Lesson 1 - Chronological order
Lesson 2 - The Treaty of Versailles
Lesson 3 - The Treaty of Versailles
Lesson 4 - The Dawes Plan
Lesson 5 - Changes in British politics
Lesson 6 - Wall Street Crash/ Great Depression
Lesson 7 - Rise of Hitler
Lesson 8 - Propaganda/ Source Analysis
Lesson 9 - Revoking the Treaty of Versailles
Lesson 10 - Appeasement
Lesson 11 - Evaluating Appeasement
Also included is a brief knowledge organiser as well as a diamond 9 activity to evaluate the Treaty of Versailles.
Teach children all about materials with this block of differentiated lesson plans and resources.
These six lessons ensure children cover a variety of activities whilst ensuring curriculum coverage.
Lesson One - Grouping different materials
Lesson Two - Materials as insulators
Lesson Three - Materials as conductors
Lesson Four - Dissolving
Lesson Five - Separating a mixture of materials
Lesson Six - Reversible and irreversible changes
A range of quizzes that are useful for the end of the year or as general activities.
Quizzes include:
A quiz that gets children to try and identify 30 different flags from around the world. A fun geography activity for the end of the year or as a general activity to check knowledge of different flags.
A British History quiz that includes 20 questions about British history, including a range of topics and spanning over 1000 years. Also included is a bonus round worth up to an extra 23 points. This is useful for some end of term fun or as a general quiz to check children's general knowledge of British history and can be done individually or in teams.
A European History quiz that includes 20 questions about European history, including a range of topics and spanning over 2000 years. Also included is a bonus round worth up to an extra 28 points. This is useful for some end of term fun or as a general quiz to check children's general knowledge of European history and can be done individually or in teams.
A multiple choice quiz that children can do in teams as a fun end of year activity looking at various events in 2016-2017.
Round One- Sporting events
Round Two- Film questions
Round Three- Picture Round
Round Four- Song Round - Name the artist and name of the song with a point for each (Freedom in this round of selecting a number of songs yourself from 2016-2017 to quiz children on)
Round Five- Music Round
Round Six- Television Round
A multiple choice general knowledge quiz that has 26 questions before finishing with 2 bonus rounds with a point per answer available.