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 this popular two-week unit for Year 5/6 based on 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and other poetry by Tennyson.
In this unit, pupils will read and listen to the dramatic poems 'The Kraken' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. Pupils will consider how the sounds and language patterns come alive when the poems are read aloud. Children will work towards creating their own poems about heroic battles and then they will perform them aloud.
The aims of the unit for pupils are:
• To listen to classic and narrative poems by Tennyson
• To identify poetic devices and to explain their effects
• To research the literary influences of classic poetry
• To prepare and perform a poem to an audience
• To engage with a poet’s use of imaginative language to create battle scenes.
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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The Listeners Poetry Planning Pack
Victorian Poetry Planning Pack
The Raven Poetry Planning Pack
8 classic poems for Easter performances, suitable for primary school children to learn or perform. Themes range from Christianity to Easter bunnies to spring flowers.
Brilliant to use in the classroom or for an Easter assembly, performance or service.
Bronze Age Lesson Plans for KS2
The plans are taken from our popular
Stone Age to Iron Age Resource Pack.
Includes full lesson plans with Powerpoint slides and pupil resources/worksheets.
1. Introduction: What does Prehistory Mean?
This lesson puts the Bronze Age in context by introducing the period of British history from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Pupils will make a timeline to set this period into the wider context of British History and they will discover how we break up this period into distinct ages.
2. How did bronze replace stone in the Bronze Age?
This lesson looks at the changes between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, including the implications of the discovery of bronze and the process of how bronze was made. Pupils will find out why bronze was so important and they will create their own flowcharts to record the process of how it was made.
3. What do grave goods tell us about the Bronze Age?
In this lesson pupils will find out about how people in the Bronze Age were buried alongside some objects that were important to them. Pupils will reflect upon how artefacts found in Bronze Age burial sites can give us information about what life was like in this period. This lesson also introduces the idea that not all artefacts survive over time and invites pupils to sum up their learning by exploring the grave of the Amesbury Archer.
You may also like our other Stone Age planning resources:
Stone Age Boy Literacy Planning
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth Literacy Planning
Stone Age to Iron Age planning bundle of all 3 packs
Instructions for making a model woolly mammoth.
This resource could be used as a DT lesson to go with the Stone Age topic, as a stand alone fun project or as a part of literacy work about instructional texts.
This is a fun introduction to verbal or written instructions in literacy. Pupils give each other instructions to draw the pictures on the cards and see how closely they can match the real picture!
A bundle of resources based on Tennyson's sea monster poem 'The Kraken', including a week-long unit plan, a copy of the poem, worksheets and activities.
The activity allows pupils to look at the poetic devices used in Poe's 'The Raven' and to investigate how each device contributes to the changing poetic mood.
This activity helps pupils to collect evidence from Poe's 'The Raven' poem to help them to decide whether this
type of poetry is lyric. They can then use this to prepare for a written argument or a class debate.
