This unit looks at changes in an aspect of social history, specifically** leisure and entertainment in the 20th Century.**
Lessons are titled:
All work and no play
Home entertainment
Dancing through the 20th Century
Theatre
Movies
Music
Fashion and influences
Radio
Television
Sport
Each lesson consists of a power point presentation and worksheet with activities.
A set of nine power point presentations and nine worksheets.
The unit covers the following:
Roman withdrawal from Britain
The invasion by the Scots from Ireland
The Invasion of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes
The Anglo-Saxons
Village life in an Anglo-Saxon settlement
Anglo Saxon Art and Culture
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Christianity and the Anglo Saxons
Some Early Christian Missions in Britain
This unit covers the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor, using power point slides and worksheets.
The nine lessons are entitled:
Who were the Vikings?
Viking Society
Viking Village life
Longboats
Raiding Britain
The Anglo-Saxons push back
The return of the Vikings
Edward the confessor and the end of Anglo-Saxon rule
Timeline of the struggle between the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
I have used this mainly with 8 to 9 year olds. There are nine power point presentations and nine worksheets.
Using power point slides, these nine lessons cover the topics:
Absolute Monarchy in Medieval Times
John II
The Magna Carta
Early beginnings of parliament
Early Meetings of Parliament
The rise of the Commons.
The House of Lords
The Commons and the Law
Timeline of the emergence of Parliament until 1510
There are worksheet activities for each lesson.
This unit has been used mainly with 12 to 13 year old students.
Used mainly with students aged 11+, this unit tells the story of the Norman conquest of England using power point slides. It details the kings, battles and changes to the lands, language and way of life. The worksheets can be used to consolidate knowledge and develop skills, comprehension and opinions.
There are 11 lessons.
This eight-lesson unit has been used mainly with year 7.
It covers the topics:
The Feudal System as a Political System
The Manor
The Medieval Castle
Medieval Villages and Towns
Guilds
Serfs and Peasants
Nobility
Knighthood
The slides can be used to introduce, illustrate and discuss the topics. There are worksheet activities interspersed with the informational slides to encourage reflection, allow students to give opinions, express their insight into the life and times and make links with the present day.
A nine lesson unit with power point slides and worksheets helps students to follow the reasons and sequence of events in the formulation of the
Elizabethan Religious Settlement and conflict with the Catholics
Used mainly with years 7 to 9 , lessons include the titles:
Mary I and Edward VI
Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne
Religious Settlement
Opposition to the Religious Settlement
Elizabeth and Scotland
The Catholic plots to assassinate Elizabeth
Causes of the Conflict with Spain
War in Ireland
Conflict with Spain
This series of slides and worksheets aims to promote the students’ understanding of what slavery means, a historical perspective of what happened, abolition and slavery today.
I have used this unit with year 7 and 8.
Used mainly with year 7 and 8 students, this unit, THE MALI EMPIRE, uses eight sets of slides to illustrate the history of this amazing empire.
The topics include: *
Timeline of the Empire from 1240 to 1468
The rise of the Mali Empire
The governance of the Empire of Mali
Trade
Culture
Mansa Musa I
Mali - a centre of learning
The Fall of the Empire
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Each lesson has worksheet activities interspersed throughout the slides, to focus attention and stimulate thinking.
This unit consists of eleven lessons aimed at students in Year 7 to 10, Grade 6 to 9. Each lesson has power point slides and worksheets.
Topics include:
The Power of the Catholic Church
Causes of the Reformation
Timeline of the Reformation
Martin Luther
Huldrych Zwingli
English Reformation – Henry VIII
English Reformation - Henry VIII the Supreme Head of the Church
English Reformation - Henry VIII Establishing the Church of England
English Reformation – Bloody Mary and Elizabeth I
John Calvin
John Knox
Ten sets of power point slides trace the journey to independence from British rule up to to the second continental congress.
There are activities interspersed amongst the slides and presented in worksheet form for each lesson.
This unit has been used with Year 6, 7 and 8.
Starting with a Timeline of Events this unit describes the settlement of Europeans in North America.
Topics following include:
Reasons for the European settlements
Establishing colonies
Life for early settlers
Pocahontas
War with Native American tribes
The arrival of the Quakers in the United States.
The beginning of King Phillip’s War.
The conclusion of King Phillip’s War
The Bacon Rebellion
King William’s War
The Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693
Power point slides for every lesson make presentation easy and there are worksheet activities for each lesson.
A series of lessons about the characters and events central to the War of the Roses. The topics include:
The House of Lancaster and the Hundred Years’ War
The House of York
Civil war begins
The struggle for a Yorkist crown
Edward V and Richard III
Henry Tudor and Battle of Bosworth Field
Timeline of the War of the Roses
I have used these lessons mainly with Year 7 students. Each topic has a power point presentation and lesson activities.
Used mainly for students aged 11 plus, this unit gives a clear outline of the Hundred Years’ War, including the topics:
Context of the Hundred Year War
Timeline of the Hundred Years’ War
The build-up and causes to the war
Edwardian Era War 1337 to 1360
The Caroline War 1369 to 1389
The Lancastrian War 1415 to 1453
Joan of Arc
Results of the War
Each topic is presented using power point sides with activities interspersed. There are worksheets for each topic.
This unit has fourteen stories, each with a set of learning activities. These include comprehension questions, drawings, making deductions, a crossword, writing paragraphs, expressing opinions, making predictions and some creative writing.
I have used these with 7 to 10 year old students. I have also used them while teaching the about Vikings in history.
TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY – THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN is a unit studying a significant turning point in British history. This is an aspect of British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Eleven lessons with slides and worksheets cover the following topics:
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party
Nazi expansion in Europe
The War and the rise of Winston Churchill
Fall of France and the Dunkirk miracle
Operation Sea Lion
German aircraft and bombing
British defences and aircraft
The Battle of Britain
Winning the battle
Women heroes of the Battle of Britain
The “Few”
This seven lesson unit carries the students through the why and how of a turning point in history – Pearl Harbor.
Lesson topics, with slides and worksheets:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes President
A Changing World
The League of Nations
The Road to Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Pearl Harbor Attacked
America enters the War
Follow the path of the English campaigns against Scotland and Wales, from 1066.
Ten lessons with learning activities and ten power point presentations. The unit covers:
Scotland and Wales at the time of William the Conqueror
The relationship between England and Wales
The relationship between England and Scotland
The establishment of the Welsh Marches
Edward I’s conquering of Wales
The aftermath of the defeat of Wales
Edward I’s control of Scotland
Rebellion: William Wallace
Resistance: Robert the Bruce of Scotland
Continuing conflict
Used mainly with Year 7 / Grade 6.
This is a five lesson unit describing the time in British history, between monarchs.
Lesson titles are:
The establishment of the Commonwealth
The Rise of Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector
Richard Cromwell
Life during the Interregnum
It has been used mainly with years 7, 8 and 9.
I have used this series of lessons with students aged 12 to 14. The power point slides are full of information for teaching the topic and there are learning activities for each lesson.
Lessons cover the following:
James I and Charles I
Personal Rule and the Causes of Rebellion (1629 to 1640)
The Bishops Wars and the Return of Parliament (1640 to 1642)
The Beginning of the First Civil War
The Advance of the Parliamentarians
The Second Civil War – the capture, escape, recapture, trial, and execution of Charles I
Timeline of Charles I’s reign
Conflict in Ireland and Scotland
The Third Civil War