Twenty eight legends and origins are presented in this unit. Each chapter has interesting activities, including: exploring characters, writing paragraphs, completing flow charts, giving opinions, linking history and legends, drawing and labeling.

This is a five-part grammar program for children from seven through to eleven years old. The program consists of: First steps in grammar Walking confidently in grammar Striding out in grammar Running hard in Grammar Sprinting in Grammar Each level offers lessons with learning activities. There are power point presentations to aid each lesson. This program consists of 125 lessons divided up into age-level appropriate stages from seven-year-olds to eleven-year-olds. Each lesson has learning activities to consolidate understanding. There are 125 power point presentations altogether.

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.

These myths and stories from ancient Egypt can be used on their own, purely as literature and comprehension, or to give colour and background to a study of ancient Egypt. There are seventeen stories, each with activities (see thumbnails for the types of activities). I have used these with 8 to 10 year old students. Often, after we have used some in the class, they ask for more, which is always rewarding for a teacher!

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.

This unit aims to help students continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of British history, noting in particular, the influence of the “Romanisation” of Britain and evidence of this that is visible today. This unit contains power point presentations and worksheets for each of the following topics: The beginning of the Roman Empire From king to senate to emperor Britain during the Roman Empire The Roman army in 42 AD. The Roman conquest and occupation of Britain Boudicca Comparing the Roman and Celtic way of life Romanisation of Britain Early Christianity Fall of Rome Some ways that the Romans have influenced the world

A unit in which students explore and identify the way sound is made through vibration and find out how the pitch and volume of sounds can be changed. Using power point presentations, practical activities and worksheets, students identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases. This unit has been used mainly with 8 to 9 year old students. The activities require some everyday items including some musical instruments for the students to work with.

ELECTRICITY Used for 10 to 11 year olds, this interesting unit is presented using power point slides and worksheets with activities to support learning. Topics: Reminder - What is electricity? Current and Voltage? Important electrical components Investigating voltage and electrical conductors The power of fruit and vegetables Investigating resistance Making a wire loop game Drawing circuits Making circuits work

This unit is suitable for 7 to 8/9 year olds. It has mostly been used in year 3. It requires different types of magnets plus some everyday objects in order to complete the activities. There are six lesson power point presentations and six worksheets with activities and on which to record investigations. Topics include: How do they move? Friction Don’t touch! Attract or Repel Magnetic or Non-Magnetic How we use Magnets

A unit of instruction studying the events of the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945 and that this is known as the Holocaust. The aim is to enable students to understand the history and to understand that genocide is a consequence of prejudice and discrimination. This unit is suitable for year 6. Lesson topics include: Offering hope while spreading hate Nazis - ethnicity and religion Nazis and the Jews Ghettos The Wannsee conference Extermination Camps The story of the Frank family

The curriculum revisits the topic of LIGHT at different stages of the Student’s development. Students build on their prior learning to assimilate new concepts. This unit extends the concepts and ideas studied at about age 7 to 9. It covers the topics: How light appears How we see Shadows and light Reflections Making a periscope Refraction Power point presentations scaffold students through the concepts, investigations and activities. Activities are presented in worksheet form with notes and areas for diagrams, comprehension and recording of investigations.

Aimed at Year 5/6, this unit explores forces and motion. There are slides, activities and worksheets to support learning and understanding. One lesson draws attention to Sir Isaac Newton and his contribution to mathematics and science. Topics include: What is a force? Balanced and unbalanced forces Gravity Friction Air resistance Forces acting on aeroplanes Water resistance Levers Pulleys Gears Isaac Newton

Aimed at 5 to 6 year olds, this unit covers the objectives for early learning of history. I have used it with Year 1. The topics help students to group according to different criteria related to history understand what evidence is experience collecting evidence chronicle the development of toys on a simple time line while developing a concept of where they fit in the time line and record using a graph, drawings and labels and time lines. Topics include: Our Favourite Toys Finding out about the Past Toys from different Decades All children played with Toys! Years and Years of Toys Time lines Each topic starts with power point slides and is followed by a worksheet of 2 to 3 pages. Teachers may also choose to do some of the activities between slides.

Properties and Changes in Materials is a ten part unit. It consists of ten lessons with activities on worksheets and ten power point presentations. The topics covered in the unit are: Describing the Properties of Materials Hardness of Materials Transparent, Translucent or Opaque Materials Solubility Electrical Conductivity Thermal Conductivity Magnetic materials Mixing and dissolving of materials Reversible and irreversible changes Separating materials Filtration, Evaporation and Sieving

Five power point presentations and five worksheets presents the topic of light to students to enable them to • recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light • notice that light is reflected from surfaces • recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes • recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object • find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change This has been used mainly for Year 3.

In the course of seven presentations and seven worksheets, this unit helps students to: recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Fossils as scientific evidence Mary Anning Adaptation Evolution Charles Darwin Genetics Chromosomes and DNA Reproduction and inheritance

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

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”

With the festive season imminent, this unit gives a good overview of the origins of festivals celebrated at the end of the year, how these festivals are celebrated and some of the connections between festivals. Themes such as lights, feasts and activities are considered. There are seven power point presentations and seven worksheets covering the following end of year celebrations: Origins of festivals Diwali Thanksgiving Hanukkah Winter Solstice (Yule tide) Christmas New Year

In developing their historical perspective, students learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally for example, the first aeroplane flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited with inventing the airplane. They were the first to make a successful human flight with a craft that was powered by an engine and was heavier than air. This unit tells their story: Meet the Family Growing Up It’s off to Work we Go! Building Gliders Building Planes There are five power point presentations and five worksheets.