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High school social studies resources in English (UK) $5-10
Women of History Inventors - Activities for Teens
Are you looking for some unique teen activities for Women's History month? Women have invented some incredible things to make our world a better place, but so many of these are unknown!
This resource highlights some of our amazing women inventors, to show our young students that anyone can achieve great things, regardless of gender.
There are 2 parts to the resource: a PowerPoint presentation with information to teach them about the inventors and what inspired them to invent their products. Th
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4th - 9th
All the Light We Cannot See Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. The pack has been designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6.ABOUT THE NOVEL: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant N
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7th - 9th
Project British Culture and Politics
This workbook contains a project on British Culture and Politics. It encourages students to discover the system and challenges then to come up with their own party and to get as many votes as they can from their classmates, all based on their ideas and campaign.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Significant People of the Harlem Renaissance Quotes Posters-Black History Month
Significant People of the Harlem Renaissance Quotes Posters-Black History MonthSignificant People of the Harlem Renaissance Quotes PostersHow can I use this resource?Teachers can use Significant People of the Harlem Renaissance Quotes Posters to introduce students to the key figures of the Harlem Renaissance and Black history.Posters can be displayed throughout the year, during Black History Month, or to celebrate artists, entertainers, and writers.Significant People of the Harlem Renaissance Qu
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Black History Month bundle Bulletin Board Project Posters and Activities
Editable Danger of a Single Story Google Slides, Quiz Questions & Exam Practice
This resource contains everything you need to teach Danger of a Single Story. Based on the Edexcel GCSE English Language curriculum, but easily adaptable to any curriculum that you teach, this product contains:- 60 Editable Google Slides with notes on each slide containing tips for how to use the information for different classes- Interactive quizzes and activities with answer keys included - Printable PDF versions of all activities - Engaging starter activity - Definitions and questions on how
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Editable Edexcel IGCSE English Language Paper 1 Resource Bundle
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The changing face of Britain from 1960s to 1980s
The changing face of Britain from 1960s to 1980s. A description of all the aspects involved: political transformation, social and cultural changes, economic shift, technology advancement, social unrest and activism. It is a short video to give a general view of the main events of that time.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Berry Pickers Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop with The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.About the Novel: A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that remains unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, is seen sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of a field before mysteriousl
Grades:
6th - 9th
Readers Theater High School WW1 History Drama Script Unit With Tasks
And Then We Were At War... is a short, sympathetic, stage script that explores the conflicts and incidents that led to the start of World War 1.Suitable for ages 12+Cast size: 30 Can increase cast size to 40 with additional non-speaking roles for each countryCan reduce cast size to 20 by asking some students to play more than one role and dividing lines between the remaining cast membersRunning time: approx. 25 minutes.And Then We Were At War... is a short stage script which covers the time peri
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6th - 11th
ESL Wales Unit / Cymru Unit (Land of Castles)
Looking for the best way to start the year with your students? This Land of Castles unit is the perfect solution to learn in a fun and engaging way while revising some basics, finding out more about Welsh landmarks and learning new words and expressions.The Land of Castles UnitA complete unit to teach your students everything they need to know about Wales! This unit includes a special unit menu for your students, worksheets, two intermediate tasks, a final task, lists of words...Available in thi
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: ESL United Kingdom & Ireland Unit Bundle (Ireland, England and Wales)
Chinese New Year icebreaker game BUNDLE main idea activity independent work 7th
Chinese New Year independent work BUNDLE, China Asia Asian activities game BUNDLE icebreaker game, worksheet activities. Have a fun time with this Activity Pack for Classroom speech activity for icebreaker games. This game is great for all ages 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th grade, Kid Education, early finishers, homeschool, Nursery school, Primary school, Junior high school, high school, and Middle school. It includes Printables Logic Puzzles for Kids, Mazes, word searches, Would you ra
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4th - 12th
Introduction to Sociology - Introduction Unit - L1/12 - GCSE Sociology (KS4)
This is one of twelve lessons comprising the 'Introduction Unit' for the new GCSE Sociology specifications (suitable for AQA, & WJEC/EDUQAS)You can buy my complete KS4 Sociology units, ready to download on Tes: https://goo.gl/NfTNkyThis is the first lesson, it introduced the concept of Sociology and asks: "What is Sociology?" and "Why is Sociology Important?"This download includes:-A detailed lesson plan: highlighting differentiation, AfL, key-words, SMSC and a timeline of learning activitie
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8th - 12th
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Bonfire Night Activities: Gun Powder Plot / Guy Fawkes Night (5th November!)
This ‘Bonfire Night’ resource for teens will teach your students about the British History of the Gun Powder plot and why 400 years later, every 5th November fireworks are set off and bonfires are lit across the UK!
The PowerPoint and worksheets are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation from you and give plenty of activities to fill the week leading up to Bonfire Night!
You can go through the PowerPoint first to give students background information, and then either work throug
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5th - 9th
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock BUNDLE
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with the novels The Smell of Other Peoples Houses and Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock.ABOUT THE RESOURCE: This pack includes: Chapter Summaries, Comprehension Questions, Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies), Creative Writing Tasks, and Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novels.Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is ava
Grades:
6th - 9th
Black History Month: Guess The Hero Game
Black History Month Game: Guess The Hero!Your students will really enjoy learning more about some famous black history heroes such as Martin Luther King Jr, with this fun “Guess It” game which works like "Guess Who"! This is very versatile and so is appropriate for a wide range of ages, abilities and topics. For younger students, it can be used as a simple characteristics game, great for building vocabulary whilst familiarizing themselves with some of the most famous heroes of black history.Olde
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4th - 10th
Schizophrenia : Symptoms and features - A LEVELS
Schizophrenia and symptoms notes for clinical psychology EDEXCEL A LEVELApplicable for AQA CIE OCR IAL EDEXCEL
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ethnicity, Crime & Criminality - Crime & Deviance L8/20 (GCSE Sociology)
Professionally designed for the new AQA Sociology GCSE specification (8192) taught from September 2017. It can be purchased as a part of a complete 20 x lesson bundle (https://ks4sociology.wordpress.com)This is lesson 8 of our 20 lesson course for the 'Sociology of Crime & Deviance' section; it refers to the 'Factors Affecting Criminal & Deviant Behaviour' topic. The lesson focuses on links between criminality and ethnicity. It addresses the question: "Are the apparent differences in cri
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green GablesBy Lucy Maud MontgomeryA skinny, red-headed girl was not what Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert had in mind when they decided to adopt an orphaned boy to help around the farm. But from the moment she arrives at Green Gables, Anne Shirley knows she’s found her home . . . and is determined to do whatever it takes to win Marilla and Matthew over.But will Anne’s knack for getting into scrapes cracking her slate over a boy’s head at school, falling off the roof of a friend’s house, and
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K - 12th
Small Group Readers Theater WW2 British History Drama Script Unit With Tasks
Sausages For Tea is a mini drama stage script that explores an aspect of home life in Britain during WW2. Suitable for ages 10+Cast size: 7 (includes 1 non-speaking named role)Can increase cast size to 10 with additional non-speaking Shop Customers Can reduce cast size to 6 by not including any non-speaking roles Running time: approx. 25 minutes. Sausages For Tea is a short stage script set in Britain during World War 2. The play shows the story of one family's experiences during an air raid in
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4th - 9th
Plastic pollution project - in school.
This is a large project which could take up many lesson. I normally do this over at least 3, 1 hour lessons. There is a range of activities - a investigation and the write up. This product has a range of activities target a wide variety of learning styles which are easily followed through by any non specialist or specialist teacher. The resources are aimed to engage, enthuse and challenge students whilst being easily adaptable to suit your students.
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4th - 9th
Also included in: What are we doing to the environment?
Eduqas GCSE Sociology (UK): Crime & Deviance - Theoretical Views
A 13 slide PowerPoint presentation that covers a range of sociological theories and their views on crime and deviance. The resource is designed to be delivered to students in a ‘lead from the front’ lesson / revision session format and should take approx. 100 mins to deliver. It includes:A starter taskGuidance to students on how to take notes from the lessonThe Functionalist view (Durkheim, Merton, Collective Sentiments, Anomie, Strain Theory)Feminist view (Heidensohn, McRobbie, Female Conformit
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
AQA 9-1 Knowledge Organiser - The Living World
A comprehensive Knowledge Organiser that covers all the content required for Section B Paper 1 of the AQA GCSE Paper. This resource covers the hot desert option with copies that use either the Thar or Sahara Case Studies. The 10 page document breaks down into three convenient sections:1. Introduction and Global Biomes2. The Rainforest3. Deserts and Desertification.The booklet can be used as a standalone resource , divided into three sections or used as 1 page lesson summaries making it very flex
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7th - 10th
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History of jeans Project
Learn a lot about history of jeans.
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7th - 9th
Also included in: Clothes Activities Bundle
Eduqas GCSE Sociology (UK): Key terms in Differentiation (Strat/Diff)
20 slides on key terms in the Stratification and Differentiation unit and features definitions, examples and sociologists.Can be used by teachers as a revision exercise in class/for homework, or by students as an independent revision resource.Key terms included: 1. Status 2. Life chances 3. Social construction 4. Stereotyping 5. Prejudice 6. Discrimination 7. Institutional racism 8. Ageism 9. Homophobia 10. Patriarchy 11. Scapegoating 12. Glass ceiling 13. Legislation / policy 14. Media represen
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
GCSE AQA 9-1: Unit 1C Glacial Landscapes in the UK -Complete Revision Booklet.
12 page self contained revision booklet that covers the whole unit. Designed for the AQA 9-1 Course. Key content is summarised and then students are asked to complete various exercises to consolidate their understanding. No more preparation is required but the booklet is easily editable to adapt it to the particular needs of your students. Editable PPt (formatted for A4 printing) and PDF versions included.Ready to use with no other resources required.Booklet has been designed so that individu
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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