Outstanding Lessons and smart tasks
This section comprises two parts: the main one is the series of outstanding, fully-resourced and described, lessons graded 1 by an OFSTED history inspector when they were grading individual lessons. You are given the learning objectives and every activity in sequence all with accompanying PowerPoint presentations and PDF files. The other lesson activities, from parts of lessons, are called smart tasks, exemplifying features of outstanding lessons and, again, all fully resourced.
Vikings – KQ6 – Raiders or settlers: how should we remember the Vikings?
Differing views of the Vikings Fun concluding lesson in which pupils produce a balanced, illustrated Zig-Zag book to please a…
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Primary History: Teaching Benin
When teaching this unit, you are advised to use the medium-term planner in the planning section which links the learning strategies…
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Primary History: Teaching Early Islam/Baghdad c.900
All the lessons featured below flow from the detailed medium-term planner. Each has been chosen to help pupils not only…
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Early Islamic civilization – KQ6 – Which of the early Islamic achievements has most effect on our lives today?
Key Question 6 consists of 2 Smart Tasks. Following a brief overview of the impact of early Islamic achievements on…
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Primary History: Teaching the Maya at Key Stage 2
Containing 6 motivating key questions, designed to bring out the central historical skills and concepts related to this topic, as…
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KS2 Quick Quiz on the Vikings
This exit task is a quick way of working out whether the key messages of your teaching about the Vikings…
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Teaching Life in Britain 1930-1945 at Key Stage 2
Inexplicably axed by Michael Gove from the curriculum, my advice is to carry on teaching this highly successful unit focusing…
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