Wolsey Academy, a proud Gold TES author, offers a wide array of resources for History, ICT, and Business Studies, all designed to work 'off the shelf'. This makes them perfect for busy teachers who need ready-to-use, effective materials that engage students through unique interactive games. Our resources ensure a seamless integration into the classroom, providing a high-quality educational experience without the need for extensive preparation.
Wolsey Academy, a proud Gold TES author, offers a wide array of resources for History, ICT, and Business Studies, all designed to work 'off the shelf'. This makes them perfect for busy teachers who need ready-to-use, effective materials that engage students through unique interactive games. Our resources ensure a seamless integration into the classroom, providing a high-quality educational experience without the need for extensive preparation.
A series of 10 lessons used recently to teach middle and high school classes. There is a great range of activities and the students really engaged with the subject. Each lesson is fully resourced and ready to teach from the box. Each includes options for adaption up or down depending on class level. Each lesson builds up students’ skills ready for an assessment in lesson 10, but also develops soft skills of group work, presentation, research and problem-solving.
The lessons are as follows:
• Raiders or Settlers? Push and Pull Factors
• Viking Mythology & Top Trumps
• Women in the Viking Age
• Trade and Longboats
• Lindisfarne
• Edmund the Martyr
• Bluetooth, Forkbeard & Canute
• The Kyivan Rus
• The Viking Discovery of America
• Assessment
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Industrial Revolution:
A Wolsey Academy Scheme of Work on the Industrial Revolution. Target is KS3 but all assessments throughout are GCSE and use Edexcel criteria. Each lesson contains a lesson plan, quick start guide, printable resources, mini plenaries, challenge questions, mark schemes, writing frames, lots of differentiation, a nice mix of activity types and a lesson specific EAL activity sheet. There are 14 lessons in total, but each lesson has enough material to last 2 or 3 lessons for even high ability classes.
Most lessons include some high-level source analysis.
The lessons also include a link to a site hosting a self-marking End of Unit quiz and a revision guide which make for nice homework activities. The SOW has been used for several years (with continual updates and improvements) at a very successful History department in an outstanding school.
If used at KS3 it also acts as a grounding for any History of Medicine modules they might encounter at KS4 (hence the focus on public health and inventions).
The SOW covers the following topics:
Introduction to the Industrial Revolution (free)
Population Boom (free)
Factories
Coal Mining
Transport
Robert Stephenson
Industrial Revolution inventors
Child Labour
Public Health Problems
Public Health Solutions & Government Intervention
Source Question on the Big Stink
Luddites
British Empire
Source Question on Empire
William Cuffay & The Chartists (Black History Month lesson)
Causes of Indian Independence
All Guided Reading Challenges (24 in total - 6 of which directly relevant to the Industrial Revolution & Empire)
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Explore our comprehensive collection of History, ICT, and Business Studies materials, expertly crafted for immediate classroom use. Perfect for time-pressed educators, our resources are designed to be ‘off the shelf,’ ensuring they can be seamlessly integrated into any lesson plan. They are crafted to captivate students with unique interactive games and high-quality content that demands no prior preparation.
In addition to traditional materials, we occasionally employ AI to create visually compelling illustrative images and to design adaptive writing frames and activities, enhancing the educational impact and engagement in your classroom. Explore Wolsey Academy’s resources today to elevate your teaching experience and contribute to global good causes.
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The first 11 lessons of 22 lessons that together teach the entire Vietnam Conflict, 1945-1975.
Ideal for all specifications. Each lesson comes with a range of activities, flash cards for revision and assessments and checks throughout. Almost all include a written assessment with guidance and activities that ask students to consider a range of different historical interpretations of the events. All resources needed for the lesson are self-contained within the PowerPoint with printer friendly versions ready to go.
The lessons are as follows:
PART 1:
Vietnam Overview and Timeline
Colonial Vietnam
General Giap
Dien Bien Phu 1954
Geneva Accords 1954
Domino Theory & McCarthyism
Ho Chi Minh
The Vietcong
Strategic Hamlet Program
Overthrow of Diem 1963
Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964
BONUS: Max Hastings Guided Reading Activity - Operation Rolling Thunder
PART 2:
12. Vietcong Tactics
13. US Tactics
14. Khe Sanh, Tet & Hue
15. Nixon Doctrine & Vietnamization
16. Opposition to the War – Media & Atrocities
17. My Lai Massacre 1968
18. Opposition to the War – Students, Kent State and the Draft
19. Support for the War – Hard Hats
20. Peace and the Fall of Saigon 1975
21. Why did the US Fail?
22. 80 Flashcards
BONUS: Max Hastings Guided Reading Activity - Operation Rolling Thunder
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6 lessons on the French Revolution
Each lesson comes with a range of activities and a focus, some build up essay writing skills, others focus on debates, others are more creative tasks. All resources included at the end of each PowerPoint, designed to be as ‘pick up and play’ or ‘pick up and modify’ as possible to help you out.
The Enlightenment
Causes of the Revolution
Tennis Court Oath & The Bastille
Constitution and the Republic
The Terror
Napoleon’s Rise To Power
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IGCSE Business Studies – Operations Management
Complete Unit 4 of the IGCSE CIE Business Studies course.
Entire unit contains 9 lessons, 1 revision lesson, 56 flash cards, 9 quizzes and countless case study style quesitons.
Each lesson contains:
• A wide range of activities
• Content Slides
• Business Case Studies
• All Resources Required
• Online quizzes
• Flash Cards.
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Operations Management lessons include:
Productivity
Inventory
Methods of Production
Technology and Production
Business Costs
Economies of Scale
Break Even Point
Quality Production
Location Decisions
Revision Lesson
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14 Mini Mock Papers.
Each one comes with an extract and 4 questions (2 marks, 4 marks, 5 marks, 45 marks) in the IGCSE style for Edexcel, English Language Paper 1.
Ideal for exam practice/revision/distance learning.
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16 Lessons covering all aspects of the human history in space.
From Sputnik to the Shuttle to Artemis. We’ve got you covered.
16 fascinating and varied resources to teach your students about the final frontier:
SpaceX, Elon Musk & Commercial Spaceflight - Lesson, Teacher Video and Quiz - ICT Future Issues
Computer Science – Literacy/Guided Reading Task 10 - SpaceX
The Computer Revolution - 11. Artemis and Space X
Space Race - Sputnik 1957
Space Race - Yuri Gagarin
Space Race - Project Mercury 1958 - 1963
Space Race - Earthrise Apollo 8
Space Race - Apollo 11
Space Race - Moon Landing Conspiracies Debunked
SpaceX, Starlink and the Digital Divide
UAE Social Studies | UAE Space Program | 27 of 28
The Cold War | 21. The Space Race
History of Space - Mars Rovers
History of Space - Space Telescopes
History of Space - Interplanetary Probes
History of Space - Manned Spaceflight Post Apollo
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One lesson from the French Revolution & Napoleon SOW (10 lessons) we have been teaching for a while but recently jazzed up some cartoon illustrations and streamlined/added some activities.
Each lesson comes with a range of activities and a focus, some build up essay writing skills, others focus on debates, others are more creative tasks. All resources included at the end of each PowerPoint, designed to be as ‘pick up and play’ or ‘pick up and modify’ as possible to help you out.
Content wise you can see below, starts with the Enlightenment as context and then roams into Napoleon’s rise, his wars and eventually downfall at Waterloo. Have had excellent engagement with this SOW.
The lessons are as follows:
The Enlightenment
Causes of the Revolution
Tennis Court Oath & The Bastille
Constitution and the Republic
The Terror
Napoleon’s Rise To Power
Napoleon the General
Peninsular War & The Rifles
Battle of Waterloo 1815
Napoleonic Law and Legacy
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
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A nice lesson focussing on the cause, events and consequences of the Siege of Baghdad. Students will reflect on how this saw the end of the Islamic Golden Age and the dominance of the Mongols and their descendants. Students will use PEEKA paragraph structures to write an extended essay on the topic, after studying primary sources on the siege.
This is one lesson in a series of 6 on Ancient Baghdad. An excellent case study in the importance of the this city and region during the Islamic Golden Age. Each lesson is designed to cover a range of historical and exam skills to build up students knowledge and exam skills ready for any exam board.
Those lessons are:
Baghdad – The City
Baghdad – The Silk Roads
Baghdad – Queen Al Khayzuran
Baghdad – 1001 Arabian Nights
Baghdad – The House of Wisdom
Baghdad – The Siege of Baghdad 1258
Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount.
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This product contains access to all of modules and lessons you will need to teach the entire ICT IGCSE Course. It follows the Edexcel specification but the cross over with Cambridge spec makes it also a worthwhile investment for this too (I have taught both before).
Unit 1 - Digital Devices (17 lessons)
Unit 2 - Connectivity (11 lessons)
Unit 3 - Operating Online (26 lessons )
Unit 4 - Online Services (5 lessons)
Unit 5 - Applying ICT (7 lessons)
Unit 6 - Word, PPT, Excel, web authoring and graphics- basics & advanced (19 lessons)
Unit 6 Database skills (MS Access) (6 lessons).
Also included are some introduction to coding lessons, including HTML which has a direct link to the GCSE content.
KS3 Coding Module (8 lessons)
HTML Basics Module (8 Lessons)
The price is a significant mark down from purchasing all the lessons individually on the TES.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Better Teaching, Better Planet.
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This educational bundle offers a focused exploration of the significant roles women have played throughout different periods and across various cultures. It is designed for students interested in understanding the impactful contributions and challenges faced by women in history.
Included Lessons:
Boudicca’s Revolt
Queen Nzinga Mbande of Angola
Women in Nazi Germany
Women in the Viking Age
Women’s Suffrage in the US
The Women’s Suffrage Movement
Ada Lovelace
Margaret Thatcher
Edith Maud Cook
Queen Al Khayzuran of Baghdad
Women in Mao’s China
Women in Computing
Women in the First World War
Medicine - Elizabeth Garret Anderson
Medicine - Florence Nightingale
Medicine - Marie Curie
This bundle provides a comprehensive overview, emphasizing the diverse roles women have assumed and their profound influence on historical developments and societal changes.
20 Lessons to support your teaching of IGCSE/GCSE History - Nazi Germany.
Great value. All tried and tested and each lesson includes all the resources you need.
Ready to teach.
This lesson explores the long-term causes of World War I, focusing on militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism (MAIN). Students will examine historical factors leading to the war, analyse primary sources, and discuss how these factors increased tensions in Europe. Activities include a think-pair-share discussion, timeline sorting, MAIN factor analysis, and PEEL paragraph writing. The lesson concludes with a ranking activity to evaluate the importance of each factor.
Lesson Content and Activities:
Introduction:
Discussion on the reasons for war and whether it is ever justified.
Think-pair-share activity on why humans go to war.
Europe in 1914:
Overview of the relative peace in Europe since 1815 and the changes in military technology.
Definition of Long-Term Factors:
Explanation of historical factors and the difference between short-term and long-term factors.
Short- or Long-Term Factors:
Activity to differentiate between short-term and long-term historical events.
MAIN Factors:
Introduction to militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism as the MAIN causes of WWI.
Worksheet activity to analyse each MAIN factor and rate their importance.
Which MAIN Was It Mainly?
Read statements and identify whether they reflect militarism, alliances, imperialism, or nationalism.
PEEL Paragraph Writing:
Practice writing PEEL paragraphs on the long-term causes of WWI using militarism as an example.
Write a PEEL paragraph on another MAIN factor and peer review partners’ paragraphs.
Ranking Activity:
Work with a partner to rank the MAIN factors in order of importance.
Discuss and justify rankings.
Resources:
MAIN factor worksheet
Timeline cards
PEEL paragraph examples and planning sheet
Taken from a series of over 30 First World War lessons made by Wolsey Academy. They provide a thorough foundation of knowledge in this vital period of 20th Century History and each lesson looks to focus on a range of historical skills and exam techniques to equip students with knowledge and transferable research, analysis and study skills.
To find the complete bundle, search on the Wolsey Academy website. Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount.
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9 lessons focusing on events during the period of Stuart Britain.
James I
Matthew Hopkins - Witch Finder
Huguenot Migration
Causes of the English Civil War
Battle of Naseby
The Interregnum
The Glorious Revolution
Battle of Boyne
Act of Union
Each lesson comes with a range of differentiated resources to cover all types of classes and keep students engaged and motivated. All resources needed are included at the end of the ppts ready for printing if necessary. Designed to be self-contained, off the shelf and ready to teach.
Summary: This lesson focuses on the positive aspects of cultural and individual differences, highlighting the value of diversity in enhancing personal and community growth.
Activities:
Reflective writing on personal experiences with bias and lessons learned about diversity and acceptance.
Class discussion on the benefits of diversity and the challenges of overcoming stereotypes.
Interactive role-play to develop empathy and understanding of different perspectives.
All resources included. Ready to teach. For more great history resources, bundles at a huge discount, and to play our free history RPGs, please visit Wolsey Academy’s main website.
Second part (15 lessons) of the larger bundle of all China lessons. Covers the CCP, Mao’s influence and then Deng’s capitalist reforms. Each lesson comes with all the resources you need to teach it ‘out of the box’ including activities, worksheets, recap tasks, stretch and differentiated questions where appropriate – and each lesson comes with keywords and a revision slide and a writing homework exercise.
The 28 lessons of the complete bundle (Part 1 and 2) are as follows:
Part 1:
China Intro
Causes of the Boxer Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion Events & Consequences
1911 Revolution
May 4th Movement
Sun Yat-Sen
Recap Lesson
United Front
Northern Expedition
Recap lesson
Part 2:
Causes of the Long March
Consequences of the Long March
Second Sino-Japanese War
Chinese Civil War
Why was the CCP victorious in the Civil War?
CCP’s Agricultural Reforms
The Great Famine
The Great Leap Forward
Women in Mao’s China
Political Control in Mao’s China
USSR & China
Causes of the Cultural Revolution
Key Features of the Cultural Revolution
Consequences of the Cultural Revolution
The Sino-Soviet Split
The Gang of Four
Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms
Tiananmen Square
BONUS: China and the Opium Wars
BONUS: Guided Reading - Japan’s Invasion of China 1937
These lessons have been taught successfully for many years at a top international school and are very easily editable for your own students (they’d also work very easily without any editing!)
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One lesson from a series of 26 lessons that take teachers and students all the way through the Marketing module of the Business Studies IGCSE.
This section includes the role of marketing, the distinctions between niche and mass markets and the techniques of market segmentation. The methods and importance of market research are covered. The central role of the marketing mix, i.e. the four Ps, is made clear. Marketing strategies to influence consumer decisions at home and in new foreign markets are the final topics in this section.
Each lesson contains a range of activities, all the content required, case studies to show application of knowledge, all resources needed appear in the one PowerPoint and it includes keyword flash cards for each lesson. They have been used very successfully over a number of years at a top International school.
The lessons in the whole series are as follows:
What is marketing?
Market Changes
Market Segments
Product and Market Orientation
Primary Market Research
Secondary Market Research
Creating and Presenting Market Research
The Market Mix
Product Types and Success
Product Development
Branding
Packaging
The Product Life Cycle
Pricing Types
Price Elasticity
Advertising
Sales Promotion
Budgets & Sponsorship
Technology & The Marketing Mix
Distribution Channels
Methods of Distribution
Marketing Strategy
Marketing and Law
International Markets
Flashcards and Revision
Marketing Mock and Mark Schemes
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
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A lesson about the success of the British Empire in winning and North African campaign in the Second World War. It is tried, tested and comes with everything you need to teach it right from the PowerPoint. Resources are at the end of the PowerPoint in printer friendly formats if you need them.
Leanring episodes are as follows:
Class discussion of the geography of the region - why it was important and how this would shape the fighting.
Video task.
Fortune graph - students have to allocate a relative importance to each major event in the conflict and plot it on a graph.
Success Factors table activity with 8 fully explained factors behind British victory.
Prioritisation of factors - group task.
Essay writing task - structure guidance grid.
PEer assessment with check list criteria.
Depth reading task.
We hope it helps.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure.
The lessons include:
The Birth of the Prophet
Mecca and Medina
The Ridda Wars
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium
Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians
The Shia Sunni Split
The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain
The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas
The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
1 Lesson from a series of 28 lessons on UAE Social Studies (History). Each lesson contained keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills that students can use in their regular lessons too. A key focus is obviously on Historical skills, but also Geographic, Business as well as general skills of research, debate and presentation. Several lessons have been inspired by lectures given at the NYU Abu Dhabi by experts in their fields.
The lessons begin with the formation of the Arabian landmass and end with the Arabs on Mars! Fairly comprehensive history. All lessons have been made with cultural sensitivities in mind.
The lessons are:
Historical Overview of the UAE
Jebel Faya
The Magan People
Bronze Age Trade
Wadi Suq and Umm Al Na
The Iron Age
Pre-Islamic Arabia
The Prophet Muhammad and the arrival of Islam
Battle of Dibba 632CE
Mecca and Madina
Khalid ibn al-Walid
The Portuguese and the Persian Gulf
The Islamic Era & Hormuz
Bedouin Traditions
Pirate Coast & Trucial States
The Pearl Trade
Diary of a Dhow Driver
Qasr Al Hosn
Emirati Homes and Architecture
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Founding of the UAE 1971
Famous Emiratis
Famous Ex-Pats
UAE The Global Crossroads
The Dubai Miracle
Sovereign Wealth Funds
UAE Space Program
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.