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You'll find in my shop resources catered towards Social Studies, mainly History and Geography, as well as English Language, Literature, and Literacy. My teaching experience comes from teaching English to a range of non-native speakers in the United Arab Emirates. If there's anything that you're looking for but can't find here, feel free to message me with the details, curriculum, grade or year, and duration. I may be able to put something together for you.

You'll find in my shop resources catered towards Social Studies, mainly History and Geography, as well as English Language, Literature, and Literacy. My teaching experience comes from teaching English to a range of non-native speakers in the United Arab Emirates. If there's anything that you're looking for but can't find here, feel free to message me with the details, curriculum, grade or year, and duration. I may be able to put something together for you.
The Picts - Colouring and Handwriting Practice
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The Picts - Colouring and Handwriting Practice

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This resource on who the Picts were includes a lesson plan, Powerpoint presentation (customizable), and worksheets for drawing and handwriting practice. It’s aimed at Primary School Years 1-3, Key Stage 1, or Elementary grades (US), The PPT introduces the Picts through some background information and images of Pictish Stones. Students led through what a symbol is in order to understand the symbols on the stones. Worksheets include: 1 with 4 Pictish symbols to colour in; 1 x Pictish symbol with basic (3 words per sheet of 4 sheets) of handwriting practice. They have words like: claw, feather, beak, etc. All images used are the author’s own.
The Picts - Evaluating Evidence
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The Picts - Evaluating Evidence

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This is a thematic dataset of evidence for the Picts, an ancient peoples that lived in the north and northeastern Scotland. There are seven sources in total for students to evaluate, ranging from Pictish stones, to maps, and a video. A complete lesson plan for 4 days is included along with a description of the sources. There is a project rubric and student evaluation form. All copyright cleared. The photographs are the author’s own and other items are able to be used.
The Great Plague of London Project Week
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The Great Plague of London Project Week

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This packet includes everything you need for a History Project Week based on The Great Plague of London. It revolves around learning from a thematic data set and includes: For the teacher: teacher’s notes and lesson plans for 5 days; 10 primary and secondary sources for students; explanations for the sources; a Powerpoint. For the student: a worksheet; an evaluation sheet; a project rubric. Students get to evaluate the sources and connect them to learning about The Great Plague of London.
How To Create Your Own Thematic Data Set
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How To Create Your Own Thematic Data Set

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This is a ‘How to…’ guide for History and Geography teachers to creating a guided thematic data set. This one is set on a History data set and explains the types of evidence you could include for your students to analyze. The aim is for them to critically unpack the evidence and evaluate how that piece tells them about that particular event. Included is a student worksheet in both Word and PDF that you can adapt for your students to note the strengths and limitations of the sources presented. Once students are familiar with how a guided data set works, they should be able to create their own.
Data in Social Studies Worksheet
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Data in Social Studies Worksheet

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A worksheet for high school Geography (Key Stage 3 or 4) or Social Studies (US) students to examine qualitative and quantitative data and the differences between them. Would work in an introductory class that’s skills-based.
Social Studies Bundle
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Social Studies Bundle

5 Resources
A range of resources from a ‘How to…’ for you as a teacher, to a worksheet on primary and secondary sources, and complete teaching units for American Indian History (infographic + lesson ideas), and The Great Plague of London (PPT, lesson plans, worksheets). Total price for all items individually is £24.20.
Buried - Documentary Viewing & Resources
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Buried - Documentary Viewing & Resources

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This resource pack links to The Guardian’s ‘Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade’ documentary which follows the construction of an airport on the island of Saint Helena. Whilst preparing for the airport and through roads, a mass grave was discovered of former enslaved Africans who passed away there on the Middle Passage of the transatlantic slave trade. The resources includes an Essential Question and guided questions for viewing, a Web Quest for Saint Helena, a worksheet on stakeholders in the documentary, and a worksheet for ideas on how people could be custodians of a collective history, together with a PowerPoint presentation.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade - Examining Data
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade - Examining Data

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The resource draws students attention to the value of numerical data in historical sources, in this case around the numbers of enslaved Africans who embarked on vessels to forcibly take them from the Old World to the New World. Included in this resources are: Lesson plans for this resource which would take 1 or 2 class periods, depending. You could use only the data in the table, or you could extend this with a written excerpt to see if it corroborates the numerical data. A one-slide PowerPoint is provided to give students context. A worksheet which you could use for only the data in the table, or for both the data and excerpt as a compare and contrast types of data. A handout of the numerical data. A handout of the excerpt.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade

4 Resources
Resources in this great value bundle include: Buried - Documentary Viewing and Resources This is a guided viewing to a documentary hosted on The Guardian’s website called 'Buried - how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade. The Transatlantic Slave Trade - Examining Data This is primarily a numbers worksheet to consider the extent of the transatlantic slave trade in terms of examining data in a table of numbers of enslaved Africans that embarked on vessels to the New World. There is also a compare-contrast written excerpt with worksheets and lesson plans. Questions - The Social Studies Classroom This is a freebie guide as to essential, guiding, text-dependent, and hook questions. GCSE Geography -Concepts This is a worksheet to get students thinking about core and organising concepts.
What makes a good Internet source?
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What makes a good Internet source?

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A flyer to help guide students as to what questions to ask when considering sources from the Internet. What makes a good source? How do you know? Is there a bias?
GCSE Historical Concepts Worksheet
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GCSE Historical Concepts Worksheet

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This is a Worksheet with separate Teacher’s Notes that could be used as a warm-up, lesson, or revision. It focusses on the DfE’s second order historical concepts. The aim is to get students to consider what is meant by each concept, and how they can apply these to their studies. Files are offered in colour and grayscale.