Full teaching PowerPoint and resources comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences of the Stone Age and Bronze Age.
Includes images to compare and contrast, videos to watch, quiz questions, pictures to cut out and stick in a venn diagram, then a writing opportunity after to apply understanding.
McDonalds theme synonym display. Lettering included. ‘I’m improvin’ it’ (the M in ‘improvin’ is the M for McDonalds. Synonym chips included also that can be put inside McDonalds fries packaging for children to pick out when they want a better word for their writing. Picture of example display included for reference.
Venn diagram with images for children to cut out and stick in the correct sections of the venn diagram. The images are all related to Stone Age and Bronze Age and of course, some are related to both. Quick activity that doesn’t take up too much of your lesson but clearly shows their understanding.
A vocAPPulary template designed to look like a tablet/iPad to be used in a variety of lessons to draw/write definitions. I have used this in many different lessons and it’s worked well and looks lovely in books as an interactive flap!
This resource is a great retrieval practice idea for you to use or adapt for your subject/class. Within the the resource I have shown you a way to use it for maths and a way for you to use it for history, but it could be used for pretty much every subject/topic I feel.
These resources could be used at the beginning of a Stone Age (or Stone Age to Iron Age ) topic. Resources include:
A Stone Age poster which I would give to the children at the beginning of the lesson to see what they can infer about the Stone Age based on the images.
Simple posters for the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, which I intend on giving to the children once you’ve given them a bit of background information about the Stone Age, to see if they can INFER which order the three periods came in.
Stone Age to Iron Age timeline resource for children to accurately order the periods. I have purposely made them different sizes to show how vast the Palaeolithic period was compared to all others.
This resource includes PowerPoint going through the structure of the lesson. It includes retrieval practice, guided practice and differentiated tasks. This lesson could be used in year 2 or as a recap in year 3 which is how I use it.
Resources for the lesson are included too, including a retrieval practice pyramid which the kids love!
This lesson is at aimed at lower KS2, specifically year 3 but could be adapted for other year groups.
It includes full teaching PowerPoint, as well as independent tasks and reasoning and problem solving.
Structure of lesson:
Retrieval practice
Quick Fire questions
New Learning
First task involving hundred square (visual)
Second task involving number line and bar models
Reasoning and problem solving (correct the mistakes)
This resource is an entire unit of work for the topic ‘Stone Age to Iron Age’
Lessons include:
Introduction to the Stone Age
Hunter Gatherers which runs over two lessons
Stone Age settlements
Skara Brae
Stone Age to Bronze Age comparison
Amesbury Archer
Iron Age (could run over two lessons)
It includes 8 lessons, but could be condensed into fewer or extended to longer.
Within this resource are several retrieval practice ideas I have made for you to use in your lessons. I have added suggestions into the examples to show you how they would work but all resources are easily editable to suit your subject/topic.
Resources include:
4 x grid
Retrieval pyramid
List it!
Picture Prompt
Complete lesson on identifying numbers on a number line to 100. This can be used in year 2 and as a recap in year 3. This lesson follows the White Rose scheme and includes retrieval practice, assessment and differentiated activities.
The coloured squares on the PowerPoint are used as an assessment/teaching tool. Children could have coloured quiz cards that they hold up to show the correct answer. Allows for whole class contribution.
Tasks get progressively more challenging, so children can either work their way through the activities at their own pace or you can start the children off where you see fit depending on how they did in the check in activity at the start.
Two resources. The first is a description of different Ancient Egyptian people and their jobs with a hierarchy pyramid for children to write the job titles where they think it would go (pharoah of course being at the top).
The second resource is a template for Top Trumps where children can draw and describe particular Ancient Egyptian people/jobs and rate them according to their power/responsibility etc.
This lesson is an engaging resource where the children are classifying rocks based on their properties. When we completed this lesson, we had already done a lesson on the properties of different rocks so had findings to work with already. However, you could incorporate the properties into this lesson too.
The lesson comes with the complete lesson PowerPoint and resources.
Brief structure of lesson:
Retrieval practice
Name that rock
Whole class quiz questions for property definitions
Guided practice for classifying rocks
Independent sorting and classifying rocks
Challenge questions
Extend to think about sorting into igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
This is a complete lesson with resources that focuses on children knowing how to apply number bonds within ten i.e. to find calculations that are ten or even hundred times greater and to find related facts (fact families)
It includes a full teaching PowerPoint, as well as resources to go alongside it including an open ended investigation using dice and reasoning and problem solving questions.
Tidy tub labels.
I use them in the middle of each table so the children can put their paper rubbish and any other bits in there, instead of them getting up to go to the bin frequently. The tubs can then just be emptied at the end of the lesson/day :)
I have created this East Anglia introduction lesson where the children look at regions and create a key. They then identify the main counties. This lesson could be adapted to suit another England region.
Research lesson - complete lesson with full teaching PowerPoint and resources.
Resources include:
starter
Research sheet
Images of Skara Brae to examine
KWL grid to be used at the beginning and end of French topics to show what the children already know, what they would like to find out and what they have learnt.
A variety of resources for a French colours unit of work, including:
pencil case activity, children read the simple sentences in French and colour the items the correct colour (this relies on them knowing pencil case items in French)
Flags activity - children to read the sentences and tick which flag it is referring to
Colour by numbers - children to read the numbers and colours in French and colour accordingly
A variety of French animal topic resources including:
worksheet involving reading animal names and simple sentences
animal match up cards (linked to Carnival of Animals music)
Animal zoo template for children to draw animals and write below
Animal cages used as flaps with space for children to write simple sentences on and draw animals underneath