Archive for the ‘History’ Category

BBC Schools - History

Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Indus Valley
Indus Valley
Travel with archaeologist Professor Indus to uncover the mysterious civilisation of Mohenjo-Daro. Covers QCA Scheme of Work Unit 16: ‘How can we find out about the Indus Valley civilisation?’
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7-11 yrs

Romans
Romans
Dress for battle, visit the Forum or find out how Caesar hid his bald spot on our tour of the Roman Empire. ‘Romans’ covers KS2 QCA Scheme of Work Unit 6a: ‘A Roman Case Study‘.

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7-11 yrs

Walk Through Time
Walk Through Time
Tiptoe down our time tunnel to find out what happened where. This site covers KS2 QCA Schemes of Work Unit 6: ‘Case studies in Romans, Anglo-Saxons or Vikings‘, Unit 8: ‘Tudors‘, Unit 11 and 12 ‘Victorians‘ and Unit 13: ‘Changes since 1948‘.

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7-9 yrs

See You See Me - Picts
See You See Me - Picts
Discover how the Picts pitted their wits against the invading Romans. This site links to the Scottish curriculum - revised ES guidelines: ‘People in the past‘ in a Scottish context. This is also relevant to KS2.

Please note this link will take you to the Education Scotland section of bbc.co.uk. Use the back button to return to this page.

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7-9 yrs

Vikings
Vikings
Make way for the Nordic marauders! Can you survive a Viking adventure? ‘Vikings’ covers KS2 QCA Scheme of Work Unit 6c: ‘A Vikings Case Study‘.

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7-9 yrs

Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxons
Make your own Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, riddles and runes in our interactive guide to 8th century English life. ‘Anglo-Saxons’ aims to cover KS2 QCA Scheme of Work Unit 6b: ‘Anglo-Saxons case study‘.

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7-9 yrs

Children of World War 2
Children of World War 2
What would life be like without pizza and chips?! Let Vera guide you through the challenges of living in Wartime Britain. ‘Children of World War 2′ covers KS2 QCA Scheme of Work Unit 9: ‘Children living during WWII‘.

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8-11 yrs

Did You Know?
Did You Know?
Test your knowledge on all things to do with Cymru. ‘Did You Know?’ tests KS2 Welsh History.

Please note this link will take you to the Wales Education and Learning section of bbc.co.uk. Use the back button to return to this page.

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9-11 yrs

Children in Victorian Britain
Children in Victorian Britain
If you think your day’s tough, imagine spending it up a chimney or down a coal mine! This site covers KS2 QCA Scheme of Work Unit 11: ‘Children in Victorian Britain‘.

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9-12 yrs

Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece
Uncover the mysteries of Ancient Greece through our time line, or see what the first Olympic Games were really like in Cartoon Classics. ‘Ancient Greece’ covers KS2 QCA Schemes of work Unit 14 and 15: ‘Ancient Greece‘.

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Show Me

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Show Me provide links to lots of activties found in British Museums and Art Galleries and puts them all in one place. There are sections on Ancient Civilisations (such as Egypt), Romans, Tudors, Greeks, Victorians, 20th Century Britain, Saxons and others including Science & Technology, and Art & Design.

Show Me is a one-stop-shop for all the best online games, interactive activities and teaching resources for KS1 and 2, generated by museums, galleries, science centres and heritage sites across Britain. The site is entirely free to use and non-commercial.

There are lots of ideas for great days out and things to do as well.

Espresso

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Espresso aims to stimulate children´s learning through providing a rich cross-curricular resource to help teachers plan and create exciting lessons that meet National Curriculum objectives and cover QCA Schemes of Work. Espresso looks and works like a website but you won´t find it on the Web. It lives on a computer at your school, which means you can access it quickly and reliably whenever you want. What´s more, you get instant access to high-quality full screen video as well as sophisticated multimedia activities that would take forever to download across the Internet.

New resources are automatically added every week to ensure content is always topical. In addition there is also a huge archive of print based resources. Espresso is a self-contained site - there´s no links to the World Wide Web which means safe surfing is guaranteed. Espresso is the proud winner of two BETT 2004 awards for Best Online Learning Resource and Best Primary software. Espresso web site.