The Civil War

£46.99

Subject: History
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11 - 14
Order Number: 7095

Targeted primarily at years 7 - 9 (11-14 year olds), this colourful and interactive computer program gives students the opportunity to explore the topic of Norman castles. The text has been written for students of all ability levels and includes exercises for them to recap on what they have learnt. Specific areas that are covered include:

Why the Normans built castles in England - Motte and Bailey Castles - The siting of castles - Stone Keeps - The principal rooms of a Norman Castle - A quiz.

By using any word processing package with this program, students will develop their ICT as well as their historical skills. ICT skills that can be practised include word processing, multi-tasking and drag and drop.

The program has been designed with the problems that face history teachers using ICT in mind. It is possible for most students to complete the program in one hour-long lesson. The quiz at the end is a simple revision test of the main terms used in the program.

Norman Castles CD ROM works with Microsoft Windows 95 and above.

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£41.11

Subject: History
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11 - 14
Order Number: 7069

The History Overheads Series

These overhead transparencies use colour pictures to bring ideas to life and present complex themes in a simple way. Students could copy the overheads once the ideas have been discussed, they could be used for title pages, or they could be employed to stimulate discussion as students respond well to pictorial stimulus. This teaching and learning style has been recommended by many OFSTED inspectors, who like to see a variety of media used in the presentation of historical material.

The series includes:

• The Romans
• Britain 1500-1750
• The Medieval World
• Black People of the Americas
• The American West
• The Modern World
• Medicine Through Time
• Britain 1750-1990
• Bismarchian and Wilhelmine Germany 1871-1918
• Weimar and National Socialist Germany 1919-1945
• Key Battles of World War Two

History Overheads can now also be bought as PowerPoint presentations on a CD-ROM. Each slide covers a key area of historical study as laid down by the QCA schemes of work in a simple colourful way using cartoons and diagrams accessible to all abilities. The presentations can be used in a slideshow on desktops if copied onto the school network, or be presented using a LCD projector. Each slide is accompanied by a suggestion on how it can be incorporated into a lesson, or with answers to questions posed on the slide.

The Medieval World

Contents include:

• 1066
• The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
• The Feudal System
• The Square Keep Castle
• The Power of the Church
• The Effects of the Black Death
• Norman Knights
• The Motte and Bailey Castle
• Plate Armour
• The Battle of Agincourt
• Life in a Medieval Village
• Join the Crusades

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£17.61

Subject: History
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11 - 14
Order Number: 7062

Support Sheets for KS3 History: The Tudors & The Stuarts

The Tudors & the Stuarts Support Sheets are a series of photocopiable worksheets which support the teaching of History from the end of the Middle Ages to the reigns of William and Mary. The series covers most of the course 'The Making of the United Kingdom', as studied by Key Stage 3 pupils for the National Curriculum.

Although the sheets are simply worded, the whole course is covered in some detail. The Tudors & the Stuarts Support Sheets enable the students to have access to all relevant information in an easily accessible, yet attractively presented form.

The basic format of the sheets is to use cloze-type passages. The initial letter of each missing word is supplied, and the correct number of spaces is left for the letters. This enables even the weakest reader to succeed in completing the exercise. Each page has clear illustrations that can be coloured, copied or completed. Other activities include matching up jumbled sentences, and labeling exercises.

The support sheets are produced with decorative borders, in a hand-written format. This gives the pupils the feeling that the work has been specially drawn for them, giving a personal touch. The pupils will enjoy the often humorous, and sometimes slightly gruesome nature of the sheets.

The topics in each series include:

The Tudors

• Life in the 1 500's
• Henry VIII and the church
• Edward VI
• Mary I
• Elizabeth I
• The Elizabethans

The Stuarts

• James I
• Charles I
• Civil War
• Britain with no King
• The Pilgrim Fathers
• Restoration England
• The Glorious Revolution

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