William Myall

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. This fascinating and spectacular analysis of crash-test engineering makes a great standalone lesson. Meet the engineers, including Becky Mueller – a very positive role-model for girls looking at STEM careers. How engineers “hack” physics to promote safety during crashes, and look at the future of crash prevention with environment-sensing cars. Including: the scale of the problem (US), progress over the last 20 years. T

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. The outstanding BBC News History “Africa” series follows and draws on the UNESCO General History of Africa, with extensive interviews with African academics, witnesses, and stakeholders. In this episode Zeinab Badawi travels to Angola, DRC and Congo in central Africa to bring the history of the great Kongo Empire. She hears about the critical role played by women in African history such as Queen Nzinga who battled th

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. The outstanding BBC News History “Africa” series follows and draws on the UNESCO General History of Africa, with extensive interviews with African academics, witnesses, and stakeholders. Much is known about enslaved Africans once they arrived in the Americas and Europe, but in this episode Zeinab Badawi looks at the impact on Africa itself of one of the most evil chapters in human history: the trans Atlantic slave trade.

Please ensure you can access the videos before you get this resource. The outstanding BBC News History “Africa” series follows and draws on the UNESCO General History of Africa, with extensive interviews with African academics, witnesses, and stakeholders. The series begins with the first humans and ends with the release of Nelson Mandela. Essential viewing for anyone wanting an African perspective on African history. See the films from here. Oxford University’s far-too-detailed acc

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. Using contemporary diaries and exposition, the film covers: Ukraine as a brief free state, absorbed into the USSR; Stalin’s ideology-driven industrialization and collectivization; “kulaks”; impossible quotas; closed borders, starvation in Ukraine, North Caucuses, Kazakhstan. Resettlement of vacant areas by Russians; The Cover-Up, unfree press, Walter Duranty, Gareth Jones. Lack of Western support for Ukraine. Manipulation of d

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. A very detailed and thorough account of the crisis and its consequences. Covering: economic and industrial consequences of WW1, growth of the AFL and UMWA. President Wilson and the unions; ‘company towns', ' company stores', yellow-dog contracts, the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike, Mother Jones, the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency as union busters. Unionization in Matewan, mayor Testerman killed, the Matewan Massacre. Strike,

See also the BBC HistoryFile Nazi Germany: ALL 5 bundle and NEW! Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship Bingo. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This fascinating and moving film presents an interview with Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, a Kindertransport from Czechoslovakia, who was evacuated to England in 1939. She reflects on the outbreak of World War II in Europe, her parents' brave decision to send her away, and her enduring connection with Nic

See also the BBC HistoryFile Nazi Germany: ALL 5 bundle and Nazi Germany keyword Bingo. Is this right for your students? Download a free example in the same format. Please watch the film before getting and using this resource. A very thorough explanation of how Hitler’s war of expansion and the Nazi war economy were mutually dependent. The story begins with hyperinflation and the pros and cons of possible responses; Hjalmar Schalk’s creative accounting – MEFO bills thoroughly explained usi

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. Comprehensive, thorough, 18-minute documentary really drills down into the context, the cause, events and legacy. Includes contemporary sources and interviews with witnesses. Johnson’s Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow laws end. Persistent inequalities remain. Poverty, poor housing, and unemployment, poor political representation. Police violence, uprisings. Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. The outstanding BBC News History “Africa” series follows and draws on the UNESCO General History of Africa, with extensive interviews with African academics, witnesses, and stakeholders. In this episode Zeinab Badawi visits rarely seen historic sites and magnificent ruins in Mali and Mauritania in west Africa. We hear from Africans about how trans-Saharan trade, mainly in gold, meant that by about the 7th century rich k

Tried & tested, very high engagement. A very effective way to consolidate knowledge. School or on-line. Up to 32 players. Includes 32 unique player cards, editable caller’s card — tweak the questions to suit yourself. Full instructions. Color, monochrome, and low-graphics versions of all sheets. Questions cover present indicative for je, tu, il, elle, on, nous, vous, ils, elles for the four most common French verbs: aller, avoir, etre, and faire. High-quality FUN learning for the rest of

39 French language cloze sheet ( 25 gaps) on: Ampère, Brittany, Eric Cantona, Champagne, Charles De Gaulle, Coco Chanel, Daft Punk, David Guetta, Edith Piaf, Escargots, The Basque Region, French Guiana, Paul Gaugin, Les Gilet Jaunes, Frogs’ Legs, Hundred Years’ War, The Guillotine, First Indochina War, Joan of Arc, Laïcité, Mai ‘68, Marie Curie, Kylian Mbappe, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Normandy, Louis Pasteur, Pétanque, Quebec, French Revolution, Auguste Rodin, Statue of Liberty, Tour De Fra

I reccomend this as only a homework task for top sets: it is unlikely to work with weaker pupils, or in the classroom. This program is only available on the BBC site. Please ensure you can access the program before you get this resource. Really push your pupils! BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time. BAFTA winner Melvyn Bragg, Prof. Karen O’Brien, Prof. Jane Thomas, and Prof. Michael Rossington discuss the context, mechanics, meaning and legacy of the novel. 36 questions for the 50-minute programme, co

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. The outstanding BBC News History “Africa” series follows and draws on the UNESCO General History of Africa, with extensive interviews with African academics, witnesses, and stakeholders. Kings and Emirs: King Lalibela, Islam, Harar, hyenas, and so much more!North Africa: the Berbers (or Amazigh), Carthage, Berber kings and Roman rule – et cetera!Ancestors, Spirits and God: Africa’s indigenous religions, Judaism and early C

Cloze sheet (25 gaps) gives an account of the 15 former Soviet republics, grouped geographically / politically (Baltic 3, Central Asian 5, South Caucuses 3, Eastern European 4). Touching on religion, wealth, NATO, EU; Belarus and the current Ukraine / Russia conflict. Location map for identification — suggested colour scheme if colouring Differentiated four ways, A - least help to D - most help thus: (e.g. missing word is yearly) A gap is __________________ B gap is y_________________ C

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. Comprehensive and detailed  10-minute documentary covering: the “Five Civilized Tribes”; historical tensions, Washington and Jefferson, assimilation; further European expansion; Jackson is president, the 1830 Act;  Choctaw - removal and loss;  Seminole - wars of resistance, removal and loss, escape to the Everglades;  Muscogee Creek, Treaty of Cusseta, uprising, removal and loss;  Chickasaw, Treaty of Pontotoc Creek, removal a

Candy, Crooks, Curley, Curley’s Wife, George, Lennie, Slim. Cloze sheets (25 gaps) on each character and their role within the novel. Each text (c. 300 words) includes a discussion with selected quotations. See if it works: get George Milton’s sheet here for FREE! Missing words boxed at the bottom of the sheet; each word used once only. Differentiated FOUR ways, 1 - most help, to 4 - least help thus: (e.g. missing word is durable) 4: gap is __________________ 3: gap is __ __ __ __ __

See also BBC Teach Elizabeth Fry video questions differentiated Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. This fascinating film gives an overview of five inspiring rehabilitation programs: working on a farm within the prison; delivering financial literacy lessons to fellow inmates; domesticating wild mustangs; performing the works of Shakespeare; and the soul-harrowing Japanese art of butoh theater. The film uses interviews with prisoners and those working with th

Please download Kissin’ Kate Barlow’s sheets for free HERE to see if this resource is right for your classes. This activity contains character analysis activities for: Kate, Mr. Sir, Sam, Stanley, the Warden, X-Ray, and Zero; their characters and roles within the story. Most useful for middle- and lower-ability pupils. Each text (c. 300 words) includes a discussion with selected quotations. Missing words boxed at the bottom of the sheet; each word used once only. Differentiated FOUR ways, 1 -

Please look at Napoleon’s sheet for free HERE to see if this resource is right for your classes. The format is the same for all seven characters. This activity contains separate character analysis activities for Benjamin, Boxer, Mrs. Jones, Napoleon, Old Major, Snowball, and Squealer: their characters and roles within the novel. Most useful for middle- and lower-ability pupils. Each text (c. 300 words) includes a discussion with selected quotations. Missing words boxed at the bottom of the sh