Learning Resources : History/Settlement
Learning Resources
31/03/2008
Exploring Archives: The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Educational resource pack comprising 30 colour image cards, a CD-Rom and a teachers’ handbook that contains learning activity sheets for students and provides guidance for teachers on how to use archival...
31/03/2008
Global Dimension - Top 10 Teaching and Learning Resources about Slavery and Anti-Slavery Histories
This site provides resources to help teachers introduce students to human rights and to examine slavery in a citizenship context. On this site, teachers will find, according to educational phase, resources...
27/03/2008
London, Sugar and Slavery Key Stage 3 Resource Pack for Teachers
The 'London, Sugar and Slavery' Key Stage 3 self-directed resource pack for teachers is accessible (in PDF format) via the Museum in Docklands website: www.museumindocklands.org.uk.
29/03/2008
Ford Madox Brown's Work
This interactive resource is aimed at KS2 teachers and pupils and explores a key painting in Manchester Art Gallery's permanent collection, Work by Ford Madox Brown. Through a series of actors' talking...
27/03/2008
Museum of London: Black History Resources for Schools
These resources are designed to support the teaching of Black History and Citizenship themes. All of the activities and resources can be easily integrated into classroom lessons or may be used as stand...
31/03/2008
Runnymede Trust Real Histories Directory
An online resource directory for teachers, parents, pupils and the wider community to support teaching and learning about cultural diversity in the UK.
31/03/2008
The National Archives - Learning Curve
Learning Curve is a free online teaching and learning resource that contains sources from the National Archives and includes games and activities for students to engage in thinking about history.
27/03/2008
The Understanding Slavery Citizen Website - www.understandingslavery.com/citizen
The Citizen Website is a web-resource for KS3 students, and compliments the Understanding Slavery Initiative (USI) Citizen Resource.
27/03/2008
The Understanding Slavery Initiative Teachers’ Website - www.understandingslavery.com
The Understanding Slavery Initiative (USI) Teachers’ Website offers visual material, background information and activities to teach young people about transatlantic enslavement.
01/04/2008
Walter Tull: Sport, War and Challenging Adversity (KS 1)
This pack comprises a teachers’ resource book, a schemes of work booklet of 10 activities for teachers to use in the classroom, an illustrated storybook about Walter Tull as a professional black footballer...
01/04/2008
Walter Tull: Sport, War and Challenging Adversity (KS2-3)
This pack is comprised of a teachers’ resource book, a schemes of work booklet of 10 activities for teachers to use in the classroom, and a CD of the 52 sources used throughout the schemes of work booklet.
31/03/2008
Inside Britain: A Guide to the UK Constitution
A guide for students to understanding UK laws and government written in an easy-to-use format. The resource contains sections on Life & iberty, Meetings, groups & marches, Speech & expression, Privacy...
31/03/2008
Moving Here
This website contains digitised image collections and online learning resources covering issues relating to immigration history and cultural diversity in the UK over the last 200 years.
07/04/2008
Making it Click: An Interactive Guide to Practice
'Making it Click' is an interactive website that offers a comprehensive guide to post-16 citizenship. The site was developed to support staff interested in offering citizenship in education and training...
01/04/2008
Holocaust and Human Behaviour
This resource book for teachers, published by Facing History and Ourselves, provides readings about the subject of Holocaust and Human Behaviour which can be used for teacher education or with students.
08/04/2008
Earthwatch Climate Change Resources - Impact, Mitigation and Adaptation
Earthwatch, the environmental charity, has launched a series of resources to bring environmental issues to life for 16-19 year olds. They aim to enrich students' and teachers' understanding of science...
08/04/2008
Anti Racism Educational DVD - Presented by Dr Robert Beckford and REWIND
An online learning resource comprising an Anti Racism Educational DVD - presented by Dr Robert Beckford and the REWIND Project - a Peer Educators' Workbook and Educators'/Teachers' notes.
12/04/2008
Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections
An online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries.
12/04/2008
24 Hour Museum - The National Virtual Museum
24 Hour Museum is the UK's official guide to over 3000 museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage attractions.
12/04/2008
Holocaust Memorial Day
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust produce materials for teachers specific to the theme of Holocaust Memorial Day. The theme for 2008 is “Imagine...remember, reflect, react”. Free educational resources...
12/04/2008
100 Great Black Britons
The entries featured in the 100 Great Black Britons nomination list and the associated database of online resources reflect the history of the black community in Britain over the past 1000 years.
16/04/2008
MapZone
MapZone is a free, award winning web site about map reading skills development, aimed at children from ages 7-14.
16/04/2008
Get-a-Map
Get-a-Map is a free online mapping system covering the whole of GB with mapping available from 1:25,000 scale to 1:1,000,000 scale.
17/04/2008
Ireland in Schools
Ireland in Schools (IiS) is a national network of volunteers providing free teaching and learning resources for primary and secondary schools in Britain.
21/04/2008
Young Diasporas: Longing and Belonging
This book is built around the stories of young people who live in Kent, but have roots and connections with other parts of the world. They have dreams, aspirations and difficulties - like everyone else....
21/04/2008
Exploring Archives: The George Padmore Institute
The George Padmore Institute’s archive education pack considers three main themes: ‘Why People Protest’, ‘The Caribbean Artists’ Movement’ (CAM) and ‘Information is Power’. These themes...
12/04/2008
Local For Global - www.local4global.org.uk
The Local 4 Global website represents one outcome from LaSER-Global Dimension - a learning community of teachers and educators in London and South East England interested in embedding the Global Dimension...
21/04/2008
Ambassadors Online
Ambassadors Online provides access to case studies of what young geographers do and how geography has helped them to get where they are.
31/03/2008
Black History 4 Schools
This site has a navigation bar for articles, resources and weblinks that each contain material and information for teachers teaching about the history and settlement of black and Asian peoples in Britain...
31/03/2008
‘We all came here from somewhere’ - Diversity, Identities and Citizenship
This resource pack for teachers is comprised of 8 classroom activities, 2 DVDs, a poster of images of Britain, a photograph and a collage to be used within the activities. The pack explores cultural diversity...
09/04/2008
Olaudah Equiano in Sheffield: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, The Slave Trade and Its Abolition
An educational resource pack for Key Stage 2 and 3 Citizenship, History and English about the life of Olaudah Equiano - comprising five interactive classroom activities with web links for interactive white...
09/04/2008
Moving Here Exhibition - The Refugee Experience
‘Moving Here’ is a travelling exhibition which aims to simulate the refugee experience for pupils. It is designed to be used after pupils have completed activities in the teaching resource 'Moving...
03/06/2008
Offscreen Education Programme - Student Expedition 2008: Middle East to UK
The Offscreen Education Programme is an expedition project that enables students from the Middle East and the UK to participate in cultural exchange initiatives involving the creative use of satellite...
11/06/2008
19/06/2008
Through My Eyes: Stories of Conflict, Belonging and Identity
This online exhibition tells the stories of people whose lives have been affected by conflict, directly changing or challenging their sense of identity and belonging. Some stories explore the influence...
18/06/2008
'Silhouettes of a Treasured Heritage' - A Novel by Stella Osammor
A fictional, narrative novel (suitable for Key Stages 3-4) that explores the life of a person with racially mixed parentage. It is told through the main character Miranda and details her experiences in...
04/06/2008
Exhibiting Difference - Learning Resource Pack for Schools, titled 'A Visible Difference: Skin, Race and Identity 1720-1820'
This free resource pack - titled 'A Visible Difference: Skin, Race and Identity 1720-1820' - has been developed by the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons to support and enhance cross-curricular...
11/07/2008
Heritage Explorer - Images for Learning
Heritage Explorer is an image-based online resource for teaching history, citizenship and many more subjects. The dataset contains over 360,000 pictures, including historic views of daily life, aerial...
27/03/2008
The Understanding Slavery Citizen Resource
This resource pack provides teachers with lesson plans and accompanying classroom activities, 37 colour image cards of the related artefacts, archival materials and artists' works, and 8 posters of significant...
16/07/2008
Walter Tull - An Officer, a Footballer and a Gentleman
This Key Stage 3 unit of study about the life of Walter Tull was specifically developed for Who Do We Think We Are? to support the History and Settlement theme and address issues of patriotism. The module...
18/07/2008
Identity and Diversity - CETTIE Key Stage 3 Module of Study
This Key Stage 3 unit was written by Shango Baku, Artistic Director for CETTIE (Cultural Exchange Through Theatre-in-Education). The unit contains six lessons which provide opportunities for young people...
13/06/2008
Introductory Lessons for Exploring the Question 'Who Do We Think We Are?'
Two sets of lesson activities to help teachers and young people explore the question 'Who Do We Think We Are?'. Both lessons are suitable for use at Key Stages 2 and 3 and cover sub-themes entitled 'Different...
11/08/2008
Music for Change Educational Workshops and DVD Resources
Music for Change is an educational arts charity that promotes awareness, understanding and respect for cultural diversity through music and the performing arts.
18/06/2008
Discovery Box - Abolition Project
The Discovery Box website is part of the Abolition Project, which provides information, lesson plans, and tools for teachers on the work of Thomas Clarkson and other abolitionists in their fight to end...
05/09/2008
Key Stage 2 Module - Legacy of Empire
This Key Stage 2 unit of study about the Legacy of Empire - written by education consultant Sarah Nunn - provides opportunities for young people to investigate the development and decline of the British...
24/07/2008
Unity and Union: What does the Union flag represent?
This Key Stage 3 unit was written by Andrew Wrenn, Advisory History Teacher (Historical Association). The unit contains seven lessons which provide opportunities for young people to explore the history...
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