HISTORY DEPARTMENT
YEAR 8
Inventions that Changed the World!
Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign?
The British Empire: Good, Bad or Ugly?
Human Rights and Wrongs: Have Human Rights Improved since the 1800s?
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Inventions that Changed the World!
Inventions Introductory PowerPoint (W A Boyce)
The Car Introductory PowerPoint (W A Boyce)
Impact of the Car PowerPoint (W A Boyce)
Inventions Sources PowerPoint (W A Boyce)
Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign?
Elizabeth's Problems PowerPoint (SchoolHistory.co.uk)
Elizabeth I Portraits PowerPoint (P Letters)
Elizabeth I - early life and portraits (Historyonthenet.com)
Blind Date ppt (SchoolHistory.co.uk)
Religious Problems ppt (SchoolHistory.co.uk)
Mary Queen of Scots ppt (SchoolHistory.co.uk)
Mary Queen of Scots ppt by Arun Nair
Elizabeth's Problem: The Spanish Armada (adapted from W A Boyce)
Spanish Armada PowerPoint (WA Boyce)
Spanish Armada PowerPoint - Why did it fail? (WA Boyce)
Interactive Games (SchoolHistory.co.uk)
The British Empire: Good, Bad or Ugly?
Empire - Interactive Timeline (BBC)
Empire in Africa (J Edwards)
Group Research on India, New Zealand, Canada or Singapore
Research on various British colonies
The British Empire - A list and information about her colonies
British Rule in India.(Active History)
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Amazon - List of videos on 'The British Empire in Colour'
India:
British Conquest of India ppt (P Letters)
British Legacy in India student ppt
India (Elinor's group) - Student presentations!
Flags – general: http://fotw.vexillum.com/flags/gb-colon.html
Australia
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWinAustralia.htm
Canada
Timeline:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1203358.stm
Canada during World War I:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWinCanada.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWcanada.htm
India
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The legacy of British Rule in India. (activehistory.co.uk)
India before the British:
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/empire/before.html
http://www.angelfire.com/nh/kashmir/british.html
A timeline of British India:
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/empire/timeline.html
British involvement in India:
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/empire/India.html
The 1857 Indian mutiny [rebellion] against the British:
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/empire/1857.html
The 1857 mutiny in detail:
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/empire/epic.html
India 1900-1947:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/india_1900_to_1947.htm
India, KGV and World War I:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWinIndia.htm
This link includes Pakistan and other neighbouring countries:
http://www.victorianweb.org/post/southasia/saov.html
New Zealand
Pre-colonial:
http://www.victorianweb.org/post/nz/maorijlg2.html
Treaty of Waitangi:
http://www.victorianweb.org/post/nz/histov.html
Colonial New Zealand:
http://www.victorianweb.org/post/nz/histov.html
New Zealand and World War I:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWinZealand.htmThe
Commonwealth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1554175.stm
Human Rights and Wrongs: Have Human Rights improved since the 1800s?
Four Freedoms (A Tsui)
Human Rights PowerPoint (A Tsui)
www.live8live.com/videos/ - scroll down and click 'Hi Quality' below 'Highlights'
- click here and enter your KGV password, then you will be told the ActiveHistory password.
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/main_area/games/yr9_jobs/frameset.htm - Victorian jobs game
The Crusade of Mahatma Ghandi (A Tsui)
Slavery in Africa compared with America
The Slave Trade PowerPoint 1 (WA Boyce)
The Slave Trade PowerPoint 2 The Middle Passage (WA Boyce)
The Slave Trade PowerPoint 3 Life on a Plantation (WA Boyce)
Slave Diary Notes (P Letters)
Pro-slavery Student PowerPoint
Anti-slavery Student PowerPoint
American Civil War PowerPoint (E Springate)
Ku Klux Klan (spartacus.co.uk)
Post-slavery PowerPoint guidelines (M Shulz)
Martin Luther King (stanford.edu)
Click here for a PowerPoint on the Selma March and Voting Rights
Slave labour in sweatshops.ppt
General Tudors
Life in Elizabethan England (P Letters)
Tudor Street (BBC Site)
Tudors Picture Exercise (P Letters)
Tudor Quiz - 'Fling the Teacher'! (activehistory.co.uk)
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Henry VIII
Have a chat with King Henry VIII (activehistory.co.uk)
Henry VIII and the break with the Catholic Church Power-point (E Springate)
PowerPoint on the religious changes.(activehistory.co.uk)
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Mary