HISTORY DEPARTMENT

YEAR 8

CONTENTS:

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?

Other Tudors

FOCUS WEEK 2005

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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)

Spanish Armada Task

Interactive Games (SchoolHistory.co.uk)

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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

BBC - The British Empire

Gaining an Empire

Losing an Empire

British Rule in India.(Active History)

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Amazon - List of videos on 'The British Empire in Colour'

The British Empire

India:

British Conquest of India ppt (P Letters)

British Legacy in India student ppt

India 1900-1947

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

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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 

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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 

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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

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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'

Obituary Example

Cartoon: Slavery and Freedom

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http://www.activehistory.co.uk/main_area/games/yr9_jobs/frameset.htm - Victorian jobs game

The Crusade of Mahatma Ghandi (A Tsui)

Civil Rights  

Slavery in Africa compared with America

Slavery  

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

Slavery - various

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

 

Human Rights Today:

Children's Rights.ppt

Honour Killings.ppt

Human Trafficking.ppt

Religious Persecution.ppt

Slave labour in sweatshops.ppt

Women's Rights.ppt

Human Rights and the UN

Amnesty International

Human Rights links

Human Rights Watch

UN - main website

Newsbank

Genocide 

Human Trafficking

Slavery/Human trafficking

WEBQUEST: Modern Slavery

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Other Tudors

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

Henry VIII's Six Wives

More of Henry's wives...

Henry VIII - life and wives

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

Mary Tudor  

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