Games, Ideas & Activities for Primary Humanities

By Richard Green
May 2010
Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781408228098
311 pages, Illustrated
$44.50 Paper Original

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Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Humanitiesprovides a wealth of activities to help make lessons in these key foundation subjects stimulating and enjoyable. Minimising planning time, this selection of activities will help teachers develop enthusiasm for teaching these subjects. All the ideas, activities and games are linked to key skills and concepts in primary humanities. A wealth of activities for teacher to help pupils develop their abilities to understand and use key skills and concepts in the humanities.

Contents

Introduction and key skills

Geography

·  Geography and Numeracy

·  Compass walk

·  Higher or lower quiz

·  Mapping 1

·  Using images

·  Capitals of every country

·  Colour coding drawings

·  Enquiry questions

·  Getting them thinking

·  Global web

·  Grids and overlays

·  Inflatable globes

·  Journeys

·  Looking at our world

·  Masking images

·  Naming countries

·  Natural and Human Environments

·  OS symbols

·  Picture sorting

·  Putting yourself in the Picture

·  Raid the cupboard

·  Sense cards

·  Slopes and gradients fieldwork

·  Snakes and ladders

·  Ten Green Bottles

·  The Village Shop

·  Where would you like to go?

·  Geography wordmats

·  The World as a Village

·  Atlas Activity

·  Atlas Quiz

·  Speech Bubbles

·  Using Writing Frames

·  Where in the World?

History

·  Chronology- Revamping the Timeline

·  Chronology- Time Machine Hats

·  Chronology-Story Ordering

·  Chronology-Something about

·  Chronology- Human Time Line

·  Florence Nightingale-Before and After

·  Information Teller

·  An Introduction to artefacts

·  Anachronisms

·  Artefact vocabulary

·  Asking Questions

·  Boudicca's Revolt

·  Branching Database for Artefacts

·  Building the Pyramids

·  Comparing and contrasting evidence

·  Fact or Opinion?

·  Facts and Points of View

·  Hadrian's Wall

·  Hieroglyphics

·  History Sandwich

·  Identifying your Object

·  Investigating your Will

·  Just Like Us

·  Looking at Pictures

·  Mary Seacole- Facts and Points of View

·  Misconceptions

·  Ordering a story

·  Saxon settlements

·  Searchlights

·  Sources

·  Sources-Using Images

·  Samuel Pepys-Diary Entries

·  The Great Railway Debate

·  To Go A Viking

·  Two Truths and a Lie

·  Using Inventories

·  Using sources to develop empathy

·  Victorian spinner

·  Vocabulary

·  What can we learn from pictures?

·  Puitting Us in the Picture

Religious Education

·  Conscience Alley

·  Festivals of Light

·  Looking at a murti

·  Give us a clue

·  Twelve Days of Christmas

·  Awe and Wonder

·  Belief and Drama

·  Dreamcatcher

·  Ganesha

·  God in Everything

·  Hindu Gods

·  Investigating an artefact

·  Picture Framing

·  Religious Symbols

·  Rules for Living

·  Seder Plate

·  Special Places

·  Telephone

·  The Beatitudes

·  The Cross

·  The Five Pillars of Islam

·  The Mezuzah

·  The Trimurti

·  Who is it?

·  Wonder

·  Who am I?

Features

Key Features

• A rich selection of ideas, activities and games linked to key skills and concepts in primary humanities

• A brief introduction to the key skills in history, geography and RE
• Organised by subject
• Adaptable across the primary age range
• Offers a variety of theoretical and practical activities
• Many downloadable templates to appear on the web
• Plenty of cross-curricular links to inspire whole lesson ideas

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