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History // Ancient Greece & Rome
Roman Republic and EmpireExplain how Rome was first governed as a republic — with elected consuls, a powerful Senate, and a distinction between patricians and plebeians — before…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Ancient Greece & Rome
Greek and Roman ArchitectureIdentify Greek column styles — Doric (plain and sturdy), Ionic (scroll-shaped capitals), and Corinthian (ornate leafy capitals) — and Roman architectural…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Ancient Greece & Rome
Alexander the Great's EmpireDescribe how Alexander the Great of Macedon conquered a vast empire stretching from Greece to Egypt to India, spreading Greek language, culture, and ideas…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Ancient Greece & Rome
Fall of the Western Roman EmpireDescribe how the Western Roman Empire gradually declined due to a combination of factors — military pressure from invading peoples, political instability…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Ancient Greece & Rome
Greek Philosophers and MedicineKnow that Greek thinkers called philosophers developed ways of understanding the world that still influence us today — Socrates asked challenging questions to…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Battle of Hastings and 1066The events of 1066: the death of Edward the Confessor, three claimants to the throne, the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror, and the Bayeux Tapestry as…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Medieval Pyramid of PowerHow medieval society was organised: king at the top, then lords, then knights, then peasants/serfs; who owed what to whom; the pyramid of power and mutual…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The Medieval ChurchThe enormous power of the medieval Church: monasteries and the daily life of monks and nuns; building great cathedrals; pilgrimage as a religious journey; the…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The CrusadesA simplified account of the Crusades: why Europeans travelled to the Holy Land, what they found there, the cultural exchange between Christian Europe and the…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Castle Design Through the AgesHow castles were built and evolved: from wooden motte-and-bailey to stone keeps to concentric castles; rooms and their uses; how castle design responded to new…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Anglo-Saxon BritainWho the Anglo-Saxons were: Germanic peoples who settled in Britain after the Romans left; their kingdoms, villages, place names, art, and eventual conversion to…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Siege WarfareHow castles were attacked and defended: siege weapons (trebuchets, battering rams, siege towers), boiling liquids, arrow slits, murder holes; the drama of a…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The Black DeathThe Black Death of 1348-49: what the plague was, how it spread, its devastating death toll; how it changed society by giving surviving workers more power and…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Vikings vs Anglo-SaxonsThe conflict between Vikings and Anglo-Saxons for control of England: Viking raids, Alfred the Great's resistance, the Danelaw, Athelstan as first king of all…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Medieval Legacy in Modern LifeWhat the Middle Ages gave us: Parliament, universities, common law, Gothic architecture, the English language (Anglo-Saxon + Norman French), place names…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Medieval Worlds Beyond EuropeThe medieval world beyond Europe: the Islamic Golden Age (maths, medicine, architecture), the Mali Empire and Mansa Musa, Song Dynasty China; how the medieval…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Printing Press & RenaissanceThe invention of the printing press by Gutenberg and its arrival in England with William Caxton; how printed books changed everything; the transition from the…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Art & ArchitectureMedieval cultural achievements: illuminated manuscripts, Gothic cathedrals (flying buttresses, stained glass), Gregorian chant, the Bayeux Tapestry; art and…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Magna Carta and Limiting Royal PowerKing John, the barons' revolt, and the sealing of the Magna Carta in 1215; what the Magna Carta said about limiting the king's power; its lasting importance for…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Towns & TradeThe growth of medieval towns: markets, guilds, the merchant class; how towns won charters of self-governance; the shift from purely rural to partly urban life
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Crime & PunishmentHow justice worked in medieval times: trial by ordeal, trial by combat, the role of the sheriff; punishments including stocks, pillory, and dungeons; how…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Women in the Middle AgesThe lives of medieval women: noblewomen managing estates, peasant women's hard daily work, nuns and abbesses, notable figures like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Joan…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
Data and Information for ComputersWhat data is: information that computers use — numbers, words, pictures, sounds; everything a computer knows comes from data that people give it
Ages 7 to 9ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
Patterns and ClassificationHumans are great at spotting patterns; computers can learn to spot patterns too, but they need lots of examples; sorting and classification activities as the…
Ages 7 to 9Concept