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  • History // Medieval Times

    Siege Warfare

    How 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 9Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    The Black Death

    The 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 9Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    Vikings vs Anglo-Saxons

    The 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 9Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    Medieval Legacy in Modern Life

    What the Middle Ages gave us: Parliament, universities, common law, Gothic architecture, the English language (Anglo-Saxon + Norman French), place names…

    Ages 9 to 11Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    Medieval Worlds Beyond Europe

    The 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 11Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    Printing Press & Renaissance

    The 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 11Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    Art & Architecture

    Medieval cultural achievements: illuminated manuscripts, Gothic cathedrals (flying buttresses, stained glass), Gregorian chant, the Bayeux Tapestry; art and…

    Ages 9 to 11Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    Magna Carta and Limiting Royal Power

    King 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 11Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    Towns & Trade

    The 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 11Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    Crime & Punishment

    How 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 11Concept
  • History // Medieval Times

    Women in the Middle Ages

    The 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 11Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Computers in Everyday Life

    Identifying computers in everyday life — not just laptops but phones, tablets, smart speakers, traffic lights, washing machines; what makes something a computer

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    AI in Daily Life

    Spotting AI in daily life: face unlock on a phone, video recommendations, spelling auto-correct, automatic doors that detect people; technology that seems to…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Voice Assistants and How They Work

    What happens when you talk to Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant; they listen, try to understand, look up answers; sometimes they get it wrong; they are tools…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Smart Versus Not-Smart Devices

    Sorting objects into 'smart' (can sense and respond) and 'not smart' (just sits there); a toaster vs a smart speaker; introduction to the idea that some…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Step-by-Step Instructions

    Step-by-step instructions for everyday tasks (making a sandwich, brushing teeth); that if instructions are wrong or missing, things go wrong; computers follow…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Real-World Robots

    What a robot really is — not the sci-fi version; robots in factories, robot vacuum cleaners, robot arms in surgery; that robots follow instructions given by…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Data and Information for Computers

    What data is: information that computers use — numbers, words, pictures, sounds; everything a computer knows comes from data that people give it

    Ages 7 to 9Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Patterns and Classification

    Humans 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
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Machine Learning Basics

    How machine learning works at a conceptual level: show the computer many examples, it finds patterns, then it makes predictions about new things; hands-on…

    Ages 7 to 9Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    AI Mistakes and Limitations

    Machines make mistakes; they only know what they've been shown; bad training data leads to bad results; AI is not magic — just maths on data; showing edge cases…

    Ages 7 to 9Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Humans Versus Machines

    Comparing human and machine capabilities: creativity, empathy, common sense vs speed, memory, repetition; the Turing Test (simplified); what makes humans unique

    Ages 7 to 9Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    Recommendation Systems and Filter Bubbles

    How recommendation systems work: YouTube, Netflix, and shop websites track what you click and find patterns; filter bubbles; the difference between helpful…

    Ages 7 to 9Concept
  • Computing // Artificial Intelligence

    AI in Computer Games

    How computer game characters 'decide' what to do; simple rule-based AI vs learning AI; NPCs, difficulty adjustment; AI as the opponent in chess or board games

    Ages 7 to 9Concept