Get ready for bonfire night with these free lesson resources for key stages 1-3, aimed at literacy, ESL, maths and history students.
Title: Bonfire Night
Suitable for: KS1/KS2
Subject: Literacy and art
Overview: Pupils use all their senses to create sentences and images that fully invoke the smells, sights and sounds of bonfire night. Includes lesson plan and activity sheets.
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Title: Bonfire night vocabulary, exercises and worksheets
Suitable for: ESL students
Subject: English language
Overview: Stacks of online resources for all levels, from beginners to advanced, children to adults. Try the bonfire night picture quiz or listening quiz, use Katy Perry’s ‘Fireworks’ song to lead an activity or get your students clued-up on Firework safety laws.
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Title: Bonfire night maths
Suitable for: KS1 – KS3
Subject: Maths
Overview: Download a choice of bonfire night maths lesson plans from the TES website. Your students could create a bonfire night order sheet, display sheet or take part in a bonfire night murder mystery investigation.
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Title: The Gunpowder Plot – Prove it
Suitable for: KS1
Subject: History
Overview: Create a set of statements about the gunpowder plot (some true, some false) and print off or use the Powerpoint images to set up a gallery of evidence. Students acts as detectives, trying to find evidence to back up the statements. This site allows you to access the image gallery for free but requires registration for full lesson resources and lesson plans.
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Title: The Gunpowder plot video, revision and test
Suitable for: KS3
Subject: History
Overview: A 2-minute animated video, revision materials and online test with answers, this is a brilliant set of resources to supplement your build your bonfire night lesson around.
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Title: The Gunpowder plot game
Suitable for: KS3
Subject: History
Overview: An interactive game that takes your through cellars beneath the king’s chamber, where the gunpowder was stored. Test your knowledge of the gunpowder plot by answering questions as you move through the cellars and watch the fuse fizzle away!
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