In this section, we have collated a selection of links to free home-learning resources and projects from other websites.
As school communities and the world at large experience the impact of COVID-19, join Pearson in spreading some positivity through the Pearson World Changer Awards and our free resources. From heart-warming acts of citizenship to initiatives looking out for neighbours and nature over lockdown, the pandemic is highlighting the amazing ways that young people are championing humanity through the humanities.
We want to shine a light on these remarkable actions in our forthcoming World Changer Awards, and celebrate the 5–19 year olds across the United Kingdom who are taking their learning to the next level to make a positive impact on the world beyond the classroom. Get your world changer journey off to a start by downloading our free World Changer activity kit filled with resources linked to the wider curriculum. Find out more
Support your history students with free access to Pearson’s e-books
Are you aware that Pearson is currently offering UK Schools free access to many of their ebooks until the end of August? Once teachers have gained access to these student-facing materials, you can then share them with your students to use at home. Included are Exploring History for KS3, core, foundation-level and revision books for Edexcel GCSE and student books for Edexcel A level student books. These resources feature accessible text and structure to help students understand and enjoy historical content. Request your free access
Centre for Holocaust Education
Centre for Holocaust Education have published a number of self-directed or guided online materials for KS3 students including:
- Resistance and the Holocaust - 3 online lessons designed to encourage students to explore their own existing understandings of resistance and helps them consider how our expectations of people during the Holocaust measure up to the realities. The aim is for students to acquire a better understanding of Jewish agency and action during the Holocaust.
- The struggle to survive: resilience and survival in the Warsaw Ghetto - a lesson that helps young people explore the horrific conditions of the ghetto using primary sources to uncover how the Jewish population incarcerated there struggled to survive relying extensively on self-help aid and smuggling. It also demonstrates remarkable evidence of resilience and resistance shown by Jews as they continued to pursue in secret religious life and Jewish education. Through this lesson the myth of Jews being passive in the face of the Holocaust is challenged.
These crowd sourced worksheets are designed to help students to learn that events were happening across the world at the same time as the events they study in the main school curriculum.
Free stories on audible
While schools are closed, books for children have been made available free on audible. This is the link to the history related titles, including EH Gombrich ‘A Little History of the World’.
University of York Archaeology Department
Education resources online for primary and secondary students from academic archaeologists.
British Library Online resources
Sources and texts on a wide variety of topics useful for pupils.
English Heritage – Story of England
One of several online resources from English Heritage.
Future Learn courses
147 online courses that are free and accessible for older students.
Many film clips and sources on a wide variety of topics from the history department at Royal Holloway University.
#OBHD (One Big History Department)
Free resources and great ideas from the HA’s Secondary Committee
An excellent site of teaching materials, many of which can be adapted for online learning.
Two-page narratives of all different people and events that can be given to students.
Interesting source collections on a wide variety of topics.
Britain from Above
Want to go time-travelling across Britain, from the air? The "Britain From Above" historic archive is now free in high resolution and it is incredible. 96,000 photos of landscapes, cities and buildings - many long-lost, many extraordinary.
Mr Allsop History
HistoryPod is a daily podcast that presents a summary of one event that occurred on that day in history - over 700 in total.
University of York
Lesson plans full of engaging exercises and images from our collection, aimed at KS2-KS4 pupils studying Art, English, History, Creative Writing and more! All freely available online.
Resources for higher attaining pupils.
The National Archives
Various source-based free activities.
University of York
Resources for primary and secondary curriculum topics based on archaeological evidence.
Centenary Battlefield Tours
From the recently-finished UCL project - nice podcasts and resources.
The Last Stand: Napoleon's 100 days in 100 objects
Traces the course of events over the 100 days up to Napoleon's surrender.
To the Barricades
Looks at European revolution and resistance 1815-1850.
British Library: West India Regiments
Explore changes in racial thought through the history of the West India Regiments. For pupils 11-14.