Click here to get teaching resources for this episode from Teachers pay teachers Today I want to introduce you to a woman, who once you have heard of, you are likely never to forget. A woman who, in her 50s, filled her pockets full of rocks, wielded a hatchet, and went around to bars and saloons smashing […]
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Click here to get teaching resources for this episode on Teachers Pay Teachers Sophie Scholl was born into a Lutheran family in Germany in 1921, which meant that she was 12 years old when Hitler came into power in 1933. Her father was the mayor of his town and was not a fan of Hitler
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Click here to get teaching resources for this episode from Teacher pay teachers. If you have been anywhere near TikTok in the past 12 months you have probably heard the catchy beats of the song Makeba by French singer and songwriter Jain. Or you may be one of the 268 million people who have viewed
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Today I am going to investigate one of the most famous unsung women of Christmas legend. I don’t normally like to define a woman by her famous husband, but it is a bit hard not to with this one, because her husband is one of the most famous chaps of all time. I am
When you think of the poppy flower, you probably immediately think of the commemoration of soldiers, whether it be for Remembrance Day on the 11th of November, or the commemoration of ANZAC Day here in Australia and New Zealand. For as long as I can remember, the poppy has always been a symbol of the
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Click here to access Teacher Tay Teacher Resources Click here to Access Amped Up Learning Resources Often when we think of the Industrial Revolution, we look at the incredible mechanical and agricultural progress that happened during this period. You might also think about the atrocities that occurred in the factories to the children. But there was another
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Click here for Teaching resources for this lesson from Teachers Pay Teachers Click here for teaching resources for this lesson from Amped up learning One way that oppressive governments try to control people is by controlling education. In apartheid South Africa, that is exactly what the government tried to do with the introduction of laws
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Click here for Teachers pay teachers resources Click here for resources from Amped Up Learning Now, if you have been one of the people swept up in the TV show Alone, you are going to love this episode because Ada Blackjack is a woman who makes the Alone contestants look like amateurs. Ada Blackjack was
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Click here to access teaching resources from Teachers Pay Teachers Click here to access teaching resources from Amped Up learning Today we are travelling way back to the 1400s BCE, that is almost 3500 thousand years ago to meet one of the most successful female pharaohs of Egypt. A woman whose statues are donned with
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Click here to Access resources from Teachers Pay Teachers Click here to access resource from Amped Up Learning At the end of World War II, the world was reeling after the atrocities that had occurred throughout the war. Representatives from 50 different countries met in what they called the United Nations Conference. Here they drafted
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