Useful Websites for History |

Useful Websites for History

Click here for the Key Stage 2 BBC Bitesize website for History.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zcw76sg

Click here to view footage from the National Archives. Watch the footage and complete the activities to enter a world of discovery about Domesday, Stuarts, Tudors, 1900-1945 and post war Britain.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/focuson/film/

DK Books

Why not enter the DK website which is full of exciting history topics by clicking here?

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/

History cookbook

Have you ever wondered what food was like to live in a particular period? Click here to discover what people ate and how to cook these meals? Is the food fit for a King?

http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/index.php

History Lines

Click here to find out lots of interesting facts about different periods in History. Get ready to amaze your teacher!

http://historylines.e2bn.org/

Natural History Museum

Are you bored? Do you fancy trying something new? Then click here to discovery the wealth of activities you can try at home with the Natural History Museum.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/try-this-at-home.html

The Seven Wonders of the World

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/seven-wonders-world/

Reception

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/guy-fawkes-and-gunpowder-plot/

Year 1 – Castles

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/castles/

Year 1 – Explorers and pirates

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/explorers/

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/pirates/

Year 1 – Neil Armstrong

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhpchbk/articles/z4w3mfr

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/explorers/neil_armstrong.php

Year 2 – Titanic

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/titanic/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8mpfg8/articles/zng8jty

https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/titanic

Year 2 – Great Fire of London

https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/great-fire-london

http://www.fireoflondon.org.uk/game/

https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london/great-fire

Year 3 – The Stone Age

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk

Year 3 – The Romans

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/ancient-rome/

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

Year 3 – Anglo-Saxons

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/anglo-saxons/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxsbcdm/articles/z23br82

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons.htm

Year 4 – Vikings

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/vikings/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/ztyr9j6

http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/vikings.html

Year 4 – Mayans

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/mayans/

Year 5 – Ancient Egypt

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/ancient-egypt/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zg87xnb/resources/1

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Egypt.html

Year 5 – North America

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/native-americans/

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/presidents-united-states/

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/us-civil-rights/

Year 5 – Space

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/earth/

https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html

Year 5 – Victorians

Click here to find out what it was like to be a poor child in Victorian times by searching the stories of those who lived through it. Go on a journey as you look through the amazing photographs and fact files. How would you have coped? How does your life compare to these children?

http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/learning_materials/index.html

Click here to discover the wonderful work and self-less life led by Dr Barnardo to save children from destitution. How has this impacted upon your own life?

https://www.barnardos.org.uk/who-we-are/our-history

Additional Victorian Britain websites:

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/victorian-britain/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcjxhyc/resources/1

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians.html

Year 6 – World War I and World War II