The Great Irish Famine Bundle | PowerPoint & Workbook | P7 / Upper KS2

£10.99

A complete Great Irish Famine teaching bundle for P7 and Upper KS2, including a classroom PowerPoint (132 Slides) and comprehensive pupil workbook (31 pages).

Covers potato blight, Black ’47, workhouses, soup kitchens, evictions, emigration, coffin ships and the impact of the Famine, with ready-to-use pupil activities, creative writing, source work, quizzes, colouring pages and teacher answers.

Ideal for teaching the Great Irish Famine / Irish Potato Famine as a full history topic.

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Description

Teach the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1852 with this complete P7 / Upper KS2 history bundle, combining a classroom PowerPoint with a substantial pupil workbook.

The resources are designed to work together, giving teachers a ready-made sequence for introducing the topic, developing understanding and providing follow-up activities.

The bundle explores life in Ireland before the Famine, the importance of the potato crop, the arrival of potato blight and the devastating consequences that followed. Pupils learn about Black ’47, workhouses, soup kitchens, evictions, emigration and the dangerous journeys made aboard so-called coffin ships.

The accompanying workbook provides a wide range of activities to reinforce learning and encourage pupils to think historically. These include comprehension tasks, cause-and-effect activities, timelines, vocabulary work, source analysis, fact and opinion, diary and letter writing, quizzes and reflective activities.

The workbook also includes two historical colouring pages based on an eviction and a coffin ship, together with a teacher answer section.

This bundle is ideal for teachers who want a complete, ready-to-use resource for a Great Irish Famine topic without having to create separate lessons and worksheets.

What’s Included

This bundle includes:

  • Great Irish Famine PowerPoint presentation (132 slides)
  • Comprehensive pupil workbook (31 pages)
  • activities on life in Ireland before the Famine
  • the importance of the potato
  • potato blight
  • cause and effect
  • Famine timeline
  • Black ’47
  • workhouses
  • soup kitchens
  • evictions
  • emigration
  • journeys across the Atlantic
  • coffin ships
  • population change
  • fact and opinion
  • historical source work
  • diary writing
  • letter writing
  • vocabulary activities
  • end-of-topic quiz
  • pupil reflection activities
  • Famine summary activity
  • two colouring pages
  • teacher answer pages

Why Teachers Will Love This Bundle

Why teachers love this resource

  • Provides both teaching material and pupil activities
  • Saves planning and preparation time
  • Can support a complete Great Irish Famine topic
  • Combines history knowledge with literacy skills
  • Includes a mixture of factual, analytical and creative activities
  • Suitable for whole-class teaching, independent work and homework
  • Encourages historical thinking and empathy
  • Includes assessment and revision opportunities
  • Includes teacher answers for easier marking
  • Suitable for both UK and international classrooms

Learning Objectives

By the end of the topic, pupils should be able to:

  • explain why potatoes were so important in nineteenth-century Ireland
  • describe what potato blight was and how it affected the potato crop
  • identify key events during the Great Irish Famine
  • explain why 1847 became known as Black ’47
  • describe conditions in workhouses and soup kitchens
  • explain why some families were evicted
  • describe why large numbers of Irish people emigrated
  • explain some of the difficulties faced by emigrants
  • describe why some ships became known as coffin ships
  • use important vocabulary linked to the Famine
  • distinguish between fact and opinion
  • examine historical sources
  • explain some of the short- and long-term effects of the Famine

Suitable For

Suitable for:

  • P7
  • Upper KS2
  • Fourth Class – Sixth Class
  • Grades 4 – 6
  • Irish History
  • Great Irish Famine topics
  • Irish Potato Famine topics
  • History and literacy cross-curricular work
  • whole-class teaching
  • independent work
  • homework
  • revision
  • end-of-topic assessment

File Type

Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx)

MSWord

PDF

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