KS2KS35–7 min
Map-clue starter
Project a blank map of Africa. Reveal one clue at a time (a river, a trade route, a city name) and ask students to guess the civilisation. Works for Mali, Kush, Aksum, Great Zimbabwe, Songhai.
Phase 7 · Teacher toolkit
Ready-to-use classroom scaffolds
Adaptable starters, exit tickets, differentiation prompts, homework, and rubrics that work across every topic on the site.
Lesson starters
Five-minute retrieval or curiosity hooks to open any Black-history lesson.
KS3KS4KS55 min
First-line source hook
Show only the first sentence of a primary source (e.g. al-Umari on Mansa Musa). Ask: who wrote this, when, and why should we care? Reveal the full extract after 60 seconds of discussion.
KS2KS3KS46 min
One-photograph inference
Display one contemporary photograph (Empire Windrush at Tilbury, 1948; Selma marches, 1965). Students note three things they can see, two questions they'd ask, one prediction for today's lesson.
Pair the toolkit with classroom assessments for end-of-unit checks, or head back to Topics to plan a unit.