Peters Books for Schools

An accessible guide to the key milestones in Black history, culture, and society across the globe - from the ancient world to the present

Based on true events in 1760 in Jamaica, a fourteen-year-old slave boy becomes involved in an uprising against his oppressors.

A collection of 28 essays the myriad ways Black British people find joy in life.

True stories from 17 YA authors about understanding what being an ally is, and using that knowledge as a springboard to improving being an ally to friends and strangers alike.

A history of post-war Black Britain told through the lens of 28 songs.

Explores the experiences of African and Caribbean people in Britain throughout history.

A short introduction to Black British history, abridged from the adult edition of 2017.

Hello, Niveus High. It's me. Who am I? That's not important. All you need to know is... I'm here to divide and conquer. - Aces

Looks at issues surrounding race and racism.

An overview of black world history from the earliest African empires to the #blacklivesmatter movement.

A history of how anti-black racist ideas rose and spread throughout the history of North America to the present and how to spot and discredit those ideas now. Adapted from the adult book 'Stamped from the Beginning' by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi.

The true story of an orphan who became a football star at the turn of the 20th century and the first black man to be made an officer in the British army during the First World War.

Advice to help young people to understand racism and give them the power to fight against it.

Charts the history of slaves from Africa and America from mid 16th to late 19th Centuries.

Looks at the background and events of the slave trade and examines its lasting impact on history.

Introduces the life and legacy of African-American writer and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou.

Relates the life and legacy of South African human rights activist, political prisoner and president, Nelson Mandela.

A diverse collection of stories by African American authors on what it is like growing up black in the US.

A boy travels with his drug-addicted mother and his younger sister to the deep South to see his convict father.

Graphic biography of Nelson Mandela, the South African politician.

Set in 19th century America, a mixed race runaway slave girl adopts a disguise as a white gentlemen to escape to freedom in the north.

Biography of civil rights protester Rosa Parks whose peaceful bus protest was a sea change in the fight for equal rights for black American.

Takes information from contemporary sources of the time to piece together the stories of the people who helped African Americans escape slavery through the Underground Railroad.

Gives facts about the slave trade and Great Britain's part in it with a supporting fictional story about an African boy who is kidnapped and sent to work on a sugar plantation.

An illustrated retelling of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and the struggle for African American civil rights in the mid 20th century

A graphic novel about the first nine African American students to enter a mainstream High School

Looks at the life and significance in American history of Rosa Parks

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Love's Labour's Lost is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays.

Antony and Cleopatra is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Winter's Tale is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Measure for Measure is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps the reader to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays.

This is a well-established series which helps the reader to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays.

Contains the complete and unabridged text, and includes detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the entire plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters.

An edition of the play Henry IV Part 1 which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries.

An edition of the play Richard II which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

An edition of the play Julius Caesar which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

A student's edition of the Shakespeare play, including notes and contextual information.

An edition of the play The Tempest which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

An edition of the play Twelfth Night which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

Gives background and text of the play with notes to aid understanding.

Provides the play text with commentary and background notes.

An edition of the play Hamlet which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

An edition of Shakespeare's play Othello which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

Provides literary and dramatic analysis of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

An edition of the Shakespeare play which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

A teenage girl with the power to grow plants from her fingers spearheads a teen rebellion against governments and corporations to save the Earth.

A teenage boy trying to scavenge enough to live on in an e-waste dump in Ghana gets caught up in a gang war.

A guide to making fashion choices that don't harm the planet.

A young boy who's mother is a soldier protecting the Amazon is kidnapped to teach her a lesson - he escapes but must survive the wildfires all around him.

A practical guide to reducing use of plastic in everyday life.

Explores ways that we can help conserve our planet for the future.

Looks at some of causes and effects of climate change and how they might be addressed

Presents facts about the planet's natural resources and how human activity is affecting our environment.

Explores the science and arguments behind the issue of climate change.

Looks at the reasons for shifts in weather patterns and climate, the effects of climate change, and what can be done to stop the damage being done to our planet.

Explores ways in which you can actively engage in reducing pollution and waste to help our environment.

Presents facts about biodiversity, how nature at risk from climate change and human activity, and what can be done to preserve it for the future.

Twenty inspiring stories of people who have made it their goal to try and combat climate change

How to Go Waste Free is the easy guide to disposing of waste from your life. 100 tips provide insight, practical advice and a painless approach to joining the zero-waste revolution.

Hightlights how plastic pollution is entering the food chain, how it is affecting animals and human health, and what we can do to minimise future damage to our food supply.

Encourages the reader to help make a difference in saving our planet from the effects of climate change.

Tips on how to live a greener life and help save our planet.

A teenager joins a community in Arizona that, due to health issues caused by chemicals in the environment, tries to live apart from the modern world.

Examines the issues surrounding the use of fossil fuels, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

A teen boy moved to Florida encounters a bare-footed boy and joins in a daring environmental rescue.

Squirm is a funny, wildly entertaining adventure about the great outdoors and protecting the environment.

Three friends embark upon an adventure when they venture into the woods to discover what secrets lie at the heart of it.

Two children must risk everything to escape their fate and find the impossible...

Explains how waste plastic is damaging our oceans and waterways, and what we can do to stop this.

Tips and advice on how to minimise your use of plastic in everyday life.

Explores ways that houses of the future can be built to be more environmentally friendly.

Presents ways in which people who live in towns and cities can produce less pollution and protect their environment

Explores ways that we can minimise waste to stop pollution around the world.

Looks at the causes of pollution around the world, how this affects our planet, and what is being done to tackle the problem.

What happens when we throw something away? Where does it go? Is it recycled? Will it decompose naturally? Unfortunately, most of our waste is simply sent to landfill or incinerated.

Show show to recycle, enhance and reinvent second hand clothing items and fabrics

Follows the lives of a community on the outskirts of Cairo who make a living by sorting and recycling the city's rubbish

Guidance on living a 'greener' and more environmentally friendly lifestyle

Ideas for activities for teachers to use to teach children about the environment and conservation

Presents methods and techniques for making jewellery pieces from recycled materials

Offers tips on recycling, environmentally friendly cleaning and on reducing household waste

Climb abroad planet Earth for these awesome eco-adventures - more than 50 creative "recycling" projects that guarantee you enormous fun while you make sure nothing goes to waste

Gives reasons for reducing the amount of rubbish produced and suggests practical ways of recycling rubbish.

A must-have guide to teaching geography for new and experienced secondary teachers.

When it comes to those difficult questions about sex and relationships, how do you strike the balance between an answer that is professional but open, correct but doesn't create panic?

An essential collection of 100 practical, tried-and-tested ideas for teaching computing in secondary schools. This is the perfect resource for computing teachers at all levels, whether specialist or non-specialist, newly qualified or experienced.

Written by Louise Hutton and Dawn Cox, Making Every RE Lesson Count: Six principles to support religious education teaching brings together the latest curriculum developments with evidence-informed practice and shares practical strategies for use in the RE classroom.

In recent years the emphasis has shifted away from a focus on pedagogy (the how of teaching) and towards curriculum (the what of teaching). Ofsted's revised inspection framework reflects this shift, and their plans to -deep dive- into subject areas - meaning that teachers and department heads now need a much greater understanding of curricular structures - leave many educators having to think about their subject in new ways.

Andy Lewis uses his experience as Director of Religious Education to share ideas and advice on how to construct a successful RE lesson, engage students in the subject, provide effective feedback and exam techniques, and bring RE to life in the secondary curriculum.

Split into sections on grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading, writing, translation and revision, 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding MFL Lessons presents tried-and-tested ideas that cover all aspects of the modern foreign languages (MFL) curriculum.

Dyscalculia experts Patricia Babtie and Sue Dillon present 100 ideas to help students with numeracy difficulties grasp the core skills required in the secondary curriculum, not just in maths but in other subjects including science, design and technology, computing and geography.

Worried about teaching natural selection, submicroscopic particle models or circuits? Keith S. Taber explores a range of issues faced in secondary science teaching and discusses strategies for teaching the nature of scientific knowledge, making practical work effective and challenging gifted young scientists.

Designing a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme can be daunting. Whether you are looking to better your own practice or coach your colleagues, it can be hard to know where to start. But don't worry, the Bloomsbury CPD Library is here to help! Divided into two unique sections, Teach Yourself and Train Others, this book is perfect for individual teachers, middle leaders and those looking to introduce whole-school CPD training programmes.

Making Every Science Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Science Teaching goes in search of answers to the fundamental question that all science teachers must ask: 'What can I do to help my students become the scientists of the future?' Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, Shaun Allison returns with an offering of gimmick-free advice that combines the time-honoured wisdom of excellent science teachers with the most useful evidence from cognitive science. The book is underpinned by six pedagogical principles - challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning - and provides simple, realistic classroom strategies that will help teachers make abstract ideas more concrete and practical demonstrations more meaningful. It also points a sceptical finger at the fashions and myths that have pervaded science teaching over the past decade or so - such as the belief that students can make huge progress in a single lesson and the idea that learning is speedy, linear and logical.Instead, Shaun advocates an approach of artful repetition and consolidation and shows you how to help your students develop their conceptual understanding of science over time.Making Every Science Lesson Count is for new and experienced science teachers alike. It does not pretend to be a magic bullet. It does not claim to have all the answers. Rather the aim of the book is to provide effective strategies designed to help you to bring the six principles to life, with each chapter concluding in a series of questions to inspire reflective thought and help you relate the content to your classroom practice. In an age of educational quick fixes, GCSE reform and ever-moving goalposts, this precise and timely addition to the Making Every Lesson Count series provides practical solutions to perennial problems and inspires a rich, challenging and evidence-informed approach to science teaching. Suitable for science teachers of students aged 11-16 years.

Strategies and ideas to teach outstanding history lessons for secondary History teachers

A new addition to the best-selling 100 Ideas series, offering teachers quick and easy ways to engage students, convey complex knowledge, and build solid foundations for student's understanding and learning in geography.

Enhancing Learning with Effective Practical Science begins with an exploration of the reasons why practical work is often less effective than it could be. It provides 72 full and clear lesson guides for effective practical lessons in biology, chemistry and physics for students aged between 11 and 16. Each lesson guide presents the practical work to be undertaken, the apparatus and materials required and the ideas to be explored. Health and safety issues are also covered.

Essential for busy secondary form tutors, this book will inspire form time ideas that are constructive, exciting, yet take little preparation!

Strategies and ideas to teach outstanding science lessons for secondary science teachers

Strategies and ideas to teach outstanding English lessons for secondary English teachers

Strategies and ideas to teach outstanding English lessons for secondary English teachers

The new edition of this extremely practical guide equips teachers with a huge number of strategies for improving pupils' mathematics and problem-solving skills in the classroom. Mike Ollerton shows how active learning, equipment based and surprise perspectives can bring mathematics alive. This edition includes a brand new chapter on 'strategies for teaching mathematics'. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of teaching mathematics, this book will prove essential reading for maths teachers everywhere.

This book contains ready-to-use, tried-and-tested lesson plans for engaging students aged 11-16 in the sciences using drama and role play techniques. How to increase students' interest and engagement in science is a challenge shared by teachers around the world. Designing effective science lesson plans using drama and role play requires expertise across two very different subject areas and, as a consequence, many science teachers find it difficult to incorporate this technique into their teaching. This book provides busy teachers with ready-made lesson plans for teaching the most dry and abstract scientific principles in a fun and novel way that really engages students. Drawing on and combining the knowledge of biology, chemistry and physics education specialists with drama education experts, this book covers topics taught widely in the sciences with pupils aged 11-16. The authors give a broad background to the value of drama and role play in the teaching of science, including a section summarising, for the non-drama specialist, the main techniques that will be used throughout the book.

This handbook is rich with practical advice on engaging and inspiring learners, and teachers, in geography lessons. Containing everything a new or improving geography teacher could wish to know, this book provides step-by-step guidance on creating outstanding learning opportunities that prepare students for life, as well as for success in their examinations. Award-winning author and former head of geography Brin Best brings a wealth of experience and a unique blend of rigour and practicality to the subject, presenting fresh, exciting and creative ideas on how to get the most from your geography lessons. The book contains advice on everything from planning schemes of work and lessons, making the most of opportunities for learning outside the classroom and available ICT to cross-curricular links, thinking skills and examples of best practice. With reflective questions and activities, scores of lesson stimuli and a host of useful links, this book is an essential addition to every geography teacher's toolkit. Each title in the Handbooks series is a comprehensive guide to preparing to teach, teaching with confidence and making the most of assessment in secondary schools.

This book provides a highly practical sourcebook for using ICT effectively in the Secondary classroom. Section One shows exactly how to use specific applications creatively for stimulating resources. Section Two applies these applications to classroom practice. The other areas covered include effective planning and how key skills can be addressed using ICT.The majority of ICT books do a reasonable job of explaining how applications work. However, they leave the educator with a mental leap to make: 'How can I make use of this?' Sometimes this challenge is too big and leads to lessons that lack rigour or, worse still, the teacher abandoning ICT completely. This book uses hands-on tasks to explain how to use ICT effectively and in an engaging way. Section One shows how to employ different ICT applications to create exciting resources. The focus is on showing the benefits of each tool and how they can be utilised by teachers in both their preparation and lesson delivery. After every section teachers will have created a useful and interesting resource that can be used and employed in other circumstances.Section two, applies these tools to classroom practice.

This resource contains 70 complete lesson plans with complementary worksheets for the students, specifically designed for GCSE level maths. This book contains 70 ready-to-use maths lessons suitable for the new GCSE Mathematics curriculum. The lesson plans contain objectives from both the D-G range and the A-C range to make them adaptable for different sets or for use in a mixed-ability context. Each lesson consists of a left-hand page for the teacher, outlining the structure of the lesson from a starter through to homework, and a right-hand photocopiable pupil worksheet to provide a setting in which pupils are encouraged to explore alternative methods and to describe and explain their ideas. Some lessons offer alternative routes through the curriculum such as practicing indices by solving radical equations, while others concentrate on difficult concepts, like appreciating that not all mathematical relationships are linear. The lessons focus on problem solving and putting maths into context, and are an essential resource for any busy teacher of maths GCSE.

The concept of deep learning, as opposed to surface learning, is being increasingly recognized by teachers and, here, Anne Watson and her colleagues use it in connection with enabling so-far low attaining students to recover their self-esteem and mathematical capabilities. This essential guide for mathematics teachers will help to change the focus from 'doing and finishing' to 'thinking and learning'.

Teaching and learning is a two-way street, and most teachers will tell you they learn so much from the pupils they teach. Nowhere is this more true than in the field of technology. Often the pupils come to school with a great knowledge of information technology than the teachers, with can be viewed as an opportunity or a threat depending on the viewpoint of the teacher. It is, in fact, a great opportunity for teachers and this book shows what the new generation of learners can bring to schools and how teachers can interpret what they observe in schools. It also gives suggestions on how to respond to the need to adapt teaching practices for a society where dealing with knowledge is a matter of negotiation and creativity.

This book contains creative and imaginative tried-and-tested starters and plenaries for engaging students in all areas of an English Lesson.

#Since the Creative Partnerships programme began in 2002, it has helped almost 5,000 schools, 90,000 teachers and over 1 million young people to embrace creative learning. Those involved have seen notable improvements in achievement and in measurable aspects of personal development, such as attendance.

The *new* novel from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People.

Barack Obama's autobiography about his early life, adapted for a young teen audience.

The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo

When Empress and Aniya switch bodies on their 16th birthday, they learn a valuable lesson about the importance of friendship.

A teenage girl unexpectedly falls in love with her rival for the post of the school newspaper's editor-in-chief.

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.

A collection of 28 essays the myriad ways Black British people find joy in life.

Tobey and Callie Rose have to work together to try and clear Tobey's name and find their kidnapped brother and daughter

True stories from 17 YA authors about understanding what being an ally is, and using that knowledge as a springboard to improving being an ally to friends and strangers alike.

A photographic autobiography by the award-winning musician Billie Eilish.

An incisive - and deeply practical - essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair

Hello, Niveus High. It's me. Who am I? That's not important. All you need to know is... I'm here to divide and conquer. - Aces

A teenage girl becomes a collector of souls of the recently deceased but her obsession with the girl she first loved keeps getting in the way.