History with Percy Parker
Percy Parker is famous for his wonderful songs which help children to learn their times tables in Maths lessons. Now, Percy is back and taking part in a musical, called Percy Parker's Flying Bathtub, which is based on topics from the Key Stage 2 curriculum.
Andrew Holdsworth, the creator of Percy Parker, has kindly offered visitors to Teaching Ideas an exclusive download from the musical. You can download the free track "Pickle People's Organs", which is sung by a group of embalmers in a scene in Ancient Egypt.
"Percy Parker's Flying Bathtub" has songs and resources covering
a wide range of history, geography, science and other curriculum topics.
If you're studying the Tudors in class, for instance, there's a fifteen-minute
scene (including two songs) based on the Tudors that you can read through
in your classroom and perhaps perform simply in an assembly. If another year
group is studying Food Chains or Vikings or Outer Space, there are scenes
for them too. And if you want to put on a full-scale school production, just
put everyone's scenes together and hey presto - a musical!
Download some sample
songs 
and sample
resources 
.
You can pick and mix scenes based on a variety of topics, such as the Ancient
Egyptians, the Romans in Britain, the Fire of London, World War II, and Diet
and Digestion. Each scene comes with teaching notes, topic webs, and various
other helpful things to bring history and science alive in your classroom.
And there's also a CD-ROM containing projectable backdrops, choreography
videos and editable scripts.
The following video provides a short introduction to the characters, the storyline and the music.
The 'Tudors to the 20th Century' and 'Ancient History and Invaders' packs are available now from here. The 'Science and Nature' pack is due to be published by Scholastic in September 2010.
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