OCR GCSE War and Society Thematic study revision overview task

This is a great GCSE revision lesson or 2 to allow students the opportunity to reflect on the whole OCR War and Society unit AD790 - 2010 in terms of themes. The lesson starts by explaining the various skills that they need and gives them a useful list of key words that they should be using when analysing significance, cause, consequences etc.

Student can then use the table and list of divisions to identify the nature of the division, be it, plunder, ambition, conquest, defence, terror, etc and then assess whether for each period it was an internal or external conflict as well as then assessing the concept of support.

There is then a list of the styles of questions, plus examination guidance on how to structure their answers for this unit.

At the end there are then opportunities for students to reflect on their completed chart and identify key themes, such as how the nature of conflict has changed across time.

As this course is so heavily content driven, this has proved invaluable in allowing students to reflect and form an overview, something which is essential for the bigger questions on this unit.