www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
A differentiated and editable history lesson all about the different factors that lead to Britain abolishing slavery, the key figures involved and the political, moral and economic climate. The lesson is very easy to follow and will last at least one hour.
This is most suitable for a KS3 class (created for Year 8) but could be used for other year groups.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, clip tasks, a variety of activities, worksheets, source tasks, clip tasks, active tasks and more.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
2 HOURS OF CONTENT - This lesson focuses on the significance of the Magna Carta and how it has helped shape British government through history to the present day. There is also a focus on the development of democracy in Britain, right through to the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a lot covered here so we'd advise completing it over two lessons.
Included in this download is a fully resourced powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip links and accompanying tasks.
Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
Please see our other resources in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
An hour long, fully resourced lesson with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task all about the Peasants' Revolt, ahy it happened and the consequences afterwards.
Includes source practice, analysis tasks, clip tasks, evaluation and much more. All editable and designed by an experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
An hour long, detailed and fully resourced KS3 / KS4 lesson with PowerPoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets and accompanying tasks all about Hitler’s rise to power. Students will analyse the impact of the events between 1923-1933. It includes a variety of source, evaluation, clip and analysis tasks and is fully editable.
Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
We also run the EC Publishing site and you can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
9 HOURS - A mini unit of 9 x 1 hour lessons on the Cold War. Includes:
An introduction to the Cold War
Stalin and his leadership
The Atomic Bomb
The Berlin Blockade
Soviet expansion, tactics and consequences
The Vietnam War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The My Lai Massacre
Chairman Mao and his leadership
Each lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, source analysis, GCSE-style question practice, clip questions and differentiated activities, starter sheets and much more. Created by an experienced HoD in a UK secondary school.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
A detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson all about how Mussolini, although a terrible individual with brutal methods, could be argued to have the qualities of a successful leader. This lesson allows students to investigate how he was able to become a successful, albeit brutal, dictator.
This lesson investigates the strengths and weaknesses of Mussolini as a politician and was created for Year 9 but could be used for other years as it’s all editable - it’s full of exam-style GCSE practice questions.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, source questions, exam style practice questions, clip tasks and more.
A detailed, editable and fully resourced unit of lessons for KS3 (or could be used as pre GCSE prep / catch up for KS4).
9 x well planned, detailed and challenging lessons, complete with 9-1 level GCSE challenge questions, source and reliability focus questions, clip and analysis based tasks and much more.
This is an editable package and includes:
Hitler and the Nazi Rise to Power
WWII Propaganda
The Hitler Youth
Women, Children and Workers in Nazi Germany
The German Youth in Opposition
Terror in Nazi Germany
The Holocaust
Was Hitler a great dictator?
Cover lesson (Hitler Youth)
Easy to use source work history cover lessons. All you need to do is print them out and leave them with the cover teacher - all the instructions are on the worksheets. This bundle doesn’t contain any of our previous material so you don’t need to worry about students having already completed any tasks,
Each pack includes:
4 or 5 sources
3 worksheets
8 tasks in total to work through
Check out loads more history and geography resources - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
If you’re also teaching Citizenship GCSE or PSHE next year, why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with almost 4000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
Please see our other resources in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
An hour long, fully resourced lesson with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task all about The Crusades.
Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
Please see our other resources in our TES shop: History and Geography KS3 and GCSE resources - Teaching Resources - TES
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
Norman Conquest / William the Conqueror bundle.
Lessons include:
Battle of Hastings: covers what happened during the Battle of Hastings and why William I won.
Norman consolidation of England: covers the Domesday Book, building of Castles and feudalism introduced by William I to England.
Introduction to Castles
All lessons are ready to teach and easy to use.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
A detailed and well differentiated editable history lesson with a focus on Stalingrad. Students will evaluate causes of German failure and will consider how a single Battle could affect the outcome of the whole war.
This pack includes an editable PowerPoint, source packs, clip tasks, homework and extended literacy tasks. It is very easy to follow with all instructions on the slides as you go along.
A detailed and well differentiated editable history lesson all about the effects of the Great Depression on Germany and how these contributed towards Hitler’s rise to power. The lesson lasts one hour and is very easy to just pick up and use. The lesson is suitable for any Middle School class and includes an hour-long PowerPoint, a variety of activities, source questions, clip tasks, exam-styles practice questions, active tasks and more.
A HUGE unit of World War Two lessons for KS3 (or could be used as pre GCSE prep / catch up for KS4). 20 x well planned, detailed and challenging lessons, complete with 9-1 level GCSE challenge questions. This is an editable package and includes:
1. The Treaty of Versailles
2. The Great Depression and Germany
3. The Spartacist Rebellion
4. The Kapp Putsch
5. Hitler and the Nazi Rise to Power
6. WWII Propaganda
7. The Hitler Youth
8. Women, Children and Workers in Nazi Germany
9. Appeasement
10. Sudetenland Crisis
11. The German Youth in Opposition
12. Terror in Nazi Germany
13. The Holocaust
14. Blitzkrieg
15. Stalingrad
16. Dunkirk
17. Battle of Britain
18. D-Day
19. Was Hitler a great dictator?
20. The Impact of WWII on Civilians
This package would take you months to plan from scratch - each lesson will last you an hour, unless stated as two hours in the individual lesson description.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
A detailed and well differentiated, editable history skills lesson with a focus on the importance of using evidence. This hour long lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) could be used with any KS3 group to illustrate the importance of source work as historians (and those working in archeology) in order to gain a detailed picture of the past. The lesson focuses on the story of the Pompeii and the evidence left behind that historians have pieced together to create an accurate view of the disaster.
Students will use evidence to create a detailed profile of the last days of Pompeii and explore the site left behind and the clues left for historians to decipher.
Detailed and well-differentiated, editable lesson on Blitzkrieg and its level of success as a policy. The lesson includes detailed PowerPoints, a variety of activities, source questions, clip tasks, exam-styles practice questions, active tasks and more. Perfect for KS3 or GCSE revision.
6 hours of very detailed, well differentiated and editable lessons with 6 x PowerPoints, worksheets, source analysis packs, GCSE style practice questions and also clip tasks and engaging group and individual activities .
This history unit centres around the investigation of what makes history judge a group as terrorists or freedom fighters. It is suitable for any KS3 History class as they learn to master the essential skills of examining evidence, making inferences, source analysis, interpretation and assessing significance.
Included:
Introduction to terrorism through history.
What makes someone a terrorist or a freedom fighter?
Case study - The IRA: freedom fighters or terrorists?
Case study - The Suffragettes: freedom fighters or terrorists?
Case study - Al Qaeda: freedom fighters or terrorists?
Case Study: Israel + Palestine Conflict: terrorists or freedom fighters
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
Black History Month / Rosa Parks - KS1 KS2 Primary
In this lesson, we will celebrate Black History by exploring the remarkable achievements of black women across the globe, with a focus on Rosa Parkes. Best suited to students from UKS1 (Year 2) to LKS2 (Years 3 - 4), this engaging and editable lesson provides a gentle and age-appropriate introduction to the concepts of fairness, equality, discrimination and injustice.
The lesson begins with an interactive starter, introducing four notable black women, and then delves into an exploration of Rosa Parks’ life and contributions in the main section. Through age-appropriate content, students will learn about fairness, empathy, and the significance of treating everyone equally as they delve into Rosa Parks’ pivotal role in the civil rights movement.
This lesson aims to honour the achievements of black women, celebrate their valuable contributions, and encourage discussions about equality and justice.
This lesson focuses on Martin Luther King and the Reformation. It could be used over 2 lessons as there is a lot of content.
It is a detailed and fully resourced lesson with PowerPoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task all about Martin Luther and the Reformation. Everything is editable and easy to follow. Suitable for KS3/KS4.
Please see our other resources in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
If you are happy with your resource, please leave us a review! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
Easy to use source work history cover lesson. All you need to do is print it out and leave it with the cover teacher - all the instructions are on the worksheets. This doesn’t contain any of our previous material so you don’t need to worry about students having already completed any tasks,
The pack includes:
4 sources
3 worksheets
8 tasks in total to work through
Check out loads more history and geography resources - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
If you’re also teaching Citizenship GCSE or PSHE next year, why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with almost 4000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
MORE ADDED! One year’s worth (38 hours) of KS3 History. These lessons are a selection of my very best originally created for Years 7 or 8 and include three complete units of work:
History Skills + Medieval History (1 term)
Black History + Civil Rights (1 term)
20th Century Conflict (1 term)
Every lesson is differentiated to at least three levels of challenge, has source analysis tasks, peer or mini-assessments, clip tasks with differentiated questioning and essay or literacy focus tasks for GCSE skills prep. This is inclusive of all the standards you’d expect - starters, plenaries, measurable LOs, well presented Powerpoints and easy to follow worksheets with instructions.
All lessons could be used stand-alone and everything is editable too.
I also have a 1 YEAR OF CITIZENSHIP bundle (37 lessons) available here:1 Year’s worth of Citizenship
and I have a 1 YEAR OF RE bundle (36 lessons) available here:1 Year’s worth of RE
and a very popular 1 YEAR of PSHE here
Check out loads more HISTORY GEEK resources here
