Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
This lesson makes sure the students have a knowledge of the role of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committe, the local press and rival police force of the London City Police. Students will study the actions of each and explain why their actions limited the efforts of the Metropolitan Police to catch Jack the Ripper.
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This lesson examines the case study of the Tolpuddle Martyrs with a focus on their ‘crime’, their punishment as well as the public pressure on the government to reverse the punishment.
Power Point 1: Main Presentation
Slide 1: Title slide - To examine the case of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Slide 2: Recap Task
Slide 3: Key Term - Martyr
Slide 4: Key Term - Trade Union
Slide 5: Clip about the Tolpuddle Martyrs from Timeline TV
Slide 6: Challenge Tasks
Slide 7: Task Sheet overview
Slide 8: Learning Recap Quiz
Slide 9: Chronology Recap
Slide 10: Lesson Fact Sheet
Slide 11: Reasons for change slide
Power Point 2: Worksheets on A4
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson covers the case study for the Migrants in Britain 1900-Present Day. It specifically examines Bristol after the Second World War and the experience and impact of migrants from the Caribbean. The lesson also examines the significance of the Bristol Bus Boycott.
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: GCSE graded lesson outcomes
Slide 3: Previous lesson picture based recap activity about the impact of migration on modern Britain
Slide 4 - 5: Long term recap filling in the missing terms activity based on the previous case studies of Liverpool and London
Slide 6: An overview of the location of Bristol and the main focus questions of the lesson.
Slide 7: Source Starter Task - Evidence from Owen Henry about his time in Bristol in the 1960s
Slide 8-10: Why is the Edward Colston statue significant?
Slide 11-15: Photography to show students key events and individuals covered in the lesson.
Slide 16: Student source and question sheet to be used alongside the fact sheet.
Slide 17: Challenge questions and a useful link to the Bristol Museum website.
Slide 18: Example 4 mark practice questions
Slide 19-20: Wh or what am I? Quiz with answers
Slide 21: Lesson Fact Sheet
This lesson examines the reasons why migration increased after 1948 from places such as: India, Pakistan, Uganda, Kenya, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Key events include the British Nationality Act as well as the formation of the European Union and the UN Convention on Refugees.
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: GCSE grades lesson outcomes
Slide 3: Starter Task - Recap multiple choice quiz
Slide 4: Starter Task -Recap answers
Side 5: Map showing the location of migrant countries and states covered this lesson.
Slide 6: Information slide about the British Nationality Act
Slide 7: Information slide about India and Pakistan
Slide 8: Information slide about Kenya
Slide 9: Information slide about Uganda
Slide 10: Information slide about the European Union
Slide 11: Information slide about Asylum seekers to Britain
Slide 12: Outline of the main task for the lesson
Slide 13: Printable student version of the main learning task
Slide 14: Similarities and Differences between migration post 1945
Slide 15 - 20: Useful images to help students understand the migration of these various migrant groups
Slide 21: Practice 4 mark exam questions
Slide 22: Practice 12 and 16 mark questions
Slide 23 - 24: Plenary quiz and answers
Slide 25: Lesson Fact Sheet
This lesson examines the racism in Notting Hill and in particular the institutionalised racism by the Metropolitan Police during this time. As with all lessons, I have produced a fact sheet which includes all the content subject knowledge needed for this lesson. There is therefore no requirement for any text book.
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson aims
Slide 3-4: Recap Quiz about Caribbean culture with answers revealed on slide 4.
Slide 5: Starter Discussion - Questions about the treatment of black people by the police at the time
Slide 6: Background knowledge explaining why few black people in Notting Hill reported racially motivated crimes.
Slide 7: Discussion and information slide about the ways that the Metropolitan Police at this time were racist.
Slide 8: Background information about anti-immigrant groups such as the Teddy Boys, White Defence League and the Union Movement.
Slides 9-13: Photographic sources from the time
Slide 14: A source and knowledge based worksheet printable for students
Slide 15: Challenge questions
Slide 16 - 17: Example ‘Two features’ exam questions with printable student answer sheet.
Slides 18-20: Example ‘Follow Up’ question with printable students answer sheets, suggested structure and examples of sources which could be used as evidence.
Slide 21: Learning Review - 3 discussion questions from the lesson.
Slide 22: Lesson Information Fact Sheet
This resource contains all the subject knowledge needed to study or revise for Edexcel’s GCSE History Paper 1 Topic - Notting Hill (The Historical Environment). The resource contains two sets of fact sheets (one is more differentiated) and follows the specification guidelines.
The fact sheets are as follows:
Fact Sheet 1: The impact of the Second World War on Britain (A wider historical context)
Fact Sheet 2: The reasons for Caribbean migration to London and Notting Hill
Fact Sheet 3: Housing Conditions for migrants in Notting Hill and Bruce Kenrick’s Notting Hill Housing
Fact Sheet 4: The Impact of Caribbean culture on Notting Hill
Fact Sheet 5: Racism and Policing in Notting Hill and Anti-immigration groups
Fact Sheet 6: The Notting Hill Riots (1958)
Fact Sheet 7: The murder of Kelso Cochrane and the Union Movement
Fact Sheet 8: Black Activism - Claudia Jones and the West Indian Gazette and Caribbean Carnival
Fact Sheet 9: Frank Crichlow, the Mangrove Nine and British Black Panthers
2023 UPDATE: Please be aware that all images used in the production of these fact sheets are copyright free and in Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise stated in the notes section below each slide.
This lesson examines President Nixon’s policy of Vietnamisation and allows students to evaluate how successful the policy was. This also includes an examination of the attacks on Laos, Combodia, the Easter Offensive and Operation Linebacker.
The lesson itself includes:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
Slide 3-4: Tet Offensive Recap - Odd One Out with answers and explanations included
Slide 5: Starter Task: What can students infer from statistics about the Vietnam War?
Slide 6: Starter Task 2: Source Inference
Slide 7: Background information about the Nixon Doctrine and Vietnamisation
Slide 8: Background information about the attacks on Laos and Cambodia
Slide 9: Background information about the Easter Offensive
Slide 10: Background information about Operation Linebacker
Slide 11-12 Exam Skill: Interpretation Difference with printable student answer sheet
Slide 13-14: Exam Skill: Explain why US involvement in Vietnam changed under Nixon
Slide 15: Lesson worksheet and timeline task
Slide 16: How far was Vietnamisation a success task
Slide 17: Follow Up Challange Questions
Slide 18: Lesson Recap activity
Slide 19-20: Lesson fact sheets based on GCSE specification
I have included two fact sheets (one slightly differentiated) with the information needed for this part of the course which can be found on the final two slides. Therefore, no other resources are needed for the teaching of this lesson.
Please note that all images (clipart/photographs/vectors) used in this presentation, to be best of my knowledge, are copyright free and in the public domain unless otherwise attributed in the links. A number of clipart images have also been purchased for commercial use from ‘Artsy Bee Kids’. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will be given all the facts they need to help them fully explain the reasons why Philip II’s Spanish Armada was defeated by the English during the reign of Elizabeth I. Students will be able to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of each side using a range of easy to access historical sources, fact sheets and top trump style activities. The lesson will then provide a guide for students to help them complete a piece of extended writing about the reasons for the Spanish defeat.
This single resource contains:
1 x main lesson PowerPoint
1 x A4 set of fact sheets
1 x A4 set of differentiated fact sheets
1 x A4 writing frame
The lesson contains plenty of activities, printable resources, starter and plenary tasks, engaging background information and discussion points for both high and lower ability students.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will be able to explain how the Christian Church in Medieval England either helped or hindered the progress of medicine and healthcare. Students will recap the beliefs of the Christian Church about the causes of disease before looking at the role of Church hospitals and monasteries in Medieval England. Finally, students will have enough knowledge to answer an exam question about the significance of the Christian Church on the progress of medicine in the Medieval period.
This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet based on the GCSE AQA specification as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – Where did Medieval ideas about Medicine come from?
Slide 2: Outline of the main lessons aims
Slide 3: As you come in activity and discussion about modern day hospitals in Britain.
Slide 4-5: Learning Recap Activity – About the beliefs of the Christian Church about disease.
Slide 6-8: Starter Activity – based on the illustration of the Hotel Dieu in Paris.
Slide 9: Background information about Bethlam Hospital in London
Side 10: Background information about Lazar Houses
Slide 11-13: Activity – Did the Christian Church help of hinder the progress of Medicine and Healthcare? Sorting task with printable resources and answers given.
Slide 14: Bonus Source Analysis Worksheet - aimed at higher ability students
Slide 15: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 16: Useful class clips and reading links
Slide 17: Example Exam Question - Significance
Slide 18: Learning Review Activity – ‘What’s the Question?’
Slide 19: Lesson Fact Sheet – based on the AQA GCSE specification.
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This lesson’s focus is on public health in Medieval England. Specifically, the lesson looks at the problems of public health in Medieval towns and how health and hygiene were so much better in Medieval monasteries. Students will also examine what was done in an attempt to improve public health in towns and why these improvements were so difficult to enforce.
This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet based on the GCSE AQA specification as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – Public Health in Medieval Towns and Monasteries
Slide 2: Outline of the main lesson aims
Slide 3: As you come in activity: What is meant by ‘public health’ and what are examples of modern-day public health?
Slide 4: Starter Task 1: An analysis of a diagram of a Medieval town and how it shows problems with health.
Slide 5-6: Starter Task 2: Source Analysis Task with a printable sheet of 9 interpretations and sources linked to Medieval towns.
Slide 7: Starter Task 3: A diagram of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire – In what ways was health better?
Side 8: Printable worksheet to be used alongside the lesson fact sheets.
Slide 9: Creative Task Option & Instructions.
Slide 10: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 11: Useful class clips and reading links
Slide 12: Example Exam Questions
Slide 13-15: Learning Review 1 – Key term match up with answers and student print out.
Slide 16-17: Learning Review 2 – Monastery or Town Quiz
Slide 18-19: Two Lesson Fact Sheets based on the AQA GCSE specification.
Slide 20: The original version of the Fountains Abbey diagram
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will be able to investigate the brief marriage between Henry VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour. The lesson is suited for or could easily be adapted for students aged 12-16
This lesson examines the following questions relating to Henry and Jane’s marriage:
Why did Henry marry Jane so soon after Anne Boleyn’s death?
Why was Jane’s birth to a baby boy so significant for Henry?
What influence did Jane and her family have on Henry and Edward?
This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet based on the GCSE Edexcel specification as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The downloaded lesson includes the following:
1x main Power Point:
Slide 1: Title slide – Jane Seymour: Marriage, childbirth & Influence on Henry
Slide 2: Main Lesson Aims
Slide 3: As You Enter Warm Up: A numeracy/mathematical activity based on Henry’s age when he married.
Slide 4-5: Recap Quiz: Students will decide if the statement best describes Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn or both. Answers given.
Slide 6: Starter Question: Why was having a healthy baby boy so important to Henry?
Slide 7: Source Analysis: Students study a painting of Henry, Edward and Jane Seymour and answer questions based on the image and its reliability.
Slide 8-9: Background information – An overview of why Henry no longer had any legitimate heirs by 1536. This also covers the Act of Succession and Henry Fitzroy (Henry’s illegitimate son).
Slide 10-11: Task 1 – A basic worksheet for students to complete which directly links to the fact sheet at the end of the lesson.
Slide 12: Task 2 – How successful was the marriage between Henry VIII and Jane Seymour? A table-based activity.
Slide 13: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 14: Example Exam Questions
Slide 15-17: Learning Review Crossword with answers revealed and a printable sheet
Slide 18: Lesson fact sheet
I would be really grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will both recap the main roles of the monasteries in early Tudor England and then go on to explain the main reasons for the Dissolution of the Monasteries starting in 1536. The lesson is suited for or could easily be adapted for students aged 12-16
This lesson examines the following questions:
What were the main roles and functions of the monasteries?
What part did Thomas Cromwell play in the dissolution of the monasteries?
What were the main causes of the dissolution of the monasteries?
This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The downloaded lesson includes the following:
1x main Power Point:
Slide 1: Title slide – The Causes of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Slide 2: Main Lesson Aims
Slide 3: As You Enter Warm Up: In what ways do modern day school inspections provide reliable and unreliable evidence about a school? This is linked to the issues of accuracy linked to Cromwell’s investigations.
Slide 4: Starter Definition: What was the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
Slide 5-6: Recap Activity: What were the main rules and functions of the monasteries? Answers revealed.
Slide 7: Starter Task: A decision making discussion.
Slide 8-11: Starter Task 2: Students introduced to how Cromwell investigated the monasteries and analyse various sources linked to his findings about the poor behaviour of monks and nuns. They then analyse why the findings were inaccurate.
Slide 12: Background Information: A basic timeline of the dissolution of the monasteries.
Slide 13: Background Information: Monasteries today.
Slide 14-15: Task 1: Students use the A4 worksheet provided make notes about the process of the dissolution and the causes of it.
Slide 16: Task 2: Students write a speech or letter to parliament arguing why the monasteries need to be closed down.
Slide 17: Follow Up Challenge Questions.
Slide 18: Example exam questions.
Slide 19-20: Learning Review – 10 question quiz with answers
Slide 21: Lesson Fact Sheet
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will be able to explain the impact and consequences of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. They will also identify which groups benefitted from the closure of the monasteries and which groups lost out. The lesson is suited for or could easily be adapted for students aged 12-16
This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The downloaded lesson includes the following:
1x A4 printout worksheet of Task 1
1x A4 printout worksheet of Tasks 2 & 3
1x main Power Point:
Slide 1: Title slide – The Impact of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Slide 2: Main Lesson Aims
Slide 3: As You Enter Warm Up 1: What is happening in the illustration showing the dissolution of the monasteries?
Slide 4: As You Enter Warm Up 2: What can you learn from this photograph (the ruins of an abbey in North Yorkshire)
Slide 5-7: Recap Activity: What were the reasons for Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries. Includes a higher and lower ability version with answers given.
Slide 8-9: Starter Task: Winner or Losers? Students have to guess which groups/individuals would benefit or not from the dissolution. Answers given.
Slide 10: Starter Task 2: Source analysis from a speech made by Robert Aske about the value of the monasteries.
Slide 11: Task 1: Students use the A4 worksheet included in the resource to identify which groups benefitted and which groups lost out after the dissolution of the monasteries.
Slide 12: Task 2: Students place each group on a scale of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. This is also available as an A4 printable sheet.
Slide 13: Task 3: Using a table provided, students outline how society was impacted by the closure of the monasteries.
Slide 14: Follow Up Challenge Questions.
Slide 15: Example exam questions.
Slide 16: Learning Review Activity
Slide 27: Lesson Fact Sheet
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource can act as an easy to access revision booklet or a basic workbook to accompany students’ learning about Henry VIII & his Ministers (Edexcel GCSE History British Depth Study).
It includes 27 pages and each A4 page includes:
An outline of the topic area
Information directly linked to the GCSE specification
Key terms linked to the topic area
Questions and activities
I would be really grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues.