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 bundle contains the following lessons intended for the teaching of Early Elizabethan England Key Topic 3:
Lesson 18: Education in Early Elizabethan England.
Lesson 19: Elizabethan Sports, pastimes and theatre
Lesson 20: The causes of poverty in Elizabethan England.
Lesson 21: Changing Attitudes & Policies towards poverty
Lesson 22: The causes of the increase in exploration.
Lesson 23: Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world.
Lesson 24: Walter Raleigh’s failed colonisation of Virginia.
**This lesson is a great way for students to learn about the causes, key events and consequences of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. **
-Students will begin by discussing James I’s background and why there was tensions between the king and the Catholics at the start of his reign.
-Students will then discuss the idea of terrorism and how far they believe the Gunpowder Plot fits this definition.
-Students will be given various activities to order the events of the plot and then explain how King James I dealt with Catholics after its failure. Finally, students will be given an opportunity to write a historical account of the events. They will be guided through this with four levelled descriptions.
The 20-slide lesson contains a variety of discussion tasks, activities, printable resources, starters and learning reviews as well as engaging background information about King James I.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
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 learn all about the events of the transatlantic slave trade from the stage of the slave auction to life on the plantations. **
Students will be able to describe the differences between the two methods of slave auctions and also use sources to describe the events of the auctions. They will then use a detailed fact sheet to help them understand what life on s slave plantation was like.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – Slave Auctions and Life on a Plantation
Slide 2: The purpose and aims of the lesson.
Slide 3: Recap Activity: Slave Trade recap quiz
Slide 4: Recap Activity answers
Slide 5: Source Analysis – A slave auction source with prompt questions and challenge questions.
Slide 6: Source Analysis – An alternative source about a slave auction with prompt questions and challenge questions.
Slide 7: Activity 1 – Source Analysis - instructions
Slide 8: Activity 1 – A printable sheet with 9 different sources about the slave auctions.
Slide 9: Background information about the two main methods of slave auctions.
Slide 10-16: Images of what life was like on a slave plantation.
Slide 17: Information/Fact sheet about life on a plantation
Slide 18: Printable question sheet about life on a plantation.
Slide 19: Challenge questions
Slide 20-21: 10 question learning review quiz with answers.
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. All of my lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
For Edexcel - This single page resource is a really useful timeline of all the key events covered in the Paper 2 topic the Cold War and Superpower Relations. The timeline can be adapted to use as a high resolution display, book insert or revision tool and is clearly presented to fit most students’ needs.
I have included both Power Point and PDF versions to suite your needs.
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 single resource can be used as an effective visual guide to the main events studied in the Edexcel course. The timeline can be used as a book insert, revision tool or display poster and has been categorised into the main themes of the study for students to see the main events in Weimar Germany and policies carried out by the Nazis.
You will receive:
1 x full colour poster timeline
1 x black and white timeline which students can use to colour code their own key
1 x PDF file of the above resources.
Please be kind enough to leave a review if you have found this resource useful.
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 is a 109 page Edexcel workbook is ideal for revision, student catch up, classroom use or home learning.
It covers the whole thematic Crime and Punishment
The workbook contains:
Useful key term glossary
Useful Crime & Punishment timeline
Fact Sheets for each lesson/topic area
2-3 question sheets for each lesson/topic area
Example Exam Questions throughout
In this lesson, students will fully understand the M.A.I.N. long-term causes of the First World War – Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism. Students will be first introduced to these key terms and then use them to explain the tensions which existed in Europe by 1914.
This is a fully resources lesson which includes a warmup, starter task, engaging background information, various learning activities, challenge tasks and learning reviews.
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The lesson includes the following:**
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Outline of the main lesson aims
Slide 3: As you come in warmup activity – what causes war?
Slide 4: As you come in warmup activity 2 – Why do people argue?
Slide 5: Starter Task 1: Why is it important to learn about the causes of the First World War – suggestions then given.
Slide 6: Starter Task 2: Political cartoon analysis with prompt questions provided.
Slide 7: Background information about Europe in 1914
Side 8: Background information explaining the term long-term causes.
Slide 9: An overview of the M.A.I.N. reasons and discussion task.
Slide 10-13: Background information about militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism.
Slide 14-15: Activity 1: Student diagram to help make notes and explain the MAIN causes. Printable resource included.
Slide 16-17: Activity 2: Source based activity based on three cartoons of Europe in 1914.
Slide 18: A student fact sheet for the lesson – printable
Slide 19: Follow Up Challenge Tasks
Slide 20: Learning Review 1
Slides 21-23: Learning Review 2 with printable handout
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, will learn about the harsh working conditions of the children who worked in the textile mills and factories of Industrial Britain. They will be able to describe a typical working day for the children and make comparisons with their own typical school day.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson learning aims and progress
Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up – Students will use the images to help them identify the various jobs that children did during the Industrial Revolution.
Slide 4: Lesson Warm Up - Answers
Slide 5: Starter Activity: Students will look at a map showing the location of various industries and features of the Industrial Revolution – prompt questions provided.
Slide 6: Starter Activity 2: Source analysis of a child worker in a textile factory – with prompt questions
Slide 7: Photograph of children working in a textile mill and prompt questions
Slide 8: Photograph of children working in a textile mill and prompt questions
Slide 9: Printable lesson fact sheet in the style of an illustrated storyboard.
Slide 10: Task 1: Instructions of how to complete a mind map
Slide 11: Printable mind map for students to write on
Slide 12: Activity 2 – Students to write their own interview with a child in a textile mill
Slide 13: Activity 3 – A 60 minute documentary with task – links to the documentary are hyperlinked and in the notes section
Slide 14: Activity 4 – Students create their own 24-hour timeline of their own typical day and compare this with a 24-hour timeline of a child in the textile mills.
Slide 15: Learning Review Quiz – Filling in the missing terms
Slide 16: Learning Review Quiz answers
I would be really grateful if you could leave a positive review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you.
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 define what the British Empire was and then explain why the British Empire expanded in the years c.1700-c.1900. **
As always, the lesson includes a wide range of activities, printable resources and engaging background knowledge to help students explain the growth of the British Empire.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson learning aims and progress
Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up – The definition of the term ‘Empire’
Slide 4: Starter Task – The British Empire by c.1900 – identify part of the British empire using the map
Slide 5: Background information – The growth of the British Empire.
Slide 6: Think & discuss question based on the phrase ‘ An empire one which the sun never sets’.
Slide 7: Activity 1 – Discussion and diagram based on the advantages Britain would gain having an empire.
Slide 8: Activity 2 – Match the historical interpretation about the British Empire to the reason for its growth
Slide 9: Activity 2 printable resource
Slide 10: Activity 2 answers
Slide 11: Three useful documentary clips about the growth of the British empire
Slide 12: Activity 3 - instructions
Slide 13: Activity 3 - printable worksheet (older/higher ability)
Slide 14: Activity 3 - printable worksheet (younger/lower ability)
Slide 15: Activity 4 - printable question sheet
Slide 16: Activity 5 – Extended historical writing task
Slide 17: Activity 5 – Model PEE paragraph
Slide 18: Challenge questions
Slide 19: Learning Review Quiz with answers
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. Thank you.
There are enough resources here to take up a couple of lessons about the murder of Thomas Becket. The lesson first examines the causes, events and consequences of the murder and then follows up with key questions about who was responsible for the murder.
In this pack you will receieve:
1 x Fact sheet about the events of the murder of Thomas Becket (2 pages)
1 x Differentiated fact sheet about the events of the murder of Thomas Becket (2 pages)
1 x Question sheet about the events of the murder of Thomas Becket
1 x Main Power Point:
Slide 1: Title Slide
Slide 2: Think & Discuss - Who had the most power in the Middle Ages?
Slide 3: Why might the king and the Church argue with each other?
Slide 4: An outline of the lesson aims
Slide 5: Starter Task - Students to study a manuscript illustration of the events and discuss what they think is happening (return to this at the end of the lesson to show progress)
Slide 6: Fact Sheets
Slide 7: Introduction to the Chronology Task based on the events
Slide 8: A printable version of the chronology task for students to write on
Slide 9: Answers to the chronology task revealed
Slide 10: Blank storyboard
Slide 11: Who was to blame for the murder of Thomas Becket?
Slide 12: Learning Review - Return to the illustration for students to fully discuss the events they have learned.
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 is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This pack of A4 sheets contains a variety of activities students can use to help them remember the subject content for the main Crime and Punishment topic. The revision resources cover the period c.1000 to the present day.
The pack contains the following revision activities:
Activity 1: Timeline (fill in the missing events) with answers
Activity 2: Key Individuals match up
Activity 3: Key Groups match up
Activity 4: Key Crime and Punishment individuals activity - based on the names mentioned in the Edexcel specification
Activity 5: Defintions of crime glossary fill
Activity 6: Defintions of law enforcement glossary fill
Activity 7: Definitions of punishments glossary fill
Activity 8: Multiple choice statistics quiz
Activity 9: Similarity & Different worksheet
Activity 10: ‘What’s the Question?’
Activity 11: Key term match up
Activity 12: An explanation practice worksheet
Activity 13: Chronology Activity
Activity 14: Medieval Crime and Punishment Quiz
Activity 15: Early Modern England Quiz
Activity 16: 18th and 19th Century Quiz
Activity 17: Modern Britain Quiz
Activity 18: Key word crossword
UPDATE 2024: 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 bundle includes all of the lessons and teaching materials you will need to cover the 18th and 19th century, Crime and Punishment Unit 3.
Lesson 15: New and old definitions of crime
Lesson 16: The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Lesson 17: The Bow Street Runners and the development of the police
Lesson 18:The end of public execution and transportation
Lesson 19: Prison growth and reform
Lesson 20: Case Study - Pentonville Prison
Lesson 21: Case Study - Robert Peel
**This lesson provides students with a great selection of activities to help them understand and explain the main causes of the English Civil War in 1642. **
-Students are introduced to the idea of a Civil War and will discuss the role of a parliament in the 1600s.
-They will then read through a variety of different reasons why King Charles I and parliament argued in the years before 1642 and organise these reasons into economic, religious or political factors.
Finally, students will have an opportunity to fully explains the causes of the English Civil War in a piece of extended historical writing before completing a crossword which covers all the main terms from the lesson.
The 17-slide lesson contains a variety of discussion tasks, activities, printable resources, starters and learning reviews as well as engaging background information about King James I and the events which led to the start of the English Civil War.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
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 have the opportunity to use a range of historical sources and the views of historians to decide how far Queen Mary I of England deserved the nickname ‘Bloody Mary’.
The lesson includes:
A range of starter and learning review tasks
Engaging background information about the reign of Mary I
A link to a great ‘Bloody Britain’ documentary about Mary I with a worksheet for students to complete while they watch
A Source sheet gives a variety of written and visual opinions about Mary I
An opportunity for students to complete their own summary about their view
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.
A 5 lesson bundle to take your students through all the information needed for Unit 2 of the Paper 3 topic.
As stated on the cover, all factual information has been included with a printable fact sheet available for each lesson.
Lesson 10 - The development of the Nazi Party
Lesson 11: The Causes, events and consequences of the Munich Putsch
Lesson 12: The Nazi Party's 'Lean Years', 1924-29
Lesson 13: The impact of the Wall Street Crash and growth in Nazi Support
Lesson 14: To explain how Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany by Jan.1933
Thank you very much for your purchase and I hope this really helps you out with your teaching of this topic.
**In this lesson, students look at the fascinating story of what happened to Oliver Cromwell’s head. **
Students are guided through the key events of Oliver Cromwell’s rule as Lord Protector, his death and the Restoration of King Charles II.
Students will then use a fact sheet to help them complete a number of optional tasks including a timeline, storyboard and role play. My students absolutely love this lesson!
The 19-slide lesson contains a variety of discussion tasks, warm up start activities, printable resources, and learning reviews as well as engaging background information and challenge questions for higher ability students. There is a choice of printable resources.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
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.
**Once purchased, you will receive everything needed to teach students about William I’s use of the Feudal System in Medieval England. **
This high quality resource includes the following:
A4 Worksheet 1: A fact sheet about the Feudal System for students to use while competing their tasks.
A4 Worksheet 2: A worksheet to help students follow up from their main task of creating a Feudal System diagram. The questions on the sheet are explanation based but still provide structure for all students to use.
Main Power Point Presentation
Slide 1 - Title Slide - To explain how the Feudal System helped William control England after 1066.
Slide 2: Starter Task 1 - Two medieval illustrations of society - what can students learn from them about how William kept control?
Slide 3/4: Starter Task 2 - A brief introduction to the idea of a hierarchy. Students think about and design their own school’s hierarchy before focusing on the purpose of it.
Slides 5-9: An overview of the Feudal System with clear, bold images and small chunks of writing.
Slide 10: My own version of the Feudal System diagram
Slide 11: Main Task activity - Students taken through step by step to create their own diagram of the Feudal System.
Slide 12: Two printable Feudal System blank diagrams if needed
Slide 13: A optional role play set of cards for students to read out in class or groups of 4.
Slide 14: Mini Learning Review - students have to place four linked images in the correct order
Slide 15: Learning Review - Students need to write their own definition of the Feudal System from what they have learned in the lesson.
Slide 16-18: Key term match up activity with one slide being a printable version to give students.
Slide 19: A challenge question - Would the Feudal System work in today’s society?
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 is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This lesson contains a variety of activities and tasks which will allow students to understand the key events of each crusade as well as some of the individuals involved. **
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This pack includes:
1 x A4 Fact Sheet about the crusades (colour free for photocopying)
1 x A4 Fact Sheet about the crusades (in colour if required)
2 x A4 Worksheets about the events covering key terms, sources and an analysis of the events. (including challenge questions)
- 1 x Main Power Point Presentation:
Slide 1: Title slide - To examine the main events and key people of the crusades
Slide 2: Animated, clear and engaging background information giving a brief background to the crusades
Slide 3: An overview of Pope Urban II’s speech which called for the First Crusade
Slide 4: My own designed map of the main routes and areas of the crusades
Slide 5: Why there was more than one crusade
Slide 6: An overview of the main fact sheet needed for the lesson
Slide 7: A table based activity for students to pick out facts such as dates, people and events from each event along with an analysis of if the crusaders were successful or not
Slide 8-9: A recap quiz with answers revealed for students to self assess (mainly based on key individuals and places).
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 is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This bundle of lessons and resources contain three individual lessons about the Spanish Armada. The three lessons cover: the causes of the Spanish Invasion of England in 1588, the events of the Spanish Invasion and the reasons why the Spanish were defeated by the English. Each lesson comes with a variety of fact sheets, printable worksheets, easy to access background information and a number of activities and discussion tasks suited to a range of ages and abilities. These lessons are also available individually.
Lesson 1: The Causes of the Spanish Invasion of England:
1 x main lesson Power Point
1 x Francis Drake Homework Sheet
1 x Writing Frame
Lesson 2: The events of the Spanish Invasion of England:
1 x main lesson Power Point
1 x Spanish Armada crossword
1 x A4 Tracking Map/Sheet
Lesson 3: The Reasons for the Spanish Defeat:
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
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.
**This high quality lesson provides you will all of the material and resources you will need to teach your students about the causes, events and consequences of the Harrying of the North. **
You will be purchasing a double page worksheet/fact sheet as well as the main power point presentation full of activities, discussion tasks, starter activities and learning reviews.
Worksheet 1
A fact sheet for students about the events
Worksheet 2
A set of increasingly more difficult tasks including key term match up, source analysis and explanation style questions.
Main Power Point Presentation
Slide 1: To examine the causes, events and consequences of the Harrying of the North
Slide 2: Source analysis of an illustration of the Harrying of the North - prompt questions given
Slide 3: Background information about William just after the Battle of Hastings
Slide 4: Background information about William being crowned King of England
Slide 5: Background information about the start of the Norman Conquest
Slide 6: Background information about the Anglo-Saxon Rebellions
Slide 7: Background information about the rebellions in the north
Slide 8: Background information about the Harrying of the North
Slide 9: Outline of the two worksheets and lesson fact sheets
Slide 10: Challenge questions
Slide 11: Key term learning review
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 is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.