Designed for the new AQA specification: Conflict and Tension 1894-1918, but easily adaptable to other specifications.
Revision guide contains 60 pages of information and activities for students to complete, including ‘exam tips’ for students.
Took around 3 days to complete, so will hopefully save people some time.
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Lesson for a Slavery SOW
Nat Turner was a slave that actively rebelled in America, and killed over 50 people. This lesson explores who Nat Turner was, what happened during the rebellion, and concludes with a source activity that asks pupils to analyse what the rebellion achieved.
All pupils will be able to describe who Nat Turner was (Level 5)
Most pupils will be able to explain what happened during the rebellion (Level 6)
Some pupils will be able to analyse how successful Nat Turner was (Level 7)
Created for AQA 8145 Elizabethan England topic but possible to adapt. Lesson includes a video, recall quiz, card sort, written activity, interpretation task, and finishes with a game of Splat!
Learning Objectives:
Recall previous knowledge on the Elizabethan topic
Describe reasons that led Elizabethans to explore.
Analyse an interpretation on the voyages of discovery
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Lesson designed for the AQA Health and the People 9-1 History Specification, but could easily be adapted for other exam specs. This lesson focuses on public health in Medieval towns and attempted improvements.
The lesson has three outcomes:
Describe public health in a medieval town
Explain what caused public health issues
Evaluate how successful attempts to improve public health were
Activities included in the lesson are: annotation of a medieval town (which students return to towards the end of the lesson to show progress), detailed card sort, graph measuring improvements, and a plenary pyramid.
A well resourced lesson that covers medieval public health in towns in detail.
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Lesson designed for the AQA 8145 spec, conflict and tension (WW1), which investigates the reasons the Ludendorff Spring Offensive failed in 1918. The objectives of the lesson are:
Describe the strengths and weaknesses of Germany by 1918
Explain how the Spring Offensive went for Germany
Evaluate why the Spring Offensive failed
Lesson contains a range of activities, including a SWOT analysis of Germany in 1918, a Ludendorff happy-o-metre (scattergraph), and opportunities for source anaylsis.
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Based on a Pub Quiz model. This quiz includes six rounds, including picture, music and general knowledge.
The students that have played through this quiz have given very positive feedback so thought I would share!
Lesson designed for the First World War (Conflict and Tension) unit, as part of the AQA History spec. The lesson examines why the Allied offensive in 1918 was successful. A range of activities are included, such as a diamond 9, source analysis, video task, comprehension question, and a data collection table. The lesson could easily be adapted for a KS3 audience.
Aims:
Describe what happened during the Hundred Days Offensive
Explain why the Allies were successful
Evaluate the most important reasons why the Allies broke through
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Detailed and completed scheme of work for the new EDEXCEL Early Elizabethan England topic (1558-88).
Includes learning objectives, teaching suggestions, resources required and additional questions to stretch and challenge!
Took a full day to complete so thought it could save someone some time!
Designed for the AQA 8145 Conflict and tension 1894-1918 spec.
Lesson contains a range of tasks, each with an accompanying 'challenge' activity
WILFs:
To Describe what happened at the Battle of Verdun
To Explain how successful Falkenhyn was in ‘bleeding France white’
To Analyse the cause, events and consequences of Verdun
Lesson involves students describing what happened. Evaluating how successful Falkenhayn's plan was, before finishing with a Cause, Event and Consequence activity, which leads into a 'write an account question'
All resources are included in the powerpoint!
An assembly on radicalisation and extremism that lasts around 15 minutes.
The assembly is set out as:
Definition of keywords
Why do people become extremists
Case studies (Joe Cox and Manchester Arena bombing)
What we can do to prevent
Can also be delivered during tutor.
Took around 90 minutes to resource and create so will hopefully save someone time.
Designed for the AQA 8145 spec, conflict and tension (WW1), this lesson investigates why Russia lost the war, and the consequences of the Bolshevik revolution. The lesson has 3 objectives:
Describe why Russia lost during World War One, including the Bolshevik revolution
Explain the causes and consequences of Russia leaving the war
Evaluate the impact of Russian withdrawal on German strategy
The lesson contains a range of activities, such as reading, comprehension questions, and source analysis.
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Lesson designed for the AQA 8145 spec, Conflict and Tension (WW1), investigating the consequences of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and outbreak of war. The lesson has 3 objectives:
Recall key facts about the causes of WW1
Describe the events of the assassination
Explain how the assassination led to war
Lesson contains a range of activities, including a video, timeline activity, and countdown to war activity.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Lesson designed for the new AQA History GCSE spec. The objectives of the lesson are:
Recall and prioritise the problems facing Stresemann
Explain the actions taken by Stresemann to restore Weimar’s stability
Evaluate how successful Stresemann was
Differentiation is embedded throughout with a range of activities including, visual sources, card sorts, explanation questions and exam practice.
A lesson examining Hitler’s foreign policy aims that is suitable for Key stage 3 or an introductory session for GCSE.
The objectives of the lesson are:
Recall the Treaty of Versailles
Describe why German’s hated the Treaty of Versailles so much
Explain Hitler’s aims with other countries
Activities include source analysis, comprehension tasks, reading and writing, a video, and opportunities for class discussion. Challenge tasks are embedded and based on Blooms. All work/ information sheets are embedded in the lesson and easily accessible.
My students seem to always enjoy this lesson and I find it lays the foundation for future lessons/ knowledge for students.
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History of Medicine lesson suitable for both AQA and Edexcel 9-1 History specifications, focused on ‘what caused the Black Death?’
Lesson objectives:
Describe the symptoms of the Black Death
Compare medieval beliefs with the actual causes of the Black Death
Explain what actually caused the Black Death using the acronym SQUALID
The lesson includes a range of activities, including:
Black Death recall activity focusing on what students can remember from previous learning
Day by day symptom sheet
Actual vs believed causes table
SQUALID activity sheet - detailing why the Black Death spread so quickly
Evaluation spectrum for class discussing
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American West lesson suitable for the Edexcel 9-1 History specification. The lesson focuses on ‘How exciting was the life of a cowboy?’.
The lesson focuses on three objectives:
Describe the equipment used by cowboys
Analyse sources to reveal the life of cowboys
Apply our learning to an exam question
The lesson contains a range of activities including: Source analysis task on the life of a cowboy, equipment comprehension task, an exam question with a WAGOLL for students to compare their answers to, and a spectrum allowing students to discuss how exciting life was.
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Medicine Through Time lesson suitable for the Edexcel 9-1 History specification focusing on the changes in believed causes of disease during the Renaissance, with particular focus on Vesalius and Sydenham.
Lesson objectives:
Define key terms for medicine in the Renaissance, 1500 – 1700
Describe important individuals during this time period
Explain why some changed their beliefs about the cause of disease
Lesson includes a range of activities. For example, data collection sheet, spider diagram task, keyword match up activity and a 12 mark ‘explain’ exam question towards the end (with scaffolding).
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This KS3 lesson compares how criminals were caught in medieval England to modern day.
The objectives of the lesson are:
Identify how the police catch criminals today
Describe how criminals were caught in Medieval England
Compare Medieval methods of catching criminals with today
Lesson includes a range of activities such as spider diagram tasks, comprehension work and class discussion around different methods of catching criminals. The lesson ends with a spectrum task comparing the two time periods.
All information and resources are included.
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A suitable lesson for both AQA and Edexcel GCSE History specifiations (2016 onwards).
The lesson focuses on ‘How successful was the Munich Putsch?’. The lesson has three objectives:
Describe the events of Adolf Hitler’s Munich Putsch in 1923
Explain whether the Munich Putsch should be seen as a success or failure
Assess the impact of the Munich Putsch on Hitler’s future
Activities include:
Recall Quiz
Card sort
Fortune graph
Fact file
Extended writing opportunity
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Suitable for both Edexcel and AQA 9-1 GCSE History specifications and focuses on the Revolt of the Northern Earls in 1569. The lesson has three objectives:
Identify reasons that the Northern Earls revolted in 1569
Describe the events of the revolt of the Northern Earls.
Explain the significance of the revolt.
Activities include:
Recall starter on problems Elizabeth faced
Card sort on why the Northern Earls rebelled
Fortune graph for the rebellion
And a spider diagram discussing significance
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