Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics:
(i) Henry VIII and his ministers
(ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present
(iii) The British Sector of the Western Front
(iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War
(v) Weimar and Nazi Germany
(vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution
Edexcel Politics:
(i) UK Politics
(ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism
(iii) UK Government
(iv) Global Politics
Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics:
(i) Henry VIII and his ministers
(ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present
(iii) The British Sector of the Western Front
(iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War
(v) Weimar and Nazi Germany
(vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution
Edexcel Politics:
(i) UK Politics
(ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism
(iii) UK Government
(iv) Global Politics
Either new Edexcel or Hodder textbook necessary for some activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 2.4 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook, looking at how Hitler became Chancellor in 1933.
Lessons on this topic are newly planned to meet the exacting standards of the new specification; they are not recycled lessons from previous years.
Encourages independent work and includes engaging resources to bring the topic to life for students.
Edexcel textbook necessary for some of the activities.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions.
Complete set of lessons linked to Edexcel IGCSE History:
A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74.
Full contents included:
1.1 The US political system
1.2 Reasons for the Red Scare: The Cold War
1.3 Reasons for the Red Scare: events at home
1.4 McCarthy and the Red Scare
2.1 Segregation and discrimination
2.2 Brown v Topeka and Emmett Till
2.3 Montgomery Bus Boycott
2.4 1957 Civil Rights Act
2.5 School desegregation - Little Rock Nine
3.1 Protests 1960-63
3.2 Protests 1963-65
3.3 Civil rights legislation
3.4 Protests 1966-74
4.1 Student protests and Vietnam
4.2 The women’s movement
5.1 The Watergate Scandal - causes and features
5.2 The impact of Watergate
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you
The origins and course of the First World War, 1905-1918
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
Overview lesson that goes into the long-term causes of WWI: militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism with a written activity to improve PEEL paragraph skills.
Covers ideas about the causes of diseases and illness in medieval England.
Detailed lesson with PPT and accompanying activities dealing with chapter 1.1 of the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) textbook.
Detailed lesson on how Parliament interacts with the executive within the UK government.
Students will examine how representative Parliament is in terms of regional, social, political and sectional representation.
There are also tasks requiring students to make an overall assessment on the effectiveness of Parliament.
There is an information sheet on reform of the House of Lords with accompanying tasks.
Lessons from The Knowledge House are specially planned to meet the exacting standards of the new A-level politics specification.
Each lesson has been planned using content taken from the three approved textbooks from Hodder and Pearson and media sources. However, there is no requirement to have a textbook for the completion of these lessons as they come with extensive information sheets and tasks for students to complete.
Resources have numerous extension tasks, many of which can be completed for homework.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
Detailed PPT and activities that assesses the changes and continuity in medical treatments and preventions during the Medical Renaissance, c.1500-c.1700.
Links to chapter 2.2 of Edexcel GCSE textbook, pp. 49-57.
DOES NOT INCLUDE VESALIUS. VESALIUS WILL BE COVERED IN NEXT LESSON ALONGSIDE WILLIAM HARVEY.
Any questions please email on m.foley@becketkeys.org
Please review!
Lesson with PPT and activities on the role of Harvey and Vesalius in the advancement of medicine during the Medical Renaissance.
Also includes essay planning sheet (16 marker) on what had the biggest impact of medicine in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Needs Edexcel textbook for some activities.
Introductory lesson to Medicine through time, c.1250-present
Includes activities that deals with each period, factors affecting the development of medicine and chronology tasks.
Covers ideas about the approaches to prevention and treatment in medieval England.
Detailed lesson with PPT and accompanying activities that link with chapter 1.2 of the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) textbook.
Complete lesson that links to Chapter 1.1 of the Edexcel curriculum on Anglo-Saxon and Norman England curriculum: Anglo-Saxon society.
There is no textbook necessary for any of these tasks.
This lesson consists of engaging and in-depth student led activities that allows students to investigate the Anglo-Saxon social system. There are extension tasks for MABLE and a writing frame that shows students how to answer the 'Describe two features ...' question.
This lesson looks in depth at:
- the Anglo-Saxon hierarchy
- the power of the monarchy
- Anglo-Saxon government
- the Anglo-Saxon economy
- the role of the Church.
There is also a glossary for students to complete that lists all the keywords in chapter 1.
An exam guide on how to answer each question for this paper is also included.
Any questions or comments please leave a review or email me on info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk
Thank you.
Detailed lesson on how Parliament interacts with the executive within the UK government.
Students will examine how backbench MPs and peers interact and check executive power, assessing their relative importance.
There are several detailed tasks on the role of select committees, with a strong emphasis on the Public Accounts Committee, Departmental Select Committee, Backbench Business Committee and Liaison Committee.
There is a research task on the role of the opposition and accompanying tasks. There is also an article form the Huffington Post on Jeremy Corbyn and a Channel 4 documentary examining Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Opposition.
Lessons from The Knowledge House are specially planned to meet the exacting standards of the new A-level politics specification.
Each lesson has been planned using content taken from the three approved textbooks from Hodder and Pearson and media sources. However, there is no requirement to have a textbook for the completion of these lessons as they come with extensive information sheets and tasks for students to complete.
Resources have numerous extension tasks, many of which can be completed for homework.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England.
Examines sources to give students an overview of Anglo-Saxon England.
Glossary for the term is also included.
This is part of a series of lessons that aims to encompass the new 9-1 GCSE skills into Key Stage 3.
Lessons are colourful and engaging and match the content of the new Exploring History textbook from Pearson, although the textbook is not necessary for any of the tasks.
Would suit a GCSE or AS level lesson introducing political ideologies.
This is a very basic lesson that outlines the main ideas of conservatism, liberalism and socialism, with one main thinker from each ideology.
Students then investigate the ideological stance of three mainstream politicians.
Complete lesson linked to Edexcel GCSE (9-1) chapter 4.1 - ideas about the cause of disease and illness.
Includes detailed activities to be used in conjunction with the Edexcel textbook, PPT, keywords and exam practice.
Lesson that links to chapter 4.4 of the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) textbook on Medicine through time.
Detailed activities and PPT. Textbook is necessary for some of the activities in the book.
This is a complete series of lessons that links to Edexcel GCSE 9-1 specification on British America.
Nine detailed PPTs and activities that links to Chapter's 1,2 and 3 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 curriculum.
The following topics are covered:
1. British settlement in North America
2. A disrupted society
3. The loss of an empire
These lessons are planned using the Pearson and Hodder books although neither textbook is necessary for the activities.
Our resources aim to instill independent learning in students. Our activities are carefully created to develop historical concepts such as significance, chronology, causation and consequence while mastering exam technique.
Please email on info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions.
Thank you.
The third of eleven lessons that links to the role of religion in the Middle Ages.
This lesson examines the role of medieval monasteries.
Students will:
Annotate a picture of a medieval monastery to identify it’s various buildings
Categorise the role of monasteries and answer questions
Analyse different historical interpretations on the role of monasteries and answer a 4 mark exam question that links to Question 3b on Paper 3 of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
This is part of a series of lessons that aims to encompass the new 9-1 GCSE skills into Key Stage 3.
Lessons are colourful and engaging and match the content of the new Exploring History textbook from Pearson, although the textbook is not necessary for any of the tasks.
If you have any questions or queries please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk.
Links to both Edexcel and AQA specification - Component 2: UK Government and Optional Political Ideas
Complete pack that looks at the role of nationalism as a political ideology.
This is a detailed lesson pack that examines:
-history of nationalism
-core values of nationalism
-different strands of nationalism
-tensions within nationalism.
This is planned using both the Hodder and Edexcel textbooks. However, neither textbook is necessary for these tasks.
Engaging, instructive and student-led resources that gives a comprehensive understanding of nationalism.
Email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk with any questions, queries or comments.
Thank you.
Lesson 11 of 12 that links to the English Reformation, beginning with Martin Luther and documenting the changes under the various Tudor monarchs.
This lesson examines the reasons for the launch of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Students will look in detail at:
the Singeing of the King of Spain’s Beard
factors that influenced Philip’s decision
There is an exam questions linked to the 12-mark Explain why … question that comes up on:
Question 2 on Paper 3
Question 4 on Paper 1
Question 2 on Paper 2
This is part of a series of lessons that aims to encompass the new 9-1 GCSE skills into Key Stage 3.
Lessons are colourful and engaging and match the content of the new Exploring History textbook from Pearson, although the textbook is not necessary for any of the tasks.
If you have any questions or queries please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk.
