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
The seventh in a series of lessons linked to the Edexcel IGCSE curriculum for:
A divided union, civil rights in the USA, 1945-74.
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.
New Edexcel or Hodder textbook is necessary for some of the activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 1.1 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook.
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.
It also includes a glossary of all the key terms in the textbook with some spaces for extra words that may come up.
Exam guide that guides students on how to answer questions for this paper included.
New Edexcel or Hodder textbook necessary for some of the activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 1.2 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook.
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.
Extensive student led resources that covers Chapter 1.2 of the Edexcel GCSE curriculum on Superpower Relations.
This will be suitable for a high-ability year 8 or 9 class.
Textbook is NOT necessary, but the lessons are planned to cover the content in the Edexcel curriculum.
Covers the impact of Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan along with the Soviet response in the form of Cominform and Comecon.
Also analyses the Berlin Crisis.
Detailed worksheet that show how to approach the narrative question (Q2).
Detailed lesson that links to the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 curriculum.
Lessons are newly planned to meet the exacting standards of the new curriculum.
This lesson looks at the appointment of Gorbachev and the reasons for why he wanted to reform the Soviet Union.
It then goes on to examine the events that led to the loss of Soviet control in Eastern Europe, the end of the Warsaw Pact and the fall of Gorbachev.
There is exam practice and excellent student activities to complete.
Extensive student led resources that covers Chapter 1.1 of the Edexcel GCSE curriculum on Superpower Relations.
Textbook is NOT necessary.
A range of activities that looks at the wartime Grand Alliance, the three major conferences at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam and the gradual deterioration of relations between East and West.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 1.4 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook.
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.
Extensive student led resources that covers Chapter 1.3 of the Edexcel GCSE curriculum on Superpower Relations.
This will be suitable for a high-ability year 8 or 9 class.
Textbook is NOT necessary, but the lessons are planned to cover the content in the Edexcel curriculum.
Covers the development of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the arms race and significance of Khrushchev’s leadership and two extended activities on the Hungarian Uprising that prepares students to answer a narrative type question (2) on this paper.
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Detailed lesson that links to the new Edexel GCSE 9-1 curriculum.
This lesson covers the causes, events and consequences of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
It also looks at the American response, including the Olympic boycotts from both countries and Reagan and the Second Cold War.
There are numerous activities and exam practice for the new specification.
Textbook is not necessary to complete this lesson.
Thank you.
Detailed lesson including numerous students led activities that analyses the causes, events and consequences of the building of the Berlin Wall.
There is a detailed set of worksheets that tutors students in how to approach the narrative question (question 2).
Links to Chapter 2.1 of the Edexcel/Hodder textbook, although neither textbook is necessary for the completion of these tasks.
Detailed lesson including numerous students led activities that analyses the causes, events and consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Lessons are newly planned to meet the exact requirements of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 spec.
There is a detailed worksheet that tutors students in how to approach the ‘Explain the importance of…’ question.
Links to Chapter 2.2 of the Edexcel/Hodder textbook, although neither textbook is necessary for the completion of these tasks.
Either new Edexcel or Hodder textbook necessary for some activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 3.2 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook, looking at the use of the police state in Nazi Germany.
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.
Detailed lesson including numerous students led activities that analyses the events preceding, during and after the period of detente, including both SALT treaties and the Helsinki accords.
Lessons are newly planned to meet the exact requirements of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 spec.
Links to Chapter 3.1 of the Edexcel/Hodder textbook, although neither textbook is necessary for the completion of these tasks.
Detailed lesson including numerous students led activities that analyses the events preceding, during and after the Prague Spring.
Lessons are newly planned to meet the exact requirements of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 spec.
Links to Chapter 2.3 of the Edexcel/Hodder textbook, although neither textbook is necessary for the completion of these tasks.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 2.3 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook, looking at the growth of support for the Nazi Party following the Wall Street Crash.
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 qeuestions
Either new Edexcel or Hodder textbook necessary for some of these activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 4.3 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook, looking at employment and living standards under the Nazi regime.
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.
Either Hodder or Edexcel textbook necessary for some of the activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 1.3 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook.
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.
Either Hodder or Edexcel textbook necessary for some of the activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 3.4 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook, looking at opposition and resistance to the Nazi Party.
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.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions.
Three detailed lessons that links to Chapter 1.3 of Edexcel's Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509-1540.
Deals with Cardinal Wolsey's foreign policy.
A complex topic that I have broken down into three parts with three separate PPTs, finishing with a lesson that has students divide up into groups and plan a 16 mark question:
(i) Wolsey's foreign policy;
(ii) Wolsey's foreign policy - success or failure?;
(iii) Wolsey's foreign policy - success or failure essay planning.
Detailed lesson that uses five videos and the Edexcel textbook on medicine through time to give students a thorough understanding of cholera and the role of John Snow in fighting the disease.
There are detailed worksheets that correspond to the content on the video, guiding students to note down relevant information. They are extremely engaging and informative videos with animations.
Teacher to pause videos as and when required.
In addition, there are extra tasks that require students to use the textbook.