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
Lesson 1 of 8 in a series of lessons that links to the origins of the First World War.
This lesson examines the Franco-Prussian War.
Students will examine:
keywords
the creation of the German Empire
Causes, events and consequences of the war
Describe two features writing guide.
This is part of a series of lessons that aims to encompass the new 9-1 GCSE and IGCSE skills into Key Stage 3.
Lessons are colourful and engaging, include differentiated tasks using a range of methods, such as:
matching keywords
how to answer questions/structure
card-sort
chronological tasks
videos and crib sheets
arranging by significance
comprehension and questions
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Complete overview of the English Reformation. 37 page workbook.
Begins with a recap of the Catholic Church, background on martin Luther and the European Reformation, and a comprehenxsive overview of the Tudor monarchs with a focus on religion.
Excellent for Key Stage 3 or LABLE GCSE students.
Interactive activities for students to complete.
Tasks focus on historical skills needed for GCSE and Key Stage 3, such as:
chronology
significance
causation
consequence
analysing sources
analysing interpretations
There are guides to show students how to answer GCSE style-questions, such as:
Describe two features.
What can you infer?
How useful are Sources A and B?
Explain one way in which ‘x’ is similar/different to ‘y’.
What is the main difference between Interpretation 1 and 2?
Explain why …
Excellent for student-led activities in class, homework and revision.
Complete overview of the Norman conquest of Anglo-Saxon England.
Excellent for Key Stage 3 or LABLE GCSE students taking Saxon/Norman Edexcel/AQA option.
Interactive activities for students to complete.
Tasks focus on historical skills needed for GCSE and Key Stage 3, such as:
chronology
significance
causation
consequence
analysing sources
analysing interpretations
There are guides to show students how to answer GCSE style-questions, such as:
Describe two features.
What can you infer?
How useful are Sources A and B?
Explain one way in which ‘x’ is similar/different to ‘y’.
What is the main difference between Interpretation 1 and 2?
Excellent for student-led activities in class, homework and revision.
Twelve lessons linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Covers: Empire and the emergence of world powers, 1870-1919
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
Lesson bundle includes lessons on:
New Imperialism
Scramble for Africa I
Scramble for Africa II
Domestic reactions to imperialism
Impact of imperialism on international relations
Disputes with China
Rise of Japan as an imperial power
Impact of the Sino-Japanese War on international relations
Russo-Japanese War and its impact
Changes to US foreign policy
Spanish-American War 1898
USA in World War I
There is also a collection of historical maps included, many of which are relevant for the expansion witnessed in this period (the other maps will be relevant for the other international relations options).
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
Thank you.
Lesson 12/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
This lesson focuses on the reasons for the US declaring war on Germany and the US during the war:
Teacher PPT on key events
Revision activity looking at key individuals throughout the course
Reasons for US entering the war
USA on the Western Front
US intervention in Russia
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
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Lesson 11/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
This lesson focuses on the Spanish American War, its causes, events and impacts:
Teacher PPT on key events
Key terms
Spanish-American War - causes, events, consequences
Evaluation of the extent to which the US was a world power by 1914
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
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Lesson 10/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
The lesson examines the changes to US foreign policy in the aftermath of the closing of the frontier:
Teacher PPT on key events
Summary of the Russo-Japanese War
Closing of the US frontier
Change in US foreign policy
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
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Lesson 9/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
This lesson examines Japanese foreign policy in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War:
Teacher PPT on key events
Key terms
Russo-Japanese War
Japanese foreign policy 1905-14
Japan in the First World War
Japanese expansion 1870-1942 map
Extension activities
Exam question
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
Thank you.
Lesson 8/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
The lesson is an examination of the impact the Sino-Japanese War had on international relations:
Teacher PPT on key events
The Sino-Japanese War 1894-5
Interpretations of the Sino-Japanese War
Japanese foreign policy, 1895-1902
Anglo-Japanese Treaty 1902
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
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Lesson 7/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
This lesson examines the opening up of Japan to western trade and the industrialisation of Japan under the Meiji Restoration:
Teacher PPT on key events
Japan’s unequal treaties with America
The Meiji Restoration
Analysis of Japan’s growth
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
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Lesson 6/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
This lesson focuses on the disputes that began to emerge over China, with Japan, Russia, France, Germany, Britain and the US all wanting access to Chinese markets:
Teacher PPT on key events
Background - the Opium Wars
Imperialism in China
Japanese and Russian expansion into East Asia
The Sino-Japanese War 1895
The ‘scramble for China’
The Boxer Rebellion
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
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Lesson 5/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
The lesson focuses on the impact imperialism had on relations between the great powers:
Teacher PPT on key events
Recap of the main areas of colonisation
Areas of contention between the great powers (Balkans, South Africa, Asia)
Tensions between the great powers
Interpretations on the Naval Arms Race
Start of World War I
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
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Lesson 4/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
This lesson focuses on domestic reactions to imperialism in Britain, France and Germany:
Teacher PPT on key events
Imperialism in Britain
Imperialism in France
Imperialism in Germany
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
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Lesson 3/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
The second lesson focuses on the completion of the Scramble for Africa:
Teacher PPT on key events
Key individuals activity sheet
German expansion from 1884
Who attained which colonies
The Fashoda Incident between France and Britain
An analysis of the factors that led to the Scramble for Africa
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
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Lesson 2/12 linking to the new Cambridge International Relations specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
The second lesson focuses on the Scramble for Africa and includes:
Teacher PPT on key events
The beginnings of the scramble
The work of explorers (Stanley, Livingstone and de Brazza)
Imperialistic tensions among the great powers
The Berlin Conference
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
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Lesson 1/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
The first lesson is an introduction pack that includes:
Teacher PPT on key events
How to answer exam question guide for Paper 2
Keywords
Activities on first-wave imperialism and New Imperialism to differentiate between the two
Analysis of the causes of New Imperialism
Extension activities
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
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World historical maps for students to complete. Answer sheets given.
India, 1805-58
Unification of Italy
Unification of Germany
Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Commonwealth of Australia, 1901
Colonial powers in China, 1850-1910
Imperialism in the Caribbean and South America
1905 Russian Revolution
Southeast Asia 1914
Scramble for Africa
Europe World War I
Russian Revolution 1905-22
World War I
Europe 1920
British Empire 1920
Conflict in the Republic of China
Japanese expansion
European aggression 1933-39
World War II in Europe 1939-41
Post WWII occupation zones of Germany
Partition of India and Pakistan 1947
Dominion of Canada 1949
Phases of the Korean War
African independence
Tet Offensive - Vietnam War
OPEC member nations
Cold War
The First Gulf War
The EU
Complete bundle including:
Workbook with crib sheets linked to a series of YouTube videos on the First Crusade
10 lessons that detail the rise of the Islamic religion through to the Third Crusade
Dozens of colorful worksheets and accompanying PPTs that guide teachers and students through the lessons
Numerous GCSE exam-style questions suitable for Key Stage 3 students
An end of term assessment
Grade boundaries that allow for a Level 5-
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
Assessment linked to the following series of lessons on the crusades:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-crusades-12319610
Questions are chosen based on Edexcel GCSE (9-1) criteria and assessment papers are drafted to resemble the Edexcel GCSE assessments.
There are a numerous questions, ranging from multiple choice to 8-mark utility and narrative account qustions.
The varying complexity allows students to attain a range of levels.
Grade boundaries allowing for a Level 5- are included.
Detailed series of crib sheets linked to a collection of online videos documenting the First Crusade.
These videos could be used in conjunction with the following series of lessons on the crusades:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-crusades-12319610
There are six videos in total (links to the videos are given on top of each crib sheet - this will take the user straight to the relevant video on YouTube):
The Peoples Crusade
Peter the Hermit
A good crusade?
Men of Iron
Siege of Antioch
On to Jerusalem
Each video has a list of 7-9 questions in chronological order.
