This unit bundle includes 4 lessons providing context on the Medicine Through Time GCSE unit (tailored to the Edexcel spec), best delivered before starting the course.
Lessons are scaffolded (orange = low ability, green = middle ability, purple = high ability) and include skills-based tasks such as practice ‘explain why’ questions and source usefulness questions ready for the GCSE spec.
Lesson 1 - Ancient Greek Medicine
Lesson 2 - Ancient Roman Medicine
Lesson 3 - Roman Public Health
Lesson 4 - Dark Ages Medicine (Progress, Continuity, or Decline?)
This unit bundle includes 7 lessons on the Battle of Hastings and the development of castles. Lessons are differentiated/scaffolded (orange = low ability, green = middle ability, purple = high ability) and include formative assessment tasks (‘purple book’ tasks). Lessons also include recall homeworks as forms quizzes.
The unit also includes a scheme of work and knowledge book to accompany. Knowledge book includes key content notes and resources, as well as challenge questions at the end of each topic.
Lessons 1 - Claimants to the Throne in 1066
Lesson 2 - Key events of the Battle of Hastings
Lesson 3 - Reasons William won
Lesson 4 - Assessment (writing PEEL paragraphs) & Feudal System
Lesson 5 - The Conquest of England (Harrying of the North & Rebellions)
Lesson 6 - The Development of Castles
Lesson 7 - Rochester Castle Case Study (Attacking & Defending Castles)
This unit bundle includes 5 lessons on the history of Native Americans. Lessons are scaffolded (orange = low ability, green = middle ability, purple = high ability) and include fun tasks such as creating tipis and totem poles. Lessons also include homeworks.
Lessons 1 - Tribes and Tipis
Lesson 2 - Buffalo and Warfare
Lesson 3 - Migration and Westward Expansion (alternative migration lesson included that requires access to Disney’s Pocahontas film)
Lesson 4 - Battle at Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee Massacre
Lesson 5 - Reservations and Totem Pole
Made for the annual Culture Day, students are introduced to nuclear weapons (where they originate from, which states have them), before looking at the ‘why?’. Students engage in a fun marketplace/carousel task, looking at 5 case studies to try and understand how a country’s culture/heritage impacts its decision to manufacture and keep weapons of mass destruction.
Tailored to A Level, this revision notes booklet covers the following topics examining British Foreign & Imperial Policy:
Foreign Policy (1945-64)
Decolonisation (post-1945)
Britain and Europe (1945-1973)
Thatcher’s Premiership Part 1: Crises
Thatcher’s Premiership Part 2: US/EEC
Britain and Nuclear Weapons (1945-90)
Britain’s International Power and Influence Across 1945-90
Historiography (a range of historian’s quotes relating to the topic which can be memorised and incorporated into the exam’s essay questions)
Tailored to A Level but adaptable for GCSE, this revision notes booklet covers the following topics examining democracy and dictatorship in Germany:
Nazi Regime (1933-45)
Nazi Society (1933-45)
Eastern Zone (1945-1963)
Western Zone (1945-63)