Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit - Ep 2 -Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary In the second episode, Mary Beard explores the physical world of the Roman Empire, and finds surprising parallels with our own world. Setting out in the footsteps of the emperor Hadrian, she discovers a vast empire bound together by a common material culture, and a globalised economy of such scale that evidence of its side-effects can still be seen today, thousands of miles away from Rome. Mary unpicks the threads of a huge commercial and cultural network, taking in the vital supply of olive oil to Rome and her armies, the slave trade, and the all-important silver mines of Spain. Following the famous Roman road network, and the shipping routes connecting the empire’s thriving ports, Mary reveals another side to the Roman Empire, one where builders and traders eclipse soldiers, and starring slaves, not senators, making the most of a hugely connected new world. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

KS3 learning place mat on the British Empire - but could be easily adapted to any topic. Students are supported to place their learning each lesson within it's wider historical context and appreciate the 'big picture'. The place mat contains useful word lists, picture prompts and links assessment directly to the new 9-1 GCSE style Questions - in this case - Edexcel Weimar and Nazi Germany Unit 3 questions. The first two slides form the A3 place mat which includes the assessment questions and the final two slides provide support for the judgment 'essay' question as well as a 'mid activity' peer feedback sheet, encouraging AfL with impact. While this resource has been based on the British Empire, it could be easily adapted for any KS3 topic with generic grade boundary descriptors.

What lies at the bottom of the oceans? What would happen if the planet lost its oceans? Richard Hammond is going to drain the oceans to find out. Hidden beneath all that water are some of the biggest natural formations on earth: The longest mountain ranges, the tallest volcanoes and the deepest canyons. Richard can reveal all this and more in a way never seen before, because he has the ultimate toy - a vast working 3D virtual Earth in a hangar. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be saved as a PDF file for A4 printing

A special episode about King Henry VIII, starring Rowan Atkinson. We meet the young Henry as he struggles with his boring dad Henry VII, before becoming king himself and going through wives like most people go through toothbrushes! Meanwhile, across the world, we meet the great Ottoman leader Suleiman the Magnificent in Turkey and the mad, bad and very dangerous-to-know Zhengde Emperor in China. With, of course, our host Rattus to guide the way! Written in Piublisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be saved asa PDF for A4 printing

This resource can be used to introduce the Medicine Through Time GCSE course. It takes four images through time and encourages students to gain a chronological understanding of the key periods through deconstructing the carefully chosen 4 images. This worked extremely well with my students who were able to use the images to identify continuity and change between periods and make judgements on key questions such as: 1. How was illness explained? 2. How did people try to treat illness? 3. How were the sick cared for? 4. Who cared for the sick? Students need an A3 copy of the word document table and an A4 copy of the picture sheet - ideally in colour. This work can be completed individually or in pairs. I adapted this resource for current year 11 students as a group based revision task - (really well received by both students and other colleagues). I will publish this also.

Tony Robinson - Down Under- EP2 - Against the Odds - Worksheet to support the Channel Four Documentary series Tony reveals how the first British colony in Australia struggled for survival as the settlers, who had no farmers among their number, battled to find and grow enough food to sustain their community Supporting the A Level: British Empire : Losing and Gaining an Empire (EDEXCEL)

Taught as a Year 9 lesson to study the views and opinions of the KKK in the USA as part of a study comparing democracies and dictatorships in the modern world. Students investigate the right and extent of freedom of speech in democratic society. It has additionally been used in both assemblies and Citizenship Lessons. Versions have also been adapted for KS4 and 5 Initially students are to complete the questionnaire on their own political views. This can be read or taught through the link to a video. Some of the questions have concern opinions of immigration, welfare, benefits, race and abortion. Students are then shown a teacher led presentation on the views, tactics and methods of the KKK in the USA. As they make their notes the students are to consider the Q.: 'How much freedom of speech should be permitted in a democracy?' When completed the teacher is to survey the opinions of the class based upon the initial questionnaire. Any question that gains the majority of the class will become a law. Any question whose outcome is actually affected by the number of students who chose not to hold an opinion can be used to stress the importance in a democracy to to have opinions. The plenary twist lies in the fact that the initial 11 questions are based upon expressed views of the KKK and have had the USA replaced with the UK. To agree with the question therefore, is to support the views potentially of the KKK. How many laws that the KKK approve of would be passed by your class

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England - Health and Hygiene- Supporting Worksheet for the Ian Mortimer book of the same name Written as an extension/reading/ independent learning activity for able GCSE 9-1 students studying the history of medicine looking at the Renaissance / Tudor period and changing medical understanding in Britain. The resource is written as a WORD document for easy access to Google Classroom

1 July 1916 was the blackest day in the British army’s history. Richard Holmes walks the fields where 57,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in just a few hours, and continues the story until the end of the Somme campaign in 1916. Written in Publisher to an A3 format the worksheet can be edited and amended for A4 printing as a PDF. A Word file is included for uploading to Google Classroom

The last days of Anne Boleyn - Worksheet to Support the BBC TV Documentary. Designed for independent/ enrichment/ extension work, the worksheet allows the students to work through the programme collecting and analysing data through a variety of tasks Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Boleyn, who in 1536 became the first queen in British history to be executed. Anne Boleyn is one of the most famous and controversial women in British history. In 1536, she became the first queen in Britain’s history to be executed. The brutal speed of her downfall and the astonishing nature of the charges against her - treason, adultery, even incest - make her story shocking even to this day. Yet whilst we know how Anne died, the story of why she had to go and who authored her violent end has been the subject of fiery debate across six centuries. In a radical new approach to televised history, a stellar cast of writers and historians, including Hilary Mantel, David Starkey, Philippa Gregory and others, battle out the story of her last days and give their own unique interpretations of her destruction. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 this resource can be edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing

The Peasants Revolt - Part 2 - Documentary to support the Tony Robinson Documentary Written to support independent/ enrichment and flipped learning, students work thorough the sheet carrying out a series of data collection activities and higher order tasks Written in Publisher and formatted to A3, the worksheet can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

This is a reading based enrichment activity written as an introduction to the lives of peasants during the medieval period and based upon the book of the same name: ISBN-10: 0563522755 ISBN-13: 978-0563522751 The worksheet contains a variety of information gathering activities and higher order tasks to prepare students for the study of the period. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the sheet can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

Horrible Histories returns for a special about King John and Magna Carta, starring Ben Miller. John annoys the barons and agrees Magna Carta at Runnymede after a banging rap battle. Meanwhile, across the world, we meet the formidable Genghis Khan in Mongolia and catch up with the crafty Saladin during the Crusades. With, of course, our host Rattus to guide the way! Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 printing the resouce can be saved as a PDF and printed in A4

Britain 2000 Years in The Making - Ep4 Dirty Money - Worksheet to support the TV Documentary. Written to support the teaching of the A level: Britain: Losing and Gaining and Empire - 1763-1914. Suitable as an enrichment task for able KS3

Written to support the ABC documentary: The Century Americas Time 1920 1929 - Ep3 - Boom To Bust In the aftermath of World War I, many modern-minded Americans, particularly women, were eager to do away with outdated traditions and claim new rights and freedoms. This program investigates why the issue of women’s rights, ranging from suffrage to smoking, became so controversial – and what that said about America’s sense of self. Written to provide extension/ enrichment / independent learning options Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

Written to support the 1982 BBC Documentary: QED A Guide to Armageddon. The documentary studies the effects of a one megaton nuclear bomb being exploded over London The sheet supports the film with a table to test its predictions using NUKEMAPS: The resource is written in Publsiher and formatted to A4

BBC American Voices - Ep2. Boom and Bust - Supporting Worksheet Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning. The episode looks at the testimony of four women and their of both Boom and Bust within America from very contrasting perspectives Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing

This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for the component unit Key topic 1: EDEXCEL GCSE HISTORY. TOPIC 3: Conflicts & Conquest, c1876 - 1895 This is a one page resource They fully cover the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to: a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning. c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change. d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable. The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students.

Studying the US Law of Prohibition in the 1920's by comparing a ban on alcohol to the banning of tobacco in contemporary Britain. See the Teacher Guidance film at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOHolPVR3t8 Objectives What was Prohibition? How did it affect the United States? Outcomes Know – What the term mass prohibition means Understand – how prohibition affected the USA for both good and bad Be able to – think about the role of law in a democracy and its purpose Students will be introduced to the reasons for prohibition on smoking and then be asked to consider the consequences of such a law. Once considered they can consider the impact of prohibition by watching: Homer versus the Eighteenth Amendment to consider the consequences of passing a prohibition on alcohol by studying its impact on all of the residents

BBC - Caligula with Mary Beard - Worksheet to support the Documentary Professor Mary Beard explores the life of Caligula. Many extraordinary stories surround the Roman emperor, but are they true? Mary attempts to peel away some of the myths. Two thousand years ago one of history’s most notorious individuals was born. Professor Mary Beard embarks on an investigative journey to explore the life and times of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus - better known to us as Caligula. Caligula has now become known as Rome’s most capricious tyrant, and the stories told about him are some of the most extraordinary told about any Roman emperor. He was said to have made his horse a consul, proclaimed himself a living God, and indulged in scandalous orgies - even with his own three sisters - and that’s before you mention building vast bridges across land and sea, prostituting senators’ wives and killing half the Roman elite seemingly on a whim. All that in just four short years in power before a violent and speedy assassination in a back alley of his own palace at just 29 years old. But how much of his story is true? Travelling across the Roman world - from Germany and Capri in the bay of Naples to the astonishing luxury of his life in imperial Rome - Mary attempts to peel away the myths. Some stories are difficult to get to the bottom of as they were written by hacks long after his death, but there is plenty of surviving evidence where the ‘real’ Caligula can be glimpsed. Such as in the extraordinary luxury of his private yachts outside Rome; in the designs he chose for his coins when he became emperor; in an eye-witness account of Caligula’s withering humour written in 41AD; in the trial documents covering the mysterious death of his father when he was just seven; and even in a record of his imperial slaves - from the palace spy to his personal trainer. Piecing together the evidence, Mary puts Caligula back into the context of his times to reveal an astonishing story of murder, intrigue and dynastic family power. Above all, she explains why Caligula has ended up with such a seemingly unredeemable reputation. In the process, she reveals a more intriguing portrait of not just the monster, but the man. Written on Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing