A lesson aimed at KS3 students that looks at whether or not the Romans can be considered as civilised or barbaric. Includes a card sort with differentiated activities for higher, middle and lower ability students to look at and sort out. Students will then write a supported conclusion to the key question using what they have learn in the lesson.
Also included is an assessment using the new GCSE style of questions where students explain whether or not they agree with an interpretation of the Romans. Also includes a marking grid for students to be levelled.
Ideal for the new Edexcel GCSE History course, this bundle includes all lessons required for the final specification point:
- Nazi policies towards women
- Nazi control of education
- How the Nazis tried to reduce unemployment
- Standards of living in Nazi Germany
- Persecution of minorities
Each lesson includes resources, and an exam question in most of the lessons.
A lesson aimed at the new Edexcel GCSE Germany course that looks at how the Nazis treated the youth. Includes two exam questions, with a plan for the 8 mark usefulness question. This enables the students to practice what they have learnt by completing two exam questions.
A lesson ideal for KS3, focusing on the events of the Great Fire of London, the causes, and consequences of the Fire. Uses sources and higher level thinking skills for students to investigate this. Includes challenge and super challenge activities throughout.
A workbook for the Edexcel A-Level History course of the British experience of warfare. This workbook was designed with remote learning in mind, but also very compatible for in class teaching. The workbook includes knowledge quizzes, full lessons and exam questions
An extensive revision guide crated to support students through the new Edexcel 9-1 History GCSE (Superpower relations). This revision guide offers condensed notes, quick quizzes, exam questions and model answers.
A lesson summarizing why Jack the Ripper was never caught. Asks students to link and prioritize the reasons. Provides differentiated resources throughout, as well as challenge activities for each task.
A lesson aimed at KS3 students that looks at the similarities and differences between the weapons used in WW1 and WW2. Includes an information sheet, Venn diagram and a 'how far do you agree' question,
A scheme of work ideal for KS3 exploring the Stuarts. All lessons included starters, differentiated activities for different ability pathways, alongside challenges and super-challenges for each task. Lessons also include exam questions that will help students prepare for the new demands of the GCSE.
Lessons include:
1. Was James I a good King?
2. The Gunpowder Plot - were the Catholics framed?
3. Problems facing Charles I
4. Causes of the English Civil War
5. Soldiers of the English Civil War
6. Battles of the English Civil War
7. Should Charles I be executed?
8. What did Cromwell ban?
9. Cromwell - curse of Ireland?
10. Oliver Cromwell - hero or villain?
11. The Restoration
12. The Great Fire of London
13. Assessment preparation lesson
14. Assessment
A lesson ideal for KS3 students looking at crime and punishment over time, or ideal for the new Edexcel GCSE course.
This lessons looks at whether abolishing the death penalty in 1965 was the right thing to do. Includes two source enquiry questions, a work sheet with arguments for/against the death penalty as well as a section on the case of Derek Bentley.
An excellent discussion based lesson, with resources to prompt students, and differentiated tasks throughout.
Ideal for the new GCSE course. A powerpoint and resource looking at the impact of the Reichstag Fire, and how it helped Hitler to create his dictatorship.
Ideal for students studying the Tudor period, this lesson looks at whether or not Tudor entertainment really was as bloody as historians have made out.
A lesson ideal for an introduction into how important the church was in Medieval England. Students are asked to decide the importance of church today, and then compare it to Medieval England. Students will complete an inference question on the doom painting, as well as looking at a card sort into the power of the church in Medieval England. An opportunity for some extended writing to summarize the learning, with support sheets included for weaker students.
A lesson aimed at KS3 students that looks at different aspects of life in Rome. Includes differentiated activities for higher, middle and lower ability students, as well as students becoming teacher activity.
A KS3/KS4 lesson looking at reasons why people go to war, different types of war, and then is war justified. Each activity feature different pathways, and challenges and super challenges. Ideal for an introduction to a warfare unit or for a PHSE/RE lesson
A lesson ideal for KS3 looking at the reasons why public health improved during the Industrial Revolution. Includes differentiated activities, and resources.
A powerpoint that goes through key skills like chronology, timelines, matching dates to centuries and source analysis skills. Ideal for a year 7 introduction lesson