Comparison table of the main events of the detente period in the 1970s, SALT 1, the Helsink Accords and SALT 2. For each, there is space for the positives and negatives of the meetings, and the impact on international relations (visually represented with a thermometer)
Knowledge organiser to complement unit 1.1 of Edexcel’s Medicine Through Time, c1250-present GCSE course - Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
Covers Hippocrates and Four Humours, Galen and the Theory of Opposites, the Role of the Church, book learning, lack of alternatives, attitudes and society, science and technology, and astrology
Advise to print A4 for revision/A3 for detailed notes
Word gap designed to complement unit 3 of the AQA A level Russia course: Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-1953, Stalin’s rise to power, 1924-1929
Covers the 3 main issues in selecting the new leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death: the nature of leadership, the NEP/industrialisation debate and ‘Permanent Revolution’ vs ‘Socialism in One Country’.
Advise to print 2 sheets per A4 page
Knowledge organiser to complement unit 1.3 of Edexcel’s Medicine Through Time, c1250-present GCSE course -Dealing with the Black Death, 1348-49
Covers origins and symptoms of the Black Death, causes of the Black Death (Religious/supernatural, natural and common beliefs), treatments of the Black Death (Religious/supernatural and natural), government action, and preventing the Black Death (Religious/supernatural, natural and common beliefs)
Advise to print A4 for revision/A3 for detailed notes
Knowledge organiser to complement unit 2.1 of Edexcel’s Medicine Through Time, c1250-present GCSE course - Ideas about the causes of disease and illness
Covers what ideas stayed from the medieval period, alchemy, ‘animalcules’, changing views on the use of urine and the Four Humours, a scientific approach to diagnosis, Thomas Sydenham, the role of technology (printing press and microscopes), and the work of the Royal Society + summary box for what was understood by the end of the period.
Advise to print A4 for revision/A3 for detailed notes
Knowledge Organiser to complement the English Crusaders for topic 3.1 of the Edexcel The Reigns of Richard and John, 1189-1216: The Dispute with the Papacy
Covering a profile of Pope Innocent III, the role of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the 3 contenders for the position, the outcome, the 1208 Interdict and it’s consequences, John’s excommunication and the reconciliation.
This is designed to complement unit 2.3 The Aftermath of the Crusade, of Edexcel’s GCSE course: The Reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189-1216
Covers why Richard wanted to leave the Holy Land quickly, problems getting home, his capture, profile of HRE Henry VI, the ransom, the burden of the ransom on England, how the ransom was raised, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s involvement, Prince John’s rebellion, Philip’s disruption in Normandy and Richard’s return to England.
Advise to print A3 for detailed notes and A4 for revision
Knowledge organiser to complement unit 2.2 of Edexcel’s Medicine Through Time, c1250-present GCSE course - Approaches to Prevention and Treatment
Covers what ideas stayed from the medieval period, humoural treatments, herbal remedies, impact of the discovery of the New World, purging, transference, iatrochemistry, case studies of Thomas Sydenham and Syphilis for Treatment.
Covers continuity from the Medieval period, practicing moderation, personal ‘constitution’ superstitions, prayer, Regimen Sanitatis, cleanliness of home and body, removing miasmata and new technologies such as the thermometer and barometer for prevention of disease.
Advise to print A4 for revision/A3 for detailed notes
Knowledge organiser to complement unit 4 of Edexcel’s Medicine Through Time, c1250-present GCSE course - Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
Covers lifestyle and health as causes of disease, continuation from Enlightenment ideas, hereditary disease, early work on genetics, Rosalind Franklin, Crick and Watson, the Human Genome Project, impact on diagnosing and treating diseases, factors helping the development of genetics, and technologies for diagnosing disease.
Advise to print A4 for revision/A3 for detailed notes
Knowledge organiser to complement unit 3 of Edexcel’s Medicine Through Time, c1250-present GCSE course -Medical Care in the Enlightenment
Covers overview of hospitals in the Renaissance, Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War, subsequent impact on British Hospitals, nursing before Nightingale and how she changed it, developments in healthcare, cottage hospitals, workhouses, doctors, the role of the church, mass vaccination programs, Edwin Chadwick, 1848/1875 Public Health Act, and details of the latter, and Laissez-faire attitudes.
Advise to print A4 for revision/A3 for detailed notes
Knowledge organiser to complement unit 3 of Edexcel’s Medicine Through Time, c1250-present GCSE course - Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
Covers problems facing surgery, surgery before the Enlightenment, James Simpson and Chloroform, opposition to chloroform, aseptic vs antiseptic surgery, the ‘black period’ of surgery, Lister and carbolic acid, Jenner and Smallpox, inoculation, role of the government.
Advise to print A4 for revision/A3 for detailed notes
Knowledge organiser to complement unit 3 of Edexcel’s Medicine Through Time, c1250-present GCSE course - Ideas about the cause of disease and illness and diagnosis.
Covers continuation of ideas from the Renaissance, Louis Pasteur and Germ Theory, impact in Britain ft. Lister, Tyndall and Bastian, Robert Koch and vaccines, cholera in London with John Snow, and role of the government, factors affecting development and understanding
Advise to print A4 for revision/A3 for detailed notes
KO to completement Edexcel’s GCSE course, the Reigns of Richard and John which covers Richard’s failure to capture Jerusalem. Recommend A4 print for revision and A3 for detailed notes.
Knowledge organiser to complement the AQA A level Depth 2N Course - Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-1953
Matches chaper 14 of the Oxford AQA approved textbook
Covers industry in the 30s including:
Gosplan
The aims and outcomes of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd five-year-plans
The Nazi threat to the USSR
New industrial projects: Dnieprostroi Dam, the Turksib, Moscow Metro, Moscow-Volga canal, Magnitogorsk and Komsomolsk
The use of foreigners
Stakhanovites
Managers
Workers
Convict labour
Advise to print A3 for detailed notes and A4 for quick revision
KO to completement Edexcel’s GCSE course, the Reigns of Richard and John which covers the causes of the Barons’ War, Prince Louis and Alexander II’s support for the rebel barons, the taking of Rochester, John’s siege of Rochester, the arrival of Prince Louis, the events of summer 1216, John’s position at the end of summer, John’s death, the succession, William Marshal, the Battle of Lincoln, the Battle of Sandwich and the condition of England in 1216. Recommend A4 print for revision and A3 for detailed notes.
KO to completement Edexcel’s GCSE course, the Reigns of Richard and John which covers the plot of 1212, the reasons the Barons felt resentment, the support for King John and the Barons, the Barons aims, the main events of the rebellion and the Magna Carta. Recommend A4 print for revision and A3 for detailed notes.
A tool to help with prioritising revision topics - compare every topic to the other and the spreadsheet will tell you which topics are your weakest and strongest, and therefore where revision should be prioritised.
Instructions are on the spreadsheet.
This model is for the AQA GCSE History unit on Norman England (specifically 2024) but can be easily adapted for other topics/subjects
A tool to help with prioritising revision topics - compare every topic to the other and the spreadsheet will tell you which topics are your weakest and strongest, and therefore where revision should be prioritised.
Instructions are on the spreadsheet.
This model is for the AQA GCSE History unit on Health and the People but can be easily adapted for other topics/subjects
A tool to help with prioritising revision topics - compare every topic to the other and the spreadsheet will tell you which topics are your weakest and strongest, and therefore where revision should be prioritised.
Instructions are on the spreadsheet.
This model is for the AQA GCSE History unit on America 1920-73: Opportunity and Inequality but can be easily adapted for other topics/subjects