Early Elizabethan England Lesson 10. This lesson looks at four key factors that led to a deterioration of Anglo-Spanish relations. Students analyse these, create a graph and then assess evidence surrounding Elizabeth's actions in the Netherlands before responding to a 16 mark exam question. As always there are step by step instruction, differentiated worksheets and activities.

Students examine the causes, events and outcomes of this significant revolt. Pupils have to correctly sequence event cards, identify causes and outcomes which they priorities before creating an annotated comic book and using their completed work to respond to an open-ended enquiry question. The lesson concludes with a 16 mark exam question which focuses on the causes of the revolt. Differentiated resources included as well as clear instructions.

This Unit includes 37 enquiry-led lessons from the formation of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler in the early 1930s and the first six years of the Nazi regime. The lessons cover the required content and teach the exam kills necessary for your pupils to succeed. These lessons develop high levels of thinking for AO4 through engaging activities to help your students analyse the numerous constructs of the past. The enquiry based lessons end with engaging tasks and exam style questions that incorporate the knowledge and skills gained through the enquiry.The exam skills and tips are accessible and student friendly and these lessons have all been tried and tested in my classroom and tweaked and adapted over the past 2 years since the introduction of the new Edexcel 9-1 spec. There are a three lessons that refer to pages from the Pearson textbook but the course can be taught without a textbook. The lessons can be taught as they are, but can be easily adapted to your own class’ needs.

An introduction to the Early Elizabethan England Edexcel Unit. This lesson looks at the key events during Elizabeth's childhood and how they might have influenced her character. The lesson also looks at the key problems/ challenges that existed at the time. Student create a timeline, select key events and determine how they might have influenced Elizabeth. There are source based activities/ worksheet tasks. The lesson concludes with the students writing an introductory chapter for a Ladybird book about Elizabeth's childhood (literacy support provided).

Unit 1 Student Study Guide Contains detailed top level Grade 9 knowledge on all aspects of the course, covering the specification from Edexcel Easily accessible for all levels Includes a wide range of exam questions with a ‘how to’ guide for each question aw well as tips and literacy support Exam questions broken down (easily accessible for all levels) Self-assessment tasks for each unit Key term documents for each unit High-quality, well presented and student friendly, differentiated resources The entire specification covered Can be used for revision, homework, exam preparation or simply used as a point of reference within class teaching

Time travel Britain! Students learn about Christmas during two different eras; the medieval period and Christmas during the rule of Oliver Cromwell. These two booklets include a range of activities (that need minimal teacher intervention) such as a time travel activity, source analysis, writing up a report about Christmas in the period of study (a differentiated version included with sentence stems and a version without literacy support is included), a stamp making activity, a word search and a quick recap at the end where students change their time travels views based on what they now know. Each book will take the students a 60 minute lesson to work through (so enough material for two lessons here). Enjoy a stress free end of term lesson :-). If you are new to TES you can open an account and get this resource for free with the code NOVEMBERNEWBIE (simply enter the code at checkout). Use code WOWVEMBER to get this resource for free for existing buyers

Our best selling GCSE 9-1 Unit is now available in one product! This unit includes all of the teaching material for the entire course. 37 fully resourced, differentiated, engaging lessons that cover the entire specification. I initially planned and taught this unit in 2015 and since that date it has been tweaked, updated, improved and developed into a very thorough unit of work. All the lessons include a step by step guide, several activities, high-quality worksheets, exam style questions, literacy support and help for the less able and challenge for the more able student. The majority of the lessons are student led and follow a similar method which I have successfully employed in my 14 year teaching career. The lessons are planned to allow the teacher scope to take the lesson in many directions, with plenty of open-ended questioning opportunities to allow the learner time and space to create original outcomes/ responses to exam style questions. I hope you enjoy teaching this unit as much I have! Please get in contact if you have any questions or require any support with the material after purchase.

A 15 page Crime Punishment revision and quiz booklet. Perfect for that end of term lesson(s), for revision sessions, homework tasks, plenary or starters or can simply be used as a fun Christmas lesson for a topic quiz. The booklet includes 5 quick fire questions for each of the five units c1000-c1500,c1500-c1700, c1700-c1900, c1900-present & Whitechapel. In addition there is a famous individual round, matching crimes and laws to the correct era, an event and change quiz, anagrams and significant events in the story of crime and punishment. This product can be purchased in the 1700-present Bundlehttps://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/edexcel-history-gcse-91-crime-and-punishment-c1700-present-11501920. Or if you are new to TES set up an account and get this resource for free with the code NOVEMBERNEWBIE. A teacher answer booklet is included too

Handy structure strips that cover all the different types of questions (Edexcel GCSE 9-1, Paper 2 ). I use these for the Superpower Relations and Cold War Unit. They are very useful when preparing students for exam preparation, assessments and writing up questions in lessons. The students also use these to make their own structure strips for revision.I cut out the literacy support and stick this to the reverse of the strip for students to use when they need help with introducing evidence/ examples and phrases for explaining. I hope people find these helpful :)

This lesson teaches the skills required for the Narrative Question, paper 2. Students begin by looking at the mark scheme. In pairs they create a list of 3 top exam tips. They are then introduced to two Question 2 style exam questions. They work their way through a series of differentiated steps before writing up a response to one of the questions (the other can be set as a homework or as a starter for the next lesson). There are some sample responses that the students can mark and comment on (editable so that you can change depending on your groups ability range). Once they have done this there is opportunity for them to develop their answer before a bit of peer assessment. The lesson concludes with the students refining their exam tips set out in the starter activity. A structure strip and worksheet included. for the structure strip, I make the double-sided (cut out the literacy support and stick it to the back of the strip). I hope people find this lesson useful.

A lesson that looks at the increase in vagabondage and the factors that led to its increase and why witchcraft became a serious crime . Students need to identify factors and priorities evidence to make a judgement before answering a 12 mark how far question .All resources included, such as card sort and diamond 9 activity and a worksheet task with activities. The video clips for slide 5 are located under the slide (click to open).

The Narrative question exam preparation. This product includes all of the material required to teach the two narrative exam style questions. Students read about two key events (the creation of satellite states and the Berlin crisis, 1948-49), complete a card sort activity, sequence key events before writing up their responses to the questions. A student-friendly mark scheme is included as well as structure tips for this question type. There is also literacy support and exam tips for how to approach this type of question. In the examination students should aim to spend 10 minutes writing up this question, so this could be a timed activity. It's important that the students start to get into the habit of arranging and sequencing the events and using the linking language. Terms of Use: Purchase of this item entitles the purchaser the right to reproduce the pages for personal and classroom use only. Duplication for other classes, an entire school or for commercial use is strictly prohibited without written permission from the author. Minor editing is allowed but only for personal use. The document remains under copyright even when edited. Pasting this item in whole or part on the Internet in any form is strictly prohibited and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Copyright 2017

This 16 page booklet includes 6 Question 1 example exam style questions. Each question links to a worksheet with activities and a card sort. There are a range of support materials for your students, such as a student friendly mark scheme, structure strips, hints and tips for approaching the consequence question as well as revision activities. These are great for revision lessons, homework tasks, assessments or the booklets can be used over a series of lessons ( probably 3 lessons worth of material and activities). These resources take many hours to create, so please leave a review. Thank you. Terms of Use: Purchase of this item entitles the purchaser the right to reproduce the pages for personal and classroom use only. Duplication for other classes, an entire school or for commercial use is strictly prohibited without written permission from the author. Minor editing is allowed but only for personal use. The document remains under copyright even when edited. Pasting this item in whole or part on the Internet in any form is strictly prohibited and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Copyright 2017.

Students begin by creating a caption for a cartoon of JFK. They then categorise knowledge cards before producing a SWOT analysis for Cuba for Castro in 1959 before he launches his revolution. They use their knowledge of Cuba and fresh evidence cards of the main incidents following the revolution to create an annotated heart beat graph for President Kennedy. This is then used to respond to a series of questions. There is a homework activity on the causes of effects on the Bay of Pigs incident. The lesson concludes with students refining their cartoon captions. As always there are step by step instructions and high quality resources.

Students work through the impacts of the Berlin Wall to determine in the Wall increased or decreased Cold War tensions. After categorising the impacts they allocate score to make a pie chart before completing an exam style question. Student support and a step by step instructions included.

This lessons looks at the reasons for the refugee crisis, the Soviets response and how the events between 1958-61 affected superpower relations. Students learn about living standards in Germany before working out where various people lived based on their knowledge. This activity is reinforced by some open ended questioning to challenge the more able. Students then study the key events in the years and plot these on a tension graph. They annotate their decisions. They end the lesson by completing an 8 mark narrative question (support included for less able as well as a student friendly mark scheme). As always there are clear instructions and high-quality resources.

This lesson starts with a knowledge recap about the situation in Hungary in 1956 before students start evaluating the outcomes of the Uprising through categorising and prioritising information. The lesson involves exam practice for the 8 mark consequences style questions. Fully differentiated with step by step instructions, exam tips, structure strips and a range of activities and worksheets. This lesson concludes Unit 1

Easy to follow lessons which examines the changes brought in by the Normans following the conquest of Britain. Several tasks and worksheets are included in this lesson, these include plotting the changes/ continuity on a graph, spotting differences between Saxon and Norman justice, self assessment tasks and a 12 mark question (with mark scheme).

The first lesson in our Cold War unit. This enquiry acts as an introductory overview to the Cold War unit. This lesson allows your students to work out what the Cold War was and where it happened. It is always important to see the big picture before exploring the content. A classic introductory overview your students will look at a number images from events across the period 1945-72. They will match captions to the images to work out what was going on.This will help define what the Cold War was and plot on a map where the main flash points happened and work out what they can learn from each caption/image. A report task with a literacy focus concludes the lesson. A unit checklist/ self assessment document is included too. As always there are clear step by step instructions and differentiated resources.