History is just full of wonderful stories isn't it? Intrigue, war, competition, greed, progress, romance(!)...but unfortunately there just isn't enough time to plan EVERYTHING, so keep an eye on this shop for free and inexpensive lessons, worksheets, assessments and homeworks. Coming soon!
History is just full of wonderful stories isn't it? Intrigue, war, competition, greed, progress, romance(!)...but unfortunately there just isn't enough time to plan EVERYTHING, so keep an eye on this shop for free and inexpensive lessons, worksheets, assessments and homeworks. Coming soon!
This Tudor lesson investigates the short life and 9 day rule of Lady Jane Grey. Students will look at her upbringing as well as her rule in order to evaluate whether she was a willing Protestant participant or an innocent victim of ambitious Tudor men. Parallels are drawn between Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey at the plenary at the end of the lesson.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, clip link with questions, information sheets with activities to complete, mini plenary think pair share activity, a consolidation evaluative written question and two plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We also have lots of amazing Tudor lessons available in a variety of bundles, please look at the bottom of this page for great value deals!
For example, this lesson can be used as a part of our growing mega-bundle on ‘The Tudors’ which includes lessons on the Reformation, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I, Bloody Mary and Tudor Women and Tudor Royal Palaces, which you can find here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tudors-12921738
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This lesson investigates why the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic sank in April 1912. It looks at a number of mistakes that were made and asks students to discuss and evaluate which was the most important cause of the sinking.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, reading comprehension task, , a consolidation explain written question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Disasters’, which includes the Aberfan Disaster and Chernobyl.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This great value Industrial Revolution bundle includes lessons on:
Inventions and Inventors
Living conditions
Working conditions
Children
Women
Medicine & Public Health
Documentary questions to go along with a great documentary (link on worksheet)
Industrial Revolution Introduction
This download includes everything you need to teach these lessons - all powerpoints, clips, activities, instructions, worksheets and information sheets. Scaffolding and challenge activities are included where possible. All lessons last at least one hour and are fully editable. Activities have been designed to promote thinking and discussion.
You can find all our lessons, both free and inexpensive, in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
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This Historical Skills lesson investigates the discovery of Otzi and encourages students to think carefully about the evidence we can gain from him - including what information we can learn from his clothing, his body and his equipment. Afterwards, students are asked how they think he died - keep the arrow head a secret until after they have watched the clip! Students end this lesson considering significance.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, think pair share activity, information sheets with a table to complete, a thought provoking mini-plenary, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
THIS LESSON IS PART OF A GROWING HISTORICAL SKILLS BUNDLE, which includes lessons on ‘using evidence’, Pompeii, Inca Mummies, Richard III, the Tollund Man and the Diaries of Anne Frank & Zlata. Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/history-skills-12982510
It is also part of an ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES BUNDLE, which also includes Pompeii, Inca Mummies, Tollund Man and Richard III (King in the Car Park). Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/archaeological-discoveries-12985815
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts!
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This lesson investigates the history of Christmas and Christmas traditions from medieval times to today. Students will learn about where our modern traditions of pulling crackers and sending Christmas cards originated as well as the creation of Santa Claus!
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, timeline activity, card sort, consolidation explanation question and challenge plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts!
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This lesson investigates the beliefs and actions of the KKK up to the civil rights movement. It also looks at who they could be and why there could have been an increase in popularity in the 20th century.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, think pair share task, mini plenary, source investigation, a consolidation source evaluation question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
More free or inexpensive lessons can be out in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts!
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This History of Medicine lesson investigates how the Renaissance changed medicine and includes factors such as art, technology and religion.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, progress chart, all clips and related tasks, information conversion task, class discussion activity, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Medicine, Public Health & Surgery’ and includes lessons on the Pare, Harvey, John Snow & cholera, anaesthetics, antiseptics, smallpox and penicillin.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
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This Genocide lesson investigates what happened in the concentration/death camps during the Holocaust. 6 different camps are looked at to show how people experienced different things. Camps looked at include Theresienstadt, Sobibor, Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, groupwork information learning activity, picture information extraction activity, a consolidation explain question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used along with our lessons on ‘ghettos & separation’ and ‘Nazi laws’, which can be found as a bundle at the bottom of this page.
This lesson can also be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Genocide’ which also includes Nazi laws, ghettos and separation, as well as genocide in Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
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This lesson investigates the life of children during the Industrial Revolution, including those working in the coal mines and cotton mills. Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire is used as an example in the video questions.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, source investigation and table to complete, mini plenary, a ‘day in the life’ task question, consolidation source question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have a wide range of KS3 & KS4 History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out. Social media pages to follow soon.
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This Cold War lesson investigates the main tactics of the Vietnam War including US bombardment and Vietcong booby traps to answer the question - ‘why were the US unable to defeat the Vietcong?’
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete, including a starter, all clips and related tasks, activity table, example exam questions and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have other lessons focusing on 20th century events, free or inexpensive in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
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This Nazi Germany lesson investigates the actions of opposition peoples/groups such as the military, Jewish people, Catholics and Protestants.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, mini plenaries, group talking activity, two exam style questions to choose from depending on your time available and two plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundles on ‘Nazi Germany’ and ‘Weimar & Nazi Germany’ which includes lessons on the Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Golden Age, Night of the Long Knives, the Reichstag Fire & Enabling Act and many others.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
If you are happy with your resource,** PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW**! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
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This Norman Conquest lesson investigates why William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings. It includes a role play that can be acted out using the script (I borrow bibs from PE to show who is on which side and act out in the playground!), or it could just be used as a worksheet in class.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, worksheet with optional roleplay, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts!
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This lesson investigates diseases in Victorian Britain / during the Industrial Revolution. Students will learn about scarlet fever, diptheria, typhoid fever, cholera, typhus and tuberculosis.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, think pair share task, information sheet with table to complete, mini plenary, a consolidation explanation question and two plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts!
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
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This Weimar Germany lesson on the Night of the Long Knives investigates why Hitler had the SA, his former friends and political opponents killed as well as how this helped consolidate his power.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with table, information sheet for highlighting, source analysis and exam style question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundles on ‘Weimar Germany’ and ‘Weimar & Nazi Germany’ which includes lessons on the Treaty of Versailles, Weimar Golden Age, Reichstag Fire & Enabling Act, Nazi Opposition and many others.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
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This lesson investigates what it was like to live and work in a Victorian Workhouse.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including an inference starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with differentiated tasks, diamond 9 think pair share task, a consolidation explanation question and two plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
Check our other Industrial Revolution lessons here, including living conditions, working conditions, health & medicine, women, children and Victorian diseases: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=22174227&q=industrial revolution&shop=DiscoveringHistory
These are available in a great value bundle here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/industrial-revolution-12891788
Or you can find other free or inexpensive lessons and resources in our TES shop:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
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This Tudor lesson investigates whether or not Mary Tudor deserved her nickname of ‘Bloody Mary’. Students will look at a source as well as other information to make this evaluation.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, 2 x source comprehension tasks, think pair share activity, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Tudor Religion’ which includes lessons on the Reformation, Elizabeth & Spanish Armada, Elizabeth I & Mary Queen of Scots, Reformation Rollercoaster and Henry VIII image or reality (source lesson).
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This lesson investigates what happened at Dunkirk in 1940 and evaluates whether the evacuation was a miracle or a disaster. The main aim of this lesson is to look at the wording of sources to identify morale, bias, exaggeration, propaganda and distort and to assess reliability from this.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, source breakdown tasks (class, paired and individual), consolidation explanation questions and two plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
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This lesson investigates how medicine, surgery and public health changed over time. Several changes are investigated such as washing hands, the germ theory and aseptic surgery. This lesson is broad and could easily be used as a snapshot or an introduction to GCSE content.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with timeline, mini plenaries, a think, pair, share diamond 9 task, a consolidation explanation question and two plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have a wide range of KS3 & KS4 History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out. Social media pages to follow soon.
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Watch a great documentary, featuring Sir Tony Robinson, on working conditions in Quarry Bank Mill and how they affected the workers. The documentary uses case studies of what happened in order to understand what it would have been like at the time and how lives of British workers were changing.
Perfect for a cover lesson or to add depth and visual aids to your students learning. Students complete the questions in order to gain knowledge of what happened at the time.
Lots more FREE documentary questions are available in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
We have a wide range of KS3 & KS4 History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out. Social media pages to follow soon.
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Watch a great documentary showing the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots from when Mary landed in Scotland through to Mary’s death.
Perfect for an introductory lesson to GCSE lesson, a cover lesson or to add depth and visual aids to your students learning. Students complete the questions in order to gain knowledge of what happened at the time.
NOTE sexual assault references at 15mins
Lots more FREE documentary questions are available in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
We have a wide range of KS3 & KS4 History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out. Social media pages to follow soon.
If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
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