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 booklet can be used as a great introductory home learning project, class work or independent learning project for students studying France in Revolution. It has been designed for students to complete over a large number of weeks - helping teacher workload and preparation as well as giving students preparation time.
It helps students get to know the key individuals including Bonaparte and Robespierre and key words. It will also help students to understand what is required of them - it asks students to analyse marks schemes and break them down into understandable language, try out example exam questions and also provides them with a revision checklist to ensure they cover the whole topic.
This has been designed for A-level History but could easily be adapted for KS4.
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This Black Death bundle includes:
Black Death Introduction - including causes and symptoms
Black Death Cures - what people believed may help them avoid, or cure them from, the Black Death
Black Death Effects - what was life like for the people who were left?
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.
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This 17th century lesson investigates whether or not Charles I deserved execution. It encourages students to consider alternatives to execution but to understand why it seemed the other option.
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, paired discussion, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with table, mini plenary, 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 ‘The 17th Century’ which includes Charles I & Causes of the Civil War, Witch craze, Women in the Civil War and James VI.
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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.
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This Causes of WWI lesson investigates the pre-1914 empire building competition and how it led to the outbreak of World War One. This lesson also encourages students to see the links with other causes of WWI including nationalism, alliance system and militarism.
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 discussion activity, roleplay, activity worksheets, mini plenaries, a consolidation explain 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 ‘The Causes of World War One’ which includes the Assassination in Sarajevo/Murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, how the Assassination led to War, the Alliance System & Militarism and Nationalism.
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This great value English (British) Civil War bundle includes the following lessons:
Charles I & Causes of Civil War
Women during the English Civil War
Charles I Execution
Oliver Cromwell & Interregnum
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.
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This lesson investigates what happened at the 3 early Cold War conferences of Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam.
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, mini plenaries, information sheet and 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
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This Causes of WWI lesson investigates the pre-1914 alliance system and militarism, how they link together and how they both led to the outbreak of World War One.
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, card sort with think pair share activity, information sheet with table to complete, mini plenaries, a consolidation explain question and two plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘The Causes of World War One’ which includes the Assassination in Sarajevo/Murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, how the Assassination led to War, Imperialism and Nationalism.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This 17th century lesson investigates the witch craze of the 17th century. Students will learn about beliefs at the time, why the belief in witches became popular, the influence of Matthew Hopkins as well as learn about two case studies (Forfar and Pendle).
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 questions, a source explain written question, peer assessment marking grid and two plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘The 17th Century’ which includes Charles I & Causes of the Civil War, Charles I Execution, Women in the Civil War and James VI.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This Historical Skills lesson investigates the importance of the discovery of bog bodies across Europe. It gives an investigation into the Tollund Man and encourages students to use other examples such as the Lindow Man, the Grauballe Man and the Elling Woman to explain what we can learn from bog bodies and therefore, why they are so important.
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, card sort with Venn diagram, mini-plenaries, think pair share task, 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 & AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES BUNDLE, which includes lessons on ‘using evidence’, Pompeii and Inca Mummies (check back for Otzi and Diaries!).
Find the Historical Skills bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/history-skills-12982510
Find the Archaeological Discoveries bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/archaeological-discoveries-12985815
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This Tudor lesson investigates the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Students will evaluate the key question: Was Anne Boleyn a ruthless schemer or a victim of court politics? Lots of different factors will be looked at including the role of her family, her own actions and unfortunate events such as her miscarriages.
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, individual thinking tasks, diamond 9 with think pair share activity, information sheets with a table, mini plenaries, 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 Times’ which includes lessons on the Reformation, Elizabeth & Spanish Armada, Elizabeth I & Mary Queen of Scots, Bloody Mary, Reformation Rollercoaster and two lessons on Tudor Palaces, which you can find here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tudors-12921738
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This Terrorism lesson investigates the relationship between Israel & Palestine and the troubles that are ongoing. It looks at the actions of both countries and encourages students to look at why both countries can be seen as terrorists and freedom fighters.
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 sheets with mindmaps, 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:
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This Weimar Germany lesson on the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles investigates the opinions and decisions made by the Big Three, the main terms and how they affected Germany.
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, think pair share activity, information sheet with table, factor linking activity, explain written exam style questions and two plenaries.
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 Weimar Golden Age, Reichstag Fire & Enabling Act, Night of the Long Knives, Nazi Opposition and many others.
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This Impact of WWI Home Front lesson investigates how why the government used propaganda. It briefly uses case studies such as the sinking of the Lusitania and the bombing of Scarborough in 1914 to show how the government used these dire events as propaganda. It also looks at censorship and how the government used it.
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, source analysis/questioning activity, a consolidation ‘source usefulness’ question and a discussion plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson is the perfect follow on to our Causes of WWI lesson bundle, which includes lessons on the Alliance System & Militarism, Nationalism and Imperialism : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/causes-of-world-war-one-12924566 and our Trench Warfare lessons, available here: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=22174227&q=trench&shop=DiscoveringHistory
or growing amazing value WWI bundle available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-one-12942317
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This lesson investigates the reasons for the failure of the League of Nations to prevent WWII. Students will work together, using previous knowledge and information from a clip to answer an exam question on why the League failed.
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, a notes table (differentiated), diamond 8 evaluation task, exam 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 lesson investigates what happened during the Berlin Blockade in 1948. Students will learn about what caused it, what happened and the consequences of it.
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 with source questions, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with activities, mini-plenary, consolidation exam style ‘write an account’ task and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have a great value and growing Cold War bundle available, including lessons on the Atomic bomb, Cold War conferences, Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan, Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, Berlin Wall and the fall of the Berlin Wall, here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-cold-war-12921730
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This lesson investigates how the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan created greater tension and helped contribute to causing the Cold War.
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, notes diagram, think pair share discussion, a consolidation evaluation/extended writing question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have a growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons, please take a look:
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This lesson investigates the causes and consequences of the Aberfan Disaster in 1966.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 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, thinking hat task, reading conversion task, diamond 9 activity, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
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This History of Medicine lesson investigates how the problem of pain in surgery was solved by James Simpson through the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic. It also looks at other anaesthetics used like nitrous oxide and ether and other surgeons like Robert Liston.
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 conversion 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 ‘Medicine, Public Health & Surgery’ and includes lessons on the Renaissance, Pare, Harvey, John Snow & cholera, antiseptics, smallpox and penicillin.
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This World War I lesson investigates why WWI came to an end in November 1918. It looks at 8 different reasons, including the situation within Germany as well as the battlefield, to evaluate why WWI ended on 11 November 1918.
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 activities, diamond 8 think pair share activity, mini-plenaries, a consolidation essay style question and a ‘What If’ plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have lots more WWI lessons in our TES shop including a great value ‘Causes of WWI’ bundle which includes 2 x Assassination in Sarajevo, Alliance System & Militarism, Imperialism and Nationalism lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/causes-of-world-war-one-12924566 and a WWI bundle which includes trench warfare: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-one-12942317
This lesson also goes well with our ‘How did WWI end?’ lesson, which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/end-of-wwi-armistice-12947634
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