www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
A homework booklet which provides three detailed case studies where human activity has affected the environment substantially - the Arctic, the Great Barrier Reef and the Amazon Rainforest. The case studies provide information to be read before students then engage in three sets of differentiated challenge questions and activities.
Created initially for Year 8 but left editable, this could be set as homework over three weeks or as one more substantial homework piece.
Many more free and inexpensive Secondary Geography and History Resources at our store.
Or check out more humanities and PSHE / RSE and Citizenship resources at EC Resources
20 x fully resourced lesson packs - all complete with differentiated powerpoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenaries, LOs to three levels throughout.
INCLUDES:
Medieval medicine, the Black Death, Medieval life, Conflict and War, History Skills and more,
Designed by a experienced Head of Humanities in a UK secondary school. All lessons have been highly-rated by Tes users.
Suitable for KS3 and easy to adapt.
A detailed and well differentiated editable history lesson with enough material to possibly extend into a two hour lesson. This lesson is all about different interpretations of the Battle of Britain. Students will evaluate reasons why Britain won the Battle of Britain, considering author, purpose and reliability of sources.
This pack includes an editable PowerPoint, source packs, clip tasks, extended literacy tasks and more. It is very easy to follow with all instructions on the slides as you go along.
Perfect as an introduction to Charles I. This lesson allows students to explore and discover who the monarch was and why his reign was so troublesome. Great for practicing source work and extended writing tasks, with clip and other tasks also included.
The lesson will last up to two hours and is detailed, editable and suitable for KS3.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, differentiated tasks, a variety of activities, clip tasks, exam-style practice plenary, peer teaching tasks and more.
It’s very easy to follow and can be used straight away :)
This Medieval Conflict lesson bundle covers William the Conqueror to the Hundred Years War.
Lessons included:
The Norman Conquest
The Crusades
The Peasants Revolt
The Hundred Year’s War Introduction
The Hundred Years War (and Joan of Arc) conclusion
All lessons include a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets you need. It is differentiated at least 2 ways where possible and fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete, including a starter, all clips and related tasks, source analysis, a written conversion task (converting information into a flow diagram), an exam style narrative question and a plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
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 historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
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An hour long, fully resourced lesson with PowerPoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task focusing on the various Civil Rights groups. Designed by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
A detailed and well differentiated editable history lesson all about the conclusion of the Hundred Years War and the role of Joan of Arc. The lesson lasts one hour and is very easy to just pick up and use. It is suitable for any KS3 class and includes an hour-long PowerPoint, a variety of activities, source questions and source pack, clip tasks, exam-styles practice questions, chronology and content focus tasks and more.
This lesson is two of two (the first can be found here), but can still be used independently and doesn’t require any previous knowledge.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
A one hour to 90 minute lesson all about life for men and women in Britain during WWI. It covers Kitchener’s recruitment campaign, women in new job roles, conscription, conscientious objectors and much more. This has been created for the OCR GCSE History A - War and Society and covers the theme ‘Impact of War on People’ and the ‘Beginnings of Total War’. However, it is editable and could be tweaked for any exam board covering the same theme.
The lesson is complete with a differentiated PowerPoint and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenary, exam practice question, source analysis tasks, peer assessment and LOs to three levels throughout. Created by a experienced Head of History in a UK secondary school.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
An hour long, fully resourced lesson with powerpoint, differentiated tasks, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task focusing on the journey of Black Americans since 1837. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
An hour long, fully resourced lesson with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, source analysis tasks, worksheets, clip link and accompanying tasks focusing on whether the Aztecs were ‘civilised’. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
A detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson all about how Mao, although a brutal individual with horrendous methods, could be argued to have the qualities of a successful leader. This lesson allows students to investigate how he was able to become a successful, albeit brutal, dictator.
This lesson investigates the strengths and weaknesses of Mao as a politician and was created for Year 9 but could be used for other years as it’s all editable - it’s full of exam-style GCSE practice questions.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, source questions, exam style practice questions, clip tasks and more.
A fun lesson focusing on the significance of historical couples - created as a Valentine’s Day History lesson. The lesson will last up to two hours and is detailed, editable and suitable for Middle School (although could be used s a fun one-off with High School too).
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, differentiated tasks, a variety of activities, clip tasks and more. There is also a Home Learning version included.
It’s very easy to follow and can be used straight away.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
A fully resourced, detailed and editable Cold War lesson all about the development and implementation of the Atomic Bomb. Includes a detailed, differentiated PowerPoint and accompanying worksheets. The images shown are just a few indicators of what’s in the pack, there is more content.
The lesson includes a wide variety of activities, clips, source and extended writing tasks, and by the end of the lesson students will be able to evaluate the effects of the bombings using specific details from sources as evidence.
Students will delve into reasons why America decided to use nuclear weapons and extract key details from sources to explain how the cold war could have turned hot, before evaluating sources for an extended literacy / exam style question at the end.
Everything is editable, suited best to UKS3 (or good for a GCSE revision lesson) and easy to pick up and run with.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
A detailed and well differentiated, editable history or Citizenship lesson with all about terrorism and why people become terrorists. Students will investigate why people become involved in terrorism before examining case studies of historical figures who could be interpreted as either freedom fighters or terrorists.
This hour long lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) was created for Year 9 (but could be used with a different KS3 group) and includes exam style practice plenary questions for students to reflect upon their learning and demonstrate their explanation, description and analysis skills. This could also be useful as a KS3 Citizenship lesson.
This lesson is part of our Terrorism topic which includes types of terrorism, Suffragettes, Israel and Palestine, the IRA and Al Qaeda.
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 historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
4 hours of lessons created for OCR GCSE History A - War and Society and coving the theme ‘Impact of War on People’ and the ‘Beginnings of Total War’.
These resources are editable, contain exam practice questions and peer mark schemes, and could be tweaked for any exam board covering the same theme.
The lessons are complete with differentiated PowerPoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenary, exam practice question and peer assessment and LOs to three levels throughout. Created by a experienced Head of History in a UK secondary school.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, Tutor Time, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
SAVE AROUND 60% BY BUYING THIS BUNDLE OF 53+ HOURS OF LESSONS!
This bundle includes:
World War One – causes and fighting (11 lessons)
World War Two - Causes, battles and Nazi Germany (20 lessons)
The Cold War (8 lessons)
Genocide (8 lessons)
Terrorism (6 lessons)
For more description on each topic, please see links below.
The download includes all lesson powerpoints (containing all activity tasks, clip links etc), worksheets and information sheets. All lessons are easy to use and editable. Activities are differentiated 3 ways where possible.
These topics and lessons are also available individually here:
World War One: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-i-gcse-11743517
World War Two: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-ii-ks3-12080728
Cold War: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-cold-war-12192363
Genocide: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/genocide-12114524
Terrorism: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/terrorism-ks3-history-12078335
You can find many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks)
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 historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
An hour long, fully resourced lesson with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task focusing on the imortance of religion in medieval lives. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
A one hour lesson all about how the British government controlled civilian life in Britain during WWI. This has been created for the OCR GCSE History A - War and Society and covers he theme ‘Impact of War on People’ and the ‘Beginnings of Total War’. However, it is editable and could be tweaked for any exam board covering the same theme.
The lesson is complete with a differentiated PowerPoint and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenary, exam practice question and peer assessment and LOs to three levels throughout. Created by a experienced Head of History in a UK secondary school.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
This lesson covers the history of Halloween and why people celebrate it, but also how to celebrate safely - especially when it comes to ‘Trick or Treating’, from road safety at night, to choosing carefully which houses to knock the doors of.
This resource pack includes a one hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it.
Loads more free and inexpensive Citizenship, PSHE and RE Resources at the EC Resources store.
A detailed, differentiated and editable 1 hour history lesson suitable for KS3 all about life in the trenches. Students will study a range of issues soldiers were faced with before answering an extended writing question about whether rats were the worst problem that soldiers faced.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, information sheets, extended writing exam style questions, clip tasks, a variety of activities, worksheets and more. It’s very easy to follow and can be used straight away.
