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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!

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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!
Year 9 History
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Year 9 History

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20 x fully resourced lesson packs (one is a double lesson) - all complete with differentiated PowerPoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenaries, LOs to three levels throughout. Topics covered: The Cold War, Nazi Germany and 20th Century Terrorism. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school. All lessons have been highly-rated by Tes users. Suitable for KS3 and easy to adapt. The pack includes loads of GCSE style source practice exam questions, peer assessments, homeworks and past exam paper question practice. Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
History Skills - Introduction
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History Skills - Introduction

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A fun Year 7 History lesson which can be used either on a transition day or in the first week at secondary school as an introduction to history. The lesson focuses on familiarising students with the key skills they will be using throughout history lessons in KS3- source analysis, source comparison, chronology and literacy through history (spag and essay skills). It includes engaging teamwork tasks, fact-finding activities and lots of introduction to new key terms.
Edward Jenner + Vaccinations
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Edward Jenner + Vaccinations

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A detailed, well-differentiated and editable GCSE AQA lesson all Jenner, vaccinations and the public reactions. The lesson has an hour long PowerPoint with exam practice questions and marking guidance, clips with questions and a group activity focusing on the roles played by Lady Mary Montague, Edward Jenner, The Government and the Leader of the Anti-Vaccination League. It also contains tasks studying various cartoon sources of the time. Created by a Head of Humanities in 2020. As there is a lot of content the lesson and worksheets are in the ZIP file. The images have uploaded so you can see some of the lesson content on TPT.
Medieval Conflict Unit
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Medieval Conflict Unit

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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. Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email or message us from one of our social media pages! Please also follow us on our social media pages: https://www.facebook.com/Historygeeksuk/ https://www.instagram.com/history_geeks_uk/ Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
Civil Rights Groups
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Civil Rights Groups

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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.
Medieval History: Religion
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Medieval History: Religion

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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.
Year 7 History
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Year 7 History

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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.
World War I - Conscription
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World War I - Conscription

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History GCSE 9-1, a detailed, well differentiated lesson on propaganda, conscription, recruitment and conscientious objectors. For the British Depth Study. Designed to last an hour - last task can be set as homework or done as plenary, depending on time. Clip question and differentiated questions, starter sheets, LO check sheet with key terms information sheet all included with 1 hour Powerpoint. Leave a review and choose any other resource from my shop for free: email me at info@ecpublishing.co.uk with your choice :)
History Skills Evidence
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History Skills Evidence

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A detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson all about how to assess evidence / sources for usefulness, with PowerPoint and accompanying worksheets. It’s editable and very easy to pick up and run with. The lesson lasts one hour and is very easy to just pick up and use. The lesson is best suited to Year 7 (but could be used with an older, perhaps lower ability group as a refresher) . The download includes: a one hour PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, clip tasks and more.
Norman Conquest
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Norman Conquest

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An hour long, fully resourced lesson with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task all about the events leading up the Norman Conquest; Edward the Confessor, the contenders and the Witan council. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
Chairman Mao
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Chairman Mao

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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.
Tutor Time QUIZ
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Tutor Time QUIZ

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The Ultimate 2023 Tutor Time quiz - ALL NEW - fun and silly end of year quiz for 2023. A huge range of general knowledge questions with something to cater for every student’s tastes - 10 rounds covering a wide variety of fun and amusing subjects and topics. It’s not easy - but there are rounds for everyone, covering a huge variety of topics and interests so all students will feel involved. There are 100 questions in all - the images shown are a preview of just a few from each round. Everything is editable with answers revealed at the end of each round: Round 1: Films and visual media From YouTubers to TikTok to film-flops and TV Trivia Round 2: 2023 around the world - silliness, celebs, countries, food and more How much did you pay attention to the news over the past year? Round 3: Celebs in a suitcase They’ve had enough and packed up on their hols - Can you identify the disguised celebs? Round 4: 2023 in the news How much did you pay attention to the news and social media over the past year? Round 5: Is that Sir Keir Starmer - or just a scruffy old llama?' Can you spot the Labour leader in strange and wonderful locations, or are you being trolled by an attention-grabbing camelid? Round 6: Sport Silly 2023 Sports Trivia Round 7: Music Can you name the track and artist and occasionally, the year of these hits? Round 8: AI Animal-Merge In this round, students should guess which two animals the AI has merged together in a hideous affront to nature! Round 9: Gaming A round for the gamers - be as quick as you are on those consoles. Round 10: Random and Ready Riddles Silly cereal-box trivia, a bit of English word-play, maths brain teasers and general knowledge thrown in for good measure. The quiz is easy to use, interactive and editable. It’s designed for secondary students. You could tweak it for upper KS2 if you wished - but it is challenging. I really hope you enjoy this, I enjoyed making it and tried to make it funny so teachers would enjoy using it too. Please note, the preview images have been uploaded so you can see what the resource contains. The quiz is in the folder called ‘This is the Quiz’. If you have the EC Resources Complete Tutor Time Pack you will notice this has been added to your Tutor Time Dropbox as a free update :) 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, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. We also run ecpublishing.co.uk and you can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Norman Conquest of England
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Norman Conquest of England

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Norman Conquest / William the Conqueror bundle. Lessons include: Battle of Hastings: covers what happened during the Battle of Hastings and why William I won. Norman consolidation of England: covers the Domesday Book, building of Castles and feudalism introduced by William I to England. Introduction to Castles All lessons are ready to teach and easy to use. 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.
Sudetenland Crisis
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Sudetenland Crisis

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Detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson all about the Sudetenland Crisis. Very easy to just pick up and use. The lessons includes detailed PowerPoints, a variety of activities, source questions, clip tasks, exam-styles practice questions, active tasks and more. Perfect for KS3 or GCSE revision.
The Interwar Years
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The Interwar Years

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TEN HOURS - A detailed and meticulously planned unit of Interwar Years lessons for KS3 (or could be used as pre GCSE prep / catch up for KS4). 10 x well planned, detailed and challenging lessons, complete with 9-1 level GCSE challenge questions. This is an editable package and includes: The impact of WWI (in general) The impact of WWI on civilians The Treaty of Versailles The Great Depression and Germany The Spartacist Rebellion The Kapp Putsch Hitler and the Nazi Rise to Power The Hitler Youth Women, Children and Workers in Nazi Germany Appeasement This package would take you weeks to plan from scratch - each lesson will last you an hour, unless stated as two hours in the individual lesson description.
End of Term History Pack
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End of Term History Pack

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It’s the end of term! So, you need something educational, but fun and creative to do, to keep those students occupied! This end of term fun pack for history includes: An hour-long History Quiz, A ‘history of summer holidays’ special one off lesson A Christmas-through-the-ages lesson A free PowerPoint and template packs for making subject knowledge cubes. A social media template pack, which can be used to create profiles for historical figures A free end of term creative ‘make a historical figure’ history lesson. An Easter lesson Special Valentine’s Day love lesson Worst Christmas Jobs lesson Christmas Events in History Special lesson 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. Check out loads more history and geography resources - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
Humans, Global Warming and Environment
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Humans, Global Warming and Environment

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A four lesson bundle best suited to KS3 Geography (although all is editable) with a focus on how human activity changes the environment. All 4 x 1 hour lessons are well differentiated, detailed and adaptable with Powerpoints, worksheets, clips, practice GCSE style exam questions and fun activities to engage all learners. Includes: 1. Carbon Emissions and the Greenhouse Effect - why levels are rising and how these are contributing to the Greenhouse Effect. The lesson investigates how carbon is released, when levels started to rise as well the effect this is already starting to have on the Earth’s temperature. **2. Human Effects on the Environment **A lesson all about how human activity over the last two hundred years has effected our environment. The lesson investigates the processes behind the effects as well as possible solutions to minimize future damage, e.g cutting meat and dairy consumption, recycling and cutting down on plastic use. 3. Natural Resources and the effect of Non-Renewables. A lesson all about non-renewable energy and the problems extracting this is causing to the environment. There is a focus on the pertinent issue of fracking and the damage this can potentially do as well as the arguments on the other side citing the advantages. 4. SustainabilityAn investigation and overview of what sustainability is and then tasks with more of a focus on eating sustainably. 5. Human Effects on the Environment Homework Booklet. Also includes a fun end of term KS3 Geography Quiz. More free and inexpensive Humanities lessons can be found here. 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.
20th Century History
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20th Century History

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This bundle includes 11 lessons covering the Cold War, and Terrorism: Cold War Introduction to the Cold War Soviet Expansion Berlin Blockade Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War Terrorism Types of terrorism Radicalisation Suffragettes IRA Israel and Palestine Al Qaeda 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. All activities are differentiated 3 ways where possible. All these lessons are also available individually and as topic bundles here: Cold War: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-cold-war-12192363 Terrorism: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/terrorism-ks3-history-12078335 Genocide: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/genocide-12114524 You can find 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.
Remembrance Day
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Remembrance Day

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A bundle which can be used for form time or history lessons consisting of a Remembrance Day full lesson, a causes of World War I full lesson, a Remembrance Quiz and a full lesson on the Homefront and Britain during the war years. All are fully resources, well differentiated with worksheets, clips, activities and Powerpoints.
Bosnian Genocide
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Bosnian Genocide

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2 x 1 hour lessons on the Bosnia Genocide, best suited to UKS3. What were the causes of the Bosnian Genocide? What happened during and what was the aftermath? Created for UKS3 (best suited to Year 9 due to the topic). Fully resourced PowerPoints, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip links, source analysis and accompanying tasks all about investigating why the Bosnian Genocide happened and who was to blame. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school. Everything is editable so you can tweak it to suit your class.