I am Head of Humanities in the West Midlands and have been teaching History for twenty years. I have marked exams and moderated coursework for GCSE History for a popular exam board since 2001. All resources published have been tried out in class before publication!
I am Head of Humanities in the West Midlands and have been teaching History for twenty years. I have marked exams and moderated coursework for GCSE History for a popular exam board since 2001. All resources published have been tried out in class before publication!
I originally made this as a guide for new students who came into the school part way through the course. Now all students complete it when we are doing the USA topic.
It is 83 pages long, includes tasks, exam practice, second order concept skills practice and key word opportunities. It covers the entire USA topic and has tasks related to every section like comprehension exercises, filling in a table, case studies, diamond 9 and designing an advert for a Jazz speakeasy. Every exam question on the paper is planned and practiced with mark schemes and room for student improvements. It can be used hand in hand with the free book resource from Eduqas on their website. At the end of the book is a PLC on the whole topic for students to check their knowledge and set targets. https://resources.eduqas.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs?subId=17
There are three files:
(1) sources relating to the USA 1910-1929
(2) Interpretations to the USA 1910-1929
(3) Knowledge check
(1 & 2) Designed to be used as part of intervention sessions with GCSE History students but can also be good revision.
Each file gives examples of all the source / interpretation questions on the exam paper and includes a table with each source / interpretation to help students plan how to answer the questions. The table is based on the mark scheme so requires student to work out for each source / interpretation specifics such as ‘what is the content’? ‘what context would you use?’ ‘what about the author?’ ’ who is the audience of the source?’ etc.
After the exam questions are practice questions for students such as…
What other interpretations are there to:
The First World War was the main cause of the boom.
Or
What contextual knowledge would you use to evidence…
… corruption in government
… black people were segregated etc.
OR
How reliable is a source written by a …?
… flapper?
… Republican? etc
The sources file has 26 pages
the interpretations file has 14 pages
(3) The Knowledge check files asks students to plan their answers to all the key questions for USA 1910-1929 - there are revision tables to help students plan and write out. it is used as a aid for revising content information.
Hope you find this useful!
A revision PowerPoint on the each of the questions on the Entertainment & Leisure c500 to present day exam paper - Unit 4. Can be easily adapted for other unit 4 papers by changing content and names. For each question, advice is given on:
how long to answer
examples of questions
sentence starters
demands of the question
Included is a table for students to record information from the PowerPoint - enlarge to A3 for best results. Can be used as part of ‘drop down’ or ‘exam cram’ revision session for real or mock exams.
Two Y7 assessments for the Autumn term based on the medieval topic. Uses GCSE question starters and includes both markscheme.
Assessment 1
Section A
Background to the Battle of Hastings – True or False task
The Battle of Hastings – Circle the Word / Multiple Choice
Why did William win the Battle of Hastings? Tick & link reasons task
Bayeux Tapestry task
What if… task
Section B
Why did William win the Battle of Hastings? (12)
Assessment 2
Section A
Describe a Motte and Bailey castle.
Section B
What can be learnt from sources A and B about life in the Middle Ages? (4)
Section C
Use Source C and your own knowledge to describe the Domesday Book. (5 marks)
Student assessment sheets also include tips on how to answer the questions
Mark schemes include indicative content as well as bands for marking
A full scheme of work for the Entertainment & Leisure c500 -present day unit. Includes:
a cover page with general information like assessments, assessment objectives, key questions
specification
a skills page with all skills for every lesson identified
a space to write changes for each lesson as you go along - working document
all lessons to be taught (31 lessons) with key lesson objectives, resources, suggested teaching activities and skills
A full scheme of work for the Germany 1919-1991 unit. Includes:
a cover page with general information like assessments, assessment objectives, key questions
specification
a skills page with all skills for every lesson identified
a space to write changes for each lesson as you go along - working document
all lessons to be taught (27 lessons) with key lesson objectives, resources, suggested teaching activities and skills
Includes 8 spider diagram templates for revising the topic of USA 1910-1929. Uses pictures and key words to split the topics up into manageable revision chunks.
Topics are:
1 – USA general
2 - Immigration
3 – Race and Religion
4 – Crime and Corruption
5 – Economic Boom
6 – End of Prosperity
7- Entertainment
8 – Women
9 colourful posters on Britain during the 1930s and 1940s. Includes pictures, key words and guided content. Includes posters on the following:
- The Depression
- Life in the 1930s
_ steps to WW2
- Preparation for WW2
- The Home Front
- Propaganda and Morale
- Britain in 1945
Society under Labour post 45
- Economy under Labour post 45
Focus on the Elizabethan Age unit. Includes:
-knowledge organisers for the whole unit
- PLC’s with practice exam questions
- walking talking mock paper with sentence starters for all questions
- a further practice mock paper
- teaching resources for the entertainment and Puritan topics in the unit.
Three files (which comprise a total of 14 pages) of revision tasks for the USA topic. Includes a variety of activities including fill in the blanks, True or False, describe questions. These are knowledge based activities - could be used as a holiday homework or revision activities in class.
These practice questions on the Germany 1919-1991 exam paper for Eduqas came about after my pupils wanted past papers to help them revise! I have put together a selection of practice questions in the style of all seven questions on the exam paper.
Question 1 Describe (28 questions)
Question 2 How far did...? (13 questions)
Question 3 Arrange these reasons in order of their significance in terms... Explain your choices. (10 questions)
Question 4 Explain why...? (19 questions)
Question 5 How important was (13 questions)
This will give pupils a chance to get a real feel for the new paper and practice their exam skills.
I made this resource for my Y12 students whilst they were on their summer holiday last year. It can easily be used as an additional work booklet to introduce or consolidate work on King Edward VI. It includes tasks on the following:
Portrait of Henry VIII and his children
Edward VI’s policies
Somerset and Northumberland
Foreign policy
Comparing the Tudor Kings
Treaty of Boulougne
Rebellions
Edward VI’s education
Great Chain of Being
Exam skills
All you need to revise and practice with your pupils for the Germany 1919-1990 exam.
Includes:
• Practice questions
• Revison quizzes in the format of 10 questions each
• Revision flash cards for each question on the paper
• Marking grids for marking practice questions
• Revision game with over 90 slides in the style of the only connect quiz
• Two practice mocks
• 83 practice exam questions for the new paper
A workbook for students to complete for revision
Knowledge organisers for Germany
Personalised learning checklists for a variety of the new GCSE exam style questions based on Germany breadth study 1919-1991. Each includes the question, mark scheme and targets for improvement on a cover sheet for ticking and circling to make marking easy. Allows opportunities for peer and self assessment as well as targets for improvement.
Questions include:
- Explain why conditions on the Home Front changed between 1940 and 1945. (8 marks)
- Explain why life was different for women and children under the Nazis. (8 marks]
- Describe the problems for the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s. (5 marks]
- Describe the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (5 marks]
- Describe the treatment of women between 1933-39 (5 marks]
28 homeworks for the USA 1910-1929 topic. Each week focuses on a different topic from the specification and also includes 'Round Up' homeworks to consolidate all prior knowledge. The focus is on the student to LEARN their key facts by answering 10 questions and then learning the 10 questions ready for a quick factual recap test next lesson. This test can be used as part of exit strategies or king or queen of History knowledge tests. Each homework uses the same format and the same question stems - they are very easy to mark and can easily be marked as a starter at the beginning of the lesson.
The questions follow the following format:
- Give 2 reasons why / Give 2... (2 questions)
- Name two ... (2 questions)
- Explain...
- What...
- Where...
- How...
- A true or false statement
- A key word anagram
Answers to the true / false statement and anagram can be found for each homework on the final two slides of the download.
The topics tested are:
- Immigration 1&2
- Red Scare
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- The Monkey Trial
- Black Americans
- KKK
- Native Americans
- Round Up 1
- Prohibition 1,2& 3
- Gangsters
- Government Corruption
- Round Up 2
- Boom 1 & 2
- Consumer society
- Car Industry
- Booming society
- End of prosperity
- Wall Street Crash
- Round Up 3
- Jazz Age
- Popular Entertainment
- Movies
- Women
- Sport
Knowledge Organisers cover all the basic information in the topics taught for GCSE. These Knowledge Organisers focus on the GCSE History (Eduqas) syllabus for the Changes in Entertainment and Leisure in Britain, c.500 to the present day topic.
There are 7 KO's in total
1.What have been the main developments in sport over time?
2. How have holiday patterns and travel changed over time?
3. How was society affected by developments in theatre, stage and screen over time?
4. How have musical tastes and dance patterns changed over time?
5. How have changing patterns in entertainment affected the lives of children over time?
6. Why have blood sports and other forms of cruelty been seen as entertainment over time?
7. Historical environment study of Blackpool
The KO's comprise some or all of the following:
- a key comparison of the three main historical eras studied
- key vocabulary
- Timeline / Chronology
A concise revision tool for students as soon as they begin the course.
Focus on the Germany 1919-1991 unit for the GCSE History exam. Includes:
knowledge organisers for the whole unit
student workbook (knowledge based) for the whole unit which can be used as revision or whilst learning
PLC’s and practice exam questions to help students practice exam skills
weekly learning homework for the entire unit
Display posters
Weekly revision tests for the unit
Two mock papers
Only connect revision quiz with over 90 slides
83 practice exam questions for new exam
Revision cards on how to answer Germany exam questions
A comprehensive bundle of revision notes and material for the USA 1910-1929 exam.
Includes:
- Knowledge organisers for all key questions
- student workbook covering the entire topic
- weekly learning homework for all topics
- revision activities of the whole topic
- King and Queen knowledge tests to check weekly revision of facts
King and Queen class display chart
- King and Queen test record sheet which calculates the average student test results and class results
I devised this lesson trying to introduce my History GCSE class to the Britain 1951-1979 WJEC Britain topic. It covers the basics:
- The role of the PM
- Past PM's and task
- What is a constituency?
- Example of constituency
- The different British main political parties and task
- First past the post and proportional voting systems
- The different Secretaries of State
- Task on the political hierarchy