Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
The first 9 lessons with everything you will need:
Lesson 1: The legacy of war and the creation of the Weimar Republic
Lesson 2: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Weimar Republic
Lesson 3: The Treaty of Versailles
Lesson 4: Challenges to the Weimar Republic
Lesson 5: The Ruhr and hyperinflation
Lesson 6: Recovery and Stresemann
Lesson 7: Improved living standards in Germany
Lesson 8: Women in Weimar Germany
Lesson 9: Culture in Weimar Germany
Active starter tasks.
Recap quizzes
Example exam questions
A fact sheet for each lesson
A revision sheet for each lesson
Interactive presentations
Exciting, bold graphics to keep student attention.
Example answers for analysis.
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This is about the impact, symptoms, causes, treatments and methods of prevention of the Black Death. This can also be suitable for KS3
Every lesson in this topic includes: Clear learning aims and achievements, a recap task, a starter activity, background information, a variety of tasks to pick from to suite your students, extension and challenge tasks, exam questions, a learning review (plenary) and finally a fact sheet which can be used as a stand alone resource for the lesson or as part of revision/student catch up.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
Please be kind enough to leave a review if you have found this resource effective. The rest of my Medicine lessons can be purchased individually or as a discounted bundle.
This lesson introduces students to the knowledge and skills needed to study the Historic Environment of Whitechapel c.1870-c.1900. This unit is part of the Edexcel’s GCSE History topic Crime & Punishment.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Source Information Sheet
1 x 18 slide Main Power Point Lesson
1 x A4 Workbook Page (PDF & PPT)
The PowerPoint lesson includes:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: What is the Historic Environment study?
Slide 3: What will I learn about Whitechapel?
Slide 4: An outline of the question types for this Historic Environment
Slide 5: Information about the location of Whitechapel
Slide 6: Task 1 - Source analysis of Charles Booth’s poverty map for students to begin thinking about the environment of Whitechapel.
Slide 7: Task 1b - Source analysis of a front page of an illustrated newspaper covering Jack the Ripper murders.
Slide 8-10: Task 2 - An activity to help students understand what is required of the ‘follow up question’ with instructions and printable sheets.
Slide 11-13: Task 3 - Background information quiz about the Metropolitan Police in Whitechapel in the 1880s with printable question sheet and answers.
Slide 14-16: Task 4 - Practice follow up exam question sheets
Slide 17: Learning review discussion task
This lesson has been updated in line with the amended specification and exam questions ready for the 2025/6 examinations.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
FULLY UPDATED & READY FOR THE 2025 EXAM SERIES
These writing frames provide a useful guide to help students answer all of the questions they will face in the Edexcel GCSE History exams. They have been updated to include the amended exam question numbering, mark schemes and wording ready in time for 2025.
**This is a set of 6 power point slides which can be printed off and given to students to help them structure their answers to the Edexcel GCSE History exam questions. **
Sheet 1: How to answer questions for Paper 1 (Thematic Study)
Sheet 2: How to answer questions for Paper 1 (Historical Environment)
Sheet 3: How to answer questions for Paper 2 (British Depth Study)
Sheet 4: How to answer questions for Paper 2 (Period Study)
Sheet 5: How to answer questions for Paper 3 (Modern Depth Study)
BONUS SHEET: A writing frame/guide to help students form PEE paragraphs, especially useful for the 8, 12 and 16 mark questions.
You can use these to stick into student books or print out for reference or revision.
This bundle contains all the lessons and resources you will need to teach the Historic Environment of Whitechapel (Crime & Punishment GCSE History).
The bundle includes:
Lesson 1: An introduction to the skills and knowledge for Whitechapel
Lesson 2: Problems with housing, poverty and employment.
Lesson 3: Migrant tensions in Whitechapel
Lesson 4: The Whitechapel Workhouses
Lesson 5: The difficulties of policing Whitechapel
Lesson 6: The Jack the Ripper Murders
Lesson 7: Police techniques to catch Jack the Ripper
Lesson 8: Police challenges - The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, illustrated press and police force rivalry.
BONUS FREE RESOURCE - Whitechapel Revision Mind Map
UPDATE 2024: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This pack includes:
31 fact sheets for each topic needed for the Edexcel 1-9 Crime and Punishment GCSE History Paper 1 unit. Each fact sheet can be copied into a revision booklet for students or used within your lessons as a replacement for the text book. The amount of detail is high but key points are highlighted throughout for weaker students.
This will make a perfect revision booklet for the students as I find the revision workbooks currently available seem to lack some detail in key areas.
2023 UPDATE: Please note that all images used in this set of resources are in the public domain and copyright free unless stated otherwise in the notes below each slide. Contact me in the first instance if you see any errors.
This bundle contains all of the resources, including information sheets, that you will need to teach the Medieval unit for GCSE History Medicine Through Time. There is no need for any text book and teacher notes are given throughout.
The lessons are as follows:
Lesson 1 - Overview of skills and knowledge
Lesson 2 - Supernatural and Religious Explanations of Disease
Lesson 3 - The Theory of Four Humours, The Theory of Opposites, Miasma
Lesson 4 - Explain the continuity of theories throughout Medieval England
Lesson 5 - Religious and Rational Treatments and Prevention
Lesson 6 - Surgeons, Apothecaries, Physicians and Wise Women
Lesson 7 - Medieval Hospitals and Home Care
Lesson 8 - Case Study of The Black Death
**This lesson takes the students through an overview of the Wall Street Crash, then the students gain knowledge of how Hitler used this event to increase his support from a variety of social groups. **
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This resource has been specifically designed to support students in their answers to the three main source based questions given in the Edexcel GCSE History exam paper.
The one page print out can be used as a book insert while studying a unit, a table top guide as well as a useful revision resource to prepare for exams. Particular attention is given to the ‘How useful’ question which appears in two exam papers.
The three questions covered in the guide are:
Inference - used in Paper 3
Follow Up - used in Paper 1
Source Usefulness - used in both Paper 1 & 3
This resource would also be ideal for the use with students in KS3 as a way to make them familiar with core GCSE History skills.
This lesson looks at the impact on the Plains Indian people of life on the reservations. All of the resources needed for the teaching of the lesson are in this lesson, including a fact sheet.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every American West lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This lesson examines the causes and consequences of the extermination of the buffalo between the 1840s and the 1890s.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every American West lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
All of the lessons for the American West unit contain a variety of learning tasks suitable for all abilities, practice exam questions, engaging individual or group activities as well as the key information needed for the Edexcel Specification. Each lesson features a fact sheet which is intended to be used as a substitute for the text book. Therefore, this lesson contains everything you will need for the lesson.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
**This lesson covers the roles of Goodnight & Loving, Joseph McCoy and John Iliff in the development of the cattle industry. **
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every American West lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This 10 lesson bundle contains the first 10 lessons needed to teach Edexcel (or other) Cold War and Superpower Relations for the 2016 1-9 specification.
Bundle includes:
Introduction lesson
Grand Alliance
Atomic Bomb and Telegrams
Satellite states and Iron Curtain Speech
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Cominform and Comecon
Berlin Crisis, Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift
Nato and Warsaw Pact
The Arms Race
The Hungarian Uprising
Every lesson includes a fact sheet which can be used in place of the GCSE text books. No other resources needed to teach this unit.
A 5 lesson bundle to take your students through all the information needed for Unit 2 of the Paper 3 topic.
As stated on the cover, all factual information has been included with a printable fact sheet available for each lesson.
Lesson 10 - The development of the Nazi Party
Lesson 11: The Causes, events and consequences of the Munich Putsch
Lesson 12: The Nazi Party's 'Lean Years', 1924-29
Lesson 13: The impact of the Wall Street Crash and growth in Nazi Support
Lesson 14: To explain how Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany by Jan.1933
Thank you very much for your purchase and I hope this really helps you out with your teaching of this topic.
This bundle contains
Lesson 14 - Detente, SALT 1, Helsinki, SALT 2
Lesson 15 - The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Lesson 16 - President Reagan and the Star Wars Programme
Lesson 17 - Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘New Thinking’
Lesson 18 - The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
**This highly accessible resource can be used as a revision booklet, a set of knowledge organisers or be easily adapted into a lesson-based workbook to accompany students’ learning about the American West. **
All knowledge & example exam questions are based on the most recent updates to the GCSE specification ready for the 2025 exam series. For example, the booklet will refer to Indigenous Peoples, rather than Plains Indians and ask students to ‘Explain ONE consequence’ rather than two.
It includes 32 pages and each A4 page includes:
An outline of the topic area
Information directly linked to the GCSE specification
Key terms linked to the topic area
Questions and activities
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the resource if you feel it has been effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as your feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this resource are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues.
For Edexcel GCSE History (1-9) Period Study – The American West c.1840 – c.1890.
This pack includes 5 activity sheets for tutors who are welcoming Year 7 students into the school in September.
Activities:
A printable fun personality question sheet (see main image) - students get to tell their tutor lots of facts about themselves.
Post-it-note anonymous questions about your school and school life.
Ordering task ready for students to line up for fire drills etc.
Writing a letter to your 11 self. Printable with sentence starters
Find someone in your tutor group who… Printable sheet which encourages students to meet others in their group.
Also available - a pack of x20 different form time A4 printable activity sheets designed to fill 15-30 minute sessions. These can be found here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13077998
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
UPDATED & READY FOR THE 2025 exams!
This resource takes into account the latest amendments to Edexcel GCSE History question paper formatting, timing and question types.
This 20-slide presentation takes students on a step-by-step guide through the Paper 3 Period Study exam for Weimar and Nazi Germany and provides them with:
Example questions
Question walkthroughs
Advice about exam technique
Mark scheme reminders
Model answers
All past exam questions (2016-2023)
Slide 1: Introduction title slide
Slide 2: An overview of the Weimar and Nazi Germany question types
Slide 3-5: An outline of the ‘What can you infer’ source-based question type.
Slide 6-8: An outline of the ‘Explain why’ question type.
Slide 9-11: An outline of the ‘How useful’ source-based question type.
Slide 12-16: An outline of the two 4-mark interpretation questions.
Slide 17-19: An outline of the final 20 mark ‘How far do you agree with the interpretation’ question.
Slide 20: All past paper questions from 2016 Samples to 2023.
Buyers of this resource have often used it as part of a walkthrough for their students before the exam, as an introduction to the topic or as a way to remind students of the exam techniques as they practice their skills.
Please be aware that any images used in this resource are copyright free. Others which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you feel any errors have been made with this, please email me in the first instance at raschoolresources@gmail.com
This lesson takes a fascinating look into the radical cultural changes in Weimar Germany. The lessons aims are:
To know what the main changes were.
To know specific terms and people linked to the changes.
To explain why the changes happened.
To detail the impact of these changes in Germany.
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
**This lesson students will know: **
Who Gustav Stresemann was and his aims for Germany.
How his 3 economic plans (Dawes, Young and Rentenmark) helped Germany recover.
How his 3 foreign policy plans (Locarno, League of Nations and Kelogg-Briand) allowed Germany to recover.
Why these actions still caused some opposition - the students introduced to opposition from the NSDAP.
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This lesson includes:**
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.