Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics:
(i) Henry VIII and his ministers
(ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present
(iii) The British Sector of the Western Front
(iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War
(v) Weimar and Nazi Germany
(vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution
Edexcel Politics:
(i) UK Politics
(ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism
(iii) UK Government
(iv) Global Politics
Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics:
(i) Henry VIII and his ministers
(ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present
(iii) The British Sector of the Western Front
(iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War
(v) Weimar and Nazi Germany
(vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution
Edexcel Politics:
(i) UK Politics
(ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism
(iii) UK Government
(iv) Global Politics
Either new Edexcel or Hodder textbook necessary for some of these activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 4.4 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook, looking at Nazi persecution of minorities.
Lessons on this topic are newly planned to meet the exacting standards of the new specification; they are not recycled lessons from previous years.
Encourages independent work and includes engaging resources to bring the topic to life for students.
The seventh in a series of lessons linked to the Edexcel IGCSE curriculum for:
A divided union, civil rights in the USA, 1945-74.
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
Chapter 5.5: The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery and medicine
Detailed PPT and activities that links to Chapter 5.5 of the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) textbook on Medicine through time.
Covers ideas about the Black Death in medieval England.
Detailed lesson with PPT and accompanying activities dealing with chapter 1.3 of the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) textbook.
Detailed lesson that links to Chapter 3.1. 'British and American relations: the stirrings of rebellion, 1765-75'.
These lessons are planned using both the Hodder and Pearson textbook. However, there are detailed resources included and the textbooks are not necessary for any of the activities.
This is a very lengthy and complex lesson that will require more than a double lesson to complete all of the activities. The worksheets can be completed as homework activities.
The lesson looks at the following areas in depth:
1. The Stamp Act
2. The Boston Massacre
3. The Tea Act
4. The Boston Tea Party
5. The Intolerable Acts
6. The First and Second Continental Congresses
Theses resources are created to develop independent learning in students and do not rely on slides to give students knowledge. Rather, the resources get students to think about each topic in terms of chronology, significance and causation through carefully crafted tasks.
Each lesson comes with at least one exam question and an accompanying writing frame/guide.
Please email me on info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Detailed lesson that corresponds to Chapter 2.1 of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook. Planned using the Pearson textbook although this lesson can be delivered without the need for a textbook.
There are numerous activities and the lesson looks at three distinct areas:
1. The Great Awakening;
2. The Enlightenmnet
3. The role of Benjamin Franklin.
Please email me at markfoley1983@hotmail.com if you have any questions. You can find me at https://www.facebook.com/markfoleyeducation/ where I hope to have a series of GCSE history tutorial videos uploaded over the coming year.
Students to look at the impact of the Great Plague in London in 1665.
Series of sources and activities that assess how people thought the plague was caused, how it was treated and how they sought to prevent it.
Links to an online lesson from the National Archives.
Students to use Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Medicine through time textbook.
Chapter 5.3: Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 5.3 of the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Medicine through time.
Covers ideas about the causes of diseases and illness in medieval England.
Detailed lesson with PPT and accompanying activities dealing with chapter 1.1 of the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) textbook.
Covers ideas about the approaches to prevention and treatment in medieval England.
Detailed lesson with PPT and accompanying activities that link with chapter 1.2 of the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) textbook.
Detailed PPT and activities that assesses the changes and continuity in medical treatments and preventions during the Medical Renaissance, c.1500-c.1700.
Links to chapter 2.2 of Edexcel GCSE textbook, pp. 49-57.
DOES NOT INCLUDE VESALIUS. VESALIUS WILL BE COVERED IN NEXT LESSON ALONGSIDE WILLIAM HARVEY.
Any questions please email on m.foley@becketkeys.org
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Either new Edexcel or Hodder textbook necessary for some activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 2.4 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook, looking at how Hitler became Chancellor in 1933.
Lessons on this topic are newly planned to meet the exacting standards of the new specification; they are not recycled lessons from previous years.
Encourages independent work and includes engaging resources to bring the topic to life for students.
Edexcel textbook necessary for some of the activities.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions.
Lesson with PPT and activities on the role of Harvey and Vesalius in the advancement of medicine during the Medical Renaissance.
Also includes essay planning sheet (16 marker) on what had the biggest impact of medicine in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Needs Edexcel textbook for some activities.
Detailed lesson that covers chapter 1.1 for the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) specification on British America, 1713-1783.
This is an extremely lengthy and detailed chapter so I have divided the lesson into three parts:
1. Developments in colonial expansion and immigration
2. Economic developments
3. Piracy
One detailed PPT and numerous card-sorts, worksheets and information sheets, alongside a glossary and guide on how to answer questions for the British America exam.
Detailed lesson that covers chapter 1.2 for the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) specification on British America, 1713-1783.
One detailed PPT and numerous card-sorts, worksheets and information sheets on the asiento and the impact of slavery in three different areas.
Detailed resources that link to Chapter 2.2 of the new Edexcel curriculum on British America.
This lesson looks in detail at the following areas:
King George's War and its significance;
The French and Indian War, causes and consequences;
The Treaty of Paris
The Royal Proclamation.
Theses resources are created to develop independent learning in students and do not rely on slides to give students knowledge. Rather, the resources get students to think about each topic in terms of chronology, significance and causation through carefully crafted tasks.
Each lesson comes with at least one exam question and an accompanying writing frame/guide.
Please email me on info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Extensive lesson that links to chapter 3.3 of the new GCSE Edexcel specification. These lessons are planned using the Pearson textbook, although the textbook is not necessary in order to complete the activities.
The lesson covers:
(i) consequences of the French and Indian War
(ii) Sugar Act
(iii) Pontiac's Rebellion
(iv) The Paxton Boys
There are numerous activities that puts responsibility for learning onto the student.
There is one narrative question included on Pontiac's Rebellion.
Please email me at markfoley1983@hotmail.com if you have any questions. You can find me at https://www.facebook.com/markfoleyeducation/ where I hope to have a series of GCSE history tutorial videos uploaded over the coming year.
Lesson that links to chapter 4.4 of the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) textbook on Medicine through time.
Detailed activities and PPT. Textbook is necessary for some of the activities in the book.
Extremely detailed lesson that links to Edexcel GCSE (9-1) text book, chapter 3.2
This lesson includes:
Florence Nightingale and the changing role of hospitals;
Improvements in surgical treatment;
Public Health Acts, 1848 and 1875.
There are numerous activities and two essay planning sheets for a 12 mark and 16 mark question.
Lesson 1/16 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
The first lesson is an introduction pack that includes:
How to answer exam question guide for Paper 1
Keywords
Activities
Extension activities
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
Thank you.