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
Complete set of lessons linked to Edexcel IGCSE History:
A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74.
Full contents included:
1.1 The US political system
1.2 Reasons for the Red Scare: The Cold War
1.3 Reasons for the Red Scare: events at home
1.4 McCarthy and the Red Scare
2.1 Segregation and discrimination
2.2 Brown v Topeka and Emmett Till
2.3 Montgomery Bus Boycott
2.4 1957 Civil Rights Act
2.5 School desegregation - Little Rock Nine
3.1 Protests 1960-63
3.2 Protests 1963-65
3.3 Civil rights legislation
3.4 Protests 1966-74
4.1 Student protests and Vietnam
4.2 The women’s movement
5.1 The Watergate Scandal - causes and features
5.2 The impact of Watergate
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
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.
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Complete set of resources inked to Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Medicine through time textbook, chapters 1-4.
Bundle includes:
1. Exam guide on how to answer questions
2. Introduction lesson
3. Four lessons on Medieval medicine
4. Four lessons on Renaissance medicine
5. Four lessons on medicine in the 18th and 19th century
6. Four lessons on modern Medicine
Email info@theknowledehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or any issues downloading any of the files.
Completely resourced package of lessons linked to Edexcel IGCSE course: A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74.
The lessons are organised into a 74 page booklet, with a table of contents and each lesson is headed into separate sections as outlined in the official Edexcel textbook.
Excellent for online learning as this workbook can be posted as a Google Document.
Alternatively, the resources can be handed out throughout the year as students make their way through the content.
You can access one of the lessons on the women’s movement here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12527654
Complete set of lessons linked to the new Edexcel GCSE specification for The American West.
Each lesson has a specific PPT and a series of interactive, engaging and differentiated worksheets that require the students to do the work.
That’s a total of 9 PPTs, linked to the chapter headings for the Pearson textbook. However, both the Pearson and Hodder textbooks were used when creating these resources. Neither textbook is necessary for these tasks as all content is included.
Our lessons are carefully planned to ensure that all relevant content is covered to ensure a level 9 is attainable.
Each task has different levels of difficulty, with unfinished tasks a perfect opportunity for feedback or homework.
There is a glossary of key terms for students to complete as they progress through the course, along with an exam guide on how to answer questions for Paper 2, Section A.
If you have any questions or comments, please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk
Complete bundle of lessons on the causes and major events of the First World War.
While these lessons are explicitly linked to the Edexcel IGCSE specification, they cover the content in enough depth and detail to cover World War I for Year 9 and other examination boards in depth.
Please check your exam boards content specification to ensure these sources are suitable.
There are 15 lessons complete with:
exam guide
15 lessons
15 PPTs
Over 70 colourful resource sheets with differentiated and interactive activties for students to complete.
Exam questions
The bunndle adheres to the five major areas outlined by the Edexcel IGCSE specification:
THE ALLIANCE SYSTEM AND INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY,
1905–14
THE GROWTH OF TENSION IN EUROPE, 1905–14
THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN AND DEADLOCK ON THE WESTERN
FRONT
THE WAR AT SEA AND GALLIPOLI
THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Complete bundle on the Edexcel GCSE curriculum on Anglo-Saxon and Norman England.
We at The Knowledge House have a simple philosophy - that resources should be designed to raise student achievement.
We have no detailed informative PPTs with large chunks of text that put kids to sleep.
All of our lessons require students to actually do the work. There are card-sorts, chronology tasks, essay planning sheets, significance pyramids, anagrams among others.
These engage students from the starter right through to exam practice.
Each resource carries simple to follow instructions so students can complete the tasks for homework or as feedback, making your marking a lot less time intensive!
There are 12 PPTs, each corresponding to the chapters on the Pearson textbook.
These lessons have been planed using content from both the Hodder and Pearson textbook, although neither textbook is needed to complete the activities.
We hope you enjoy these lessons. Please leave a review or email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
Thank you!
Education experts The Knowledge House provide outstanding resources to outstanding teachers to make sure you have the time to concentrate on teaching.
Created by expert history teachers, we look to reduce the workload in your busy schedule by creating ready-to-use resources.
Each of our lessons are carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 specification using the Hodder and Pearson textbooks. However, neither textbook is necessary for the completion of these tasks.
Our lessons follow a unique format. Each lesson is linked to a sub-chapter of the Edexcel Pearson textbook. This bundle links to
Chapter 1:
Queen, government and religion, 1558-69
Chapter 2:
Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad, 1569-88
Chapter 3:
Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration, 1558-88.
All sheets to be printed out at the beginning of the lesson. Each student then works the way through the sheets at their own pace. Each worksheet comes with extension tasks to stretch the MABLE.
Unfinished tasks can be completed for HW and feedback. Exam questions can be completed for homework.
Please email any questions queries or comments to info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk.
Thank you!
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Everything you need to teach the new Edexcel specification for Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1939.
Please try this lesson for free to give you an idea as to what is included:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/weimar-and-nazi-germany-4-3-employment-and-living-standards-11647635
16 fun and engaging lessons. Each lessons links exactly to the relevant chapter in Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar and Nazi Germany. Numerous worksheets, exam practice and sources and interpretations.
Appropriate page numbers included in the PPT if you are using the Hodder textbook.
Please email on markfoley1983@hotmail.com if you have any difficulty downloading any of the files.
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Twelve lessons linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Covers: Empire and the emergence of world powers, 1870-1919
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
Lesson bundle includes lessons on:
New Imperialism
Scramble for Africa I
Scramble for Africa II
Domestic reactions to imperialism
Impact of imperialism on international relations
Disputes with China
Rise of Japan as an imperial power
Impact of the Sino-Japanese War on international relations
Russo-Japanese War and its impact
Changes to US foreign policy
Spanish-American War 1898
USA in World War I
There is also a collection of historical maps included, many of which are relevant for the expansion witnessed in this period (the other maps will be relevant for the other international relations options).
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.
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Complete set of resources that link to Component 2 of the new Edexcel specification for A-level Politics.
These lessons link exactly to the content on UK Government and uses content form all three textbooks, two from Hodder and one from Pearson.
The content is distilled into a series of over 80 interactive student-led resources that encourage independent learning and give a comprehensive overview of the demanding content from the new specification.
Each lesson comes with an accompanying PPT that guides the teacher and students through the worksheets.
Students are encouraged to file the sheets using dividers with headings that match the PPT titles that will give teachers neat and comprehensive revision notes that can be accessed in the lead up to exams.
Nationalism has been included free of charge as we realise that not all teachers will be choosing nationalism as an optional ideology.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Complete set of lessons linked to Edexcel IGCSE History:
USA, 1918-41.
Full contents included:
1.1 The USA in 1918
1.2 Reasons for the economic boom in the 1920s
1.3 The social impact of the 1920s
1.4 Problem industries in the 1920s
2.1 Attitudes and policies towards immigration
2.2 The Palmer Raids and the Red Scare
2.3 Attitudes towards black Americans
2.4 Morals, values and the Monkey Trial
2.5 Prohibition and gangsters
3.1 The Wall Street Crash
3.2 The impact of the Great Depression
3.3 Hoover’s reaction to the Great Depression
4.1 Roosevelt’s aims with the New Deal
4.2 The First Hundred Days and the alphabet agencies
4.3 The second New Deal
4.4 Rural electrification
5.1 Opposition to the New Deal
5.2 Radical criticism of the New Deal
5.3 Achievements and shortcomings of the New Deal
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
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.
Education experts The Knowledge House provide outstanding resources to outstanding teachers to make sure you have the time to concentrate on teaching.
Created by expert history teachers, we look to reduce the workload in your busy schedule by creating ready-to-use resources.
Each of our lessons are carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 specification using the Hodder and Pearson textbooks. However, neither textbook is necessary for the completion of these tasks.
Our lessons follow a unique format. Each lesson is linked to a sub-chapter of the Edexcel Pearson textbook. This bundle links to Crime and Punishment through time and covers:
Chapter 1:
c1000-c1500: Crime, punishment and law enforcement in medieval England
Chapter 2:
c1500-c1700: Crime, punishment and law enforcement in early modern England
Chapter 3:
c1700-c1900: Crime, punishment and law enforcement in the 18th and 19th centuries
Chapter 4:
c1900-present: Crime, punishment and law enforcement in recent times
NOTE: There are no lessons on the case study of Whitechapel - these lessons only cover Crime and Punishment (Paper 1 - Section B)
All sheets to be printed out at the beginning of the lesson. Each student then works the way through the sheets at their own pace. Each worksheet comes with extension tasks to stretch the MABLE.
Unfinished tasks can be completed for HW and feedback. Exam questions can be completed for homework.
Please email any questions queries or comments to info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk.
Thank you!
Brought to you by The Knowledge House.
Comprehensive and detailed lessons linked to the new Edexcel A-level Politics specification.
Component 1 - UK Politics and core ideologies is covered in entirety.
Over 100 worksheets linked to all aspects of Component 1 - UK politics and core ideologies.
There are lessons on:
Democracy and participation;
Political parties
Electoral systems
Voter behaviour and the media
Socialism
Conservatism
Liberalism