This is part of a series of 7 lessons (and 3 Guided Reading Activities) about the New Deal. It is aimed at A Level/IB students and focusses on the New Deal’s policies, their impact, the opposition to them and the historiography of them since. All the lessons contain all the resources within them required for the students to successfully research and answer the questions. Where external sources have been used for evidence, they have been cited. The other lessons in the series are as follows: What was it? > A deep dive look at the key alphabet agencies and their impact. Impact of the New Deal > A look at 4 cross sections of US society/economy and the impact the alphabet agencies had, for better or worse. The Second New Deal > An investigation into the reasons why a Second New Deal was required and how they laid the foundation for the modern welfare state. Opposition to the New Deal > A research exercise (with materials to research) of the key opposition figures to the New Deal and their philosophies. The impact of the Second World War > How the Second World War ‘saved’ FDR from the ‘Roosevelt Recession’ and how it changed the political landscape. Included in this lesson is the Guided Reading activity for the War’s impact (resource 8) The historiography of the New Deal > A look at two opposing interpretations (resources 9 and 10) and then an activity looking at six different historical interpretations of the New Deal followed by a class debate. An essay question focussing on the impact of the New Deal – was it mostly economic or political in nature? Students are guided through the process of preparing, structuring and then writing the essay. An extended reading activity on the Second World War’s impact on the New Deal An extended ready activity looking at criticism of the New Deal An extended reading activity looking at support for the New Deal, especially the WPA. We hope these resources help you teach this vital and interesting topic. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. If you teach History, Business or ICT we have superb resources ready to go on our website – we also have 5 free to play History games that are ideal for engaging lower (and older) year groups in History. We hope it helps.

This is the last lesson in a series of four on the Black Death. Discover the haunting tale of the Black Death in Europe through this captivating bundle of four interactive lessons designed for secondary school students. Dive into the causes, symptoms, cures, and consequences of this devastating historical event that shaped the course of European history. Engage in a thrilling free-to-play online RPG game that transports you to the medieval world, allowing you to navigate the challenges of the Black Death firsthand. Immerse yourself in the era as you make critical decisions, interact with historical figures, and witness the impact of the plague on society. Complementing the game, a comprehensive workbook accompanies the lessons, providing an opportunity to deepen your understanding through thought-provoking activities and reflective exercises. Step into the shoes of medieval inhabitants, analyzing primary sources, and critically examining the effects of the Black Death. Unleash your curiosity, sharpen your historical analysis skills, and embark on an unforgettable journey through one of the most devastating chapters in European history. Prepare to be captivated, challenged, and enlightened as you explore the causes, symptoms, cures, and far-reaching consequences of the Black Death. The series of lessons comprises of: Black Death Causes and Spread Black Death Symptoms Black Death Cures Black Death Consequences A workbook (Codex) for the free to play RPG game. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.

A guided reading booklet for GCSE students. Each extract is to be read and a ‘guided reading activity’ (summarise each paragraph and then summarise the whole text). When the entire booklet is completed they can receive a certificate. This GCSE guide includes the following extracts: Social: Life in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich. Political: Post War Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War, A World History. Economic: Weimar Inflation – Richard J Evans. The Coming of the Third Reich Armed Conflict: Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings: Vietnam. An Epic History of a Divisive War Religious: USSR and Religion – History Today Science: The A Bomb – Ndiaye Pap, Nylon and Bombs. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.

A guided reading booklet for Year 9 students. Each extract is to be read and a ‘guided reading activity’ (summarise each paragraph and then summarise the whole text). When the entire booklet is completed they can receive a certificate. This year 9 guide includes the following extracts: Social: Migration to Britain Post Empire – Sathnam Sangera, Empireland. Political: Stalin’s Rise - Frank Dikötter, Dictators. Economics: The Growth of Germany –Hoyer Katja, Blood and Iron. Armed Conflict: The Battle for China - Mitter, Rana China’s war with Japan. Religious: Columbus in America – John Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire Science: Chicago & The Mid-West. William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.

This series of lessons will explore the rich and diverse history of Ukraine, from the ancient civilization of Kievan Rus to the present day. Students will learn about the country’s cultural and political heritage, including its struggles for independence and democracy, and its contributions to art, literature, and science. The 10 lessons are as follows: The emergence of the Kievan Rus in the 9th century The Mongol Invasion in the 12th century The Union of Lublin in 1569 The Cossack Uprising in the 17th century The Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century The Ukrainian War of Independence in 1917-1921 The Holodomor Famine of 1932-1933 The Chernobyl Disaster of 1986 The Orange Revolution of 2004 The Euromaidan protests in 2013-2014 In each lesson, students will… Study the context of the topic Sort a timeline of the events into the correct order. Watch a video and answer questions on the content. Study historical perspectives of the topic. A study of images and artifacts from the period and what they can teach us. Sort factors into order of relevance and significance Agree on a grading matrix for answering a written question. Read an example answer and look for what went well and even better if. Try writing your own answer to the topic question. Tackle a stretch task to take your learning further These lessons have been created by Wolsey Academy. Each lesson has been taught to high-school students successfully. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps. Slava Ukraïni!

This is one lesson from a series of 7 lessons that focus on the Space Race, From Sputnik to Apollo. Each lesson is fully resourced with anything that needs printing at the end of the PowerPoint ready in a print friendly format. The idea of this series of lessons is to introduce students to key historical skills using content they are familiar with and find engaging. We have had huge success with these lessons at Wolsey Academy with students often demanding that we teach more of them. The work produced from these lessons has also been exceptional, with the main activity in each lesson being scaffolded and supported in a number of ways. For details of each lesson please see below. If purchasing just one lesson, make sure you have seen the details for that one below. In the lesson preview you will see the lesson structure in the road map slide. We hope it helps. The 7 lessons: Sputnik 1957 Yuri Gagarin Project Mercury Earthrise Apollo 8 Apollo 11 Apollo Conspiracies Debunked Cold War Space Race Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

The Computer Revolution - Meant as a cross department study with the Humanities and ICT/Computer Science. This is 1 lesson from a series of 17 (see below). Each lesson is well constructed and fully resourced (all resources contained at the end of each PowerPoint to avoid multiple files). Lessons include a varied sequence of activities building up content and skills to answer a large essay question in lesson 17 on the nature of change and continuity thanks to the computer revolution, and a speculative discussion of the impact of future developments. The series also runs parallel to a 17 part ‘Guided Reading’ pack on the same topic. Each lesson is paired with an extended piece of computing literature – for ease these extracts have been included inside the PowerPoints but you can access the reading as a separate bundle, and for free at Wolsey Academy. The lessons are as follows: Enigma and Turing (free) The History of Women in Computing (free) The Microchip and Moore’s Law The PC, GUI and Microsoft How Video Games Shaped Our World Mid-Unit Test and Revision Impact of the Internet Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (free) Covid Track and Trace Quantum Computing (free) Artemis and Space X Facial Recognition Digital Divide DeepMind, AI, AlphaGo and ChatGPT (free) Emerging Technologies and their impact Cybersecurity case studies Revision keyword flash cards and essay assessment. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

This lesson is from the 10-lesson series below: 10 fully resourced lessons designed to cover in depth the first chapter of the Cambridge IGCSE History Modern World. Designed for both in person and virtual teaching. Each lesson includes: • A Literacy/Numeracy/Think settler question • A context slide to allow for some (valuable) direct instruction • A range of resources which include the likes of categorisation tasks, source questions and writing activities with model answers (focus on flexible PEEKA paragraphs). • An online recap quiz • Each lesson also includes a scholarship and further reading page to really engage the higher-level students. Lessons in the series: WW1 Recap The State of Germany in 1918 The German Revolution 1918 Paris Peace Conference 1919 – Motives Overview Wilson’s 14 Points David Lloyd George at Versailles Terms of the Treaty – Germany Reactions – Source work The other treaties Was it fair? Also ideal for KS3 and other GCSE studies when considering the TofV – the Cambridge spec asks for a lot more depth on this topic that Edexcel seem to – so can easily be diluted a little for Edexcel, or used to push higher level classes. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Lesson 7: Roman Government (The Republic) THIS FULLY RESOURCED LESSON INCLUDES: • Lesson teacher tutorial video for this lesson (for homework/home school learning) • Literacy & Numeracy settler • Contextual information and maps (to assist teacher talk) • Guided Reading Activity • Roman Republic diagram activity – with resource sheets to assist. • Extended essay writing structure, plan and write activity – with writing strips for each student’s page! • Knowledge check plenary (hot seating) • All resources required included at the end of the PowerPoint file. • Online self marking quiz to assess understanding OTHER LESSONS IN THE SERIES: Lesson 1: Roman Intro Lesson 2: The Founding of Rome, Romulus and Remus Lesson 3: Roman Roads Lesson 4: The Roman Army Lesson 5: Punic Wars Lesson 6: Pompeii & Roman Life Lesson 8: Medicine and Public Health An 8 lesson series guiding Key Stage 3 through some of the fundamentals of the Roman Empire. Tried and tested over a number of years. See details of each lesson below the initial list. Each lesson focusses on the Video – Resource – Quiz structure to allow for maximum support for teachers and parents – and maximum independence for students. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

One lesson from a 6 part series of lessons on the history and development of the environmental movement. The lessons look at: • Apollo 8 and the Moonrise photo • Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” • The Montreal Protocol 1987 (The Ozone agreement) • The Paris Climate Agreement 2015 • The global development of Green political movements • The global development of environmental activism Each lesson is self contained, with all the resources required at the end of the PowerPoint. They are brilliant for a case study at the end of Year 9 History or for a higher level study of politics. We hope they help. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

One lesson from a 6 part series of lessons on the history and development of the environmental movement. The lessons look at: • Apollo 8 and the Moonrise photo • Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” • The Montreal Protocol 1987 (The Ozone agreement) • The Paris Climate Agreement 2015 • The global development of Green political movements • The global development of environmental activism Each lesson is self contained, with all the resources required at the end of the PowerPoint. They are brilliant for a case study at the end of Year 9 History or for a higher level study of politics. We hope they help. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

One lesson from a a 6 part series of lessons on the history and development of the environmental movement. The lessons look at: • Apollo 8 and the Moonrise photo • Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” • The Montreal Protocol 1987 (The Ozone agreement) • The Paris Climate Agreement 2015 • The global development of Green political movements • The global development of environmental activism Each lesson is self contained, with all the resources required at the end of the PowerPoint. They are brilliant for a case study at the end of Year 9 History or for a higher level study of politics. We hope they help. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

A guided reading booklet for Year 7 students. Each extract is to be read and a ‘guided reading activity’ (summarise each paragraph and then summarise the whole text). When the entire booklet is completed they can receive a certificate. This year 7 guide includes the following extracts: Social: Women in the Roman Empire – Mary Beard, SPQR A History of Ancient Rome (adapted) Political: How did William take over England? – Marc Morris, The Norman Invasion Economics: Askum Empire – Martin Meredith, Fortunes of Africa. Armed Conflict: Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, The Norman Invasion (adapted). Religious: Islamic Medicine – Firas Al Khateeb, Lost Islamic History. Science: The Black Death. Ben Gummer, The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.

A guided reading booklet for Year 8 students. Each extract is to be read and a ‘guided reading activity’ (summarise each paragraph and then summarise the whole text). When the entire booklet is completed they can receive a certificate. This year 8 guide includes the following extracts: Social: Life on a sugar plantation – Andrew Stuart, Sugar in the Blood. Social (Bonus): Life and marriage in Industrial Britain - Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn. Political: Peterloo Massacre – The Guardian UK Economics: The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday: Britain and the Making of the Modern World Armed Conflict: Battle of Patna (India) - Dalrymple, William, The Anarchy. Religious: Columbus in America – John Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire Science: Chicago & The Mid-West. William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.

A series of 7 lessons that focus on the Space Race, From Sputnik to Apollo. Each lesson is fully resourced with anything that needs printing at the end of the PowerPoint ready in a print friendly format. The idea of this series of lessons is to introduce students to key historical skills using content they are familiar with and find engaging. We have had huge success with these lessons at Wolsey Academy with students often demanding that we teach more of them. The work produced from these lessons has also been exceptional, with the main activity in each lesson being scaffolded and supported in a number of ways. For details of each lesson please see below. If purchasing just one lesson, make sure you have seen the details for that one below. In the lesson preview you will see the lesson structure in the road map slide. We hope it helps. The 7 lessons: Sputnik 1957 Yuri Gagarin Project Mercury Earthrise Apollo 8 Apollo 11 Apollo Conspiracies Debunked Cold War Space Race Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

This is one lesson from a series of 7 lessons that focus on the Space Race, From Sputnik to Apollo. Each lesson is fully resourced with anything that needs printing at the end of the PowerPoint ready in a print friendly format. The idea of this series of lessons is to introduce students to key historical skills using content they are familiar with and find engaging. We have had huge success with these lessons at Wolsey Academy with students often demanding that we teach more of them. The work produced from these lessons has also been exceptional, with the main activity in each lesson being scaffolded and supported in a number of ways. For details of each lesson please see below. If purchasing just one lesson, make sure you have seen the details for that one below. In the lesson preview you will see the lesson structure in the road map slide. We hope it helps. The 7 lessons: Sputnik 1957 Yuri Gagarin Project Mercury Earthrise Apollo 8 Apollo 11 Apollo Conspiracies Debunked Cold War Space Race Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps. #betterteachingbetterplanet

The History of Ancient Persia Each lesson is well constructed and fully resourced (all resources contained at the end of each PowerPoint to avoid multiple files). Lessons include a varied sequence of activities building up content and skills to enable students to engage with the content of the Persia Empire while building up transferable skills in historical writing, source analysis and creative projects. Each lesson also includes model answers, criteria and stretch/support activities. The lessons are as follows: The Artifacts of Persia. A collection of primary sources that students study. They then create a presentation on the question “what type of people were the Ancient Persians?” The King of Kings: An overview of the reigns of Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes. Life in Persia: A project-based lesson with all the materials needed for students to present on Persian law, religion and the role of women. The Fall of Babylon: A brief look at the Babylonian Empire, a timeline of its fall to Persia and a study of the causes, events and consequences surrounding the fall of the Great city. The Age of Kings – A look at the magnificence and splendour of the travelling household court of the Persian Kings Persia v Athens and the Battle of Marathon: What happened, why did it happen and what legacy did it leave? Athens & Sparta: The allies that kept Persia at bay, a look at their similarities and differences. Battle of Thermopylae: How did it create the legend of the 300? Is there any truth in it? Battle of Salamis: How did the Greeks defeat a much larger Persian army? Persian achievements: Art, Science, Architecture, Mathematics. Persian Medicine Alexander the Great The sacking of Persepolis Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet –

Get your day off to a great start with a settled tutor session or a fun class reward activity. Also included is a bonus literacy question and an extension task that sees the pupils’ write a paragraph on the topic! Ideal for quick History lesson recaps as well. 11 Monarchs - starting with Elizabeth II and working backwards to George I. Hope it helps. Part of a range of tutor activities found at Wolsey Academy Have you tried one of Wolsey Academy’s Learning Worlds yet? Our Learning Worlds make for engaging homework and class tasks. Pupils take on the role of a protagonist and relive key historical or fictional events. From 1066 to the modern day. From Shakespeare to Orwell. We’re making Learning Worlds to cover them all - and plenty more besides. Told in a format pupils love they complete the tasks at home and come to class equipped with a completed taskbook – ready to delve deeper into the analysis and debate. Contact us at: thomas@wolseyacademy.com @wolseyacademy

10 lessons (in Ukrainian) to help your Ukrainian students learn basic history skills such as source analysis, PEE and categorisation in their own tounge and in their own context. English language versions can be downloaded at the Wolsey Academy site (just Google us). We hope they are of some use to you and your students. The lessons cover: The emergence of the Kievan Rus in the 9th century The Mongol Invasion in the 13th century The Union of Lublin in 1569 The Cossack Uprising in the 17th century The Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century The Ukrainian War of Independence in 1917-1921 The Holodomor Famine of 1932-1933 The Chernobyl Disaster of 1986 The Orange Revolution of 2004 The Euromaidan protests in 2013-2014 In each lesson, students will… Study the context of the topic Sort a timeline of the events into the correct order. Watch a video and answer questions on the content. Study historical perspectives of the topic. A study of images and artifacts from the period and what they can teach us. Sort factors into order of relevance and significance Agree on a grading matrix for answering a written question. Read an example answer and look for what went well and even better if. Try writing your own answer to the topic question. Tackle a stretch task to take your learning further

THIS IS THE CODEX TO GO WITH THE BECKET HISTORY GAME AT WWW.WOLSEYACADEMY.COM WHICH SYNCS IN WITH THE BECKET SOW – SEE BELOW: Henry II & Becket. A mini 3 lesson SOW looking at the church, Henry II and Becket’s murder. The module excellently introduces the idea of church v crown and provides the contextual knowledge needed for later study of the English reformation and other ‘power’ issues the English monarchy faces. Works well as a stand alone SOW but is also integrated into the free to play History game world at Wolsey Academy (check it out if you haven’t already!) Each lesson contains a literacy & numeracy starter, teacher narrative context pages (chance for you to do some storytelling !) plenaries and a range of active learning episodes. EAL and literacy support mats included with each lesson. The 3 lessons, along with the main lesson activities, are as follows: Church & Crown (graphic based church mind map discussions/source question/leaflet productions/Consult the Codex) Henry II (Timeline questions/round room source activity/Henry poster activity/Consult the Codex) Becket (chronology card sort/consult the codex/descriptive writing activity/cartoon strips) Hope it helps. Remember – works best when the students are playing the (free!) Becket game and completing the codex at the same time (perfect ongoing homework task or ict room lesson). WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.