Lesson evaluating whether Elizabeth was repsonsible for the Golden Age - encouragig pupils to evaluate whether Elizabeth I was the most important reason behind the Golden Age.
Lesson examining medieval life in England using market stall/walk about talk about activity (kinaesthetic learning) and encouraging pupils to engage in peer teaching.
Y8 SOW - Unit 3; How are we kept safe?
Lesson 2 - What causes people to commit crime?
Learning Objectives
To explore reasons why people commit crimes
To sort these reasons into categories
To apply this reasoning to case studies
Resources useful in investigating the various electoral systems used in the UK - results from other countries using these systems provide pupils with an interesting perspective rather than a hypothetical.
Lesson examining the composition and roles of parliament (worksheet for printing is at end of ppt). Also supplied is parliament web quest used as a cover lesson but could be integrated as part of ICT based lesson.
Flow chart for use when analysing sources - can be blown up to A3 and used on classroom wall for pupils to refer to or shrunk to A5 for pupils to stick into exercise books.
Information sheet pupils can stick in their exercise books at the beginning of the year identifying the key skills they are going to cover in history with some examples of how the skills might appear.
Powerpoint explores how Marley's records help tell the story of black history from slavery and emancipation to civil rights and contemporary issues such as inequality and insitutionalised racism.
Audio clips inserted into powerpoint but if they fail to play they are Buffalo Soldier, Redemption Song, War and Get Up Stand Up and easily accessible on YouTube.
*Notes section of ppt contains notes/script.
Lesson using think incident scene investigation to encourage pupils to identify the causes and consequences of road accidents as well as examining what could have been done differently in order to prevent the accident.
Revision lesson based on students working in pairs and competing in the 'Olympics'. Pairs complete the tasks in the different 'events&' and keep a cumulative score.