What was England like before 1066? LO: To be able to describe life in Anglo Saxon England. This pack include: Homework activity sheet, digital reading print out, presentation with instructions for each activity. Support and challenge questions for each activity, assessment for learning points, discussion points and meaningful activities.

LO: To know what life was like in West Africa before the transatlantic slave trade and evaluate its impact on the people. Key words: Inference Enslaved Legacy empire The lesson starts with learning about life in the West African kingdom of Benin through artifacts and sources. The students practice making inferences. the worksheet has two sides one with the artifacts images and one with an Equiano written source to take inferences from. Then the teacher explains the lasting impact of the trans Atlantic slave trade had on the Benin Kingdom and Nigeria today. The latter part of the lesson is about the loss of artifacts and culture caused by the slave trade and questions-should the artifacts in the European museums give them back to their home lands? There is a newspaper task where students research and write about an artifact that has or should be returned in the last 5 years.

Was the Treaty of Versailles fair? Lo: describe the strengths and weaknesses of the Treaty of Versailles and evaluate its fairness. fully resources and fully editable answers included aimed at GCSE level ALF, differentiated, support and challenge no textbook needed Sudents will recall the terms of the treaty, understand the reactions of the allies and evaluate if they think the treaty was fair or unfair. Activities: card sort for strengths and weaknesses, categorising them, use prior knowledge to complete a sheet with evidence on each side for if the treaty was fair or unfair. Students are encouraged to be particular with which terms of the treaty they think were fair or unfair and explain how so.

This lesson is fully resourced, completely editable. Answers included on slides. Challenge, support, differentiated activities. The lesson should take an estimated 1 hour. It was designed for IGCSE history course but would also work well with any GCSE history class studying the treaty of Versailles. LO: to be able to know, describe and explain what the ‘Big Three’ wanted at the Treaty of Versailles. The lesson activities follow the Learning objective by introducing the Big Three, who they were and what their aims were and the reasoning behind them.

Slave Rebellion and Resistance Lo: Explain how enslaved people resisted & revolted against slavery and evaluate their success in regaining freedom. Key words: Mutiny Rebellion Revolt Maroon Spirituals included: lesson ppt with all instructions. Work sheet hand out. The students learn about the various types of resistance and revolt against slavery. They are to then evalute which they think is the most effective way to gain freedom and end slavery.

What is the Legacy of slavery? LO: To know the long term and short term impact of slavery. Evaluate the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. fully resourced (Powerpoint presentation) fully editable answers included differentiated key words This lesson outlines the short term and long term legacies of slavery. Students use historical skills such as inference, significance and practice writing PEE paragraphs. Long term legacies are shown such as the systemic racism in American history which remains today. Examples of segregation, lynching and Black Lives Matter. This lesson has plenty of opportunities for great discussion and really demonstrates why we study the transatlantic slave trade and why it is so important that we do not forget our histories.

Two lessons about the Benin Kingdom and Songhai Empire. These lessons work well as a pair. LO:To know what life was like in West Africa before the transatlantic slave trade and evaluate its impact on the people. Various activities of gap fills, videos, making inferences from artifacts and sources, PEE paragraphs, comprehension. Challenge questions are there to challenge the most able and key definitions are included to support understanding of new or key words. There are AFL points. Differentiated activities. All editable powerpoints and hand outs.

How did the underground railroad work? LO: to know what the underground railroad was and describe how it functioned. fully resourced fully adaptable differentiated answers included stretch and challenge powerpoint presentation and hand out included about an hours lesson discussion and AFL points This lesson begins explaining what the underground railroad was including its purpose, its routes and why it was necessary. There is a task based on a graph showing the routes to freedom from the south to the north (answers included) . There is also a reading task with knowledge check questions (answers included). There are challenge questions to stretch the most able. Then follows think and discuss key questions. Then a few of the heros of the underground railroad are introduced like Tubman, Wilson and Meachum. Then the plenary is a true and false section with answers included.

Here are two different downloadable versions of the transatlantic slave trade triangle map to label. One has all the the countries labeled and requires students to add what was traded along the route. The second map has no labels and requires students to add continents and what is traded.

-Really useful newspaper templates for all sorts of lessons KS2,3,4. -Included: 8 different styles of Newspaper template. Styles included: Generic: The Observer, The Medieval times, The Tudor Times, Elizabethan news, Norman Observer, Roman Record, The British Home Front, The Red Republican. All with the correct currency for each time period. Fully adaptable as they are all Word documents. -3 different layouts. -additional 3 PDF designs: Tudor times, Roman Times and Norman Digest. (these three and not editable).

The triangle trade and the horrors of the Middle Passage LO: know how the trade triangle operated and use sources to describe the conditions of the Middle Passage. This resource has a full powerpoint, reading acitvity print out, slave triangle print out, differentiated activities, engaging starter, AFL points, challenge questions and a plenary. All resources are fully editable.

Title: Why do we remember Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale? LO: To know the accomplishments of Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale and evaluate their impact. A lesson based around the accomplishments of both women and evaluating their impact. The activities inform about the accomplishments of both women and the students are to organise and sort them into most and least significant. They are encouraged to explain their choices. It also questions why we remember Nightingale more and what that teaches us about recorded and remembered history. Discussions of: Why was Seacole forgotten for 100 years? Which woman had the biggest impact and why? Does the racial prejudice and financial difficulties Seacole faced make her achievements greater? Why is it so important to remember the forgotten voices? A plenary writing task summarising the learning. There is support and challenge throughout the lesson and clear instructions on each slide. Includes the lesson ppt and worksheet (All fully adaptable)

Title: What was the impact of slavery on Africa? LO:To know what life was like in West Africa before the transatlantic slave trade and evaluate its impact on the people. Enslaved Legacy Empire development/under development The lesson begins with understanding the Songhai Empire and what it was like before the Trans Atlantic slave trade. Here there is a gap fill sheet. Then there is a video about Tumbuktu and why it was important. Then follows a comprehension work sheet about the legacy of slavery and its impact on West Africa. all tasks have challenge questions to stretch the most able. There are slides informing and sparking discussions of the global legacy of slavery. It ends in Plenary of a conclusion PEE paragraph answering the key question What was the impact of slavery on Africa?

A lesson based around how Britain became involved in the slave trade and its impact on Britain. LO: To understand the importance of the transatlantic slave trade in Britain’s growing wealth and power between the 16th and 19th centuries. Begins with a starter showing the removal of Colstons statue in Bristol 2020 to demonstrate that the subject of slavery is relevant and important today. Then the slides go on to explain how Britain became involved with the transatlantic slave trade. Includes an adapted extract from Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams. Then discussions and activities based around the impact slavery had on Britain. Included: ALL FULLY EDITABLE powerpoint and hand out Answers included differentiated activities

LO: to know how to describe and analyse a historical source. fully resourced no text book needed fully editable hand outs included Differentiated This is designed to help students understand how to use historical sources. How to describe what they see and interpret messages. One T of V source is done as a class and then students try alone with other Tof V sources. Then there are example GCSE source questions and asked to write a GCSE answer.

Who were the Abolitionists and what did they do? LO: know important abolitionists, describe some of their work and achievements. Evaluate who had the biggest impact on ending slavery. Key words: Abolition Enlightenment Campaign parliament This lesson contains student led learning activities where they are introduced to key abolitionists and they are to complete key facts sheet about them. Then they are to evaluate which had the biggest impact on ending slavery and who they think had the most effective. The last task is creative where the students choose one abolitionist and create a movie pitch about their lives and why they are worth making a movie out of.