Grade descriptors taken from the Edexcel specification and created as a display for a classroom including the percentage of weighting for each skill pupils need to be successful in their examination. easily adapted to suit your needs.

WALT: Explain how the creation of a police state changed things in Germany. Identify the features of a police state. Describe how one aspect of the police state worked. Explain the role played by the Gestapo in keeping control. Evaluate Hitler and the Nazi Party’s use of the police state. starter: key words activity Task one: infer two things from a source, including full mark answer so that pupils can self assess and improve their work. task two: video activity demonstrating how the police state functions task three: as seen on cover photo, pupils describe the key branches of the police state and explain how it helped Hitler keep control of Germany. task four: pupils examine four sources and apply criteria to explain which they feel is most useful for the enquiry (skills building).

Bunting that includes command words for the new specification: identify, describe, explain, define, recall, evaluate, infer, compare, evaluate

Session covers: new technology, lung cancer, magic bullets, penicillin and the creation of the NHS Pupils complete a worksheet whilst teacher leads the session

Two fully differentiated lessons aimed at KS3 exploring the problems Mary caused Elizabeth and whether she should have executed her.

WALT: Investigate poverty in Tudor England. Level 3: Identify reasons people live in poverty today. Level 4: Describe reasons people lived in poverty in Tudor England. Level 5: Explain why categories were needed to cope with the poor and what those categories were. Level 6: Evaluate how fair these categories were, give reasons why.

Aimed at KS3 usually set this as a homework. Included: facebook profiles for Hardrada, William the Conqueror and Godwinson Each profile includes: Why the individual wants to be king, problems with their plans, who they are and extension activity (an interesting fact about the individual). Support and differentiation: on the back of the worksheet it tells pupils who they are, their claim (strengths and weaknesses) and there are some websites for each individual at the bottom of the page.

Lesson aimed at KS3, poverty and the poor laws in Tudor England. describe why people were in poverty Define the terms able-bodied and impotent poor Explain how these people were treated and why these categories were necessary at the time. evaluate how fair these categories were and why.

These quizzes have been designed as 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 tasks to drop into other lessons. The idea is to use them as a way to interleave prior knowledge into current topics and ensure that knowledge is returned to frequently to develop knowledge retention. The 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 structure gives students instant formative assessment in which they can then choose a topic to ‘pledge’ to revise that week as part of their homework. Every quiz has a green pen slide with answers to go through with students to support the teacher. Students find these tasks very fun and engaging and can see where their strengths and weaknesses across a topic lie. I have designed the task to revise important concepts briefly at least once by the time they have completed all of the starter activities. The activities could also be used as a building block to help students identify what they will be doing for the rest of the lesson (to be used closer to exams when completing revision tasks).

Designed to cover all units of medicine through time as a last lesson of term activity.

Part of a series of revision sessions designed to build knowledge prior to the Early Elizabethan England examination. Pupils will cover: Legitimacy and accession Mary Queen of Scots - problem, fleeing to England, execution Walsingham and his spies Pupils will also complete planning sheets for two explain why questions, focused on building their skills and ability to link back to a question prior to the exam.

Lesson surrounding the Triangular Trade, animation included. Differentiated worksheet- comic book strip with gapfill for LA, titles for MA and can be provided empty for HA. Aims: Identify key stages of the triangular trade Explain why the slave trade was so profitable Compare which part of the triangular trade was most profitable.

Full lesson Pupils are given a budget and key features of a castle, they must make their own castle and then must attack their partner's castle. Aimed at year 7 pupils studying life in Norman England.

This lesson allows pupils to analyse the reign of Lady Jane Grey and come to a decision as to whether she should have been executed. Pupils make a facebook feed that explores the events running up to the execution in which they make statuses and create life events for characters like John Dudley and Catherine Parr. They then create a letter in which they argue why they should not be executed and what a better option would be.

Lesson explores: Rebellion of Edwin and Morcar, Rebellion of Edgar Aethling, Hereward the Wake. Pupils work in groups of three to become experts about a topic before teaching each other, they then explore the outcomes of William’s actions before planning an exam answer to an explain why question. WALT: Explain why and how people rebelled against William.1-2: describe why Saxons were unhappy with William. 3-4: Describe events of the three rebellions between 1068-71. 5-7: Explain why the rebellions failed. 8-9: Evaluate the consequences of the rebellions.

Whole lesson aimed at KS3 exploring Elizabethan/Tudor entertainment. Pupils examine an image of bear baiting and infer what they think is happening they read a source and add to/alter their description they self assess it they explore other types of entertainment finally they apply their knowledge by creating a poster for a spectator-fest in their Tudor village WALT: Explore methods of entertainment available in Elizabethan England. Level 3: Infer what you can learn from a source. Level 4: Describe types of entertainment available in Tudor England. Level 5: Explain why these sports were dangerous. Level 6: Evaluate which sport was most popular and compare why you think this is the case.

Lesson 8 and 9 in slavery scheme of work. Worksheets included within the lesson powerpoint as hidden slides. Homework: Profile of a famous abolitionist. Lesson 1: Abolition in Britain - Focus on Slave Trade Act 1807, reasons for and against, William Wilberforce Lesson 2: Abolition in America - focus on comparison of Britain and America, Abraham Lincoln, civil war

Designed to teach pupils the meaning of the word consequences - reflection of the command words for new specification at GCSE. Why were slaves treated brutally? How were they punished? What actions were punishable? Consequences of misbehaving.

Two full lessons covering the content for the new specification Mormons section of American West. Two lessons, information sheets, differentiation and homework included. The youtube video used in the lesson describes the journey that the Mormons take to Salt Lake Valley. I do not own the video and have therefore not included it in the lesson, there are multiple videos on youtube that can fulfil this part of the lesson.

Sioux way of life introduction Allows pupils to consider the way of life for individual members of the tribe Also includes interpretation analysis as the final task.