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KS3 Hitler's Downfall (WW2)
This lesson covers:
The Battle for Berlin
Hitler’s suicide
Yalta Conference
Pupils will:
WALT: Explain why the Nazi’s surrendered to the Allies and the importance of Yalta. Level 3: Identify what position Germany was in by 1945.
Level 4: Describe the key events of the Battle for Berlin.
Level 5: Explain how the Battle for Berlin lead to Germany surrendering to the allies.
Level 6: Compare sources to analyse what the Big Three wanted at Yalta and how this would affect Germany.
Edward the Confessor (Edexcel 9-1: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England)
This lesson is designed as a skills building case study to help introduce the Normans unit.
Pupils will be introduced to life in Saxon England and the power of the house of Godwin.
They will build towards answering a how useful question to embed paper one and paper three skills.
Gives later opportunity to compare when analysing the control of William. Edward didn’t raise taxes or take land from the earls, so a good link to allow pupils to understand why Saxons were so upset and angry following 1066.
KS3 D-Day (WW2)
WALT: Explain why the Axis forces were defeated at D-Day.Level 3: Identify hidden messages in US propaganda.
Level 4: Describe the key events of the D-Day invasion.
Level 5: Explain why Allied tactics lead to success.
Level 6: Compare the Allies and German tactics to explain why the Allies won.
Pupils analyse a source, follow a carousel to create the battle plan shown as the cover image, then read a source to compare British and German weaponry before creating a newspaper article about the invasion.
KS3 Pearl Harbour (WW2)
Full lesson with differentiated activities
Pupils will:
WALT: Explain the causes and consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbour.Level 3: Identify what Pearl Harbour was and who was involved.
Level 4: Describe the causes of tension between America and Japan.
Level 5: Explain what happened at Pearl Harbour and how America joining the war might affect the outcome of WW2.
Level 6: Analyse a source to explain why it is useful and limited to a historian.
REVISION Medicine Through Time and Western Front Overview
An hour and a half lesson aimed at intervention prior to the examination.
pupils are given an a5 booklet to follow along with the session, parts of which can be completed at home to build knowledge as last minute revision. This is the last session I use prior to Paper One.
Pupils cover:
key people, key discoveries, skills for all question types, source evaluation and judgement.
Elizabethan England: Mary Queen of Scots
Two fully differentiated lessons aimed at KS3 exploring the problems Mary caused Elizabeth and whether she should have executed her.
Bundle
American West Revision Bundle (designed for Edexcel 9-1)
7 revision sessions focused around building skills towards the new GCSE content - narrative account, importance and consequences.
Consequence and Importance skills lesson (American West Edexcel 9-1)
aim: consolidate knowledge of key principles and build consequence and importance of skills
Starter: Match the event with the consequences on the worksheet
Pupils have a worksheet with two consequences for each significant event in the unit
establish the difference between consequence and importance
Colour code consequences into importance question types (key themes like destruction of Indian culture and Settlement of the west)
attempt an importance of question as a class
create a question using question stems and answer it themselves.
End of unit consolidation, mock, and improvement lesson (Edexcel History American West 9-1)
Consolidation:
Pupils will match up key acts and treaties as a quick recall activity
Then they will create two narrative account timelines for Mormon and Exoduster movements.
Consider consequences of the Gold Rush before explaining in detail why each feature of the Boom Towns lead to law and order problems.
Finally, pupils will evaluate how far things had changed for the Indians using acts and treaties to explain whether there were any significant turning points.
Mock attached, follows next lesson.
KS3 Operation Barbarossa (WW2)
Pupils will:
Analyse a source to suggest what the relationship was like between Hitler and Stalin
describe two reasons Hitler chose to invade Russia - guided questions on the PPT for support
suggest what Britain should do - four options to engage pupils before they discover Churchill’s speech as a response
Explain why Stalin was able to beat Hitler - rank a worksheet and then explain one in detail.
create a battle plan as if they are Hitler, what could they have done to beat Stalin?
WALT: Evaluate the causes and consequences of Hitler’s decision to invade Russia.Level 3: Identify what the relationship between Stalin and Hitler was like in 1941.
Level 4: Describe the causes of the invasion of Russia.
Level 5: Explain why Russia were able to beat Hitler.
Level 6: Create a battle plan to try to overcome Stalin.
Bundle
Early Elizabethan England Revision Bundle inc. Mock (Edexcel 9-1)
This revision bundle covers the content required to revise Paper Two of Early Elizabethan England (Edexcel 9-1).
Sessions included in this bundle:
Key people (Elizabeth, Walsingham, Mary QoS)
Life and problems (poverty, education, entertainment)
Plots against Elizabeth (Ridolfi, Babington, Throckmorton, Northern Earls, Armada)
Exploration (Drake and Raleigh with exam practice)
Full mock also included
REVISION Elizabethan Exploration (Edexcel 9-1: Early Elizabethan England)
This is the final lesson in the revision bundle for Paper Two Early Elizabethan England on the new Edexcel specification (2016).
This session will cover:
Why exploration was promoted
Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe - consequence question
Raleigh and Virginia (and why it failed)
Planning three explain why questions
15 question quiz to guide future revision of pupils
Superpower Relations and the Cold War (Full Mock Edexcel 9-1 2016)
Full mock hitting as many themes as possible from throughout the course content.
Early Elizabethan England full mock (Edexcel 9-1 2016)
Full mock including questions that cover majority of themes throughout the course.
REVISION Plots against Elizabeth and Spanish Armada (Edexcel 9-1: Early Elizabethan England)
In this session pupils will cover:
who challenged Elizabeth and why?
Revolt of the Northern Earls
Ridolfi Plot
Throckmorton and Babington
Spanish Armada: causes, conduct consequences
Narrative account practice
REVISION Hitler's Rise to Power (Edexcel 9-1: Weimar and Nazi Germany)
This lesson is set to help pupils revise content surrounding Hitler’s rise to power in preparation for Paper 3 of the new edexcel specification (2016).
Pupils will:
Describe the Reichstag Fire
Analyse the reasons he rose to power - differentiated
Plan and answer (if time) a 20 mark interpretation question
Analyse how useful a source is
REVISION Stresemann and recovery (Edexcel 9-1: Weimar and Nazi Germany)
This lesson covers the content required for Stresemann and recovery of Germany after the first world war for Paper 3 of the new Edexcel specification (2016).
Pupils will explore both interpretations and source questions within this revision lesson.
They will be provided with a worksheet that covers all of the steps Stresemann takes to ensure Germany is able to recover following the TOV. They can then take this home to support independent revision.
Pupils will:
analyse the Stresemann as our saviour source
Highlight key changes made by Stresemann and explain why people did and didn’t like them.
Answer the two four mark interpretation questions and plan an explain why question.
REVISION Treaty of Versailles and Weimar (Edexcel 9-1 Weimar and Nazi Germany)
Part of a series of revision lessons in which pupils prepare for their final examination for Paper Three Weimar and Nazi Germany as part of the 2016 Edexcel specification.
Pupils will:
WALT: Revise the Treaty of Versailles and problems with the Weimar government.Grade 3: Identify the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and describe how the Germans felt about it.
Grade 5: Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the Weimar constitution.
Grade 7: Explain why the government was unpopular and who opposed it.
Grade 9: Evaluate whether Hyperinflation was positive or negative for the people of Germany.
Elizabethan England: Education
A lesson that explores the education system fully differentiated with AFL for each task.
Pupils will:
Identify what education is like today and why it is seen as valuable
Describe why not everyone valued education in Elizabethan England
Explain why attitudes changed
Analyse the education system - was it fair?
Compare the similarities and differences to education today.
KS3 The Blitz (WW2) How useful sources
This is part of a scheme of work that prepares KS3 pupils for the GCSE reforms and skills required for KS4.
Pupils will be provided with opportunities within the lesson to build on their ability to write in PEEL paragraphs, make inferences, and analyse a source to explain why it is useful.
Pupils will:
1 identify what has happened to a building that has been bombed and explain how they know this using an inference
2. watch Pathe primary sources to examine the experiences of Londoners during the Blitz
3. Describe where shelter would be found and explain which was best and why (PEEL)
4. Analyse a source to explain why it is useful for a historian examining the experiences of Londoners during WW2.