Uncover the chilling mystery of Jack the Ripper with this immersive lesson designed to engage and challenge your students. Perfect for developing analytical and critical thinking skills, this resource dives deep into the infamous murders of 1888 while fostering historical curiosity. What’s Inside:     •    Victim Profiles: Explore the background of each victim, the details of their murders, and the clues left at the scene.     •    Interactive Mapping Activity: Students map the locations of the murders, creating a foundation for later investigations into the suspects.     •    Critical Questions: Thought-provoking prompts encourage students to analyze the social and historical impact of the murders.     •    Engaging Writing Tasks: Activities designed to embed understanding and deepen knowledge through reflection and analysis. Whether you’re looking to captivate students with a real-life mystery or build essential historical thinking skills, this lesson offers the perfect blend of intrigue and education.

Bring the epic Battle of Hastings to life for your Year 7 students with this engaging and interactive lesson. Perfectly designed to introduce early historical analysis, this resource combines vivid storytelling, source work, and multimedia tools to captivate learners and build essential skills. What’s Inside:     •    Bayeux Tapestry Analysis: Explore the iconic tapestry to trace the key moments of the battle, unraveling the strategies, turning points, and outcomes that shaped 1066.     •    Source Usefulness Practice: Introduce students to exam-style tasks, helping them develop critical thinking and evaluation skills early in their history journey.     •    Multimedia Reinforcement: Carefully selected videos bring the events of the Battle of Hastings to life, deepening students’ understanding and engagement. Tailored for Year 7 Learners: This resource balances accessibility and challenge, making it ideal for young historians stepping into the world of source analysis and historical evaluation.

Dive into the dramatic world of 1066 with this meticulously crafted lesson on the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Designed to captivate and challenge students, this resource provides a comprehensive exploration of the weapons, military strategies, and pivotal events of the era. What’s Inside:     •    Dynamic Narratives: Gripping stories bring the battles of Fulford Gate and Stamford Bridge to life, immersing students in the tension and stakes of 1066.     •    Interactive Embedded Tasks: Seamlessly woven into the narratives, these activities engage students in critical thinking, historical analysis, and hands-on exploration of the era’s warfare and strategy.     •    Exit Ticket Challenges: Thought-provoking questions and evaluation prompts encourage students to reflect, analyze, and articulate their understanding of the events and their significance.

Discover “Threats to the Republic” – A Comprehensive Teaching Resource for History Educators Dive into the pivotal events of 1918 with “Threats to the Republic”, a meticulously designed teaching resource perfect for Year 10 history lessons. This resource unpacks the dramatic revolution that gripped Germany between 1919-20. Key Features:     •    Interactive Learning: Engage students with tasks like analyzing the Spartacist Uprising and the Kapp Putsch.     •    Critical Thinking Challenges: Promote deeper understanding the differences between the Left and Right of politics in Weimar.     •    Exam Prep Integration: Includes practice questions to develop source analysis skills.     •    Holistic Approach: Links historical events to broader violence in Germany post WWI. Equip your students with the tools to explore this transformative period in German history. Perfect for fostering analytical skills and historical empathy. Don’t miss this essential resource for your classroom!

Discover “The Treaty of Versailles” – A Comprehensive Teaching Resource for History Educators Dive into the pivotal events of 1919 with “The Treaty of Versailles”, a meticulously designed teaching resource perfect for Year 10 history lessons. This resource unpacks the dictated peace forced upon Germany at the culmination of the First World War and the attitudes towards it from Germany. Key Features:     •    Interactive Learning: Engage students with tasks like analyzing the territorial losses Germany faced and the aims of the big three at the Paris Peace Conference.     •    Critical Thinking Challenges: Promote deeper understanding through thought-provoking questions on German resentment of the treaty.     •    Exam Prep Integration: Includes practice questions to develop source analysis skills.     •    Holistic Approach: Links historical events to broader narratives like World War I’s end and the formation of the League of Nations. Equip your students with the tools to explore this transformative period in German history. Perfect for fostering analytical skills and historical empathy. Don’t miss this essential resource for your classroom!

Discover “The Weimar Republic” – A Comprehensive Teaching Resource for History Educators Dive into the pivotal events of 1918 with “The German Revolution”, a meticulously designed teaching resource perfect for Year 9 history lessons. This resource unpacks the dramatic collapse of Imperial Germany during the final days of World War I, leading to the formation of the Weimar Republic. Key Features:     •    Interactive Learning: Engage students with tasks like analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the Weimar system.     •    Critical Thinking Challenges: Promote deeper understanding through thought-provoking questions on the strength and opposition to Weimar.     •    Exam Prep Integration: Includes practice questions to develop source analysis skills.     •    Holistic Approach: Links historical events to broader narratives like World War I’s end and its aftermath. Equip your students with the tools to explore this transformative period in German history. Perfect for fostering analytical skills and historical empathy. Don’t miss this essential resource for your classroom!

Discover “The German Revolution” – A Comprehensive Teaching Resource for History Educators Dive into the pivotal events of 1918 with “The German Revolution”, a meticulously designed teaching resource perfect for Year 9 history lessons. This resource unpacks the dramatic collapse of Imperial Germany during the final days of World War I, leading to the formation of the Weimar Republic. Key Features:     •    Interactive Learning: Engage students with tasks like analyzing the Kiel Mutiny’s impact and inferring governance conditions from historical sources.     •    Critical Thinking Challenges: Promote deeper understanding through thought-provoking questions on the stab-in-the-back theory and opposition to Weimar.     •    Exam Prep Integration: Includes practice questions to develop source analysis skills.     •    Holistic Approach: Links historical events to broader narratives like World War I’s end and its aftermath. Equip your students with the tools to explore this transformative period in German history. Perfect for fostering analytical skills and historical empathy. Don’t miss this essential resource for your classroom!

Lesson designed to explore early castle building. The purpose, design and impact of these will be explored. Includes: Evaluation tasks of why the Normans built castles. Explanation task of where to build castles. Literacy tasks. Plenary letter writing task.

Part of Edexcel GCSE Crime and Punishment Lesson focus to evaluate terrorism and smuggling as crimes in the modern age. Tasks include: Defining the key terms. Explanations of International & Right Wing terrorism as well as other forms and a specific focus on IRA and UDF actions in Northern Ireland. Evaluation of change and continuity with modern smuggling. Exam style question.

Part of Edexcel GCSE Crime and Punishment Lesson focus to evaluate how & why attitudes to some crimes have changed in the modern age. Tasks include: Dates guessing starter. Evaluation of changing attitudes towards race, gender and sexuality in Britain. Explanation of changing laws on domestic violence and drug use. Extra own knowledge segments to promote discussion - county lines and Aids Crisis. Final task exploring continuity and change over time.

Part of GCSE Crime and Punishment Whitechapel case Study Lesson focus on immigration to Whitechapel in the 19th century and the increasing tensions as a consequence. Evaluation of tension created by immigration of Eastern European Jews, Irish Navvies and Social Anarchists to East London. Table of evaluation to complete. 8 Mark Source Usefulness question. Think-Pair-Share Starter.

Part of GCSE Crime and Punishment Whitechapel case Study Focus on understanding the difficulties faced by the society of Whitechapel: Descriptions of H-Division. Table of evidence to explore problems facing the police. Balanced view points provided. Exam style question.

Lesson focus is to understand the nature of the ‘Source follow up’ question in GCSE Crime & Punishment. Lesson includes: Source practice tasks Evaluation of changes to policing in London. Creation of examples sheet of sources to be used in a follow up task. Exam practice.

Part of GCSE Crime & Punishment. The focus of this lesson is to explore the changes made to Pentonville under the separate system. Includes: Focus on chronology of change over time. Booklet handout to complete covering: * The design of the prison. * Conditions in the prison. * Opinions on the prison. Evaluation of the reasons for the harsh conditions in Pentonville.

For Edexcel GCSE Crime & Punishment. Lesson to focus on the changes made to policing as an overview. To include: Overview of Bow Street Runners and early Metropolitan Police Opposition to reforms. Reason for slow change. Source analysis.

For Edexcel GCSE Crime & Punishment. Focus on the introduction of large scale transportation as a punishment. To include: Mapping of the reasons for it’s use Source inference for punishments in the colonies. Story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs (literacy focus) Story board of causes, events and consequences of Tolpuddle.

For Edexcel GCSE Crime & Punishment. Focus on changing nature of crime. To include: Casestudies of Highwayman, Smuggling and Poaching. Comprehension tasks and flow diagram to complete. Exam style q.

For Edexcel GCSE Crime & Punishment. Lesson to focus on changes to law enforcement in the 16th-18th Centuries. To include: Source analysis Continuity and change evaluation. Descriptions of new methods. Explanations of: Thief Takes, Early Transportation (to 13 Colonies), early Prisons and the Bloody Code.

For Edexcel GCSE Crime & Punishment. Lesson to focus on the increase of Witchcraft as a crime as well as vagrancy between the 16th and 17th Centuries. To include: Reasons for increased focus on witchcraft. Reasons for convictions. Matthew Hopkins Case study Chronology of Vagrancy laws. Changes after the Civil War (Puritan England).

For Edexcel GCSE Crime & Punishment. Lesson to include: Analysis of why the plotters wanted James I dead. Exploration of whether the plotters were framed. Explanation of consequences. Exam style questions. Lesson 7 in scheme