Hi there, I am a head of History based in South Yorkshire.
My strengths and passion are in teaching and learning. I enjoy making my lessons as engaging as possible as it is this, which I believe, to be the most effective behaviour management strategy and the key to helping students achieve excellent results and become engaged and excited about history and learning.
Hi there, I am a head of History based in South Yorkshire.
My strengths and passion are in teaching and learning. I enjoy making my lessons as engaging as possible as it is this, which I believe, to be the most effective behaviour management strategy and the key to helping students achieve excellent results and become engaged and excited about history and learning.
A Remembrance Day resource created for teachers to share with tutor groups student assemblies or to be used for a one off lesson with your secondary KS3 and KS4 students.
Included in this Microsoft Powerpoint resource is a teacher-led powerpoint presentation on Remembrance Day with optional links to Youtube videos to enhance the learning.
In addition to the teacher led presentation on Remembrance Day and how we celebrate it, there are also three fully resourced student activities (with answers for teachers or for students to self assess) which include a codebreaker activity, a cloze activity worksheet and a mini 10 question quiz.
I really hope your students enjoy this lesson for Remembrance. If you get the opportunity, please review!
This lesson is the second in my SOW following William of Normandys ascension to the English throne in 1066.
The lesson focuses heavily on exam technique (4 mark describe) and source inferences (6 mark OCR). The lesson explores the reasons for the Normans Harrying of the North and details the impact this had on helping William keep control of England in 1066.
The lesson has a variety of tasks that will take you beyond an hour and a suggested homework with a focus on bias and demonstrating knowledge acquired in the lesson is also provided.
Resources are hidden on the lesson ppt in the relevant places.
Please review!
Included within this resource is 2x consecutive lessons looking at recruitment and propaganda aimed at KS3 students studying World War one. The content however is good for students studying this topic at GCSE.
Source analysis of recruitment posters, extended writing practice and exam style questions make up the tasks in this pack.
Resources are included in hidden slides at the end of the ppt as well as in separate documents.
The attached resources details a lesson on the problems for other industries/people who suffered (i.e. coal, shipbuilding, african americans) in the USA in the 1920s. Exam practice on both 4 & 8 mark questions included.
Information sheet also contains a LAP version. Lesson resources hidden on slides on the main powerpoint.
Lesson is designed for the new AQA (2016 start) SOW. USA 1920 - 73.
A well presented lesson with accompanying student worksheets on Motte and Bailey castles created for KS3 history students on Microsoft Powerpoint
A little about the lesson
This lesson focuses on the first castles that were built in England following William the Conquerors success at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Not only does it look at the features of Motte and Bailey castles but it also looks at the strengths and weaknesses of these castles and students begin to consider how they were used to help William establish control of England.
Whats included?
A whole 1 hour lesson powerpoint is included (there are teacher notes also under some slides). Student worksheets/resources are included in hidden slides in the relevant points of the presentation and also as an additional Powerpoint for ease of printing. ‘Big Picture’ question, Keywords, Learning objectives and Learning Outcomes have also been completed in this resource, however, they can easily be tweaked to suit the needs and ability of your classes.
Keep an eye out for more new and updated lessons in my store and my weekly tutor time quizzes!
If you enjoyed this lesson, please review and take a look at some of the other lessons that look at they key question ‘How did William keep control of England after 1066?’
Stone Keep Castles
Attacking a Castle
Defending a Castle
Fuedal System
Harrying of the North
A Christmas Quiz for 2018 designed for the whole school students in KS3/KS4/KS5 however top end of KS2 would be able to access all rounds. I love doing these xmas quizzes every year with my form group and my classes.
Leave a review for this quiz and pick any resource from any of these stores, up to the value of £3, for free! (drop us an email with the one you’d like - tarahope663@gmail.com)
There are 7 rounds in the quiz and it is easily customisable to complete in any order you wish. I sometimes take out a round or 2 and pick my favourites if students need extra time on other rounds.
Round 1: General Knowledge (multiple choice)
Round 2: Christmas Adverts
Round 3: News (multiple choice)
Round 4: Celebrity Mash-Up
Round 5: Keypad Conundrums
Round 6: Xmas Song intros
Round 7: (BONUS ROUND) Christmas Dingbats (Also sold separately)
The quiz comes with full Quiz question ppt, Full Quiz answer ppt and double sided answer sheet for students to write on and a completed answer sheet also for ease of peer marking if required.
Raising money to pay for my wedding so if you purchase and enjoy please review!
This lesson details the social/economic and political consequences of the WSC and introduces the the fall of the republican government.
The lesson covers paired and independent work and offers students the opportunity to move around the room to exchange causes with one another.
Exam technique in this lesson covers Q1 on Paper 1D (Interpretation differences based on content) and self assessment with markscheme provided.
If purchased please review!
Kind Regards,
Tara
A well presented lesson serving as an introduction to Slavery by introducing topic keywords. Students are engaged through detailed, well presented resources.
The lesson provides keyword gap fill/jumbled words to choose as time/ability suits. In addition an answer sheet is provided. Students are then challenged to use the words in context in sentences to improve use of key historical language and vocab.
4 mark question layout used in the starter.
This lesson looks at the origins of the Cold war and compares the opposing ideologies of capitalism vs communism.
As always new AQA exam technique (4 mark source comparison question) is included.
Black History Month is celebrated in October in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands and February in America and many other countries.
To help you celebrate Black History Month with your KS3 and KS4 secondary students I have pulled together a bundle of 3 resources for you to share.
This resource is a bundle of 3 resources I have in my shop, combined together to be sold at cheaper price than they would be purchased individually - saving £1.50. A 30x question quiz, a whole lesson & a 24x question crossword puzzle
*Completing the lesson and the quiz with the students prior to them completing the crossword will aid them in completing the crossword without the use of the wordbank.
**Resources included **
Black History Month Quiz x30 questions (with both the long answer and short answer versions included)
Black History Month Quiz Answer Sheet
Black History Month 1x whole lesson and accompanying resource sheets
Black History Month Crossword (24 questions differentiated with and without a word bank with completely Black History Month crossword answer sheet.
This lesson is designed as an introductory lesson for Y7 students into the topic of William the Conqueror. This is the first of a sequence of lessons I have planned as is aimed at introducing historical/topic language to students.
Lesson 5 in my SOW - one of my favourite lessons to teach because they students have so much fun!
This lesson is as engaging as you choose to make it - LAP adaptions of the resources have been included and this lesson was originally designed and taught at mixed ability students.
Paired work/group discussion/ diamond 9/ strengths and weaknesses & literacy all incorporated!PLUS x factor music clips embedded and attached the the folder.
All you need now is a cardboard crown!!!
This resource has been created for the new AQA Spec.
Paper 1: Section A: Period Study: America, 1920-73.
The lesson is designed to be taught over 2 hours.
This lesson covers the economic boom and looks at the main causes, exploring how and why the 1920s in the USA was considered a period of prosperity.
The lesson covers exam technique for 8 & 12 marks with mark schemes and peer assessment.
This lesson provides both HAP & LAP information resources.
Fantastically produced, detailed resources.
Links to videos to watch and Teacher Notes included.
The attached resources offer detailed content revision covering:
The US government & its political parties
Economic Boom
Farmers
Other Industries who didn’t benefit
In addition is a detailed knowledge test for the first unit.
Lesson is designed for the new AQA (2016 start) SOW. USA 1920 - 73.
The first 6 lessons on the 1066 Hastings SOW.
1) Keywords
2) Who were the British?
3) Life in 1066.
4) Edward the Confessor.
5) 3 Contenders to the throne in 1066.
6) King Harold Godwinsons' problems.
Please note these are all sold individually in my shop but are reduced for bulk purchase. This is 3 weeks worth of lessons! Save yourself some work. As per usual all resources produced to an outstanding quality.
This lesson covers Elizabeth I’s religious settlement.
4 Mark exam technique has been incorporated into the lesson. The lesson has been written for KS3 however it would be useful for LAP GCSE students studying the Elizabethan module for their GCSE.
This lesson details the progression from Motte and Bailey Castles to Stone Keep Castles in Medieval Britain.
The lesson contains a 4 mark describe question to reflect on prior learning.
The content covers the structure and features of stone keep castle and then looks further (through means of a carousel activity) advantages and disadvantages of stone keep castles.
This would lead well to insert a Paper 1 ‘Interpretations Q’ for the new Spec AQA paper.
This lesson is designed for my current Y11 students starting AQA Paper 1 (Old Spec).
It covers the content to the event through a detailed piece of writing which students work on independently at first then in groups to complete a worksheet. Students then use their knowledge of the event to practice and self mark a 6 mark question with heavy scaffolding to help students understand accurate exam structure.
The lesson content covers the events of 1936 and the reaction of the leading European powers at the time (namely Britain & France) to Hitler’s violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Students consider how/why was Hitler able to get away with it and begin to consider how this could lead to WW2.
Please review!
This lesson is the 4th lesson in my Slavery scheme of work.
This Middle Passage lessons looks firstly at the journey and experience of slaves through the middle passage via the medium of a storyboard.
Using a pack of resources, students then to consider in groups the Time/Author/Purpose/Place of each source.
Like in all my Slavery lessons - I show students a clip from ROOTs for them to visualise the Middle Passage - however this is not an essential part of the lesson!
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This lesson has been created with KS3 secondary history students in mind and is the second lesson in my Holocaust unit of work.
This lesson has been created on Microsoft Powerpoint and the accompanying student worksheets have been created on Microsoft Word and Powerpoint . Teacher Notes & Answers have been added to the notes section underneath each relevant slide on the Powerpoint. Please check these before delivering the lesson to your student. They offer excellent source analysis support for teachers new to the topic.
This resource is Lesson 2 in my Holocaust scheme of work. It’s aim is to explore the ways in which the Nazi’s used propaganda and stereotyping to humiliate and discredit the Jewish race in German society. This is to help students begin to understand how the Nazis then were able to turn society against the Jewish people and other minority groups which then paved the way towards Holocaust and eventual mass murder.
This lesson is very heavily focused on working on students source analysis and interpretation skills using antisemitic propaganda that was distributed by the Nazi party in German society in the 1930’s. This lesson includes suggested learning objectives and outcomes and has been designed to be taught over the course of one hour - although it may run over.
The utmost care has been taken to ensure this resource has been created with the utmost respect to the victims of the holocaust and to ensure that students have the opportunity to connect and empathise to the human beings to whom the attrocities of the holocaust were committed.** There a no graphic images of corpses in this resource.**
I really hope you enjoy teaching this lesson to your students as much as I do! If you are able to leave a review once you have taught it, I would be really grateful.
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Lesson 1: Ordinary things
Holocaust Memorial Day Assembly