This lesson looks at the causes of the Depression and its impacts on Germany. Students create a fact file about the Wall Street Crash by extracting information from text and video footage (differentiated on PowerPoint). The main activity looks at some facts/ impacts on Germany which students link to categories and prioritise before writing up their findings in a newspaper report.

This lesson looks at the causes of the Great Fire of London. Plenty of higher order thinking skills and discussion based learning followed by a task which requires the creation of a leaflet which focuses on literacy skills and GCSE skills

A lesson that looks at the key factors that led to a reduced support for the Nazi Party between the years 1923-29. Students categorise cards, prioritize evidence and create a mind map before using their knowledge to complete a Paper 3 Q3a style question. Literacy support and advice for the exam question included as well as exam tips and differentiated worksheets.

Students learn about the one of the key flash points from the Cold War. There are a range of activities, such as a fact file task, plotting the ‘13 days’ on a crisis graph and the main task is a newspaper article (success criteria, literacy support and differentiated). To end they need to determine who was the victor in the crisis by writing a tweet setting out either the USA or Soviet’s view on the outcome of the crisis. These resources take many hours to create so please be kind enough to leave a review. Thank you.

I'm using this for prejudice and intolerance in the USA 1920s to ensue that students understand the differences between communism and capitalism and why Americans in the 1920s would fear communism. Also ideal for KS3 e.g. Nazi Germany and dictatorships.

I use this for all my KS3 classes. Useful for self and peer assessment. I get the students to stick it in the front of their exercise books or planners.

PowerPoint, cardsort activity, differentiated task and key word support.

presentation, sources, card sort activity and report activity.

Students asked to imagine what the USA was like in 1920s. Later they are introduced to a range of sources which they annotate and use to explain what was happening in the USA in the 1920s. plenary referes back to the starter.

Card sort activity to assess the evidence. Followed by source analysis to determine why they were executed followed by a 6 mark Explain question. OCR specification.

A fun lesson where students work in teams to accurately reconstruct an artefact that commemorates the Empire. After the game they need to analyse the artefact and work out what it suggests about the Victorian Empire.

A History Mystery as your students are presented with pieces of evidence which they must analyse in order to create a theory about the death of Emily Davison. When the evidence has been evaluated they can create a newspaper article to explain their theory. Differentiated and fully resourced with clear step by step instructions.

EStudents analyse a range of sources and score these based on how useful medieval medicine was before responding to an extended response question which develops examination skills. Literacy support provided. Clear instructions and ready to teach.

Easy to follow lesson. Students have to organise information about the changes onto a graph before writing up speech bubbles for different types of women to explain how much their life changed and why it did/ did not change. Exam style question to finish.

Easy to follow lesson. Card sort activity (students group the cards and decide on most important factors). Main task is a newspaper article explaining why it occurred and what could have been done to avoid the event. Differentiated material provided as well as literacy support.

A lesson that looks at the reason why William needed to introduce the Feudal System, what it was and how it worked. Tasks include; worksheet (literacy support included) and group activity where students create a short play to help explain how the system worked.

Useful documents for students to stick in their books. Provides examples of questions and advice on responding to different types of questions.

Students identify some of the reasons why William built castles. They label a motte and bailey castle and analyse how castles changed during medieval times. Some students will identify and explain the impact that castles had on the Saxons.

The first 6 lessons for the unit USA 1919-1945. Lesson one is an introduction to the course where students are introduced to the main themes/ characters that they will study in the course. Lesson 2 requires the students to imagine what USA was like in 1920 before annotating/ analysing sources from the period and then revisiting their initial view and then explaining how their view has changed. Lesson 3 looks at the reasons for the economic boom. Lesson 4 explores the groups of people who either benefited/ did not benefit from the boom. Lesson 5 looks at the Jazz movement. All lessons contain detailed resources, literacy support, differentiated materials and key word/ literacy materials.

Students attempt to sequence the events of the Battle of Hastings and complete a comic strip activity. Following this they need to consider William’s problems and identify the main problems and offer some advice on how to approach these.