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.

4 lessons on Bernstein set work for GCSE

Starter activities for Year 7/8.

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.

10 lessons on minimalism with resources. Easy to follow. I teach this to Year 9 but it can be used at Year 8.

4 lesson booklet for Handel set work

4 chord trick mashup resource in F major with chords for Uke, keyboard and Guitar. 20 lyrics to use as well as a success criteria.

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.

3 different levels of score to choose from when playing the simpsons and a powerpoint to recap/introduce noation and keyboard work

A sequence of 5 lessons (taught to year 9 but suitable for year 8).

A great resource to show SLT and Ofsted in terms of progress being recorded. It is low maintenance for the teacher too,

Easy to follow lessons. These lessons have been taught to both year 7 & 8.