3. Key Stage 3 Historical Skills- Using evidence

This is the third and final lesson in my historical skills investigation lessons and focuses on explaining and developing the skill of using evidence as a historian.

This resource is the entire lesson on a power point and includes the following:

• Historical joke and riddle to settle the students while they write down the title and date
• Historical time period test based on the revision completed for homework
• Clear smart differentiated learning objectives
• Re-cap on the process of history to illustrate the focus of the lesson- using evidence
• Activity 1- students must think of at least 3 things that we can use to find out about the past and create a list in their books*
• AFL 1- table showing the 4 different categories of evidence and some of the main things we can use to find evidence
• Activity 2- Teacher explains the difference between Primary and Secondary evidence. Students must then look at multiple different sources and decide whether they are primary or secondary sources or could be either.
• AFL 2- self-assessment with answers on the board
• Activity 3- Teacher explains the difference between comprehension and inference when analysing a source. Students then write their own definition of what they think inference means (doesn’t matter if they are completely wrong!). Then watch the video to check their definitions and change/improve them. Students then have a go at making an inference from the source provided on the source analysis template provided.
• AFL 3- go through analysing the source with the students as a class and then RAG to check understanding
• Plenary- Pyramid to complete: one question; two things learned and 3 key words