Cambyses Ancient History OCR GCSE Dual Coded Graphic Organisers

These Graphic Organisers are ideal for Ancient History 9-1 GCSE. Quality resources for the GCSE seem scarce and this is me trying to rectify that a bit.

My students really appreciate these. The organisers give enough ‘knowledge’ or ‘information’ for students to get a good grade at GCSE - a 4/5/6 depending on how much information they can retain.

We print these out A5 size and stick them in the middle of our books and as I am teaching students will annotate these sheets according to how much extra information they need to get above a 4/5/6.

The visuals are a huge help and icons and schemas are repeated as and when appropriate across the organisers which makes pupils feel secure and build a mental image of all the content - something I had found challenging to help them create before using these. The GOs really help tell the ‘story’ of Cambyses’ reign as king of Persia

Topics included:

1. Early Cambyses and Succession
2. Background to Cambyses’ invasion of Egypt
3. Cambyses conquest of Egypt
4. Cambyses positives as ruler of Egypt
5. Cambyses’ negatives and 'madness as ruler of Egypt
6. Cambyses’ military failures after conquering Egypt (Carthage, Ammonia, Ethiopia)
7. Smerdis’ the usurper and death of Cambyses