Understanding Cause and Consequence

This lesson works perfectly to introduce chronology with Year 7 and sets the students up for the rest of their History adventure be it 3, 5 or 7! It works as a stand-alone lesson, or as the second in my introduction to history series with ‘what is chronology’ being the first part.

This is a full lesson and comes with my students’ seal of approval.

Introduction: Students begin with a literacy exercise

Teacher-Student investigation: Students are asked for their ideas on what ‘cause’ and ‘consequence’ means. Then put this skill to the test with a literacy exercise.

Practice: Students are given four consequences and can come up with imaginative causes!

Main task: Students are given a series of events (from across the KS3 and 4 curriculum), they then work together to work out the cause for each of them.

Explanation: The events are then given to the students to self-check their timeline with the events being given one-by-one on the PPT. Time for teacher insight into each event and to ask class for their ideas.

Plenary practice: Students then write some of their own cause and consequence sentences and share them with their partner.

I always enjoy delivering this lesson, and I hope you will, too!