I am Head of Humanities in the West Midlands and have been teaching History for twenty years. I have marked exams and moderated coursework for GCSE History for a popular exam board since 2001. All resources published have been tried out in class before publication!
I am Head of Humanities in the West Midlands and have been teaching History for twenty years. I have marked exams and moderated coursework for GCSE History for a popular exam board since 2001. All resources published have been tried out in class before publication!
A revision PowerPoint on the each of the questions on the USA 1910-1929 exam paper - Unit 2. Can be easily adapted for other unit 2 papers by changing content and names. For each question, advice is given on:
how long to answer
examples of questions
sentence starters
demands of the question
Included is a table for students to record information from the PowerPoint - enlarge to A3 for best results. Can be used as part of ‘drop down’ or ‘exam cram’ revision session for real or mock exams.
A complete list of key words for the Elizabeth I topic including definitions. Also includes an extra two files where either the key word or definition column is blank for revision tasks.
A complete list of key words for the Entertainment & Leisure c500 - present day topic including definitions. Also includes an extra two files where either the key word or definition column is blank for revision tasks.
A complete list of key words for the USA 1910-1929 topic including definitions. Also includes an extra two files with just the key words and no definitions as well as a key words test.
Includes 8 spider diagram templates for revising the topic of Elizabeth I. Uses pictures and key words to split the topics up into manageable revision chunks.
Topics are:
1 - People
2 - Government
3 - Rich and Poor
4 - Entertainment
5 - Religion
6 - Catholics
7- Armada
8 - Puritans
Model answers for question 5 ‘Outline the development of…’ ‘Outline the changes to the development of…’ (20 mark question)
Topics are:
Sport
Holidays and Travel
Theatre, stage and screen
Music and dancing
Children’s entertainment
Cruel sports and cruel punishments
Revise the 2017 exam paper with at least three practice questions for each exam paper question. Covers the whole paper and the whole specification.
Question 1 covers problems and challenges.
Question 2 focuses on the economy
Question 3 covers culture and society
Features a PowerPoint presentation with all questions, sources and evidence.
Includes an answer booklet with writing frames for students to format all questions clearly and simply.
An excellent revision tool for the unit.
Personalised learning checklists for a variety of the new GCSE exam style questions based on Germany breadth study 1919-1991. Each includes the question, mark scheme and targets for improvement on a cover sheet for ticking and circling to make marking easy. Allows opportunities for peer and self assessment as well as targets for improvement.
Questions include:
- The German economy greatly improved after Hitler came to power in 1933. Arrange the three reasons in order of their significance in improving the German economy in the 1930s. Explain your choices. (9 marks]
- After World War 2 relations between the two Germany’s changed. Arrange the reasons in order of their significance in demonstrating the worsening relations between East and West. Explain your choices. (9 marks]
- Coordination was an important part of how Hitler and the Nazis controlled Germany. Three ways Hitler tried to control society was through 1. Women 2. Workers 3. Children. Arrange the three groups in order of how significant they were to the Nazi policy of coordination in the 1930s. (9 marks]
- How far did the economic status of the German people change between 1923 and 1929? (6 marks]
- How important was the impact of the Enabling Act in Hitler`s consolidation of power? [12 marks]
20 homeworks for the Germany 1919-1991 topic. Each week focuses on a different topic from the specification and also includes 'Round Up' homeworks to consolidate all prior knowledge. The focus is on the student to LEARN their key facts by answering 10 questions and then learning the 10 questions ready for a quick factual recap test next lesson. This test can be used as part of exit strategies or king or queen of History knowledge tests. Each homework uses the same format and the same question stems - they are very easy to mark and can easily be marked as a starter at the beginning of the lesson.
The questions follow the following format:
- Give 2 reasons why / Give 2... (2 questions)
- Name two ... (2 questions)
- Explain...
- What...
- Where...
- How...
- A true or false statement
- A key word anagram
Answers to the true / false statement and anagram can be found for each homework on the final slide of the download.
The topics tested are:
- Weimar
- Stresemann
- Rise of the Nazi Party
- Consolidation of Power
- The Police State
-Economy
-Women and children
- Jews up to 1939
- The Homefront
- Opposition
- Jews until 1945
- Defeat
- Round Up 1
- Berlin Blockade and Airlift
- Life in West Germany
- Life in East Germany
- Post 1960
- Reunification
- Round Ups 2 & 3
A student work booklet comprising 32 pages of questions and activities covering all 7 key questions. The booklet focuses on the key knowledge needed to pass the exam and covers the entire specification. When printed the booklet is ready for students to fill in and use as a revision tool.
Focus on the USA 1910-1929 unit for the new Eduqas GCSE History exam. Includes:
- knowledge organisers for the whole unit
- student workbook for the whole unit which can be used as part of teaching or revision
- weekly learning homeworks for the whole unit
- a USA practice exam question PLC
Focus on the changing style of music and different styles of music between 1951 and 1979.
Includes:
- PowerPoint on changing music styles with YouTube links to hear the changing face of music
- How people listened to music PowerPoint - this is content information only
- worksheets to consolidate
- Where people listened to music PowerPoint - info with a task
- Changing trends in popular music with two case studies on Cliff Richard & the Beatles - info only PowerPoint
This is a 38 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder. The booklet follows Section 1: Part 1: Chapter 2 on Henry VIII and Thomas Wolsey.
Each page has tasks based on the information given, for example,
- making specific notes
- answering key questions
- examining extracts based on the exam question stem
- practice essay
- completing tables
- map task on Europe in 1520
- mind maps
- recapping key words
At the end of the booklet are the two mark schemes for the source and essay questions for students to refer to.
This is a 35 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder. The booklet follows Part2: Section 2: Chapter 8 – Conflict & Exploration under Elizabeth I.
Each page has tasks based on the information given in the textbook, for example,
- making specific notes
- answering key questions
- examining extracts based on the exam question stem
- practice essay
- completing tables
- spider diagram
- timeline
At the end of the booklet are the two mark schemes for the source and essay questions for students to refer to.
This is a 92 slide quiz focused solely on the topic of Germany 1919-1990 - designed to make students think about their answers! There are four rounds:
Round 1 - What’s the connection? (35 questions)
Round 2 - What come’s fourth? (14 questions)
Round 3 - Missing vowels for keywords (28 questions)
Round 4 - Word Wall (5 word walls)
Can be played as a whole class or for individual revision testing.
Six revision activities to help revise Germany 1919-1991
Practice exam questions
Blank spider diagrams
Guess who game - I laminate mine so they can be reused
Blank Knowledge organisers for students to complete for revision
Revision card template for students to fill in
Knowledge test
A complete list of key words for the Germany 1919-1991 topic including definitions. Also includes an extra two files where either the key word or definition column is blank for revision tasks.
Includes 8 revision clock templates for students to revise the topic of the USA 1910-1929.
Topics are:
Clock 1 - USA general
Clock 2 – Immigration
Clock 3 - Race and Religion
Clock 4 - Crime and Corruption
Clock 5 - Economic Boom
Clock 6 - End of Prosperity
Clock 7 - Entertainment
Clock 8 - Women
Printing off in A3 is best for writing space. Spend 5 minutes on each section and one clock lasts a 60 minute lesson or use for students to revise individually.
I originally made this as a guide for new students who came into the school part way through the course. Now all students complete it when we are doing the USA topic.
It is 83 pages long, includes tasks, exam practice, second order concept skills practice and key word opportunities. It covers the entire USA topic and has tasks related to every section like comprehension exercises, filling in a table, case studies, diamond 9 and designing an advert for a Jazz speakeasy. Every exam question on the paper is planned and practiced with mark schemes and room for student improvements. It can be used hand in hand with the free book resource from Eduqas on their website. At the end of the book is a PLC on the whole topic for students to check their knowledge and set targets. https://resources.eduqas.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs?subId=17
There are three files:
(1) sources relating to the USA 1910-1929
(2) Interpretations to the USA 1910-1929
(3) Knowledge check
(1 & 2) Designed to be used as part of intervention sessions with GCSE History students but can also be good revision.
Each file gives examples of all the source / interpretation questions on the exam paper and includes a table with each source / interpretation to help students plan how to answer the questions. The table is based on the mark scheme so requires student to work out for each source / interpretation specifics such as ‘what is the content’? ‘what context would you use?’ ‘what about the author?’ ’ who is the audience of the source?’ etc.
After the exam questions are practice questions for students such as…
What other interpretations are there to:
The First World War was the main cause of the boom.
Or
What contextual knowledge would you use to evidence…
… corruption in government
… black people were segregated etc.
OR
How reliable is a source written by a …?
… flapper?
… Republican? etc
The sources file has 26 pages
the interpretations file has 14 pages
(3) The Knowledge check files asks students to plan their answers to all the key questions for USA 1910-1929 - there are revision tables to help students plan and write out. it is used as a aid for revising content information.
Hope you find this useful!