A unit of work for KS3, giving students an overview of the Vietnam War. Included is a thorough SOW and accompanying resources. The unit builds students to GCSE level knowledge and understanding using GCSE grades as learning objectives but is designed for KS3 students as a transitionary or bridging unit between KS3 and KS4. Included is a one A4 page knowledge organiser and knowledge organiser tests. Lessons include:
Causes of the Vietnam War
VC tactics - booby traps
VC tactics - underground tunnels
US tactics - Operatiion Rolling Thunder, chemical weapons and seach and destroy
The My Lai massacre
The Tet Offensive
Opposition in the USA
The end of the war
A unit of work for KS3, giving students an overview of the American Civil Rights movement. Included is a thorough SOW and accompanying resources. The unit builds students to GCSE level knowledge and understanding focusing on the enquiry question: how far did the position of black Americans improve 1955-70? The unit uses GCSE grades as learning objectives but is designed for KS3 students as a transitionary or bridging unit between KS3 and KS4. Lessons include:
Jim Crow
Emmett Till
Progress in education: Brown v. Topeka and the Little Rock 9
Progress in transport: Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides
Progress in law: Birmingham Campaign, March on Washington, the assassination of JFK and the passage of the 1964 CRA
Progress in voting: Selma and the 1965 VRA
Black Power
An overview of overall progress made 1955-70
A revision work booklet (93 pages) for the following options:
Paper 1 (Crime and Punishment)
Paper 2 (the Cold War and Anglo-Saxons and Normans)
Paper 3 (the USA at home and abroad: Civil Rights and Vietnam War)
The work booklet covers every part of the specification including knowledge and skills. It can be used in class with dictation from the class teacher or for independent class/ home work. It easily works alongside the Pearson revision guides or textbooks. It includes:
Front cover
Instructions
PLCs (personalised learning checklists of the specification)
Revision timelines for students to complete with details (covering all specification bullet points)
Bluffers guide to exam questions (guidance, timings and sentence starters)
Example exam questions for every exam question (Covering all parts of the specification)
All constituent parts of the revision work booklet also included in separate documents for ease of use.
A full 12 week scheme of work with differentiated learning objectives linked to the 9-1 grade criteria. Includes fully resourced lessons, peer/self marking sheets for all exam questions, a personalised learning checklist for students to self assess themselves against the specification content and a bluffers guide to help with structuring exam questions. The scheme of learning uses the new Hodder textbook but could be easily adapted to suit other resources. The PowerPoints are wide screen so do not show correctly on the previews but once downloaded will show correctly and can be used on any computer or screen.
A full 6 week scheme of work for the Vietnam War section of the paper 3 unit The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad. It includes a full scheme of work with differentiated learning objectives linked to the 9-1 grade criteria and full resources for every lesson. It also includes a personalised learning checklist for students to self assess themselves against the content of the specification, a bluffers guide on how to answer the exam questions and peer/self assessment sheets for the 8, 12 and 16 mark questions. It uses the Hodder 9-1 textbook but could be easily adapted to suit other textbooks/resources. The PowerPoints are wide screen, so do not show correctly in the preview, however will show correctly on any computer/screen when downloaded.
A full 7 week scheme of work for the Civil Rights section of the paper The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad. It includes a full scheme of work with differentiated learning objectives linked to the 9-1 grade criteria and full resources for every lesson. It also includes a personalised learning checklist for students to self assess themselves against the content of the specification, a bluffers guide on how to answer the exam questions and peer/self assessment sheets for the 8, 12 and 16 mark questions. It uses the Hodder 9-1 textbook but could be easily adapted to suit other textbooks/resources. The PowerPoints are wide screen, so do not show correctly in the preview, however will show correctly on any computer/screen when downloaded.
A full 12 week scheme of work with differentiated learning objectives linked to the 9-1 grade criteria. Includes fully resourced lessons, peer/self marking sheets for all exam questions, a personalised learning checklist for students to self assess themselves against the specification content and a bluffers guide to help with structuring exam questions. Assessments are included. The scheme of learning references both the Hodder and Pearson textbooks but could be easily adapted to suit other resources. The PowerPoint previews do not show correctly but once downloaded will show correctly on any screen or computer.
Resources to teach the Cold War in 6 weeks or less (depending on how fast you go)! This is for the edexcel 9-1 History specification and is based on 3 50 minute lessons a week. The whole specification is taught and most lessons do not use textbooks at all, utilising handouts to considerably speed up teaching. Any Cold War textbooks can be used, old or new specification to accompany the few lessons that require the use of a textbook. All lessons include differentiated learning objectives linked to the 9-1 grade criteria and an exam question. Includes fully resourced lessons, peer/self marking sheets for all exam questions, a personalised learning checklist for students to self assess themselves against the specification content and a bluffers guide to help with structuring exam questions.