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Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level History resources available for purchase and download. New Focus Education offer resources from a teacher with 10 years teaching experience, a track record of excellent outcomes and experience of leadership at several levels. The main focus is AQA 8145 and AQA A Level, with key stage three resources available with GCSE skills and requirements embedded throughout.

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Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level History resources available for purchase and download. New Focus Education offer resources from a teacher with 10 years teaching experience, a track record of excellent outcomes and experience of leadership at several levels. The main focus is AQA 8145 and AQA A Level, with key stage three resources available with GCSE skills and requirements embedded throughout.
AQA A Level Britain 1950-2007: Britain's entry into the EEC 1973-5
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AQA A Level Britain 1950-2007: Britain's entry into the EEC 1973-5

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Lesson exploring how Britain finally joined EEC: Recap relationship with Europe, watch video and consider mixed reaction of people in Britain to EEC (hyperlinked with timings), exploration of 1975 referendum judgement plenary explaining why membership occurred between 1971-5 but not before (opportunity for linking in themes).
Mary Queen of Scots road to execution
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Mary Queen of Scots road to execution

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AQA 8145 - stepped exploration of how Mary was excuted including a hyper-linked video showing Elizabeth and Mary's letters and changing relationships. Pupils design a road to her execution using the work sheet focusing on key dates to gain a sesne of chronology - could be linked to "write an account" question style. Explain what was important question linked in regarding her execution.
AQA 8145 Why was there poverty in Elizabethan England?
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AQA 8145 Why was there poverty in Elizabethan England?

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AQA 8145 - exploration of causes of poverty in Elizabethan England. Introduction and link to modern day poverty, videos to introduce issue of the poor in Elizabethan England, worksheet including all relevant details and analysis of significance of factors causing the poverty with judgement plenary.
AQA 8145 - what was the League of Nations/successes of the League of Nations
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AQA 8145 - what was the League of Nations/successes of the League of Nations

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For AQA 8145 - conflict and tension 1919-39 Two lessons exploring the League of Nations focusing on - membership, structure, strengths and weaknesses and how it was viewed. Lesson 1 focuses on introducing students to the league using video and written sources. Lesson 2 focuses on how the League was interpretated by Britain, the USA and Germany and a card sort assesses the strengths and weakenesses of the League. This builds towards a 4 mark source question for the new spec - source d opposes the League. How do you know?
Ku Klux Klan and Black Americans
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Ku Klux Klan and Black Americans

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Exploration of who the KKK were using video and pictoral sources, analysis of primary source material regarding the activities of the KKK and judgement regarding the impact they had on black Americans.
Why did the Wall Street Crash happen?
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Why did the Wall Street Crash happen?

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Lesson exploring the causes of the stock market crash - links made to why the boom occured as a starter, video hyperlinked in explores key causes of the crash, moving on to a card sort activity allowing thematic categorisation and ranking of the relative significance of factors. Differentiated judgement questions included.
Depression focus - how and why did Hitler come to power?
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Depression focus - how and why did Hitler come to power?

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Building on the prior lesson students focus in on the importance of the depression in enabling Hitler to come to power. Video (hyperlinked) introduces the depression, focus on key individuals in Germany and how they felt with an assessed piece of work: Write an account of how Hitler and the Nazis came to power (8 marks) - AQA 8145 link
AQA 8145 - Health and the People: How did doctors deal with the Plague?
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AQA 8145 - Health and the People: How did doctors deal with the Plague?

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Lesson exploring the impact of the Plague on medical development. Starter for 10 recapping previous learning (answers included), hyperlinked video on the Plague, plague worksheet with assessment of attempted solutions, planning of similarities with black death answer, plenary assessment of a model paragraph for students to focus on WWW and EBI.