This bundle follows the Key Stage 3 National Curriculum - the development of Church, state and society in Britain 1509-1745 including the Elizabethan religious settlement and conflict with Catholics (including Scotland, Spain and Ireland). The aims of this bundle are to know and understand how peoples’ lives were shaped by Elizabeth, how she dealt with the threats to her rule and how her legacy lives on today as one of our greatest ever Queens. Students will learn and understand key historical skills. These include historical concepts such as continuity and change with a focus on the Elizabethan Poor Law, the causes and consequences of the Elizabethan Settlement, similarities and differences in her portraits and the significance of the defeat of the Armada as well as exploration and the theatre. The 11 lessons are broken down into the following: L1 The young Elizabeth L2 The Elizabethan Settlement (free resource) L3 Elizabeth and her favourites (free resource) L4 Elizabeth and the problem of marriage L5 Elizabeth and her portraits L6 How did Elizabeth deal with Mary, Queen of Scots? L7 Famous explorers (Drake, Hawkins and Raleigh) L8 The Spanish Armada L9 Elizabeth, poverty and the Poor Law L10 Elizabethan Theatre and the Globe Each lesson comes with suggested teaching and learning strategies and are linked to the latest historical interpretations and debate from the BBC and other sources. The lessons are fully adaptable in PowerPoint format and can be changed to suit. I have included a couple of free lessons to give an idea of what is being offered. Although this bundle is aimed at Key Stage 3, it is ideal if you are studying Elizabeth I for GCSE as it covers the main themes, concepts and skills required for the new specifications.

This bundle is the first part in a series of lessons I have created for AQA GCSE 9-1 Germany 1890-1945: Democracy and Dictatorship. As well as focusing on GCSE exam practice questions, the lessons apply the skills necessary to enable the students to achieve the highest grades. The lessons will allow students to demonstrate (AO1) knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the period studied from the Kaiser and the problems he faced as well as the implementation of the Treaty of Versailles and the challenges faced by the Weimar Government. They will study (AO2) second-order concepts such as change and continuity in the new Weimar Constitution and the causes and consequences of Stresemann’s policies. The analysis and evaluation of sources (AO3) are used in for example the Treaty of Versailles and the Munich Beer Hall Putsch lessons whilst substantiated judgements are made (AO4) on political and economic problems of the Weimar Republic as well as questioning whether the later 1920’s really were a Golden Age. The lessons are as follows: L1 Kaiser Wilhelm II (free resource) L2 The Kaiser’s Government and Weltpolitik L3 The impact of World War 1 on Germany (free resource) L4 The Weimar Constitution and Political Parties L5 The Treaty of Versailles L6 Political Uprisings – the Spartacists and the Kapp Putsch (free resource) L7 The Ruhr Crisis and Hyperinflation L8 The Munich Beer Hall Putsch L9 Gustav Stresemann L10 The Golden Age of Stresemann Please note that setting a full mock examination in class after completing this unit is strongly recommended. All the examination resources and markschemes are subject to copyright but can easily be found on the AQA website. The resources all include suggested teaching strategies, retrieval practice, differentiated materials and come in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change. Any reviews would be gratefully received.

This bundle is the second part in a series of lessons I have created for AQA GCSE 9-1 Britain: Health and the People, c.1000-present. I have taught this course for more than 20 years now and have again decided to completely overhaul my lessons to bring them up to date with the latest teaching and learning ideas I have picked up and with a focus on the new 9-1 GCSE. Furthermore I have dispensed with learning objectives to focus on specific enquiry based questions which address the knowledge and skills required for the GCSE questions. As well as focusing on GCSE exam practice questions, the lessons are all differentiated and are tailored to enable the students to achieve the highest grades. The lessons will allow students to demonstrate (AO1) knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the period studied from the brilliance of the surgical skills of John Hunter to the discovery of the vaccination for smallpox by Edward Jenner. They will study (AO2) second-order concepts such as change and continuity in the development of ideas about disease and the causes and consequences for surgery with the discovery and anaesthetics and antiseptics. The analysis and evaluation of sources (AO3) are used in for example Public Health in the 19th Century whilst substantiated judgements are made (AO4) on the progression or regression of medicine from the Renaissance pioneers such as Vesalius, Pare and Harvey to the discovery and isolation of germs by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. The lessons are as follows: L8 Renaissance Medicine L9 Medicine in the 17th and 18th Century (free resource) L10 John Hunter L11 Edward Jenner and smallpox L12 Surgery in the 19th Century L13 Florence Nightingale and hospitals L14 Pasteur, Koch and Tyndall L15 Public Health in the 19th Century Please note that setting a full mock examination in class after completing this unit is strongly recommended. All the examination resources and markschemes are subject to copyright but can easily be found on the AQA website. .

This bundle is the first part in a series of lessons I have created for AQA GCSE 9-1 Britain: Health and the People, c.1000-present. I have taught this course for more than 20 years now and have again decided to completely overhaul my lessons to bring them up to date with the latest teaching and learning ideas I have picked up and with a focus on the new 9-1 GCSE. Furthermore I have dispensed with learning objectives to focus on specific enquiry based questions which address the knowledge and skills required for the GCSE questions. As well as focusing on GCSE exam practice questions, the lessons are all differentiated and are tailored to enable the students to achieve the highest grades. The lessons will allow students to demonstrate (AO1) knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the period studied from the impact of Hippocrates and Galen on medieval medicine to the power and control of the Christian Church. They will study (AO2) second-order concepts such as change and continuity in the development of ideas about disease and the causes and consequences of the Black Death and the Plague on Britain. The analysis and evaluation of sources (AO3) are used in for example surgery whilst substantiated judgements are made (AO4) on the progression or regression of medicine from new ideas from the Islamic world as well as the Christian Church . The lessons are as follows: L1 An introduction to the course L2 Hippocrates and Galen L3 The influence of the Christian Church L4 Islamic Medicine L5 Doctors and surgeons in the Middle Ages L6 Public Health in the Medieval towns L7 The Black Death and the Plague Please note that setting a full mock examination in class after completing this unit is strongly recommended. All the examination resources and markschemes are subject to copyright but can easily be found on the AQA website.

The aims of this bundle are to investigate the causes of the French Revolution, how it changed the lives of French people and its consequences for Europe and the Wider World with the rise of Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars. I have also created and used these lessons to challenge and engage students and to show how much fun learning about this part of European history really is. By studying this unit, pupils will be able to make connections, draw contrasts, and analyse trends within this period of history by using an enquiry based question throughout all the lessons. Students will learn and understand key historical skills throughout such as the change and continuity of the Government of France in the Eighteenth Century, the causes and consequences of the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and the similarities and differences of absolute monarchs such as Louis XVI of France, and Frederick the Great of Prussia in comparison to George III of Britain. They will also learn about the significance of the Tennis Court Oath, the Storming of the Bastille, the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte as well as different interpretations of Marie Antoinette and Maximilien Robespierre. Finally they will create relevant, structured and evidentially supported accounts in response to claims that the Terror was justified, Britain had every reason to fear Napoleon or that Louis XVI deserved to be executed. The lessons are as follows: L1 Introduction to the French Revolution L2 The French Monarchy L3 The Three Estates L4 Louis XVI financial problems L5 Tennis Court Oath L6 Storming of the Bastille L7 Execution of King Louis XVI L8 The reign of Terror L9 Maximilien Robespierre (free resource) L10 Support for the French Revolution L11 Napoleon Bonaparte L12 Napoleonic Wars L13 Legacy of the French Revolution (free resource) All the lessons come with retrieval practice activities, differentiated materials, suggested teaching and learning strategies and are linked to the latest historical interpretations, video clips and debate. The lessons are enquiry based with a key question posed at the start of the lesson and revisited at the end to show the progress of learning. They are fully adaptable in PowerPoint format and can be changed to suit. I would highly recommend assessing students at the tend of this unit of study, using GCSE style questions from your chosen exam board. If you have any questions about this unit, please do not hesitate to contact me via my shop for further information.

This bundle is the complete series of lessons I have created for AQA GCSE 9-1 Germany 1890-1945: Democracy and Dictatorship. As well as focusing on GCSE exam practice questions, the lessons apply the skills necessary to enable the students to achieve the highest grades. The lessons will allow students to demonstrate (AO1) knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the period studied from the Wall Street Crash and the transformation by Hitler of the Nazis into an electable force. They will study (AO2) second-order concepts such as change and continuity in the economic problems facing Germany and the causes and consequences of Hitler becoming Chancellor. The analysis and evaluation of sources (AO3) are used in for example The Night of the Long Knives lessons whilst substantiated judgements are made (AO4) on the limited opposition in Nazi Germany and the conversion into a totalitarian state. The lessons are as follows: L1: Kaiser Wilhelm II (free resource) L2 The Kaiser’s Government and Weltpolitik L3 The impact of World War 1 on Germany (free resource) L4 The Weimar Constitution and Political Parties L5 The Treaty of Versailles L6 Political Uprisings – the Spartacists and the Kapp Putsch (free resource) L7 The Ruhr Crisis and Hyperinflation L8 The Munich Beer Hall Putsch L9 Super Stresemann L10 The Golden Age of Stresemann L11 The Wall Street Crash L12 The rise of the Nazis and the transformation of the Nazi Party L13 How did Hitler become Chancellor? (free resource) L14 How did Hitler consolidate his power? L15 The Night of the Long Knives L16 The Nazi Police State L17 The Nazis and the economy L18The Hitler Youth L19 The role of women in Nazi Germany L20 The Nazis and the Churches L21 Hitler’s hate list L22 The Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht L23 The Final Solution L24 Opposition in Nazi Germany L25 The German Home Front 1939-45 (free resource) Please note that setting a full mock examination in class after completing each unit is strongly recommended. All the examination resources and markschemes are subject to copyright but can easily be found on the AQA website. Each resource gives suggested teaching strategies and are differentiated . They come in PDF and Powerpoint formats and can be amended and changed to suit. Please note that due to Bundle restrictions of 20 lessons, the free resources (L1, L3, L6, L13, L25) need to be downloaded seperately.

Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 This series of eight lessons introduce the second part of the AQA Conflict and Tension course 1918-39 and focus on The League of Nations. Lessons come complete with suggested teaching strategies and differentiated learning tasks. I have included many of the typical GCSE questions in these lessons from source analysis, write an account to the longer 16+4 mark questions. The lessons are broken down into the following: L1: Introduction to the League of Nations L2: The structure of the League of Nations L3: The Commissions L4: How successful was the League of Nations in the 1920’s? L5: The decline of International Cooperation (free resource) L6: The Manchurian Crisis L7: The Abyssinian Crisis L8: Was the League destined to fail? Lessons also include some retrieval practice activities come in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change. Any reviews would be gratefully received.

This bundle is the second part in a series of lessons I have created for Edexcel GCSE 9-1: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-1991. The lessons are all differentiated, fully resourced, amendable on Powerpoint and are tailored to enable the students to achieve the highest grades. The lessons will allow students to demonstrate (AO1) knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the period studied from the building of the Berlin Wall and its eventual collapse to the end of the Cold War. They will also explain and analyse (AO2) second-order concepts such as change and continuity in tensions between East and West such as détente and Reagan’s Second Cold War and the causes and consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Prague Spring, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Gorbachev’s new ideas. The lessons are as follows: L12 Berlin Ultimatum L13 Building the Berlin Wall L14 Cuba and the Bay of Pigs L15 Cuban Missile Crisis L16 Prague Spring L17 Détente and SALT 1 L18 Helsinki Accords and SALT 2 L19 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan L20 Reagan and the Second Cold War L21 Gorbachev’s new ideas L22 Fall of the Berlin Wall The lessons are enquiry based with a key question of how close was the world to a nuclear war using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lessons and revisited throughout to show the progress of learning. The lessons in this bundle are therefore linked together to build up a picture of how diplomacy, propaganda and spying led two Superpowers with opposing political ideologies to create tensions, rivalries and distrust as well as form mutual understanding and cooperation over the time period in question. The resources include retrieval practice, suggested teaching strategies, differentiated materials and GCSE exam practice questions. They all come in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.

Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 This series of eight lessons introduce the third part of the AQA Conflict and Tension course 1918-39 and focus on the origins and outbreak of World War II. Lessons come complete with suggested teaching strategies and differentiated learning tasks. I have included many of the typical GCSE questions AQA have so far supplied, from source analysis, write an account to the longer 16+4 mark questions. The last lesson also gives some GCSE practice questions and examples of how to answer them. The lessons are broken down into the following: L1: Hitler’s Aims L2: Reactions to Hitler’s Foreign Policy L3: The road to war and German rearmament L4: Reoccupation of the Rhineland (free resource) L5: The Anschluss L6: The Sudeten Crisis L7: The Nazi-Soviet Pact L8: Why did World War II break out? Lessons also include some retrieval practice activities and come in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change. Any reviews would be gratefully received.

Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 This series of five lessons introduce the first part of the AQA Conflict and Tension course 1918-39 and focus on peacemaking after World War One. Lessons come complete with suggested teaching strategies and differentiated learning tasks. I have included many of the typical GCSE questions AQA have so far supplied, from source analysis, write an account, source opposition to the longer 16+4 mark questions. The lessons are broken down into the following: L1: Aims of the Peacemakers L2: Compromise L3: Terms of the Treaty of Versailles L4: Satisfaction with the Treaty L5: The Wider Peace Settlement (free resource) Lessons also include some retrieval practice activities and come in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change. Any reviews would be gratefully received.

This bundle is the third part in a series of lessons I have created for AQA GCSE 9-1 Britain: Health and the People, c.1000-present. I have taught this course for more than 20 years now and have again decided to completely overhaul my lessons to bring them up to date with the latest teaching and learning ideas I have picked up and with a focus on the new 9-1 GCSE. Furthermore I have dispensed with learning objectives to focus on specific enquiry based questions which address the knowledge and skills required for the GCSE questions. As well as focusing on GCSE exam practice questions, the lessons are all differentiated and are tailored to enable the students to achieve the highest grades. The lessons will allow students to demonstrate (AO1) knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the period studied from the brilliance of the surgical skills learnt during wars and conflict to the growth of the pharmaceutical companies such as Wellcome. They will study (AO2) second-order concepts such as change and continuity in the development of ideas about disease and the causes and consequences for health care with the introduction of the NHS. The analysis and evaluation of sources (AO3) are used in for example in the Factors Question whilst substantiated judgements are made (AO4) on the progression of medicine from twentieth century developments in sulphonamides and the discovery of Penicillin. The lessons are as follows: L16 The Liberal Reforms L17 Medicine and War L18 The Pharmaceutical Companies L19 Penicillin L20 The NHS L21 The Factors Question Please note that setting an assessment in class after completing this unit is strongly recommended. All the examination resources and markschemes are subject to copyright but can easily be found on the AQA website.

AQA GCE A Level Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-45 Nazi Dictatorship 1933-39 I have produced this bundle of resources on the beginnings of the Nazi Dictatorship 1933-39 to help A Level students gain a deeper understanding of Germany’s past and the establishment of a Dictatorship. The enquiry question throughout these lessons will be evaluate how much of a totalitarian state Germany became under the Nazis. Students will learn about the impact of the Night of the Long Knives and the significance Hindenburg’s death had on Hitler’s consolidation of power. They will also explore the mechanisms and apparatus Hitler installed to provoke fear and ensure compliance among the population, including the roles of the Gestapo and SS. Students will assess the effectiveness of Nazi propaganda in controlling public perception and opinion., the economic policies of the Four Year Plan and autarky and the impact upon workers of the DAF, Strength Through Joy and Beauty of Labour programmes. Finally students will analyse the efficacy of social policies on the young and women and decide how successfully the Churches were brought into line and replaced with the Nazis version of Christianity. The resources provided include detailed lesson plans, case studies, source documents for analysis, chronological tasks and exam practice questions with comprehensive mark schemes. The lessons are as follows: L1 One Party State (Free resource) L2 The Night of the Long Knives L3 The Terror State L4 Early Opposition L5 Propaganda L6 Economic Policy L7 Youth Groups L8 Women L9 Workers L10 The Churches The lessons include the two types of exam question used, with examples of how to tackle them, using model answers, helpful hints and tips, structuring and scaffolding as well as markschemes. However, please refer to the AQA website for further assessment materials as they are subject to copyright. The lessons are also differentiated and fully resourced and allow students to reach the very top marks. I am currently completing further lessons for Part 4 the Racial State, which will appear on TES shortly. If you have any questions about the lessons, please email me via my TES shop, or any other information about the course. I would also welcome any reviews, which would be gratefully appreciated.