Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
This bundle covers the lessons needed to teach the final unit about Crime and Punishment in Modern Britain
Lesson 22: The changing definitions of crime after 1900.
Lesson 23: The changing methods of crime after 1900.
Lesson 24: The development of the modern police in Britain
Lesson 25: The abolition of the death penalty
Lesson 26: The case of Derek Bentley
Lesson 27: The development of prisons in modern Britain
Lesson 28: The treatment of Conscientious Objectors
This single page resource is a really useful timeline of all the key events covered in the Paper 1 topic Crime & Punishment. The timeline can be adapted to use as a high resolution display, book insert or revision tool and is clearly presented to fit most students’ needs.
You will receive:
1x full colour timeline poster
1x black and white timeline suitable for photocopy
1 x PDF file of the above
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This resource contains 20 slides which cover the whole Cold War & Superpower Relations topic. Each slide includes all the key information needed in line with the Edexcel GCSE specification.
These fact sheets can be used for revision or as information sheets for the teaching of the unit.
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
All the resources, fact sheets, assessment material and sources you will need for the last unit of Weimar and Nazi Germany
Lesson 21: Women and the Family in Nazi Germany
Lesson 22: Young people in Nazi Germany
Lesson 23: Education in Nazi Germany
Lesson 24: Life for the Unemployed in Nazi Germany
Lesson 25: Workers in Nazi Germany
Lesson 26: Minority groups in Nazi Germany
Lesson 27: The persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany
This bundle contains all of the resources, including information sheets, that you will need to teach the Medieval unit for GCSE History Medicine Through Time. There is no need for any text book and teacher notes are given throughout.
The lessons are as follows:
Lesson 1 - Overview of skills and knowledge
Lesson 2 - Supernatural and Religious Explanations of Disease
Lesson 3 - The Theory of Four Humours, The Theory of Opposites, Miasma
Lesson 4 - Explain the continuity of theories throughout Medieval England
Lesson 5 - Religious and Rational Treatments and Prevention
Lesson 6 - Surgeons, Apothecaries, Physicians and Wise Women
Lesson 7 - Medieval Hospitals and Home Care
Lesson 8 - Case Study of The Black Death
This is a new and updated series of 29 fact sheets spread over 29 power point slides. I have taken key information from a variety of text books such as Pearson and Hodder to produce these for teachers or parents who may wish to use them for revision, classroom learning or home learning. They cover all aspects of the Edexcel specification for GCSE History and are a suitable replacement for the text books.
These have taken many, many hours to complete and I hope that you can find them useful for your students.
2023 UPDATE: Please kindly note that all images including clipart, vectors, illustrations etc are in the public domain and classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise stated in the notes below each slide. If you see any errors, please email be directly in the first instance.
Thank you for viewing my resources. This lesson examines the many short term and longer term consequences of the crusades. It cover the many objects that were brought back to England as well as the ideas. It also examines the longer term impact the crusades had on our lives including people’s attitudes towards Islam.
In this resource pack you will get:
1 x A4 Worksheet about the various consequences of the crusades. Students read through the consequences to categorise them
1 x A4 question sheet which asks students to explain their most important consequences
1 x A4 answer sheet for the GCSE style question - Explain two consequences of the crusades
1 x Main Power Point which guides you and the students through the lesson:
Slide 1: Title slide - To examine the impact and consequences of the Crusades
Slide 2: Recap Starter Quiz - Filling in the missing terms about the Crusades
Slide 3: Answers revealed for the starter quiz
Slide 4: Printable student versions for the starter quiz
Slide 5: Animated and engaging background information about the relationship between the Christians and the Muslims during the Crusades
Slide 6: Animated and engaging background information about the modern day perspective of the Crusades
Slide 7: An overview of the impact of the crusades and introduction of the task
Slide 8: Task overview and model of what to do
Slide 9: Evaluating the consequences of the Crusades - additional higher level questions
Slide 10-12: GCSE style exam question - Explain two consequences of the Crusades - PEE structure and model answer given
Slide 13: Learning Review Option 1 - Memory game with full instructions
Slide 14: Learning Review Option 2: Pictionary
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
In this lesson, students will learn all about the events of the transatlantic slave trade from the stage of the slave auction to life on the plantations. Students will be able to describe the differences between the two methods of slave auctions and also use sources to describe the events of the auctions. They will then use a detailed fact sheet to help them understand what life on s slave plantation was like. This is a fully resourced lesson which includes printable fact sheets and worksheets as well as engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – Slave Auctions and Life on a Plantation
Slide 2: The purpose and aims of the lesson.
Slide 3: Recap Activity: Slave Trade recap quiz
Slide 4: Recap Activity answers
Slide 5: Source Analysis – A slave auction source with prompt questions and challenge questions.
Slide 6: Source Analysis – An alternative source about a slave auction with prompt questions and challenge questions.
Slide 7: Activity 1 – Source Analysis - instructions
Slide 8: Activity 1 – A printable sheet with 9 different sources about the slave auctions.
Slide 9: Background information about the two main methods of slave auctions.
Slide 10-16: Images of what life was like on a slave plantation.
Slide 17: Information/Fact sheet about life on a plantation
Slide 18: Printable question sheet about life on a plantation.
Slide 19: Challenge questions
Slide 20-21: 10 question learning review quiz with answers.
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. All of my lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This bundle contains all of the resources you will need to teach the Edexcel GCSE History Paper 1 Historic Environment - ‘The British Sector of the Western Front, injuries, treatment and the trenches’
Lesson 1: An introduction to the Historic Environment
Lesson 2: The Western Front and the Trench System
Lesson 3: The Main Battles on the Western Front
Lesson 4: Transporting the Injured
Lesson 5: Treating Illness and Infection
Lesson 6: Wounds and Injuries
Lesson 7: RAMC, FANY and VAD
Lesson 8: The Chain of Evacuation
Lesson 9: The Context of Medicine Before the War
Lesson 10: Developments in the Treatment of Infections, Broken Bones inc. the use of X-Rays
Lesson 11: Developments in Blood Transfusion and Storage and Plastic Surgery.
This bundle of lessons includes all of the resources you will need to teach Unit 2 of the Paper 3 Home & Abroad topic. This second unit has a focus on the campaign for civil rights from the 1960s to 1975. The lessons in this bundle are:
Lesson 9: The Greensboro Sit in, Freedom Riders and James Meredith
Lesson 10: Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Campaign in Birmingham
Lesson 11: The Freedom Summer, Mississippi Murders and Selma
Lesson 12: The role of President Kennedy & Johnson with the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965)
Lesson 13: Malcom X and the Black Power movement
Lesson 14: The Stokley Carmichael and the Black Panthers
Lesson 15: The Watts Riots and Kerner Report
Lesson 16: The Assassination of Martin Luther King and the Progress of Civil Rights by 1975.
Each lesson includes two different fact sheets based on the edexcel specification. Therefore, you will not need to use or need any other resources alongside these lessons.
Please be kind enough to leave a review if you have found the lessons useful.
A 6 lesson bundle to take your students through:
The establishment of a dictatorship
The Police State
Control of Religion
Propaganda and Censorship
Cultural Censorship
Opposition Groups
PLEASE BE KIND ENOUGH TO LEAVE A REVIEW IF YOU ENJOYED THESE LESSON
This set of revision resources specifically covers the Whitechapel Historic Environment unit which forms the first part of the Paper 1 Crime & Punishment exam. This pack contains the following revision resources which are suitable for all abilities:
Activity 1: A Whitechapel timeline of key events (students fill in the missing words).
Activity 2: Whitechapel Key Individuals Match Up
Activity 3: Whitechapel Key Groups Match Up
Activity 4: A glossary filling in task for key policing terms
Activity 5: A glossary filling in task for key Whitechapel environment terms
Activity 6: A statistics multiple choice quiz
Activity 7: Whitechapel types of Sources/Evidence Match Up
Activity 8: A Practice ‘Follow Up’ worksheet - this is followed by a useful helpsheet with the various types of evidence which can be used in this question.
Activity 8: ‘Two Features’ practice and example questions
Activity 9: Know your Whitechapel facts with additional challenge questions
Activity 10: The Big Whitechapel Quiz Sheet 1
Activity 11: The Big Whitechapel Quiz Sheet 2 (additional challenge)
Activity 12: Mind Map/Revision Diagram outline
Activity 13: Revision crossword
My other set of revision resources for the Crime & Punishment Thematic Study can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12819422
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This pack of resources will help your students revise for their Edexcel GCSE History Paper 1 topic ‘Migrants in Britain’. The each resource comes ready to print on A4 paper and where appropriate answers are given in the ‘notes’ section of each slide or on a duplicate slide.
The resources are as follows:
Activity 1: A blank but structured timline with an optional set of key dates for students to write on their timeline.
Activity 2: A timeline key dates fill
Activity 3: Migrants in Britain key monarchs/leaders match up
Activity 4: Influential migrants in Britain match up
Activity 5: ‘Which migrant group are we?’ activity
Activity 6: Migrant Contributions Table fill
Activity 7: Reasons for Migration (push & pull factors) diagram fill
Activity 8: Migrants in Britain Glossary Fill (Medieval & Early Modern)
Activity 9: Migrants in Britain Glossary Fill (18th & 19th century and Modern)
Activity 10: Migration in Britain Laws & Policies Match Up Table
Activity 11: Similarity & Difference Exam Question Practice
Activity 12: ‘Use your brain to explain’ - 12 mark explanation practice
Activity 13: ‘Which era?’ Table fill - students match each migrant group to the correct era they arrived.
Activity 14: Migrant Group overall experiences, reasons and impact table
Activity 15: First and Second World War Quiz Sheet
I also have a revision resource pack available for the Notting Hill Historic Environment part of this exam which can be found at:https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12831488
This bundle provides you with the first 8 lessons needed to teach the topic USA Home & Abroad. It has a focus on the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. The lessons included in this bundle all include facts sheets based on the Edexcel specification which means no other resources/text books will be needed.
Lesson 1: Discrimination and Racism in the 1950s
Lesson 2: The work of civil rights organisations such as CORE and NAACP
Lesson 3: The Brown vs. Topeka Case (1954)
Lesson 4: The events at Little Rock High School (1957)
Lesson 5: The causes and events of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lesson 6: The Impact, Court Case and Consequences of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lesson 7: The Civil Rights Act (1957) and SCLC
Lesson 8: Opposition to Civil Rights and the murder of Emmett Till
A 5 lesson bundle to take your students through all the information needed for Unit 2 of the Paper 3 topic.
As stated on the cover, all factual information has been included with a printable fact sheet available for each lesson.
Lesson 10 - The development of the Nazi Party
Lesson 11: The Causes, events and consequences of the Munich Putsch
Lesson 12: The Nazi Party's 'Lean Years', 1924-29
Lesson 13: The impact of the Wall Street Crash and growth in Nazi Support
Lesson 14: To explain how Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany by Jan.1933
Thank you very much for your purchase and I hope this really helps you out with your teaching of this topic.
This collection contains 10 fully resourced lessons, a unit outline for staff and students, revision mind maps and an evidence mat which can be used with all GCSE Edexcel source questions.
This bundle contains 11 lessons which will cover the study of the Whitechapel Historic Environment for Crime and Punishment Paper 1. The bundle includes:
Lesson 1: An introduction to the skills and knowledge for Whitechapel
Lesson 2: Problems with housing, poverty and work
Lesson 3: Tensions with Immigrant groups
Lesson 4: The Whitechapel Workhouses
Lesson 5: The difficulties of policing Whitechapel
Lesson 6: The Jack the Ripper Murders
Lesson 7: Police techniques to catch Jack the Ripper
Lesson 8: The problems of the press and vigilance committee
Lesson 9: How policing methods changed
Lesson 10: Revision Mind Map Diagram
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This high quality lesson examines the problems faced by William, Duke of Normandy directly after his victory at the Battle of Hastings. Students are given a number of different scenarios as William and have to decide which best helps him achieve his aims. You are purchasing a main power point presentation which takes students through each part of the lesson as well as 2 printable A4 worksheets.
Slide 1: Title slide - To evaluate William’s most significant problem after victory at the Battle of Hastings
Slide 2: Background information which helps set the scene
Slide 3: A background information slide with a map to show the location of William after the Battle of Hastings
Slide 4: Starter Task - What challenges and problems would William have to face after victory at the Battle of Hastings
Slide 5: An introduction to the problem solving task
Slides 6-11: The main problems along with 3 alternative solutions for students to discuss and decide upon
Slides 12-17: The answers of what actually happened are revealed for students to self evaluate their decisions
Slide 18: Task - students match William’s problems with his solutions (answers reveled)
Slide 19: Outline of the main activities, including source analysis, on the two worksheets
Slide 20: Challenge questions for higher ability students.
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This is a single sheet revision resource, that when enlarged to A3, will provide your students with an overall view of every topic they need to revise for the main part of Crime and Punishment in a clearly organised format. I have used this with my lower ability students who like the idea that they can begin their revision using this sheet as their starting point.
Please make sure you understand that this is a single sheet resource that hopefully you can preview here.
Hopefully you can appreciate the amount of time that was spent producing this resource, hence the price I am asking.
Hopefully this will be a resource that can last many years.
I also have similar sheets for Nazi Germany, Elizabeth and the American West.
Thank you for viewing my resources. This lesson contains a variety of activities and tasks which will allow students to understand the key events of each crusade as well as some of the individuals involved. This pack includes:
1 x A4 Fact Sheet about the crusades (colour free for photocopying)
1 x A4 Fact Sheet about the crusades (in colour if required)
2 x A4 Worksheets about the events covering key terms, sources and an analysis of the events. (including challenge questions)
1 x Main Power Point Presentation:
Slide 1: Title slide - To examine the main events and key people of the crusades
Slide 2: Animated, clear and engaging background information giving a brief background to the crusades
Slide 3: An overview of Pope Urban II’s speech which called for the First Crusade
Slide 4: My own designed map of the main routes and areas of the crusades
Slide 5: Why there was more than one crusade
Slide 6: An overview of the main fact sheet needed for the lesson
Slide 7: A table based activity for students to pick out facts such as dates, people and events from each event along with an analysis of if the crusaders were successful or not
Slide 8-9: A recap quiz with answers revealed for students to self assess (mainly based on key individuals and places).
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, images have been attributed where appropriate and are, to the best of my knowledge, all in the public domain. Images created by myself using Power Point tools have also been noted as creations of RAResources. Please contact me in person if you see any errors.
This lesson covers the period of detente during the 1970s. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand this period of time and how it led to an easing of the Cold War tensions. They will then be able to explain the factors that led to the end of detente.
RECAP: A chart showing all of the key events which caused tension since 1945. The students are asked to rate/shade in their graph to identify how much tension each event caused between the two sides of the Cold War.
STARTER: Students discuss 4 questions about WHY there was a call for peace during this time in history from: the USA, the Soviet Union, the world, the public.
BACKGROUND: Key terms such as detente and MAD covered to give a brief overview of the topic.
**TASK 1: **Students should be able to explain WHY there was a call for detente in this time by filling in the peace symbol with their facts. (see image).
TASK 2: A choice of two worksheets which can also be printed if needed. Students should now use BBC Bitesize/the fact sheet or their text book to explain why there was detente in this time. The differentiated fact sheet outlines the key events already for the students.
TASK 3: Students now identify the various reasons why detente ended by 1979.
EXTENSION TASK: Asks higher ability students to think about the propaganda used during this time and asks if detente really did happen.
FACT SHEET: A fact sheet crammed full of information about the causes, events and consequences of detente.