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 pack of resources contains 16 A4 revision activity sheets suitable for Edexcel GCSE Early Elizabethan England. The resources are suitable for both home and classroom use and for students of all abilities.
The pack includes:
Activity 1: Gap fill Key Events of Elizabethan England Timeline
Activity 2: Elizabethan England Key Individuals Match Up
Activity 3: ‘Who are we?’ Quiz
Activity 4: ‘Who am I?’ Quiz
Activity 5: Elizabethan Key Events
Activity 6: Challenges Facing Elizabeth Diagram Fill
Activity 7: Religious Settlement Revision Worksheet
Activity 8: Key Term Glossary Fill Page 1
Activity 9: Key Term Glossary Fill Page 2
Activity 10: Snazzy Statistics Multiple Choice Quiz
Activity 11: Use Your Brain to Explain
Activity 12: Two Features Practice
Activity 13: What’s the Question?
Activity 14: Spanish Armada Crossword
Activity 15: Early Elizabethan Quiz Sheet 1
Activity 16: Early Elizabethan Quiz Sheet 2
**Once purchased, you will receive everything needed to teach students about William I’s use of the Feudal System in Medieval England. **
This high quality resource includes the following:
A4 Worksheet 1: A fact sheet about the Feudal System for students to use while competing their tasks.
A4 Worksheet 2: A worksheet to help students follow up from their main task of creating a Feudal System diagram. The questions on the sheet are explanation based but still provide structure for all students to use.
Main Power Point Presentation
Slide 1 - Title Slide - To explain how the Feudal System helped William control England after 1066.
Slide 2: Starter Task 1 - Two medieval illustrations of society - what can students learn from them about how William kept control?
Slide 3/4: Starter Task 2 - A brief introduction to the idea of a hierarchy. Students think about and design their own school’s hierarchy before focusing on the purpose of it.
Slides 5-9: An overview of the Feudal System with clear, bold images and small chunks of writing.
Slide 10: My own version of the Feudal System diagram
Slide 11: Main Task activity - Students taken through step by step to create their own diagram of the Feudal System.
Slide 12: Two printable Feudal System blank diagrams if needed
Slide 13: A optional role play set of cards for students to read out in class or groups of 4.
Slide 14: Mini Learning Review - students have to place four linked images in the correct order
Slide 15: Learning Review - Students need to write their own definition of the Feudal System from what they have learned in the lesson.
Slide 16-18: Key term match up activity with one slide being a printable version to give students.
Slide 19: A challenge question - Would the Feudal System work in today’s society?
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. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
A jam packed 4 lesson bundle to allow students to access resources and information for Unit 2 of Edexcel GCSE History Cold War and Superpower Relations.
**Lesson 10: **The Berlin Crisis, Berlin Ultimatum (1958)
**Lesson 11: **The building of the Berlin Wall (1961)
**Lesson 12: **The Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis.
**Lesson 13: **The Prague Spring and Brezhnev Doctrine (1968)
This highly accessible resource can be used as a revision booklet, a set of knowledge organisers or be easily adapted into a lesson-based workbook to accompany students’ learning about the Cold War and Superpower Relations.
READY FOR 2025 EXAMS: All knowledge & example exam questions are based on the most recent updates to the GCSE specification ready for the 2025 exam series. For example, the booklet will ask students to explain ‘one consequence’ rather than two.
It includes 24 pages and each A4 page includes:
An outline of the topic area
Information directly linked to the GCSE specification
Key terms linked to the topic area
Questions and activities
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the resource if you feel it has been effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as your feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this resource 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.
For Edexcel GCSE History (1-9) Period Study – Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
**This pack of revision resources has been specifically designed to help students revise for the Historic Environment of the British Sector of the Western Front. This is the first section in the Paper 1 Medicine in Britain Thematic Study. **
The pack of resources are all on A4 power point and include the following:
Activity 1: A timeline of the main events activity
Activity 2: Medical progress before the war match up and worksheet
Activity 3: Western Front Medical Pioneers March up with challenge tasks
Activity 4: Western Front Environment Glossary Fill
Activity 5: Western Front Medicine Glossary Fill
Activity 6: Statistic Quiz (Multiple Choice)
Activity 7: Western Front Sources Activity - allowing students to become familiar with the types of sources which can be used or analysed
Activity 8: The ‘Follow Up’ activity - students use the previous sheet to decide which sources they would use to help them answer a series of questions.
Activity 9: ‘Two Features’ practice
Activity 10: Western Front Facts Activity
Activity 11: The Big Western Fron Quiz (2 pages for back to back printing)
Activity 12: Mind Map sheet
Save a lot of time by simply using this outline for a Curriculum Plan. Everything is ready for you to add in your topics, assessments, assessment objectives, school logo and more to fit your school’s curriculum needs.
It includes an example of a completed History Curriculum Map (colour), an editable outline/generic version (colour) and editable version (black and grey).
I have included instructions about how to edit where needed.
Hopefully, this can really help you out when being asked to produce something which is quite time consuming.
This lesson asks why King Henry VIII had so many wives. Students first collect information about Henry’s relationship with his six wives. They use this to help them analyse what made the marriages a success or failure. Plenty of printable worksheets, tables and timelines included!
This lesson can either be used in a unit of work about the Tudors and Henry VIII or as a stand-alone lesson covering Henry VIII and his six wives. It can also be used to help students analyse the art of the Tudors.
This is a fully resources lesson which includes a warmup, starter task, engaging background information, various learning activities, challenge tasks and learning reviews.
The lesson includes the following:
Resource 1: A4 printable worksheets for students to create their own timeline of Henry’s marriages.
Resource 2: Power Point
Slide 1: Title slide – Why did Henry VIII have so many wives?
Slide 2: Outline of the main lesson aims
Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up Activity: Discussion questions about marriages today with challenge questions included.
Slide 4-5: Lesson Warm Up 2: A true or false quiz about marriage in Tudor England – with answers revealed and explained.
Slide 6: Starter Task – ‘Which Wife When?’ – Students have to name and order the six wives of Henry VIII.
Slide 7: Background information about who the wives of Henry VIII were.
Slide 8-9: Printable fact sheets about the wives of Henry VIII
Side 10-11: Task: Fact File instructions and printable worksheet
Slide 12: Analysis questions – Which marriages were the most and least successful and how can we measure this?
Slide 13: Evaluation Question and Extended Writing – Why did Henry VIII have so many wives?
Slide 14: Challenge Questions
Slide 15-16: Learning Review Activity – Which wife? Answers revealed.
Reviews are really important to me and if you have enjoyed the lesson, it would be great if you could do this. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this and your 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. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
Newly created for the most recent Specification changes in 2025/6
This resource can either act as a revision booklet, a set of knowledge organisers or be easily adapted into a basic workbook to accompany students’ learning about Early Elizabethan England.
It includes 27 pages and each A4 page includes:
An outline of the topic area
Information directly linked to the GCSE specification
Key terms linked to the topic area
Questions and activities
I would be really grateful if you could leave a review for the resource if you feel it has been effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as your feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this resource 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.
**The main focus of this lesson is for students to decide if King Charles II of England deserved the nickname, the ‘Merry Monarch’. Students will be provided with background information about the transition of rule between Oliver Cromwell and Charles II and then be given a set of facts about Charles II’s reign to help them decide if Charles II was more focussed on ‘business’ or ‘pleasure’. **
Other tasks in this lesson include an activity about the ‘Great Frost Fair’ of 1683.
The lesson contains a variety of discussion tasks, warm up start activities, printable resources, and learning reviews as well as engaging background information and challenge questions for higher ability students. There is a choice of printable resources to suit different ages and abilities. The lesson is mainly aimed at KS3 students between the ages of 11-14 but can easily be adapted for younger or older students.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
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. Thank you.
**In this lesson, students will investigate the main reasons why the British government began the process of abolishing slavery in 1807. As well as being able to make notes about each reason, students will be guided to complete an extended piece of historical writing about the causes of the abolition of slavery. **
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 main aims of the lesson.
Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up 1: Slave Trade vocabulary activity
Slide 4: Lesson Warm Up 2: Ordering the main events of the slave trade triangle
Slide 5: Lesson Warm Up 2: Answers
Slide 6: Lesson Warm Up 3: What reasons would there have been to oppose or support the slave trade at the time it was happening?
Slide 7: Starter Task: Why do you think the slave trade was abolished?
Slide 8: Background Information: Source analysis – economic reason for the abolition of the slave trade.
Slide 9-10: Background Information: The role of the anti-slavery campaigners
Slide 11-12: Background Information: The main reasons for the abolition of the slave trade.
Slide 13: Printable sheet to help students make notes about the reasons
Slide 14-15: Fact sheets designed to be printed back-to-back about the main reasons (black and white)
Slide 16-17: Fact sheets designed to be printed back-to-back about the main reasons (colour)
Slide 18: Introduction to the extended writing.
Slide 19: Model P.E.E. Paragraph
Slide 20: An optional/alternative task – writing a letter or speech to support the abolition of slavery.
Slide 21: Follow Up Challenge Tasks – Linking the reasons and evaluating the most important factors.
Slide 22-23: Learning Review – Who or What am I?
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. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This 10 lesson bundle contains the first 10 lessons needed to teach Edexcel (or other) Cold War and Superpower Relations for the 2016 1-9 specification.
Bundle includes:
Introduction lesson
Grand Alliance
Atomic Bomb and Telegrams
Satellite states and Iron Curtain Speech
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Cominform and Comecon
Berlin Crisis, Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift
Nato and Warsaw Pact
The Arms Race
The Hungarian Uprising
Every lesson includes a fact sheet which can be used in place of the GCSE text books. No other resources needed to teach this unit.
**This lesson is a great way for students to learn about the causes, key events and consequences of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. **
-Students will begin by discussing James I’s background and why there was tensions between the king and the Catholics at the start of his reign.
-Students will then discuss the idea of terrorism and how far they believe the Gunpowder Plot fits this definition.
-Students will be given various activities to order the events of the plot and then explain how King James I dealt with Catholics after its failure. Finally, students will be given an opportunity to write a historical account of the events. They will be guided through this with four levelled descriptions.
The 20-slide lesson contains a variety of discussion tasks, activities, printable resources, starters and learning reviews as well as engaging background information about King James I.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
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. Thank you.
**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.
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.
For Edexcel - This single page resource is a really useful timeline of all the key events covered in the Paper 2 topic the Cold War and Superpower Relations. 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.
I have included both Power Point and PDF versions to suite your needs.
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 fully understand the M.A.I.N. long-term causes of the First World War – Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism. Students will be first introduced to these key terms and then use them to explain the tensions which existed in Europe by 1914.
This is a fully resources lesson which includes a warmup, starter task, engaging background information, various learning activities, challenge tasks and learning reviews.
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The lesson includes the following:**
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Outline of the main lesson aims
Slide 3: As you come in warmup activity – what causes war?
Slide 4: As you come in warmup activity 2 – Why do people argue?
Slide 5: Starter Task 1: Why is it important to learn about the causes of the First World War – suggestions then given.
Slide 6: Starter Task 2: Political cartoon analysis with prompt questions provided.
Slide 7: Background information about Europe in 1914
Side 8: Background information explaining the term long-term causes.
Slide 9: An overview of the M.A.I.N. reasons and discussion task.
Slide 10-13: Background information about militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism.
Slide 14-15: Activity 1: Student diagram to help make notes and explain the MAIN causes. Printable resource included.
Slide 16-17: Activity 2: Source based activity based on three cartoons of Europe in 1914.
Slide 18: A student fact sheet for the lesson – printable
Slide 19: Follow Up Challenge Tasks
Slide 20: Learning Review 1
Slides 21-23: Learning Review 2 with printable handout
I would be really 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. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
There are enough resources here to take up a couple of lessons about the murder of Thomas Becket. The lesson first examines the causes, events and consequences of the murder and then follows up with key questions about who was responsible for the murder.
In this pack you will receieve:
1 x Fact sheet about the events of the murder of Thomas Becket (2 pages)
1 x Differentiated fact sheet about the events of the murder of Thomas Becket (2 pages)
1 x Question sheet about the events of the murder of Thomas Becket
1 x Main Power Point:
Slide 1: Title Slide
Slide 2: Think & Discuss - Who had the most power in the Middle Ages?
Slide 3: Why might the king and the Church argue with each other?
Slide 4: An outline of the lesson aims
Slide 5: Starter Task - Students to study a manuscript illustration of the events and discuss what they think is happening (return to this at the end of the lesson to show progress)
Slide 6: Fact Sheets
Slide 7: Introduction to the Chronology Task based on the events
Slide 8: A printable version of the chronology task for students to write on
Slide 9: Answers to the chronology task revealed
Slide 10: Blank storyboard
Slide 11: Who was to blame for the murder of Thomas Becket?
Slide 12: Learning Review - Return to the illustration for students to fully discuss the events they have learned.
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. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This bundle includes all of the lessons and teaching materials you will need to cover the 18th and 19th century, Crime and Punishment Unit 3.
Lesson 15: New and old definitions of crime
Lesson 16: The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Lesson 17: The Bow Street Runners and the development of the police
Lesson 18:The end of public execution and transportation
Lesson 19: Prison growth and reform
Lesson 20: Case Study - Pentonville Prison
Lesson 21: Case Study - Robert Peel
This is the bundle for Unit 3 of Edexcel’s USA Home & Abroad (Paper 3 topic). It includes the following lessons:
Lesson 17 - The origins of the Vietnam War
Lesson 18 - Eisenhower and Increasing Involvement in Vietnam
Lesson 19 - Kennedy and the Strategic Hamlet Program
Lesson 20 - Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Lesson 21 - The guerrilla tactics of the Vietcong
Lesson 22 - The military tactics of the USA
Lesson 23 - The Tet Offensive
Lesson 24 - The Nixon Doctrine, Vietnamisation, Cambodia, Laos, Easter Offensive & Operation Linebacker
Lesson 25 - Reasons for the failure of Vietnamisation
All other bundles available on TES
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12850932
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12840808
This bundle is for the final unit of Paper 3 USA: Home & Abroad. The bundle contains all the lessons and resources you will need to teach the unit without the need for any other resources.
The bundle contains:
Lesson 26: Why was there opposition to the Vietnam War?
Lesson 27: Why was there support for the Vietnam War?
Lesson 28: The Paris Peace Accords (1973) and the Fall of Saigon (1975)
Lesson 29: The Impact of the Vietnam War on America
Lesson 30: The Strengths of the Vietcong/North Vietnam and the Weakness of the US/South Vietnamese (ARVN)