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 contains all the lessons/resources you will need to teach the second unit/key topic of Edexcel’s British Depth Study Henry VIII and his Ministers.
The lessons included in this bundle include:
Lesson 11: Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power
Lesson 12: Thomas Cromwell’s role in the divorce from Catherine of Aragon
Lesson 13: The downfall & execution of Anne Boleyn
Lesson 14: The life and impact of Jane Seymour
Lesson 15: Thomas Cromwell’s reforms
Lesson 16: The rise and fall of Anne of Cleves
Lesson 17: The downfall and execution of Thomas Cromwell in 1540
These are high quality, fully resourced lessons which do not require any text books. Each lesson contains a range of warm up tasks, starter activities, discussion questions, engaging background information, learning tasks, practice exam questions, A4 printable worksheets, learning reviews and much more!
This bundle contains everything you need to teach Unit 2 (Migration in Early Modern England). With all of these lessons there is no need for any additional text books as fact sheets for each lesson are included (they have been adapted from both Pearson and Oxford GCSE History text books).
Lesson 6: What changes were there in English society?
Lesson 7: Which groups migrated to England and why?
Lesson 8: What were the experiences of the migrant groups?
Lesson 9: What impact did the migrant groups have on England?
Lesson 10: Case Study - The Flemish and Walloon weavers in Sandwich and Canterbury
Lesson 11: Case Study - The success of Huguenot migrants in Soho and Spitalfields, London.
This is the full collection of all of my lessons about the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I specifically aimed at KS3 and fully adaptable for KS2.
Please read the list of lessons below carefully so you are fully aware of the resources you are buying.
Lesson 1: The strengths and weaknesses of Elizabeth I.
Lesson 2: Princess Elizabeth’s early life and education.
Lesson 3: the challenges faced by Elizabeth I in 1558.
Lesson 4: The importance of portraits to Queen Elizabeth I
Lesson 5: Queen Elizabeth I’s Religious Settlement.
Lesson 6: Queen Elizabeth’s execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Lesson 7: The causes of the invasion of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 8: The events of the invasion of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 9: Explaining the defeat of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 10: Causes of the Elizabethan ‘Age of Exploration’.
This bundle of lessons contains all of my lessons covering the reign of the Stuart monarchy in Britain.
Carefully read the list below so you are fully aware of the lessons you are purchasing in this bundle:
Lesson 1: An introduction to the Stuart monarchs & events timeline.
Lesson 2: The reign and personality of King James I.
Lesson 3: The causes, events and consequences of the Gunpowder Plot, 1605.
Lesson 4: Was Oliver Cromwell a ‘hero’ or ‘monster’?
Lesson 5: What happened to Oliver Cromwell’s head?
Lesson 6: The causes of the English Civil War
Lesson 7: The belief in Witchcraft in the 1600s.
Lesson 8: The significance of Matthew Hopkins.
Lesson 9: Charles II - The ‘Merry Monarch’.
Lesson 10: The causes, events and consequences of the Great Fire of London
Lesson 11: The impact and events of the Great Plague.
Lesson 12: The Age of Discovery & Scientific Revolution.
Lesson 13: The Glorious Revolution - William and Mary
As always, positive feedback will be warmly welcomed.
This bundle contains the following lessons in line with Topic 3 for Early Elizabethan England:
Lesson 19: Elizabethan Education
Lesson 20: Elizabethan Sports, pastimes and theatre
Lesson 21: The causes of poverty in Elizabethan England.
Lesson 22: Attitudes towards poverty
Lesson 23: The causes of the increase in exploration.
Lesson 24: Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world.
Lesson 25: Walter Raleigh’s failed colonisation of Virginia.
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
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 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 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 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
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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.
This bundle contains all of my lessons covering the First World War and can easily be adapted to act as a full unit of work, especially for KS3 (ages 11-14).
Please note that EVERY lesson is fully resourced and ‘ready to go’. This bundle will save you many hours of preparation and each lesson contains a wide variety of activities to keep your students fully engaged.
The lessons included in this bundle are:
Lesson 1: The European Alliance System by 1914.
Lesson 2: The M.A.I.N. Long-Term Causes of the First World War.
Lesson 3: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand as a Short-Term Cause of the war.
Lesson 4: Recruitment and Enlistment into the British Army in 1914.
Lesson 5: The importance of Propaganda Posters for the Recruitment of Soldiers.
Lesson 6: The Features and Location of the Trenches on the Western Front.
Lesson 7: Evaluating the Weapons of the First World War.
Lesson 8: The Conditions in the Trenches and Trench Letters
Lesson 9: Medical Progress made during the First World War.
Lesson 10: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Lesson 11: The Role of Britain’s Empire in the First World War.
Lesson 12: The Contribution of Women to Britain’s War Efforts.
Lesson 13: The Treatment of Conscientious Objectors during the First World War.
This bundle contains all of the resources you will need to teach the first Unit covering Crime and Punishment in Medieval England.
Lesson 1: An introduction to Crime and Punishment
Lesson 2: Anglo-Saxon Crimes
Lesson 3: Anglo-Saxon Law Enforcement
Lesson 4: Anglo-Saxon Punishments
Lesson 5: Norman Crimes
Lesson 6: Norman Law Enforcement and Punishments
Lesson 7: Later Medieval Crime and Punishment
Lesson 8: Case Study: The role of the Church
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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 bundle contains all the lessons/resources you will need to teach the second unit/key topic of Edexcel’s GCSE British Depth Study - Henry VIII and his Ministers.
The lessons included in this bundle include:
Lesson 18: Henry VIII’s Break from Rome
Lesson 19: The Act of Supremacy & The Act of Succession
Lesson 20: Opposition from Elizabeth Barton, John Fisher & Thomas More
Lesson 21: The impact of the Reformation on the English Church
Lesson 22: The Role of Monasteries in Early Tudor England
Lesson 23: The Reasons for the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Lesson 24: The Impact of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Lesson 25: The Causes of the Pilgrimage of Grace
Lesson 26: The events, failure and significance of the Pilgrimage of Grace.
These are high quality, fully resourced lessons which do not require any text books. Each lesson contains a range of warm up tasks, starter activities, discussion questions, engaging background information, learning tasks, practice exam questions, A4 printable worksheets, learning reviews and much more!
This is the final set of lessons needed to teach Unit 4 of the Edexcel GCSE History Migrants in Britain. Each lesson contains a variety of tasks and activities aimed at all levels along with example exam questions, discussion tasks and learning reviews. In addition, you will also find a fact sheet for each lesson which is based on information from all GCSE text books. Therefore, there is no need for any other resources such as text books.
Lesson 18: The changes to society in the period c.1900-present
Lesson 19: The impact of both world wars on migration to Britain
Lesson 20: Migration to Britain after 1945 to the present day
Lesson 21: The experiences of migrants in Britain during the world wars.
Lesson 22: The experiences of black and Asian migrants to Britain after the world wars
Lesson 23: The impact of migration on Britain in the modern period.
Lesson 24: Case Study - Caribbean migrants to Bristol
Lesson 25: Case Study - Asian migrants to Leicester
This bundle contains teaching resources for the first GCSE unit for Early Elizabethan England. The lessons are as follows:
Lesson 1: Elizabethan Society & Government
Lesson 2: Legitimacy, gender & marriage
Lesson 3: Challenges from Home and Abroad
Lesson 4: Religious Divisions
Lesson 5: The Religious Settlement
Lesson 6: The Role of the Church
Lesson 7: The Puritan Challenge to the Religious Settlement
Lesson 8: The Catholic Challenges to the Religious Settlement
Lesson 9: Mary, Queen of Scots
This bundle includes the following lessons designed for Unit 2:
Lesson 10: The Revolt of the Northern Earls
Lesson 11: The Ridolfi, Throckmorton and Babington Plots
Lesson 12: The role of Francis Walsingham
Lesson 13: Why Mary, Queen of Scots was Executed
Lesson 14 The rivalry with Spain in the Netherlands
Lesson 15 Increasing tension between Spain and England
Lesson 16: Robert Dudley in the Netherlands and the actions of Francis Drake
Lesson 17: Philip’s invasion plans and causes of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 18: The reasons for the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
This bundle contains all of the lessons/resources you will need to teach the first unit/key topic of Edexcel’s British Depth Study Henry VIII and his Ministers.
The lessons included in this bundle include:
Lesson 1: Tudor Government and Society in 1509
Lesson 2: Henry’s Strengths & Weaknesses and King of England in 1509
Lesson 3: The Rise of Thomas Wolsey
Lesson 4: Wolsey’s Reforms
Lesson 5: The Amicable Grant
Lesson 6: Wolsey’s Foreign Policy Aims
Lesson 7: Wolsey’s Foreign Policy Successes & Failures
Lesson 8: Henry’s Marriage to Catherine of Aragon and the Succession
Lesson 9: The Failure to gain an Annulment
Lesson 10: The Reasons for the Fall of Wolsey by 1529
These are high quality, fully resourced lessons which do not require any text books. Each lesson contains a range of warm up tasks, starter activities, discussion questions, engaging background information, learning tasks, practice exam questions, A4 printable worksheets, learning reviews and much more!
This bundle contains all of the necessary lessons and teaching materials needed to teach the final unit of Medicine in Britain 1900-Present Day.
Lesson 28: The causes of disease - Genetics and DNA
Lesson 29: The causes of disease - Lifestyle Factors
Lesson 30: The role of Technology in diagnosis and treatment
Lesson 31: The Impact of the NHS
Lesson 32: Technology and Science in Hospitals
Lesson 33: Disease Prevention - Vaccinations and Government Action
Lesson 34: Case Study - Penicilin
Lesson 35: Case Study - Lung Cancer