Worksheet to support the Channel Four Documentary series: Tony Robinson - Down Under - Ep4 - Eureka
Tony walks in the footsteps of Australia's first inland explorers and discovers how the country's fortunes were turned around by the discovery of gold, which brought commerce, corruption and dissent
Supporting the A Level: British Empire : Losing and Gaining an Empire (EDEXCEL)
Tony Robinson - Down Under- EP2 - Against the Odds - Worksheet to support the Channel Four Documentary series
Tony reveals how the first British colony in Australia struggled for survival as the settlers, who had no farmers among their number, battled to find and grow enough food to sustain their community
Supporting the A Level: British Empire : Losing and Gaining an Empire (EDEXCEL)
This resource can be used by students as an independent revision programme or used by teachers to deliver revision sessions in the weeks leading up to the Medicine exam. Pupils will gain factual knowledge of the course as well as a better understanding of the exam technique needed for each question type. Furthermore, each unit covers a good range of past exam questions together with knowledge organisers and writing frames (to support the less able).
The resource provides:
a) A summary of the key facts/knowledge you need for the Medicine Exam. It gives pupils a fresh start to re-learn the course, without the need to re-read class notes! Key knowledge has been organised in periods of history with common sub headings signposting the main themes that run throughout the course.
KEY PERIODS:
Roman Medicine
Medieval Medicine
Renaissance Medicine
1750 - 1900
1900 onwards
The KEY THEMES within each period include:
How the cause of illness was explained
How illness was prevented
How illness was treated
Care of the Sick
Training of Doctors
Public Health
b) My students use this resource initially to make high quality revision notes such as flash cards, mind maps, bullet point lists.
c) Sample exam questions are also provided at the end of each period/section and students can choose to answer at least one exam question in full under timed conditions.
d) Furthermore, each exam question is accompanied with a suggested writing frame and/or a graphic organiser, making the resource fully differentiated . My D/C/B students really benefited from this (as did some of my A grade target students who need to adopt a less narrative and more analytical approach to exam technique).
Written for Ks3 this lesson will get students investigating the planning for and overcoming the problems associated with the opening of the Second Front in Europe.
A teacher led introduction then requires the students to open password protected documents in order to simulate the cracking of the German Enigma codes. Students will need to answer four questions regarding their knowledge of WWII and open the files. These can be amended though the questions set at the moment will require access to the internet.
With the downloaded evidence, student can plan their actions to overcome the German defenses and successfully get the Allied armies ashore.
Students then complete the beach landing sheet to explain their tactics, timings and strategies. This can be assessed using the assessment sheet included based upon the PLTs: Team Workers and Effective Participators
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England - Health and Hygiene- Supporting Worksheet for the Ian Mortimer book of the same name
Written as an extension/reading/ independent learning activity for able GCSE 9-1 students studying the history of medicine looking at the Renaissance / Tudor period and changing medical understanding in Britain.
The resource is written as a WORD document for easy access to Google Classroom
War Walks - Agincourt - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary with Richard Holmes
In 1415, Henry V won a remarkable victory against a French force that outnumbered him by five to one. Professor Holmes retraces Henry’s route to Agincourt and finds a story of heroism and brutality.
Professor Richard Holmes walks and rides over the Hastings battlefield that marks a turning point in British history, handling the weapons and equipment of the period and becoming a Norman knight to reveal just how close William the Conqueror came to defeat.
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be fully edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
Worksheet to support the BBC TV Documentary on the building of the Panama Canal from the series: Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.
This episode presents the French and American efforts to build a canal through Panama to link the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The first attempt to construct the canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal, was abandoned because of tropical diseases (which killed over 22,000 men) and the difficulty of constructing a sea-level canal through the mountains. The resulting financial scandals not only ruined de Lesseps and many investors, it also brought down the French government. The episode then takes up the story seventeen years later when the United States took up the challenge. A concentrated effort succeeded in eradicating the causes of the tropical diseases, but the attempt to build a sea-level canal once again failed. Instead the canal was built with locks.
Written to provided extension/ enrichment / independent learning options
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing
The Peasants Revolt - Part 2 - Documentary to support the Tony Robinson Documentary
Written to support independent/ enrichment and flipped learning, students work thorough the sheet carrying out a series of data collection activities and higher order tasks
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3, the worksheet can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing
Gunpowder 5-11, The Greatest Terror Plot - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary
Drama documentary revealing the inner secrets of the Gunpowder Plot, using the words of the plotters themselves. Based on the interrogations of Thomas Wintour and Guy Fawkes.
For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up king and parliament.
Wintour’s insider account of this epic tale of faith, fanaticism, persecution and betrayal is told in detail, from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shoot-out on 8 November.
The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters’ penetration of the king’s bodyguard and Fawkes’s attendance, sword in hand, at a wedding attended by the king in December 1604 are shown, as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling, forgotten story of the final days after 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the respource cna also be saved as a PDf for A4 printing
Titanic the New Evidence Investigative journalist and Titanic expert Senan Molony examines recently recovered photographs of the doomed ship, which provide fresh insight into the reasons for its sinking. The images reveal a strange mark on the hull, which may prove previously, overlooked stories of a fire raging in the boiler room.
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing
Britain 2000 Years in The Making - Ep4 Dirty Money - Worksheet to support the TV Documentary. Written to support the teaching of the A level: Britain: Losing and Gaining and Empire - 1763-1914. Suitable as an enrichment task for able KS3
Britain 2000 Years in The Making - Ep 5 Superpower - Worksheet to support the TV Documentary. Written to support the teaching of the A level: Britain: Losing and Gaining and Empire - 1763-1914. Suitable as an enrichment task for able KS3
In 1881 Virgil Earp,marshal of Tombstone, suspects Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers of stealing cattle and,backed up by his brothers Wyatt and Morgan and ‘Doc’ Holliday,challenges them to surrender near the OK corral. In the following thirty second shoot-out the suspected and unarmed thieves are shot in the back,leading to the Earps standing trial for murder - though they are exonerated by the judge,who also happens to be a relation. This retelling,along with commentaries,is a far darker version of the story in which the Earps are usually represented as the unequivocally good guys.
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF file for A4 printing
Episode 2 of the BBC - The Wild West series. Drama-documentary about Billy the Kid, notorious gunman of the Wild West. The nation’s most wanted man, his killing of a county sheriff earned him a death sentence; yet in his lifetime the governor of New Mexico secretly promised Billy a pardon. Today the current state governor is planning a retrial to re-examine the evidence behind Billy’s conviction. What is the case for the defence of a man who lived and died by the gun?
4 page document
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing
BBC American Voices - Ep5. Black America - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the experience of the Black minority in the USA during the first half of the Twentieth Century
Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
BBC American Voices - Ep1. Immigrants - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the testimony of four immigrants and their experience. Students will be asked to compare their experience with American ideas of their countries approach to immigration through the linked video (The Great American Melting Pot):
Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
BBC American Voices - Ep4. New Deal - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the testimony individuals and their experience of the Great Depression and FDR’s New Deal
Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
Supporting worksheet for Chapter 45 of Ben Wilson’s ‘Empire of The Deep’ to support the Edexcel A Level: gaining and losing an empire 1763-1914.
Wilson’s book provides an overview of the changing role of the Royal Navy support the breadth element of the course
The sheets are designed to be printed on A3 but can be amended and saved as PDF’s for A4 printing if desired
Supporting worksheet for Chapter 42 of Ben Wilson’s ‘Empire of The Deep’ to support the Edexcel A Level: gaining and losing an empire 1763-1914.
Wilson’s book provides an overview of the changing role of the Royal Navy support the breadth element of the course
The sheets are designed to be printed on A3 but can be amended and saved as PDF’s for A4 printing if desired