Based on Ian Mortimer’s popular ‘A Time Traveller’s guide to Elizabethan England’ series, these worksheets provide a useful note taking scaffold for KS3 and KS4 students. The set of resources could be used as a useful overview to the Edexcel 9:1 GCSE - Elizabethan England 1558 - 88 supporting the syllabus topics: Challenges to Elizabeth’s rule & Life in Elizabethan England. Each film clip is around 10 minutes in duration making them an ideal flipped learning task, starter or plenary activity based upon the BBC Class Clip:
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3: Why was London the centre of the Elizabethan world?
The historian, Ian Mortimer, journeys back in time to find out why London was the centre of the Elizabethan world. He travels around the capital and visits the sights that were the most significant in the 16th century including the Tower of London, the River Thames, London Bridge, and the Globe Theatre. In the hustle and bustle of city’s streets, he uncovers a world of extremes, great wealth and poverty, magnificent buildings, theatres, slums and disease. He finds that as today, London was a centre of international trade, a place of new ideas and opportunities to make money. The Elizabethans were prepared to put up with the overcrowding, filth and unbearable smells to be part of this great city.
Based on Ian Mortimer’s popular ‘A Time Traveller’s guide to Elizabethan England’ series, these worksheets provide a useful note taking scaffold for KS3 and KS4 students. The set of resources could be used as a useful overview to the Edexcel 9:1 GCSE - Elizabethan England 1558 - 88 supporting the syllabus topics: Challenges to Elizabeth’s rule & Life in Elizabethan England. Each film clip is around 10 minutes in duration making them an ideal flipped learning task, starter or plenary activity based upon the BBC Teach - Class Clips link:
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - KS3 History: What was life like for the rural poor in Elizabethan England?
Through a journey back in time, we discover that for many Elizabethans living in the countryside life could be very harsh. Ian Mortimer visits a reconstructed Elizabethan thatched cottage to experience the living conditions for himself. Inside it is very basic and its inhabitants would have had few possessions. Society was strictly divided by class, and these people were among the poorest. They would have earned a meagre living by labouring on nearby farms. Without growing some of their own food and making their own clothes, life would have been a real struggle for survival.
Based on Ian Mortimer’s popular ‘A Time Traveller’s guide to Elizabethan England’ series, these worksheets provide a useful note taking scaffold for KS3 and KS4 students. The set of resources could be used as a useful overview to the Edexcel 9:1 GCSE - Elizabethan England 1558 - 88 supporting the syllabus topics: Challenges to Elizabeth’s rule & Life in Elizabethan England. Each film clip is around 10 minutes in duration making them an ideal flipped learning task, starter or plenary activity. using the BBC link below:
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips -History KS3: What was life like for the poor in the towns of Elizabethan England?
On his travels Ian Mortimer explores various aspects of town and city life in the sixteenth century, including the markets, which drew so many people in from the surrounding countryside. He also looks at how the Elizabethans tackled the problems of crime and disease, which were such a prominent feature of life for the urban poor. Although life could be tough, he discovers that the introduction of the Elizabethan poor laws did go some way to alleviating the worst times.
Worksheet to support the BBC Teach video extract
BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / GCSE: Small Axe - The Mangrove Nine
Rochenda Sandall, who plays one of The Mangrove Nine in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, tells the true story of this significant event in black British history.
The Mangrove restaurant was opened in March, 1969, by Trinidadian Frank Crichlow. The restaurant became a home from home for the black community in Notting Hill.
It attracted artists, musicians and activists from around the world. Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Hendrix, Nina Simone, Diana Ross and the Supremes, all congregated at the Mangrove to enjoy Caribbean food.
But the Mangrove restaurant became a target for the police, which ended up destroying it.
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing
A two page resource
D-Day 75: How was the biggest ever seaborne invasion launched?
A worksheet to support the BBC Teach - D-Day 75 resource
BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > KS3 History / GCSE History > World War Two - The most destructive global conflict in human history
Students will work through a series of data retrieval activities and analytical activities
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BBC Teach - Class Clips - Gandhi and India’s Independence - Andrew Marr’s History of the World. Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary excerpt
Andrew Marr describes how Mahatma Gandhi led India to independence during British led rule through a campaign of civil disobedience. He explores the background to the campaign, the key events and negations, and Gandhi’s legacy through the 20th century.
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A two page resource
Through the medium of sand art, Dan Snow recreates a map of Europe on the beach in Blackpool. Dan’s sand map will reveal the geopolitics of the continent as it stood on the brink of war.
The sequence of crises that took place often seems murky to the uninitiated. The mists of time and the recriminations of the parties involved have combined to make the events that led to war seem ambiguous and confusing.
Now, using remarkable sand art, Dan brings his clarity of style and presentation to bear on the subject, shedding new light on our descent into a war that would touch the lives of millions across Europe and highlighting the reasons behind a conflict that is, all too fast, receding in our collective memory.
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3/4: Britain and the start of World War One
BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > History KS3 / History KS4
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A two page document
Worksheet to support the lecture: 5 Outraged Colonials - The Stamp Act Crisis by Professor J.Freeman of Yale University. Written to support the Edexcel A level: Britain Losing and Gaining an Empire 1763-1914: OCR, The Loss of the American Colonies, 1773-1783 and AQA, Challenging British Dominance: the Loss of the American Colonies, 1754–1783 . This is used as a teaching and enrichment resource to stretch the more able, introduce students to lecture based learning and ensure independent study outside of the classroom.
Link to Youtube Lecture:www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbwOop46Dag
Worksheet to support the lecture: 6 Resistance or Rebellion (Or, what the heck is happening in Boston?) by Professor J.Freeman of Yale University. Written to support the Edexcel A level: Britain Losing and Gaining an Empire 1763-1914: OCR, The Loss of the American Colonies, 1773-1783 and AQA, Challenging British Dominance: the Loss of the American Colonies, 1754–1783 .
This is used as a teaching and enrichment resource to stretch the more able, introduce students to lecture based learning and ensure independent study outside of the classroom.
Link to Youtube Lecture: www.youtube.com/watchv=gGRW5nF2Mqs&list=PLDA2BC5E785D495AB&index=6
Worksheet to support the lecture: 8 The Logic of Resistance by Professor J.Freeman of Yale University. Written to support the Edexcel A level: Britain Losing and Gaining an Empire 1763-1914: The Loss of the American Colonies, 1773-1783. This is used as a teaching and enrichment resource to stretch the more able, introduce students to lecture based learning and ensure independent study outside of the classroom.
Link to Youtube Lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=akWmZuLRwQA
Worksheet to support the lecture: 3 Being a British American by Professor J.Freeman of Yale University. Written to support the Edexcel A level: Britain Losing and Gaining an Empire 1763-1914: OCR, The Loss of the American Colonies, 1773-1783 and AQA, Challenging British Dominance: the Loss of the American Colonies, 1754–1783 . This is used as a teaching and enrichment resource to stretch the more able, introduce students to lecture based learning and ensure independent study outside of the classroom.
Link to Youtube Lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9xzYVDWO0o
Trench warfare is one of the defining features of the First World War, but why? Dan Snow and One Show regular Michael Douglas find out why they were necessary - with the help of paintball guns.
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War Walks - Waterloo - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary with Richard Holmes
Wellington’s victory against Napoleon in 1815 ended the most powerful European empire since the Romans. Professor Holmes visits the farms and fields where history hung in the balance.
Written in Publisher to an A3 format, the resource can be fully edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing. I also include a Word document for ease of use on Google Classroom
Worksheet to support the Richard Holmes BBC Documentary Ep3. The War moves South
This resource has been written to support both the Edexcel 9-1 GCSE British America Empire & revolution as well as independent learning for the gaining and Losing an Empire A Level course
Written in Publisher to an A3 template, the worksheet can be amended and edited to be saved as a PDF for A4 printing