Kate Humble and Dr. Helen Czerski go on a mission to chronicle the devastating effects of Earth’s movements. By following its voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, 584 million miles, Humble and Czerski discover why the planet tilts and how this results in such weather events as monsoons. They also find that some of the smallest changes in Earth’s movement caused ice ages and that another glacial period could happen in the future.
Ep1- Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth’s voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, travelling first from July to the December solstice and showing its effect.
Ep2- Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth’s voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, this time travelling from January to the March equinox.
Ep3-Kate Humble is in the Arctic, where spring arrives with a bang. Helen Czerski chases a tornado to show how the earth’s angle of tilt creates the most extreme weather on the planet. An already free resource on my Shop
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Human Planet: Change and Sustainability - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary
Linked to the KS3 curriculum, this programme looks at how humans have learnt to live with extremes and covers five themes: sustainable waters, pastures, cities, forests and arctic.
The worksheet contains a variety of dat collection activities, map and flag work along with opportunities for extended explanation and analysis
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A special episode about William the Conqueror, starring Kevin Eldon. We meet young William, Duke of Normandy, as he quarrels with Harold Godwinson about who should be king of England, before bashing the English and taking the crown at the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066! Meanwhile, across the world, we discover Chinese technology light years ahead of the dunderheaded Normans and Saxons in England, and meet one of the world’s first scientists in Egypt. With, of course, our host Rattus to guide the way!
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Lucy Worsley explores how the history of the American Revolution has been mythologised and manipulated by generations of politicians, writers and protesters
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We all think we know what we mean by a witch, but behind the clichés of pointy hats and broomsticks lies a terrifying history that’s been largely forgotten. Four hundred years ago, thousands of ordinary people, the vast majority of them women, were hunted down, tortured and killed in witch hunts across Scotland and England. Lucy Worsley investigates what lay behind these horrifying events.
She begins her investigation in North Berwick, a seaside town not far from Edinburgh, where the witch hunting craze began. The story goes that, in 1590, a coven of witches gathered here to cast a spell to try to kill the King of Scotland, James VI. Using an account from the time called Newes from Scotland and other first-hand sources, Lucy uncovers a web of political intrigue that led to a woman called Agnes Sampson, a faith healer and midwife, being investigated. She was accused of witchcraft and interrogated at Holyrood Castle by King James himself before being tortured and executed.
Agnes was caught in a perfect storm: hardline Protestant reformers wanting to make Scotland devout, a king out to prove himself a righteous leader, and a new ideology which claimed the Devil was actively recruiting women as witches. Under torture, Agnes gave the names of her supposed accomplices, some 59 other innocent people, resulting in the first successful large-scale witch hunt in Scotland. Its brutal success made it the model for trials rolled out across Scotland and England for the next hundred years.
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In this section Starkey focuses on the early years of Elizabeth’s rule and her reluctance to marry. Her dalliances with court favourites like Lord Dudley provoked speculation, but what concerned her advisers was her refusal to consider a suitor from France or Spain, powers which constituted a military threat. She was in a precarious position: a Protestant Queen in a Catholic country, and Mary, Queen of Scots, who wanted to claim the throne and return the nation to Catholic rule, was a great threat to Elizabeth. Elizabeth, the virgin Queen, the most powerful woman in English history. She emerged as a young princess against a backdrop of civil unrest, political intrigue, executions and coups. She ruled for 45 years and presided over a new kind of state. Her reign saw England emerge from the threat of European annexation to burst forth in a unique flowering of culture and became the world’s leading sea power. In this four part series David Starkey charts the rise and fall of her reign and reveals the powerful resonance it has for the present. This series covers one of the most glamorous and exciting reigns in English history, with bloodthirsty tales of sex, lust, murder and mayhem.
Lucy Worsely - Six Wives - Supporting Worksheets for the BBC documentary:
Ep1 - Divorced
Ep2 - Beheaded, Died
Ep3 - Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
The worksheets are written in Publisher and formatted to A3 priniting. They can however, be edited, saved as PDF’s and printed in A4
What lies at the bottom of the oceans? What would happen if the planet lost its oceans? Richard Hammond is going to drain the oceans to find out.
Hidden beneath all that water are some of the biggest natural formations on earth: The longest mountain ranges, the tallest volcanoes and the deepest canyons.
Richard can reveal all this and more in a way never seen before, because he has the ultimate toy - a vast working 3D virtual Earth in a hangar.
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Christopher Eccleston narrates a docudrama about the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed more than 50 million people. Told using powerful personal testimony.
It is 1918 and the end of WWI. Millions have died, and the world is exhausted by war. But soon a new horror is sweeping the world, a terrifying virus that will kill more than fifty million people - the Spanish flu. Using dramatic reconstruction and eyewitness testimony from doctors, soldiers, civilians and politicians, this one-off special brings to life the onslaught of the disease, the horrors of those who lived through it and the efforts of the pioneering scientists desperately looking for the cure.
A four page worksheet, written in Publisher for A3 printing but can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing.
GCSE History Edexcel 9-1 Paper 3 Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39 Mark scheme and DIRT activity.
Editable generic template for Teacher or student Self/Peer assessment and DIRT template for feedback and reflection on the Edexcel 9-1 Paper 3 Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39 exam
Worksheet to support the BBC History File - Germany - Ep.3 The Rise of Hitler documentary. Comprehension and higher order questioning included. Designed to support both classroom and flipped learning opportunities as well as revision for the 9-1 GCSE
Full set of structured supporting Worksheets for the BBC History File series written to support the 9-1 Edexcel History course:
Ep1 - The Rise of Hitler
Ep2 - Life in Nazi Germany
Ep3 - The Master Race (A Free resource)
Ep4 - Youth
Ep5 - Opposition
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Worksheet to support the BBC History File - Germany - Ep.4 The Hitler Youth documentary. Comprehension and higher order questioning included. Designed to support both classroom and flipped learning opportunities as well as revision for the 9-1 GCSE
EDEXCEL 9-1GCSE - Topic 3: 1750-1900 SUMMARY 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ consolidation, revision, resource
This is a one page resource
This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for the WESTERN FRONT ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY for Paper 1 of the Medicine Through Time and the Environmental Study on the Trenches Unit. It fully covers the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to:
a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning.
c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change.
d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards
e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable.
The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students.
Please see placemat at:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-1-edexcel-history-learning-topic-placemat-the-british-sector-of-the-western-front-1914-18-11781317
Tony Robinson explores the Cotton Mills of the Industrial Revolution and the the working and living conditions of the employees. Students will learn about what powered the factories and the apprentices that kept the machines functioning as well as the emerging reform movement
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Battlefield Britain: Battle of Hastings 1066 - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary.
Presented by father and son team, Dan and Peter Snow, this BBC series looks at the world of British Military history uncovering weapons tactics and personalities behind the battles. This volume examines the invasion of England by William The Conquerer, and the defeat of King Harold at Hastings in 1066.
Battlefield Britain :The Battle of Naseby - Supporting Worksheet for the BBC Documentary
Worksheet to support the BBC Jon and Dan Snow documentary. The sheet can be used for extension/ independent/ enrichment work using a variety of data collection and higher order thinking tasks
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 it can be edited and amended and saved as PDF for A4 printing. I additionally include a Word version for ease of export to Google Classroom
This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for topic 3 of the Cold War Unit - The End of the Cold War 1980-91. It fully covers the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to:
a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning.
c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the CONSEQUENCE and NARRATIVE analysis questions - the CONSEQUENCE question boxes encourage planned examples to include in an exam response and the CASE STUDY events etc - provide helpful chronological support for the NARRATIVE ANALYSIS question. (Students have also commented that revising each case study from topic 2 within a chronological order from beginning to end is much easier to revise than studying the case studies in fragmented parts, as set out in the syllabus outline.
d) the question squares can be cut up into cards to form an interactive timeline activity or KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards
e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable.
The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a stand alone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3.
Please see placemat at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-1-edexcel-history-learning-topic-placemats-for-superpower-relations-and-the-cold-war-topic-3-11755251
British Sikhs celebrate some of life’s biggest moments, from birth and coming of age to marriage and the end of life.
Harsimrat and Jagjit are celebrating the birth of their first-born baby at home. They turn to the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh book of prayer, to determine the first letter of their baby’s name.
15-year-old Ansh has been wearing his turban for two years. He is continuing to learn and embrace its sacred meaning and looks ahead to how much of a part it will play in his life as he grows up.
Hari and Kiran are young newlyweds and are continuing their devotion to their guru through their marriage and in their daily lives. They visit their gurdwara and carry out worship and prayer with one another.
Hardeep’s father recently passed away, and after the funeral and cremation, he scatters his father’s ashes over flowing water to reunite him with God.
The worksheet contains various date gathering activities and a concluding comparisons activity
3 Page Document
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Richard Hammond -Wild Weather - Ep2 - Water: The Shape Shifter - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary
‘Richard Hammond investigates the crucial role water plays. Without water there would be almost no weather: no rain, no snow, no hail, no clouds. So Richard goes in pursuit of water in all its forms. He tries to weigh a cloud, finds out how rain could crush a car, and gets involved in starting an avalanche’