These lessons has been designed to teach about who Mary Queen of Scots was (creating movie trailers/ story boards) and then to explain how she was a threat to the throne (what should Elizabeth do with her?).
SEN alternatives.
Enjoy and use as you wish.
This is a revision booklet that I use with my GCSE students. It is 18 pages long and covers all of the content and skills that they need to know for the exam. I have attached a PDF booklet in case it does not open correctly on your computer.
The booklet contains:
Tick list content
Exam layout/ Exam structure grids
Content the students need to revise
Some basic activities
NOP reliability grids
The students have really responded well to this resource and have used it instead of taking home textbooks.
I actually use this as a 3 exam revision guide, but thought I would sell separately, as other schools may not do all of the same exams as my school. If you would like the whole exam booklet do not hesitate to contact.
Enjoy and use as you wish!
This resource is designed to be used with GCSE students when teaching about the role of women before, during and after the war.
L1- The role the suffragettes had (source inference)
L2- reaction to the suffragettes (source inference, reliability Q, purpose Q)
L3- Women and the war- equality (source inference, explain Q)
All sources are provided on the PP if you do not have the textbook.
This series of lessons could take up to 5 lessons, depends on how much detail you would like the students to add and also if you wish for them to answer the exam questions after they have been planned.
Enjoy and use as you wish! :)
I use this resource with year 9 when teaching about the suffragettes and women in the war. This is 5-6 lessons and all resources are included.
1. Suffragettes- research- who are they?
2. Freedom fighters or terrorists?
3. What did women do in the War?
4. Research into the war- independent task (could take 2 lessons)
5. Propaganda task
Enjoy and use as you wish :)
I use this resource to teach year 9 about WWI. All resources are included and some lessons can take more than one period.
1. Long term factors about the start of WWI
2. Short term factors about the start of WWI
Race Track WWI- this involved students working in groups to act out the causes of WWI
3. The BEF and the Schlieffen Plan
4. Recruitment and Conscientious Objectors
5. Trench Life
6. Weapons
7. Battle of the Somme L1
8. Battle of the Somme L2
9. Censorship and Rationing
10. Shell Shock (information on Harry Farr not included)
11. Assessment
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I use this lesson to introduce GCSE skills that the students will need to know getting ready for their exam. This is a mock exam that follows the same structure as the GCSE exam questions, but it uses sources based on Diet Coke vs Coke Zero. Included in this pack is all of the lesson resources and structure mats that can be used throughout the whole course. There is also an introduction to exam questions that can be printed and placed at the beginning of students books
The structure of the lesson:
Students read through the evidence and answer
1. source inference based on a Diet Coke advert
2. purpose question based on a Coke Zero advert
3. explain question based on gender advertising
4. reliability question based on 2 sources
5. judgement question
It is a fun lesson that allows students to access all exam skills required for this unit, but through fun evidence and sources.
I use this resource with my GCSE History students. The lesson:
1. Starts with a video about the state of the nation
2. Gives students a chance to come up with ideas of how they would fix the problems
3. Looks and what the Liberals did - how did they help? (all resources provided)
4. Source reliability question
5. Planning of question- WAGOLL - chance for students to peer assess against the mark scheme
Enjoy and use as you wish :)
I use this resource whilst teaching about early immigration and why people decide to move from different countries. This lesson can run over 1 or 2 lessons and it thoroughly enjoyed by students.
It involves them getting into groups, creating a name for their country, developing a national anthem, creating a flag, presenting their country and then deciding if they would like to emigrate to a different country.
I have used these resources with my Citizenship class as a way to assess and revise knowledge.
This assessment is similar to an Edexcel exam.
Enjoy and use as you wish.
This is a revision booklet that I use with my GCSE students. It is 24 pages long and covers all of the content and skills that they need to know for the exam. I usually print as an A5 booklet. I have attached a PDF booklet in case it does not open correctly on your computer.
The booklet contains:
Tick list content
Exam layout/ Exam structure grids
Content the students need to revise - Topic 1: Boom; Topic 2: Society; Topic 3: Bust; Topic 4: New Deal
Some basic activities
The students have really responded well to this resource and have used it instead of taking home textbooks.
I actually use this as a 3 exam revision guide, but thought I would sell separately, as other schools may not do all of the same exams as my school. If you would like the whole exam booklet do not hesitate to contact.
Enjoy and use as you wish!
I use these resources with Year 8 when teaching about Edward VI. The first lesson is about Edward, who he was and whether he was a good/ bad king. The second lesson is about who should take the throne after Edward- Lady Jane Grey or Mary (it is a boxing fight lesson).
Enjoy and use as you wish.
This is a resource I have taught to all ability year 7- (SEN alternatives are provided on the slides )
It includes
L1- introduction to early settlers and what people have brought to Britain- students are to sell Stone Henge- I usually complete this task over 2 lessons
L2- What does it mean to be British?
L3- Create your own country- booklets for students and they are to work in groups to find out the basics to establishing their own country- usually takes 2 lessons
L4- Early immigration research- find out about the Romans, Celts, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons
L5- Assessment/ essay. SEN resources provided as well for assessment
L6- Other immigrants
L7- Positives and Negatives immigration has brought
L8- Linking to modern day and the immigration problem today
The whole point of this topic is to establish what is an immigrant and to conclude that everyone in Britain is an immigrant.
Enjoy!
This resource has been made for year 8 top ability - SEN. All resources are differentiated as I have taught top and bottom sets this year. This set of lessons includes:
1. Was Henry a man or monster?
2. What were Henry's early problems?
3. Who should Henry marry- Take me out
4. Why did Henry break from Rome?
5. Assessment
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I used this resource with my current GCSE citizenship group when teaching unit 3: The global community
It includes: 3 introduction lessons on citizenship and using citizenship perspectives (I have used the recent Calais crisis). The next lesson is all about the economy and then it leads onto government spending, inflation, who does what and then finally the successes and failures of business.
Use as you wish and enjoy
A detailed revision guide for the power and the people module. This is 20 pages and contains all of the information that is needed to revise with. We do not have textbooks in my School and therefore students found this resource very useful.
Thanks
I use this resource with year 7 to teach about the black death
1. Medicine in Medieval times
2. The Black Death Symptoms
3. The Black Death Cues and Causes (2 lessons)
4. The Impact of the Black Death.
Use and enjoy )
These lessons have been designed for Year 7 Medieval History. This is not a SOW as such, but lessons that I teach throughout the Medieval module. For example, when teaching about Queen Matilda I first teach Medieval women; when teaching the Black Death, I first teach about Medieval Medicine You can use these lessons how and where you would like.
The lessons include:
1. Medieval towns- I use this at the beginning of the Medieval module before I teach about 1066 and Hastings as an introduction
2. Medieval villages- I use this at the beginning of the Medieval module before I teach about 1066 and Hastings
3. Medieval Fun- I use as a one off fun lesson
4. Medieval Church/ religion - I use this before I teach about Henry II and Thomas Becket
5. Medieval Women - I use this PP before I teach about Queen Matilda
6. Medieval Medicine- I use this before I teach about the Black Death
7. Medieval Law and Order- I use this before I teach Henry II
8. Medieval Food
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This resource I have used with my Y11 GCSE class to teach them about the Cold War.
The PP work along side the Cold War booklet that I have on sale. (It is also included in this sale as well)
You will need to use a textbook for information for some of these lessons. I use the edexcel GCSE international relation text book- but any can be used. All of the lessons follow a very similar structure and their is a lot of exam practice in the lessons. This worked for my class as I was able to get through the content very quickly, however some of these lessons could take two lessons.
1. Introduction
2. Conferences
3. Iron Curtain and secret speeches
4. Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Satellite States and Cominform
5. The Berlin Blockade
6. The Arms Race and the Space Race
7. The Hungarian uprising
8. The Berlin Wall
9. The Cuban Missile Crisis
10. Czechslovakia
11. The Afghanistan War and Detente
12. Ronald Reagan
13. Gorbachex
14. The End of the Soviet Union
Enjoy and use as you wish!