This download consists of all the resources for a Year 10 Careers Day that I have created called 'Year 10 - Futures Day'. It consists of the following: 1) Creating a careers board game - (using the two help sheets for additional information) 2) C.V workshop which teaches students how to create a good C.V 3) Session where students reflect on their skills and begin to research careers that they might be interested in. 4) Evaluation - play board games and then evaluate the day whilst playing the board games that they have created.

This resources consists of 11 lessons focusing on the origins of the Cold War. These have been created for the new AQA History GCSE and will require a textbook to provide some information (I have used the prescribed Walsh textbook). However, these can be easily edited with different page numbers for the tasks. All of the lessons have clear differentiated outcomes and expectations and the lessons are as follows: 1) What is meant by the Cold War? 2&3) What happened at the wartime conferences? 4) How significant was the bombing of Japan on East-West relations? 5) How did Communism spread across Europe? 6) What was the Iron Curtain Speech? 7) How did America react to Communist expansion in eastern Europe? 8) Soviet Reply: COMECON and COMINFORM 9) Why was Berlin blockaded? 10) What were the consequences of the Berlin Blockade? 11) Who was to blame for causing the Cold War?

This consists of 10 lessons on the French Revolution, causes to consequences, and is based around a lot of source work on cartoons. This gets students to make inferences and link what they can see to their own knowledge. Some of the tasks require a textbook and the slides can be easily adapted for the use of any textbook.

This resource is to work in unison with the musical-movie of Les Miserables. It has sheets on all of the main characters and gets the students to analyse them and how their portrayal changes throughout the musical. Through this the teacher is able to discuss and link back to prior learning of the French Revolutions about the reasons why the 'people' were planning to revolt against the new king of France.

This consists of 9 lessons covering Russian History for the new GCSE AQA syllabus from Stalin gaining and consolidating power, his economic reforms and their impact and the Great Patriotic War. I have used the Walsh Textbook for certain parts if the lessons uses the textbook. This pack consists of PowerPoints and worksheets for each of the lessons. A good textbook is essential for these lessons.

These are revision placemats for the new AQA GCSE History course covering the topic 'Russia 1894-1945'. For each of the key questions there is a placemat with the key events, key words and also in depth analysis for the major points needed for the exam. The topics are: 1) Why did the Tsarist Regime collapse in 1917? 2) How did the Bolsheviks gain power in October 1917? 3) How did the Bolsheviks hold on to power? 4) How did Stalin gain and hold on to power? 5) What was the impact of Stalin's economic policies? 6) What role did Stain's wartime leadership play in the defeat of Germany in the Great Patriotic War? They are created on A3 (on powerpoint) but can easily be adapted to A4. If you have found this resource useful or want to get even more value for your money please follow this link to find a bundle of over 30 revision placemats covering a variety of AQA GCSE History topics: Major AQA GCSE History Revision Bundle

This is a revision guide created for the AQA Athenian Democracy AS Level Course, however it is good for any exam board covering Athenian Democracy. Also, top end GCSE students. This booklet covers how Athens was before the reforms of Solon, the reforms of Solon, the Peisistratids and Kleisthenes. It has key information and is set out in a way that is extremely friendly.

This consists of 9 lessons covering Russian History from the Provisional Government to Lenin's death. These were created for the new GCSE course following the AQA syllabus. I have used the Walsh Textbook for certain parts if it use the textbook. This consists of PowerPoints and some worksheets. A good textbook is essential for these lessons.

This revision resource consists of six place-mats with all the key information needed for an exam in international relations. These were created for the Cambridge IGCSE however they are of use to any exam board. The topics covered are: Were the Peace Treaties of 1919-23 fair? To what extent was the League of Nations a success? Why had international peace collapsed by 1939? Who was to blame for the Cold War? How secure was the USSR's control over eastern Europe, 1948-89? Why did events in the Gulf matter, 1970-2000? A great way to revise. Print, laminate and enjoy!

Homer’s Odyssey – Book IX: The Cyclopes (key events) This resource contains: 1x PowerPoint Presentation 1x Key Events worksheet 1x Plot, Language & Theme Homework Questions This lesson introduces students to Book IX (The Cyclopes) of Homer’s Odyssey first by questioning why Homer is going to spend the next four Books recalling Odysseus’ travels therefore prolonging his return home. Students then read Book IX and summarise the key events using the worksheet provided.

This is a lesson on remaining safe online. It discusses the benefits and dangers of going online and then promotes pupils to think about what it takes to be a good digital friend. The final task gets pupils to think of what they could do within their school to encourage others to do good digital deeds to make the internet a better place.

This resource is an overview of the key events of the 20th century. Rather than going through events randomly we look at what Henry Patch, the last surviving tommy of WW1 who passed away in 2009 , and think what events would he have looked back on and thought 'wow that was important'. It also has a great bingo game linked to the song 'we didn't start the fire'.

This a brand new Year 9 Careers Scheme of Work with all the resources needed to teach effectively, (PowerPoints, Worksheets and Card Sorts). The aims of this scheme of work is to make the pupils reflect on what skills they have and how they may help them gain employment in the future. They then create a C.V using examples both good and bad. Finally, the pupils are introduced to apprenticeships, what they are and shown different reasons for applying for them.

A selection of lessons on the Aztecs covering a lot of different topics including: Why did people travel to America? What did Cortes see when he went into Tenochtitlan? How important were Aztec warriors? What can we learn about the Aztecs from sources? Aztecs and Chocolate What were the consequences of the Conquistadors? Were Cortes' actions justified? Assessment: create a tourist brochure on the Aztecs All worksheets come with the PowerPoints and there are notes saying which ones are needed on each slide. Lessons are easily differentiated and most tasks are designed to get pupils speaking about the events/topics.

A PowerPoint and series of worksheets which cover the Battle of Marathon in 490BC, the interwar period and the Battle of Salamis in 480BC. Most of the worksheets can be completed with any textbook which has information on the Persian Wars (I used Pamela Bradley - Ancient Greece) and a single worksheet of questions is based on Herodotus' account of Marathon. All the worksheets can be edited to fit your classes ability but they are automatically differentiated with different sections in which different pupils fill out to teach each other (some harder than others).

A series of PowerPoints and worksheets on Solon's reforms and their consequences. The topics covered are: Problems before Solon in Athens; Why Solon was and his background; Solon's aims in his reforms; Solon's economic and political reforms; the consequences of Solon's reforms and a multiple choice test to check the pupils knowledge on the reforms. All PowerPoints have written comments in the notes section when certain sheets or ideas could be used. The books used to find the information for the worksheets are Pamela Bradley (Ancient Greece) and Thorley (Athenian Democracy) - these are core texts for the AQA Athenian Democracy specification. However, these sheets and PowerPoints can easily be adapted to fit other textbooks.

An excellent revision tool for revising Kleisthenes' reforms when studying Athenian Democracy. The cards can be printed onto different colours to show the different reforms and once grouped discuss the positive and negative consequences of each reform to promote higher thinking and analysis. My Year 12 students found these excellent as a quick revision toll to trigger their knowledge of Kleisthenes' reforms.