This resource has been made to help students prepare for Edexcel, History, paper 2 - section B on Elizabethan England. The booklet contains practice qs, suggested structures and tips.

This lesson could be used as a good introduction to women’s suffrage. It covers a brief history of suffrage in Britain beginning with the Magna Carta. It gets pupls to explore a lot of concepts such as stereotyping, profiling, right to vote, gender equality and social welfare to name a few. It also looks at 19th/20thC arguments for and against women getting the vote.

All images labelled for reuse from google images. This is a five lesson KS3 unit looking at how William the Conqueror kept control of the English for 21 years including the scheme of work. Students will complete a number of engaging activities including acting as William's advisor, engaging in change and continuity continuum's, designing their own Domesday surveys and more. This unit of work focusses mainly on knowledge and understanding and explanation and analysis. It addresses many of the key skills such as inferring from sources and interpretations, evaluating significance and explaining change and continuity. All of the lessons have differentiated activities for lower and higher ability ability students. It also includes a number of writing scaffolds to help all students, particularly lower ability students work on extended writing.

All images labelled for reuse from google images This is an updated version of a previous copy of this lesson that I added a while back. This version has differentiated resources, extended writing support and improved challenges for the students. This lesson is a medieval murder mystery which requires students to work independently and competitively. Students begin in groups, by recreating and deciphering an image of the murder of Becket. They are asked to work out aspects of the event through discussion and analysis. They then go on to work through a selection of evidence in their groups in order to work out the mystery event in the painting they analysed at the beginning of the lesson. They then go on to consider why this event is so significant and what the problems between church and state were in medieval England. Finally students are given writing scaffold to help them explain their findings in a piece of extended writing. This lesson also includes differentiated resources for lower abilities.

EQ: Did Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI deserve to die? This lesson begins by asking students to consider the way that Louis & Marie-Antoinette were portrayed in the 2006 film 'Marie-Antoinette'. It asks them to make inferences and question reliability. Students then go on to draw on previous knowledge about the causes of the French Revolution and will vote on the significance of each cause. For the main activity the students play the role of the jury who have to decide whether Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI deserved to die. This lesson has a lot of focus on independent learning. Students will work their way through each exhibit in order to help them make their final conclusion as to whether the kind and queen were responsible for their own demise. This lesson includes a variety of AFL techniques and independent learning strategies.

This is a mini four lesson scheme of work the Rwandan Genocide. The first powerpoint containing lessons 1-2 focusses particularly on the UN eight stages of genocide and the impact of propaganda through an analysis of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, Kangura and the Hutu Ten Commandments. Lesson 3-4 considers the significance of the genocide by asking students to consider why the Rwandan Genocide was so personal. Students will look at news footage from 1994 and read a variety of survivor stories of both Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

This is an entire scheme of work on the Industrial Revolution including the scheme of work word document. The enquiry for the SOW is 'How did the poor make Britain rich?' Students are taken through a variety of lessons entitled: 'who were the white slaves?, 'Did Oliver Twist really exist?' and 'What was black gold?'. Throughout these lessons students will look at contemporary sources and interpretations to allow them to reach an conclusion to the enquiry question. Students will consider, discuss and debate a range of moral issues as they go through this unit. Students undertake a wide range of independent learning strategies throughout this unit.

Students will begin this lesson by creating a human timeline of the industrial revolution in order to allow them to understand the historical context of the era. Students will discuss the idea that the use of child labour and the Transatlantic slave trade were key contributing factors in the success of the industrial revolution. Finally they will go on to analyse and evaluate two contemporary sources and will consider the reliability and uses of these sources. By the end of the lesson students should be able to begin the explain how the poor made Britain rich. Keywords: Parish Pauper, Transatlantic slave trade, Parish Apprentice, Child Labourer, Industrial Revolution/

These three power points are designed to support students with answering all questions in part A of paper 2 (Edexcel - Options 26-27). Although they were designed with Option 26/27 in mind, they are the same question stems for all the options so could easily be adapted if you are doing a different module. The resoruces aim to support students in their knowledge, but primarily in their ability to successfully answer the questions. Mark schemes and structures are included. The powerpoint looks at: 1) Explain Two Consequences of.. (8 marks). 2) Write a Narrative Account.. (8 marks) 3) Explain Two of the Following.. (16 marks) The power points take the students through the new style question and explains the mark schemes to them in laymans' terms. It is useful, although not essential to have a copy of the Edexcel (9-1) Superpowers textbook.

This lesson is aimed at a GCSE class studying the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, Comecon , Cominform and Dollar imperialism. It is a market place game which will require you to have: sugar paper, and marker pens. I have included the text from the books that I used for this, but you might want to find your own information. It is a really fun lesson that I love teaching and the kids love doing. All of the instructions and resources you need for this lesson are included on the powerpoint. I did it over a double lesson. I taught it recently for an observation and it was graded outstanding because of its emphasis on independent learning. Students begin by analysing an American source showing Stalin choking on the Truman Doctrine. The students look at this through a square of inference. Students are then put into groups, each one looking at either: the Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan, Comecon, Cominform or the Soviet response. Groups of no more than 5 are ideal. Students are then asked to read the text on their topic and after that have 20 minutes to answer the questions on their topic that they have been given. They must do this by symbolising their answers using no more than ten words and as many words, numbers, symbols as they want. After the 20 mins is up, one student stays at their table and the others take their A3 worksheet and go shopping in the market place to find the answers to all their questions. One student stays and teaches those that come to their market place. At the end the students go back to their table and 'teach the teacher'. At the end you ask the students to revise their answers for a knowledge test at the beginning of the next lesson.

This booklet was designed to support students in their preparation for paper one (Edexcel) on Crime and Punishment. The booklet contains specimen questions that students can practice, which are different from the specimen paper on the Edexcel website. It also contains detailed ideas on how students can successfully answer all of the questions on this paper. There is also a powerpoint slide containing the two sources they need for these specimen questions.

This overview focuses on the following modules: Paper 1 - Crime & Punishment & Whitechapel, Paper 2 - The Cold War & Elizabeth I, Paper 3 - The USA & Vietnam. Although it focuses on these modules, it is generic and could easily be modified for your own units. It shows the question stem for each type of question and the amount of time the students should be spending on each question.

This is a prartcie exam paper for Edecel Hisdtory GCSE 9-1 to help students prepare for Section A of Paper 2 on Superpower Relations & the Cold War, 1941-91. It has practice questions and tips on how to successfully answer each type of question.

This is a practice exam paper for Edexcel History GCSE 9-1 to help students prepare for exam paper 2 on Crime & Punishment and Whitechapel. It has practice questions and tips on how to successfully answer each type of question. It also includes a revision guide which covers all the knowledge needed for this paper.

This SOW begins at the end of the slave trade and looks at Civil Rights and Black Power achievements throughout the 20th Century. The SOW also includes a GCSE style assessment to conclude the unit. It is differentiated throughout and includes both knowledge and skills. It incorporates a variety of activities to enhance student engagement.

This lesson was devised to support students in a debate about whether ordinary people should be blamed for genocide in their societies. It is differentiated throughout and also contains ‘history scholar’ tasks to challenge the most able students. It should be taught over 2 or 3 lessons.

This lesson was graded outstanding. This lesson takes students through a variety of activities in order to support them with their understanding of the impact of urbanisation. It is fully differentiated and includes history scholar tasks for the most able.

This is a market place activity. All of the instructions and information is provided within the powerpoint and the information sheets. It looks at a variety of factors that enabled Hitler to become chancellor in 1933.

This is a court case designed for the students to act out. It works well to give the G&T students the key parts of the court case (I always give me highest ability student the role of judge, as they have to co-ordinate the rest). The rest of the students act as the jury. They decide, based on the evidence whether Capone was a gangster or a business man. It also introduces students to the 10 mark question, Spec B AQA Paper Two,

This is an entire scheme of work on the Vietnam War,