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Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level History resources available for purchase and download. New Focus Education offer resources from a teacher with 10 years teaching experience, a track record of excellent outcomes and experience of leadership at several levels. The main focus is AQA 8145 and AQA A Level, with key stage three resources available with GCSE skills and requirements embedded throughout.

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Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level History resources available for purchase and download. New Focus Education offer resources from a teacher with 10 years teaching experience, a track record of excellent outcomes and experience of leadership at several levels. The main focus is AQA 8145 and AQA A Level, with key stage three resources available with GCSE skills and requirements embedded throughout.
AQA 8145 America 1920-73 - 1930s Popular culture
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AQA 8145 America 1920-73 - 1930s Popular culture

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This lesson explores how popular culture developed in the 1930s. The lesson starts by exploring what popular culture is with reference to today, considering what it can tell us of a society. Students then watch two videos which explore popular culture changes in the 1930s, leading to a data capture on popular culture changes in the 1930s. Students then plan or answer an 8-mark explain question on ‘in what ways popular culture changed during the 1930s’. Finally students use the criteria to mark or improve their own answer/plan.
AQA 8145 - America 1920-73 - Playing the stock market
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AQA 8145 - America 1920-73 - Playing the stock market

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This lesson explores how the stock market worked in the 1920s, leading to an assessment of the benefits and dangers of gambling on the stock market. Students begin by using a video to explore some positives and negatives of the market. Using the handout, students create their own diagram of how the stock market works, making their own definitions for the key terms. Students then play a game exploring how the market worked by ‘buying’ their own shares. Students then summarise their learning in written answers, culminating in a discussion plenary of how ordinary people and companies benefited from the stock market boom.
AQA 8145 - America 1920-73 - how important was Henry Ford?
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AQA 8145 - America 1920-73 - how important was Henry Ford?

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This lesson explores the role played by Henry Ford and mass-production in the economic boom. The lesson begins with a recap of existing knowledge of mass-production, moving on to gathering information about the role played by Ford and his business. Students then use an information handout to explore in depth the role played by Ford and the impact on America’s economy/society. Using a further video students assess the advantages and disadvantages of mass production. Finally, students create an acrostic poem recapping Henry Ford and the economic boom.
AQA 8145 - America 1920-73 - who didn't benefit from the boom in the 1920s?
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AQA 8145 - America 1920-73 - who didn't benefit from the boom in the 1920s?

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This lesson explores the groups who didn’t benefit from the boom in the 1920s. Students begin by using a video to assess how typical this would be, leading to an image comparison of rich v poor. Students then use an information sheet to rank the different groups in society, explaining who was ‘worst affected’ during the boom years. Students then apply their learning to an 8-mark explain question, self or peer-assessing their answers. A judgement line plenary allows students to assess how far everyone shared in the boom years.
AQA Sheffield Manor Lodge model answer (HE 2023)
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AQA Sheffield Manor Lodge model answer (HE 2023)

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A model answer for the 2023 AQA Historic Environment study on Sheffield Manor Lodge. The question focus is: “The main change that Elizabethan Manor Houses demonstrated was the improved security of Elizabethan England”. How far does the study of Sheffield Manor Lodge support this statement? You should refer to Sheffield Manor Lodge and your contextual knowledge (16 marks). The answer encompasses the themes and evidence associated with the site.
L6 - Drake's circumnavigation (HE 2024) - a thematic overview of Drake's circumnavigation
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L6 - Drake's circumnavigation (HE 2024) - a thematic overview of Drake's circumnavigation

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L6 in the 2024 Historic Environment series on The Americas and Drake’s circumnavigation, 1577-1580. This lesson utilises the AQA Historic environment source booklet to review the Circumnavigation. The lesson begins with a ‘giant post-it’ task to review the key causes, benefits, dangers and impacts of the circumnavigation. Students then use the source booklet to add to the knowledge audit table (to be printed on A3) to link in features, events and specific knowledge of the circumnavigation. Students then share what the circumnavigation tells them about life in Elizabethan England, leading to a judgement regarding the most significant impact of the circumnavigation. A 3, 2, 1 plenary recaps key learning in preparation for the following essay-planning lesson.
Edexcel 1H10/B4 - L5 - The role of the Church of England
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Edexcel 1H10/B4 - L5 - The role of the Church of England

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Lesson 5 in the scheme for Edexcel 1H10/B4 - Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1588. This lesson begins with a recap of the religious settlement and how Catholics and Protestants would have been pleased. Students then explore a source showing the impact the church had on people, before using a handout to review the role of the church in daily life an din enforcing the religious settlement. Students then create a perfect paragraph for the 12-mark explain question using the suggested pointers, leading to a plenary review of the role of the church and the part in played in maintaining religious order.
AQA 8145 Elizabethan England - power, court, marriage and parliament starter for 10 and answers
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AQA 8145 Elizabethan England - power, court, marriage and parliament starter for 10 and answers

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A resource focusing on reviewing key content from AQA 8145 Elizabethan England unit. Pupils answer the key questions individually or in pairs as a starter or plenary to review key topics. Useful for interleaving and reviewing prior knowledge throughout the year or could also be used as a homework task. Answers for teachers also included - could be used online on platforms like show my homework with self or peer-marking.