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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.
The end of slavery
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The end of slavery

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Lesson exploring the impact of abolition on black Americans. Videos hyperlinked show the rise of the KKK and the start of the civil rights movement.
Slave resistance
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Slave resistance

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Lesson exploring how slaves resisted on plantations. Inference starter, two layers of inference sources linked to utility, card sort categorising passive and active resistance leading to an explanation judgement regarding the most successful forms of resistance.
Life on plantations - two lesson sequence
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Life on plantations - two lesson sequence

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Two lesson series exploring life on plantations for slaves. Lesson 1 focuses on day-day life. Hyperlinked vider starter leads to a data capture carousel activity and judgement line plenary. The second lesson involves students exploring life on plantations using sources and creating positive and negative interpretations to enable them to reach a clear judgement.
The Holocaust: The build up to the final solution - two lesson sequence
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The Holocaust: The build up to the final solution - two lesson sequence

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Two lesson sequence analysing the build up to the final solution. recap picture starter leads to group analysis of three methods used by the Nazis (emigration, gas vans and special action squads). Pupils then complete a data capture sheet. Layers of inference investigation of Wannsee leads to a significance answer. A video (hyperlinked) introduces the camps. The second lesson recaps prior learning and a hyperlinked video shows the build up to the final solution. Pupils complete an answer on how and why the treatment of Jews changed which is peer-assessed and then improved using WWW/EBI. A significance plenary rounds the lesson sequence off.
AQA 8145 Elizabeth - Hardwick Hall review lesson (pre-exam)
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AQA 8145 Elizabeth - Hardwick Hall review lesson (pre-exam)

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Lesson reviewing key content and linked to exam skills for Hardwick Hall. Recap starter on Hardwick, use of diagram to define how Hardwick is a "typical" manor house, card sort matching key features to key changes (e.g. rise of the Gentry), use of the cards to create PEE points linked to the 16 mark essay question, model paragraphs linked in to show use of PEEEE skills, post-it plenary writing criteria to the 16 mark essay question.
Ghettos in the Holocaust
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Ghettos in the Holocaust

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Whiteboard starter, hyperlinked video showing the Warsaw ghetto, source analysis of images of the ghettos to build a picture of life there, use of "lessons from the Holocaust" DVD (on youtube also) and "describe" question on the ghettos, use of 'the Holocaust KS3' textbook to discuss morality of life in the ghettos, plenary link to ghettos and the final solution.
Anne Frank case study - the Holocaust
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Anne Frank case study - the Holocaust

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Empathy starter, card sort sequencing task using images and text to tell the story of Anne Frank, hyperlinked video of Anne Frank's story and diagram of the annexe for discussion in the PPT. Pupils use this information to create a 'spider diagram' with Anne's picture showing key information in speech bubbles around her. Explanation plenary of the significance of Anne's story in the context of the Holocaust.
Why did Hitler target Jewish communities?
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Why did Hitler target Jewish communities?

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Recap starter on Hitler's beliefs, comparison of two sources (Martin Luther and Hitler) showing anti-Semitism over time, chronology card sort showing treatment over time, opportunity to extend and compare British and German treatement to show how anti-Semitism is not a 'German issue', explanation of how anti-Semitism developed over time and final link back to Hitler's beliefs on the Aryan Race.
Slave auctions - two lessons
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Slave auctions - two lessons

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Picture reveal starter showing an auction scene, source analysis of slave sale posters, layers of inference analysis task, clip form Roots with note sheet (video on youtube), discussion over how useful video eveidence is, building to a WWW/EBI answer about the utility of Roots with opportunity for peer/self-assessment and improvements.
Slavery - the middle passage
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Slavery - the middle passage

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Exploration of the journey over the Atlantic. Recap starter and source analysis to explore the middle passage. Video note sheet to accompany Roots (on youtube), summary post-it note plenary.
AQA A Level Britain 1951-2007 - Britain and Europe 1951-1979 revision (suitable for AS Level )
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AQA A Level Britain 1951-2007 - Britain and Europe 1951-1979 revision (suitable for AS Level )

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A lesson reviewing the changing relationship with Europe 1951-79. A recap starter leads onto a chronology card sort, which steps up to analysing the relative successes and failures around Britain's relationship with Europe. Analysis of Heath's speech in 1971 builds on skills of analysing provenance, content and tone, moving onto looking at level criteria around the knowledge validity essays. A post-it plenary allows judgements of relative significance of Britain joining the EEC.
What was the slave trade?
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What was the slave trade?

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Exploration of the start of the slave trade. Starter focusing on sources and inferences, group task exploring the roles various groups like the British and Portuguese played in the slave trade, source analysis of the experience of slavery and empathy plenary. Research homework task built in.
Introduction to the Holocaust
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Introduction to the Holocaust

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Lesson introducing the Holocaust using primary sources and artefacts. Exploration of Jewish communities pre-WW2 and then the impact of the Holocaust using imagery. Use of an artefact (shoe) to discover the impact on a person of the escalation of Jewish treatment, building to a description of how treatment changed over time for Jewish communities.
Did all Germans benefit from Nazi rule? - two lessons
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Did all Germans benefit from Nazi rule? - two lessons

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Exploration of the impact of the Nazis on society. Starter considering who may or may not have benefitted, two hyperlinked videos explore positives and negatives of Nazi society, group task exploring one area and focusing on positive/negative impacts then team teaching others, judgement on how far Nazi Germany benefitted and judgement line/post-it plenary.
Witch trials
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Witch trials

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Lesson exploring the different witch trials in England - starter identifying features of a witch, video hyperlinked showing a witch trial, freeze frame creation of the different trials with an explanation question linked in. Optional homework also included.
An introduction to witchcraft
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An introduction to witchcraft

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Lesson introducing witchraft in the 16th and 17th centuries. Hyperlinked video introduces why people were accused, chronology card sort shows reasons for accusations, source task explores views on witches and allows an introduction with a plenary recap quiz.