Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
This is the bundle for Unit 2 of the Edexcel GCSE History Medicine in Britain topic. It includes all the resources you will need to deliver the unit.
Lesson 9: The causes of disease in the Renaissance
Lesson 10: Causes of Medical Progress
Lesson 11: Prevention and Treatment of Disease
Lesson 12: Care in Hospitals and Community
Lesson 13: Improvements in Medical Training
Lesson 14: Case Study: Andreas Vesalius
Lesson 15: Case Study: William Harvey
Lesson 16: Case Study: The Great Plague in London 1665
This bundle includes all the lessons, resources and fact sheets you will need to teach Edexcel GCSE History Medicine in Britain. The lessons cover the period 18th and 19th century which forms Unit 3 of the course.
Lesson 17 - The key individuals of the 18th & 19th century.
Lesson 18 - Pasteur’s Germ Theory
Lesson 19 - Robert Koch & his study of microbes
Lesson 20 - The work of Florence Nightingale
Lesson 21 - Improved hospital care
Lesson 22 - James Simpson & Anaesthetics/Chloroform
Lesson 23 - Joseph Lister & Antiseptics
Lesson 24 - The 1875 Public Health Act
Lesson 25 -Edward Jenner and Smallpox Vaccination
Lesson 26 -Cholera in London 1854
Lesson 27 - Explaining the developments of the 18th & 19th century.
**This lesson cover aspects of illness and infection such as Trench Foot, Trench Fever and Shell Shock. This is directly linked with the environment of the Western Front. **
The lesson includes all of the resources needed to teach the lesson including fact sheets, background information, worksheets, exam questions and additional sources if required.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This is the first of 10 lessons which cover the Historic Environment of the Paper 1 Unit Migrants in Britain c.800 - Present Day. The lesson provides an introduction to the unit as well as useful practice tasks which focus on the use of sources.
This is a free resource which will hopefully introduce you to the rest of the resources which are available for this topic.
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This bundle contains everything you need to teach Unit 2 (Migration in Early Modern England). With all of these lessons there is no need for any additional text books as fact sheets for each lesson are included (they have been adapted from both Pearson and Oxford GCSE History text books).
Lesson 6: What changes were there in English society?
Lesson 7: Which groups migrated to England and why?
Lesson 8: What were the experiences of the migrant groups?
Lesson 9: What impact did the migrant groups have on England?
Lesson 10: Case Study - The Flemish and Walloon weavers in Sandwich and Canterbury
Lesson 11: Case Study - The success of Huguenot migrants in Soho and Spitalfields, London.
This bundle contains all of the resources and lessons you will need to teach Edexcel GCSE History Migration in Britain Historic Environment about Notting Hill (c.1948-c.1970). Each lesson comes with its own information sheet which means there is no requirement for any additional text books. Each lesson also contains practice exam questions, exam answer guides, printable worksheets as well as a number of varied learning activities. The lessons you will receive will be:
Lesson 1: An introduction to the knowledge and skills of the Historic Environment
Lesson 2: The impact of the war on life in Britain and Notting Hill
Lesson 3: The reasons why Caribbean migrants came to Britain and Notting Hill
Lesson 4: Housing conditions in Notting Hill
Lesson 5: The impact of Caribbean cultures in Notting Hill
Lesson 6: Racism and the police in Notting Hill
Lesson 7: The Notting Hill Race Riots (1958)
Lesson 8: The murder of Kelso Cochrane (1959)
Lesson 9: Black Activism - Claudia Jones (West Indian Gazette/Caribban Carnival) and the British Black Panthers
Lesson 10: Black Activism - Frank Crichlow and the trial of the ‘Mangrove Nine’.
This discounted bundle contains all the lessons and information needed for the teaching of the final unit for Anglo-Saxon and Norman England. The bundle includes the following:
Lesson 21 - Feudal System
Lesson 22 - Importance of the Church
Lesson 23 - Archbishops Stigand and Lanfranc
Lesson 24 - The Extent of Social and Economic Change
Lesson 25 - Norman Government Changes
Lesson 26 - Norman Law and Order
Lesson 27 - The Significance of the Domesday Book
Lesson 28 - Culture and Language of the Aristocracy
Lesson 29 - Bishop Odo
Lesson 30 - William’s Personality and Robert of Normandy
This resource is a collection of 10 student friendly fact sheets covering all of the subject knowledge needed for the Paper 1 Medicine in Britain - Historic Environment of the British Sector of the Western Front.
Each fact sheet links to an aspect of the GCSE specification and includes useful key terms, images and clearly outlines factual information.
The fact sheets can be used within the classroom as a replacement for the various GCSE text books or as a useful revision guide.
Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
**This pack of revision resources has been specifically designed to help students revise for the Historic Environment of the British Sector of the Western Front. This is the first section in the Paper 1 Medicine in Britain Thematic Study. **
The pack of resources are all on A4 power point and include the following:
Activity 1: A timeline of the main events activity
Activity 2: Medical progress before the war match up and worksheet
Activity 3: Western Front Medical Pioneers March up with challenge tasks
Activity 4: Western Front Environment Glossary Fill
Activity 5: Western Front Medicine Glossary Fill
Activity 6: Statistic Quiz (Multiple Choice)
Activity 7: Western Front Sources Activity - allowing students to become familiar with the types of sources which can be used or analysed
Activity 8: The ‘Follow Up’ activity - students use the previous sheet to decide which sources they would use to help them answer a series of questions.
Activity 9: ‘Two Features’ practice
Activity 10: Western Front Facts Activity
Activity 11: The Big Western Fron Quiz (2 pages for back to back printing)
Activity 12: Mind Map sheet
This bundle contains all the lessons and resources you will need to teach the first unit for the Edexcel GCSE History Paper 1 topic, Migrants in Britain.
Lesson 1: Introduction to the skills and knowledge for the topic
Lesson 2: Why did migrant groups migrate to England between c.800 - c.1500?
Lesson 3: The experiences of Migrant groups in Medieval England
Lesson 4: The Impact of Migrant groups in Medieval England
Lesson 5: CASE STUDY - The Vikings in York
These lessons contain at least one fact sheet about the topic to replace any need for a text book.
This is the final set of lessons needed to teach Unit 4 of the Edexcel GCSE History Migrants in Britain. Each lesson contains a variety of tasks and activities aimed at all levels along with example exam questions, discussion tasks and learning reviews. In addition, you will also find a fact sheet for each lesson which is based on information from all GCSE text books. Therefore, there is no need for any other resources such as text books.
Lesson 18: The changes to society in the period c.1900-present
Lesson 19: The impact of both world wars on migration to Britain
Lesson 20: Migration to Britain after 1945 to the present day
Lesson 21: The experiences of migrants in Britain during the world wars.
Lesson 22: The experiences of black and Asian migrants to Britain after the world wars
Lesson 23: The impact of migration on Britain in the modern period.
Lesson 24: Case Study - Caribbean migrants to Bristol
Lesson 25: Case Study - Asian migrants to Leicester
This pack of resources contains 18 pages of A4 printable revision materials for students studying GCSE History Weimar and Nazi Germany. This pack is suitable for Edexcel, AQA and OCR
The pack contains the following revision activities:
A Weimar & Nazi Germany timeline event fill
Weimar & Nazi Germany key individual match up
Key definitions sheet
Key events revision sheet
Weimar Germany outline sheet
Munich Putsch event sort
Key glossary pages
Statistics quiz
Examples of ‘explain’ type questions
Key term crossword
The rise of the Nazi Party gap fill
Hitler’s Rise to power revision table and organiser
Life in Nazi Germany Quiz sheets
Persecution of Minority Groups Revision activities
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This highly accessible resource can be used as a revision booklet, a set of knowledge organisers or be easily adapted into a lesson-based workbook to accompany students’ learning about the Cold War and Superpower Relations.
READY FOR 2025 EXAMS: All knowledge & example exam questions are based on the most recent updates to the GCSE specification ready for the 2025 exam series. For example, the booklet will ask students to explain ‘one consequence’ rather than two.
It includes 24 pages and each A4 page includes:
An outline of the topic area
Information directly linked to the GCSE specification
Key terms linked to the topic area
Questions and activities
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the resource if you feel it has been effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as your feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this resource are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues.
For Edexcel GCSE History (1-9) Period Study – Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
For Edexcel GCSE History (1-9) British Depth Study – EARLY ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
Newly created for the most recent Specification changes 2023/4
This resource can either act as a revision booklet, a set of knowledge organisers or be easily adapted into a basic workbook to accompany students’ learning about Early Elizabethan England.
It includes 27 pages and each A4 page includes:
An outline of the topic area
Information directly linked to the GCSE specification
Key terms linked to the topic area
Questions and activities
I would be really grateful if you could leave a review for the resource if you feel it has been effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as your feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this resource are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues.
Save a lot of time by simply using this outline for a Curriculum Plan. Everything is ready for you to add in your topics, assessments, assessment objectives, school logo and more to fit your school’s curriculum needs.
It includes an example of a completed History Curriculum Map (colour), an editable outline/generic version (colour) and editable version (black and grey).
I have included instructions about how to edit where needed.
Hopefully, this can really help you out when being asked to produce something which is quite time consuming.
This bundle contains all of my lessons for KS2 - KS3 about King Henry VIII. The lessons are suitable and can be adapted to ages 8-15.
Please note that EVERY lesson is fully resourced and ‘ready to go’. This bundle will save you many hours of preparation and each lesson contains a wide variety of activities to keep your students engaged.
The bundle includes:
Lesson 1: Investigating the life and personality of the young Henry VIII (A source investigation)
Lesson 2: Henry VIII and the ‘Break from Rome’.
Lesson 3: The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Lesson 4: The Reformation
Lesson 5: Portraits of King Henry VIII - Why were portraits so important to Henry?
Lesson 6: The Wives of King Henry VIII - Why did Henry have so many wives?
This bundle is for Edexcel GCSE History and includes all of the lessons and resources you will need for the teaching of Unit 3.
Lessons included:
Lesson 20: Further improvements to Farming
Lesson 21: The end of the Open Range
Lesson 22: The Exoduster Settlement
Lesson 23: The Oklahoma Land Rush
Lesson 24: Lawlessness - Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp
Lesson 25: The Johnson County War
Lesson 26: The Battle of Little Bighorn
Lesson 27: The Wounded Knee Massacre
Lesson 28: The Extermination of the Buffalo
Lesson 29: Life on the Reservation
Lesson 30: The Dawes Act
This bundle provides you with the first 8 lessons needed to teach the topic USA Home & Abroad. It has a focus on the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. The lessons included in this bundle all include facts sheets based on the Edexcel specification which means no other resources/text books will be needed.
Lesson 1: Discrimination and Racism in the 1950s
Lesson 2: The work of civil rights organisations such as CORE and NAACP
Lesson 3: The Brown vs. Topeka Case (1954)
Lesson 4: The events at Little Rock High School (1957)
Lesson 5: The causes and events of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lesson 6: The Impact, Court Case and Consequences of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lesson 7: The Civil Rights Act (1957) and SCLC
Lesson 8: Opposition to Civil Rights and the murder of Emmett Till
This bundle of lessons includes all of the resources you will need to teach Unit 2 of the Paper 3 Home & Abroad topic. This second unit has a focus on the campaign for civil rights from the 1960s to 1975. The lessons in this bundle are:
Lesson 9: The Greensboro Sit in, Freedom Riders and James Meredith
Lesson 10: Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Campaign in Birmingham
Lesson 11: The Freedom Summer, Mississippi Murders and Selma
Lesson 12: The role of President Kennedy & Johnson with the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965)
Lesson 13: Malcom X and the Black Power movement
Lesson 14: The Stokley Carmichael and the Black Panthers
Lesson 15: The Watts Riots and Kerner Report
Lesson 16: The Assassination of Martin Luther King and the Progress of Civil Rights by 1975.
Each lesson includes two different fact sheets based on the edexcel specification. Therefore, you will not need to use or need any other resources alongside these lessons.
Please be kind enough to leave a review if you have found the lessons useful.