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 a bundle for the Unit 2 GCSE History Edexcel. The lesson bundle includes:
Lesson 10: The Homestead Act (1862)
Lesson 11: The Transcontinental Railroad
Lesson 12: Homesteaders and improved farming methods
Lesson 13: Increasing lawlessness in the American West
Lesson 14: The growth of the cattle industry
Lesson 15: The changing role of the cowboy
Lesson 16: Rivalry between Homesteaders and Ranchers
Lesson 17: The impact of cattle ranching, gold mining and the railroad on the Plains Indians
Lesson 18: Government Policies (Peace Plan and Indian Appropriations Act)
Lesson 19: Conflict of the Indian Wars - Little Crow’s War, the Sand Creek Massacre and Red Cloud’s War.
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 lesson examines the crimes of smuggling, witchcraft, vagabondage, puritan crimes and poaching - in particular explaining why they were defined.
Slide 1: Title slide: To explain the reasons for new definitions of crime in Early Modern England
Slide 2: Recap Quiz relating the heresy, treason and high treason
Slide 3-4: An introduction to the new definitions of crime
Slide 5: Match the crime to its meaning with answers revealed
Slide 6-7: Task table with instructions about what to write where.
Slide 8: Fact sheet about Vagrancy
Slide 9: Fact sheet about witchcraft
Slide 10: Fact sheet about smuggling
Slide 11: Fact sheet about puritan crimes
Slide 12: Fact sheet about poaching
Slide 13: Challenge questions
Slide 14: Practice 12 mark exam question
Slide 15: Practice example paragraph
Slide 16: The reasons for change slide to help write the answer to a 12 marker
Slide 17-18: Learning Recap match up
Slide 19: Lesson Fact Sheet
A4 worksheet - an alternative worksheet to the table task.
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the similarities of law enforcement in Early Modern England as well as helping students explain why more effective methods such as the town constables, night watchmen, thief takers and army were needed.
Slide 1: Title slide - To examine the methods of law enforcement used in Early Modern England
Slide 2-4: Filling in the missing terms activity to help students recap law enforcement methods in Medieval England. Answers revealed as well as printable worksheets provided.
Slide 5-6: Discussion starter tasks based around the growth of towns and asks students to think about why the growth of towns would cause an increase in crime.
Slide 7: An outline of various reasons why towns needed more effective law enforcement after 1500.
Slide 8: An outline and analysis of the role of the Night Watchman
Slide 9: Task option 1 - Students to create a poster style fact file about the new methods of law enforcement between 1500-1700.
Slide 10: Challenge tasks
Slide 11: The reasons for change diagram
Slide 12-15: Examples of exam questions (4 mark and 12 mark) with sentence starter help for students.
Slide 16: Lesson Fact Sheet
A4 Worksheet: Provides a worksheet style set of tasks for the students.
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Worksheet 1: An A4 worksheet including the two tables that students need to fill out in order to score the best site for their motte and bailey castle
Worksheet 2: An A4 worksheet which allows students to structure and write a report about their choice of the best site for a motte and bailey castle
PowerPoint:
Slide 1: Title slide - To evaluate the most suitable location for a motte and bailey castle
Slide 2: Learning Recap 1 - Students are shown an illustration of a motte and bailey castle and have to identify the numbered features on it.
Slide 3-4: Alternative Learning Recap - Students are given a diagram of a motte and bailey castle and have to label the different features of it.
Slide 5: Animated and illustrated background information about William’s use of motte and bailey castles
Slide 6-7: An outline of the main task
Slides 8-9: Slides showing the first map which students have to analyse. A table is also included for the teacher to collect student scores.
Slides 10-11: Slides showing the second more focussed map which students have to analyse. A table is also included for the teacher to collect student scores.
Slide 12: A sheet to help students write their report about their chosen castle to William. Sentence starters given with an opportunity for higher ability students to adapt and develop their own ideas.
Slide 13: Challenge Task - Students encouraged to create their own map
Slides 14-15: The original map designs (in case you wanted to adapt them in any way)
Slide 16: Printable motte and bailey diagrams for the starter task
UPDATE 2023: 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. A number of images have also been created by myself and are therefore copyright protected. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This lesson examines the Greensboro Sit-in (1960), the Freedom Riders (1961) and the case of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi (1963). The main aim of the lesson is for students to understand the events as well as explain their significance to the progress of civil rights in the 1960s.
I have included two fact sheets (one slightly differentiated) with the information needed for this part of the course which can be found on the final two slides. Therefore, no other resources are needed for the teaching of this lesson.
The lesson structure is:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
Slide 3-5: Recap of Key Terms used in Unit 1 with answers and student friendly printable sheets
Slide 6: Source Starter Task: A photograph of the Anniston Bus Bombing of 1961 with discussion questions
Slide 7: A map of where the main events happened.
Slide 8: Brief background outline of the Greensboro Sit in
Slide 9-10: Brief background information about the Freedom Riders
Slide 11-13: Brief background information about the case of James Meredith
Slide 14: Example ‘How useful’ question and source
Slide 15: Student printout page for the ‘How useful’ question
Slide 16: Example/Modek answer for the ‘How useful’ question
Slide 17: Student Task - A table for students to fill in about the three events
Slide 18: Student Task 2 - A worksheet for students to use alongside their fact sheet
Slide 19: Follow Up/Challenge Task using two sources about the James Meredith case
Slide 20-21: Learning Review - Students need to decide which event each statement belongs to
Slide 22-23: Lesson fact sheets based on the Edexcel specification
Please note that all images (clipart/photographs/vectors) used in this presentation, to be best of my knowledge, are copyright free and in the public domain unless otherwise attributed in the links. If you feel any errors have been made please contact me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue. Thank you.
This lesson examines the guerrilla warfare tactics used by the Vietcong and asks students to explain why these tactics were so effective against the USA and ARVN forces in Vietnam. Source based exam questions are given throughout.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
Slide 3:Source inference recap of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Slide 4: Sources based starter task - What can students infer from 2 sources about the use of guerrilla warfare tactics by the Vietcong?
Slide 5: Discussion question about the definition of ‘Guerrilla Warfare’.
Slide 6: Background information about why guerrilla warfare tactics were so effective against the USA
Slide 7-8: Table fill activity for students to describe the various tactics and then explain why they were so effective. Print out included
Slide 9: Follow-up challenge questions
Slide 10-12: Practice Exam Question - ‘How useful’ with model answer and suggested structure sheet included.
Slide 13: Charades based Learning Review 1
Slide 14-15: Learning Review 2 - True or False?
Slides 16-17: Lesson fact sheets based on the Edexcel specification.
I have included two fact sheets (one slightly differentiated) with the information needed for this part of the course which can be found on the final two slides. Therefore, no other resources are needed for the teaching of this lesson.
Please note that all images (clipart/photographs/vectors) used in this presentation, to be best of my knowledge, are copyright free and in the public domain unless otherwise attributed in the links. A number of clipart images have also been purchased for commercial use from ‘Artsy Bee Kids’. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue. Thank you.
This lesson examines the causes, events, features and consequences of the Paris Peace Agreement in 1973.
The lesson itself includes:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2-3: Previous lesson recap to test knowledge of the reasons for or against the Vietnam War - answers included
Slide 4: Dicussion question and overview of the main reasons why all sides wanted to negotiate peace by 1973.
Slide 5-6: Instructions and follow up questions to a timeline task. Printable timeline included.
Slide 7: Additional table fill task for students to explain why each side would want an end to the war.
Slide 8-9: Practice Exam Question - Explain why the Paris Peace Agreement was signed in 1973
Slide 10-14: Challenge Task - Political cartoon source analysis
Slide 15-16: Lesson review quiz with answers
Slide 17-18: Lesson fact sheets based on the Edexcel GCSE specification
I have included two fact sheets (one slightly differentiated) with the information needed for this part of the course which can be found on the final two slides. Therefore, no other resources are needed for the teaching of this lesson.
Please note that all images (clipart/photographs/vectors) used in this presentation, to be best of my knowledge, are copyright free and in the public domain unless otherwise attributed in the links. A number of clipart images have also been purchased for commercial use from ‘Artsy Bee Kids’. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will focus their study on the conditions of the Middle Passage of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The lesson provides facts, visual and written sources to help students understand the Middle Passage. There are also optional tasks relating to the 1977 TV series Roots as well as a further online activity based on the BBC Bitesize website about the Slave Trade. This is a fully resourced lesson which includes printable fact sheets and worksheets as well as engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
Please note that I am not able to provide any links to the TV series Roots but this is easily available on most streaming services as well as on DVD.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – The Conditions on the Middle Passage
Slide 2: The purpose and aims of the lesson.
Slide 3: Recap Activity: Match the stage of the slave trade to the number on the slave trade map
Slide 4: Recap Activity answers
Slide 5: Starter Task – How could we find out about the Middle Passage?
Slide 6: Recap Activity 2 – Use the 8 images on the slide to discuss how the slave trade worked.
Slide 7: Visual Source Analysis of The Brooks slave ship – source inference
Slide 8: Visual Source Analysis of The Brooks slave ship - source usefulness
Slide 9: Visual Source Analysis of The Brooks slave ship – printable worksheet
Slide 10: Main Task - instructions
Slide 11: Main Task – sources about the Middle Passage printable information sheet
Slide 12: Main Task – Table printout for students
Slide 13: The origins of the TV series Roots – background information
Slide 14: The origins of the TV series Roots – background information
Slide 15: Think & discuss question about the usefulness of Roots as evidence
Slide 16: Roots table task
Slide 17: Assessing the usefulness of the TV series Roots
Slide 18: Online Activity & Research – BBC Bitesize
Slide 19: Printout of the question sheet needed for the BBC Bitesize task
Slide 20: Middle Passage Creative Task options
Slide 21: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 22: Learning Review Activity
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
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. Thank you.
This lesson examines the changes to laws and crimes as a result of the Norman conquest.
The lesson includes all the factual information as well as all of the resources you will need for teaching this lesson. There is no need for any additional text books.
Slide 1: Title - To examine new definitions of crime in Norman England
Slide 2: Knowledge Recap Starter Quiz
Slide 3: Starter Task and Discussion
Slide 4: Starter Clip (Norman Revolt and Resistance BBC Bitesize)
Slide 5: Background - A New Norman King - William I
Slide 6: Background - William shows his authority
Slide 7: Problem solving task - What woud you do in William’s position?
Slide 8: Background - The actions of William I
Slide 9: Task Sheet 1
Slide 10: Task Sheet 2
Slide 11: Continuity and Change task sheet
Slide 12: What causes change?
Slide 13: Task Sheet - printable version to give students
Slide 14: Practice Exam question (explain why 12)
Slide 15: Example paragraph
Slide 16: Discussion based lesson recap
Slide 17: Lesson Fact Sheet
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the developments of the modern police force, especially in terms of its specialisation.
PowerPoint 1: A series of worksheets and exam question sheets
PowerPoint 2:
Slide 1 - To explain the development and increased specialisation of the police since c.1900
Slide 2-4: The story of the police so far - a filling in the missing key terms activity with printable student handout.
Slide 5-6: Starter timeline activity - can students place the developments of the police into the correct order?
Slide 7-11: Background information and teacher led activities based upon themes such as crime prevention, neighbourhood watch, PCSOs and police specialisation.
Slide 12-13: Activity - students match the specialist unit to theor description.
Slide 14: Printable worksheet and table
Slide 15: A set of 3 challenge tasks
Slide 16-19: Practice exam questions
Slide 20: Learning review activity
Slide 21-22: Lesson Fact Sheets
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This final lesson of the Crime and Punishment unit looks at the treatment, law and punishment of Conscientious Objectors in the two world wars.
Slide 1: Title slide - The Treatment of Conscientious Objectors
Slide 2: Starter Task - students watch a short documentary clip taken from the BBC One Show and write down three facts about Conscientious Objectors.
Slide 3-6: Poster inference activity-students examine World War One propaganda posters to infer what the attitudes towards these men were at the time.
Slide 7-8: Background information
Slide 9: Option Task sheets
Slide 10-14: Sheets which will help students learn about the Conscientious Objectors using their preferred learning style.
Slide 15: Challenge question - which other groups from the study have been persecuted in law because of their beliefs and/or actions?
Slide 16: Example exam questions
Slide 17: Lesson Fact Sheet
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the case study of Derek Bentley, with a focus on the public reaction to his sentence and how his punishment led to the abolition of the death penalty.
Slide 1: Title slide - To explain the controversy of Derek Bentley’s execution in 1953
Slide 2-4: Learning recap - key terms, with printable version for students and answers revealed.
Slide 5: Starter Task - Students read and listen to the lyrics of Elvis Costello’s Let him Dangle’ in order to infer information about the Derek Bentley case.
Slide 6: The story of the Derek Bentley case, written in a student friendly format.
Slide 7: Explanation practice table
Slide 8: Activity - students imagine they are on the side of the defence and the prosecution and write down what their arguments would be.
Slide 9: Learning Task questions with challenge
Slide 10 - 11: Practice 12 and 4 mark questions
Slide 12: Lesson Fact Sheet
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines how prisons have developed, especially with their specialisation and focus on the reform of young people.
Power Point 1:A4 Worksheets
Power Point 2:
Slide 1: To explain the development and specialisation of the prison system in modern Britain
Slide 2-3: Prison chronology recap activity
Slide 3: Key terms to help with the lesson
Slide 5-7: Discussion about the case of Vicky Pryce and Chris Huhne
Slide 8: Source inference about the prison population in Britain
Slide 9: Discussion - why has the prison population rapidly increased?
Slide 10: Source inference about the prison population of age and gender
Slide 11: Background information about the changing attitudes towards children in prison.
Slide 12: The main changes to the penal system after c.1900
Slide 13-17: A variety of short clips about young people in prisons. This will go along with the worksheets provided.
Slide 18-19: Practice exam questions
Slide 20: An additional activity which looks at the public attitudes towards prisons in modern Britain.
Slide 21-22: Key term crossword with answers revealed
Slide 23: Lesson Fact Sheet
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This is the final lesson for Unit 4 which covers the very last case study about the experiences and impact of Asian migrants in Leicester after 1945. As always, the lesson comes with its own fact sheet and so there is no need for any additional text books.
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: GCSE graded lesson outcomes
Slide 3-4: Recap quiz about the previous case study about Bristol with answers revealed
Slide 5-6: Useful key term match up activity with answers revealed
Slide 7: An overview of the location of Leicester and the main aims of the lesson
Slide 8-9: Source inference starter task - Students analyse one source about the experiences of Asian migrants to Leicester. A printable student version also available.
Slide 10: A further source investigation sheet with 6 more sources about the experiences and impact of Asian migrants in Leicester along with a series of questions.
Slide 11-12: A timeline task which gets the students to outline the main events and statistics linking to Asian migration to Leicester. Printable timeline also there.
Slide 13: A series of overall challenge questions about migration over time
Slide 14: Example 4 mark practice exam questions
Slide 15: A 23 question recap quiz sheet for students to write on. The questions cover all of unit 4.
Slide 16: Lesson fact sheet about Asian migrants to Leicester.
This lesson examines and asks the students to evaluate the most significant impact of migrants in Britain during the modern period.
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: GCSE graded lesson outcomes
Slide 3: Recap activity 1 (Why did migrants come to Britain during the modern period?)
Slide 4-5: Long term recap activity - What impact have migrants had over time - filling in the missing terms (with answers)
Slide 6: Instructions for activity 1 - a sorting task
Slide 7: The table of facts which can be printed for students to organise into categories
Slide 8: A slide which focus students on the idea of the overall impact of migration rather than the facts about what contributions migrants have made.
Slide 9: Which impact was the most significant?
Slide 10-11: 4 mark practice exam questions
Slide 12: 12 and 16 mark practice exam questions
Slide 13: Recap diagram
Slide 14-15: Lesson fact sheets
This lesson first allows students to explore the many stereotypes about Henry VIII and then study four historical sources and sour historical interpretations which may challenge these stereotypes. The lesson particularly examines the younger years of King Henry VIII. The lesson includes a starter task which explores the idea of stereotypes. Students are then given brief background information about Henry VIII’s youth. Students are then presented with a variety of sources and interpretations to use as part of a group or individual exercise whereby they infer information about Henry VIII from them. As well as all of the resources needed, you will also get 2 x A4 printable worksheets for students to write their responses on.
UPDATE 2023: 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.