A comprehensive revision workbook for the IGCSE History (Edexcel) China: Conflict, Crisis and Change 1900 – 19189 course. It includes: • 26 fact sheets covering all topics. • 26 writing tasks (1 for each topic with graduated difficulty) • 99 keywords to support vocabulary and understanding • 5 Online quizzes (1 for each sub topic) Writing tasks are as follows: • 3 keyword match ups • 3 Cloze activities • 3 PEE model and sort activities • 8 PEEKA paragraphs model and write activity • 9 6 mark questions with PEEKA writing stems This has been used at an International School in the UAE with great effect and hugely popular with parents and home tutors. Hope it helps. Topics are as follows (each with its own writing task, keywords and access to an online quiz). China, an introduction The Boxer Rebellion, 1900 The Self-Strengthening Movement, 1902 – 1911 The 1911 Revolution Warlords & The May 4th Movement Sun Yat-sen & the GMD United Front & Northern Expedition Shanghai Massacre 1927 The Long March 1934 War with Japan 1937 – 45 Civil War 1946 – 49 Why did the CCP win? CCP & Agriculture CCP & Industry CCP & Women CCP & politics CCP & USSR Motives for the Cultural Revolution Cultural Revolution Key Features Cult of Mao Cultural Revolution Consequences China splits with the USSR Gang of Four Deng’s economic reforms Deng’s political reforms Tiananmen Square, 1989. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

This lesson explores the factors contributing to Hitler’s growing appeal from 1930 to 1933, including the impact of the Great Depression, propaganda, and the role of the SA. Activities include watching a TED-Ed video, answering related questions, and completing worksheets on Nazi propaganda tactics. Students will also analyse Hitler’s promises and the effectiveness of his methods in gaining support. Through discussions and writing exercises, they will understand how the Nazis capitalised on economic distress and political instability.– This is one lesson in a series of 24 on Nazi Germany, designed and successfully taught to an IGCSE cohort who achieved record grades. Each lesson is designed to cover a range of historical and exam skills to build up students knowledge and exam skills ready for the exam. Those lessons are: The origins of the Republic 1919 The Weimar Constitution Early Challenges to Weimar Challenges from the Left and Right Hyperinflation 1923 Recovery of the Republic Weimar International Relations Early Development of the Nazi Party Munich Putsch Nazi Party Rebuilds Great Depression & The Nazis Hitler’s Appeal Hitler Becomes Chancellor Creation of a Dictatorship Nazi Germany & Methods of Control Nazi Germany & Youth Nazi Germany & Women Nazi Germany & Religion Nazi Germany & Jewish Persecution 1933-39 Nazi Germany & The Economy The Holocaust & The Final solution Nazi Germany & The Home Front Nazi Germany & Opposition to Hitler Nazi Germany Flash Cards Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details. Please help us, help you, help them. Thank you. Hope it helps. W

Fully resourced and ready to teach. One lesson of about 20 in the Wolsey Academy First World War series, tried and tested over several years - recently given face lift to make it that much more engaging and relevant to today’s students. Features a team summary task, mini-plenary, video links, evidence analysis task, Max Hastings scholarship task, research task of other unofficial truces in conflict, creative task with instructions. Hope it helps, And Merry Christmas :) W. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Overview: This lesson covers innovations in video game consoles from 1961 onwards. It has a relay activity followed by a written paragraph with peer assessments. Complete with differentiation sheets, plenaries, starters, lesson plan and pedagogy justifications. Cardinal’s Corner: Do not be deceived. This is an incredibly rich and well written book. Yes, it is about video games. But that does not in any way detract from its quality as a piece of writing. The author, David Sheff, is famed for having done one of the last interviews with John Lennon and his articles have appeared in all sorts of publications. It is essentially a history of one of the most culturally important companies of the late twentieth (and early twenty first) century. Nintendo as a company is over a hundred years old and the stories goes right back to its early days in Kyoto as a maker of card games (I’ve actually been lucky enough to visit their original office when on vacation). I got this book free with a computer game magazine when I was in high school. I read it all in about a week – not bad for a 13 year old kid. When I came to re-read it as an adult I found it equally as fascinating and if pushed I would say this was probably my favourite book of all time. It is oozing with anecdotes and provides a depth of historical contexts – from how the Nintendo company survived the second world war to a Cold War legal battle with the Soviet Union over the video game rights to Tetris. A fascinating read – and one that be found on pdf here. Video games are a hugely important part of our recent culture, they’re something that all our pupils are familiar with and they provide a hugely important learning tool. Even commercial games are uniquely powerful at teaching children. I was once astonished in one of my worst Year 9 classes when a child started talking with some confidence about the work of Leonardo De Vinci and asked, entirely unprompted, “Wasn’t he important during the Renaissance?”. Of course, what had he been playing? Assassins Creed. That same game series incidentally hires historical consultants to get as an accurate picture of the past, in the same way that Hollywood movies do. One of the Assassin Creed games features an accurate model of Colonial Boston – based on maps and drawings of the times – in which the player explores and meets key characters, like Benjamin Franklin. I also, perhaps flippantly, swear that is a good grounding in Civilization 2 that got me my GCSE in History and an unhealthy obsession with Sim City that let me cruise to top grades in GCSE Geography. Games are not to be dismissed as learning tools. Indeed, my hunch is that in the near future games will do most of the teaching for us. Keep checking back at Wolsey Academy’s Learning Worlds page to see how that’s coming along. Hope it helps.

17 practice papers for Edexcel IGCSE English Literature Macbeth exam. (Open book exam). Each paper comes with a Edexcel style front sheet and a choice of two questions (1 character, 1 theme). Excellent for revision and independent study. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Made during the 2020 lockdown for remote learning it is a pretty comprehensive resource (if I may say so) that covers the whole topic and includes: 18 tailor made teacher videos 18 factsheets on the 18 key topics 18 literacy/essay writing challenges* (1 per key topic) 5 Google Quizzes (and printable versions) 1 Stretch and Challenge Project It took a very long time to produce and I am very happy to now be able to share it I would suggest setting it as an ongoing revision or homework task, the teacher videos mean that it can be used for self study also. The target audience was mostly for international school settings so I have tried to use accessible language where possible and each topic comes with a set of keywords to develop vocab skills. If you spot any mistakes please contact me via the website above and if you think it has come in useful I would love to see your reviews on the TES (makes me feel a bit better!) Hope it helps! As a man with a great beard once (sort of) said: Teachers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. *The essay writing questions are loosely based on Edexcel IGCSE style questions but the approach taken is quite generic so will suit all exam boards/national systems. Russia and its discontents The 1905 Revolution  The Russian Dumas  Russia and the First World War  Rasputin  The February Revolution 1917  The Provisional Government  The Bolsheviks  The Bolsheviks Come to Power  The Bolsheviks & The Constituent Assembly  The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk  The Russian Civil War 1918 - 1921 Why did the Reds win the Civil War? War Communism Impact of War Communism Kronstadt Naval Mutiny 1921 New Economic Policy (NEP) Lenin’s Legacy WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Lesson 1: Roman Intro THIS FULLY RESOURCED LESSON INCLUDES: • Lesson teacher tutorial video for this lesson (for homework/home school learning) • Literacy & Numeracy settler • Contextual information (to assist teacher talk) • Chronology card sort • Team Teach the factors activity • Significance categorisation task • Paragraph writing skills activity. • All resources required included at the end of the PowerPoint file. • Online self marking quiz to assess understanding Other lessons in the series: Lesson 2: The Founding of Rome, Romulus and Remus Lesson 3: Roman Roads Lesson 4: The Roman Army Lesson 5: Punic Wars Lesson 6: Pompeii & Roman Life Lesson 7: Roman Government (The Republic) Lesson 8: Medicine and Public Health An 8 lesson series guiding Key Stage 3 through some of the fundamentals of the Roman Empire. Tried and tested over a number of years. See details of each lesson below the initial list. Each lesson focusses on the Video – Resource – Quiz structure to allow for maximum support for teachers and parents – and maximum independence for students. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Napoleon, Nelson and Trafalgar 1 lesson from a series of 7 on the Napoleonic Wars, The Royal Navy and the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The lessons are as follows: Napoleon and the threat to Britain The Making of Nelson’s Navy Horatio Nelson – Hero? Life in Nelson’s Navy The Battle of Trafalgar Napoleon and Trafalgar Pokémon revision game Each lesson works as a standalone, but they are designed to be taught in sequence, with each lesson adding a new layer of context and skills ready for the final writing task in lesson 4. Each lesson comes with 4 Pokémon style key word cards which are all gathered with a range of factor and skill word cards in the 5th lesson – this allows students to use them in their writing. Each lesson includes a range of activities and resources all contained within the same PowerPoint file for ease of use. The activities are as follows: Lesson 1: Napoleon and the threat to Britain • French Revolution context • Trading card keywords activity • Napoleon info cards and CV writing task • Napoleon’s conquests and the Continental System • Comprehension questions Lesson 2: The Making of Nelson’s Navy • Age of sail video and question/answers • Assemble a fleet discussion task with prompts • 8 Factors of success – table fill • PEE prioritisation task • Writing a letter to family task • Trading card keyword activity • Reading comprehension questions Lesson 3: Nelson v Villeneuve (and life on a sailing ship) • Nelson video and question/answers • Reading comprehension questions • Trading card keyword activity • Nelson’s Victories place and describe map activity • Nelson: Hero and Villain extended reading and debate task Lesson 4: Life in Nelson’s Navy • Video and questions • Teach Roulette – life as a sailor group task • Nautical English terms task • Write a diary entry as a sailor task • Trading Card Activity Lesson 5: The Battle of Trafalgar • Recap task • Events of the day info slides (enabling teacher talk) • Extended reading – Bernard Cornwell – the gruesome side of a war at sea • Cartoon strip of the battle with info slides • Why did Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar? Essay task to include all factors studied thus far (the recap reminder sheet from activity 1 is useful here). • Trading Card Activity Lesson 6: Battle of Trafalgar Keyword Trading Card Game • 20 Pokémon style keywords • 11 General factor history and skill cards • An excellent and engaging way to stimulate writing tasks! Bonus: Trafalgar History Club Activity • Flag making – Re-create Nelson’s famous flag signals! • Battle Snowballs – create the line of battle, act out the fight and see who wins in the rematch! Visit the Wolsey Academy website for more excellent resources and History games - free to play. We hope it helps. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

One lesson from a series of 10 lessons used recently to teach Key Stage 3 which much success. There is a great range of activities and the students really engaged with the subject. Each lesson is fully resourced and ready to teach from the box. Each includes options for adaption up or down depending on class level. Each lesson builds up students’ skills ready for an assessment in lesson 10, but also develops soft skills of group work, presentation, research and problem-solving. The lessons are as follows: • Raiders or Settlers? Push and Pull Factors • Viking Mythology & Top Trumps • Women in the Viking Age • Trade and Longboats • Lindisfarne • Edmund the Martyr • Bluetooth, Forkbeard & Canute • The Kyivan Rus • The Viking Discovery of America • Assessment Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps. W

This lesson looks into the significance of the Silk Roads and their impact on China. Students will learn about the historical trade routes, key figures, and events that shaped the Silk Roads. Activities include video analysis, timeline sorting, and categorizing imports and exports. They will explore how the Silk Roads facilitated trade, cultural exchange, and the spread of technologies and ideas. The lesson aims to highlight the interconnectedness of ancient civilizations and the enduring legacy of the Silk Roads on global history. Taken from a series of 7 lessons on history of Ancient China. They provide an excellent and engaging introduction to ancient China and provide a great foundation for understanding how this vital nation has shaped our world. Each lesson is designed to cover a range of historical and exam skills to build up students knowledge and exam skills ready for any exam board, external and internal. They are also a huge amount of fun to teach! Those lessons are: Shang & Zhou Dynasties Qin Shi Huang (The First Emperor) Confucianism Kublai Khan Silk Roads The Forbidden City Zheng He & The Treasure Fleets Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount. Use code ‘WOLSEY’ for 10% off at the Wolsey Academy Web Store Please help us, help you, help them. Thank you. Hope it helps. W

This lesson explores the Shang and Zhou Dynasties of ancient China, highlighting their cultural, technological, and governance advancements. Students will investigate significant contributions such as bronze work and oracle bones from the Shang, and the Zhou’s Mandate of Heaven. Activities include video analysis, timeline sorting, and narrative writing exercises focused on oracle bone ceremonies. The lesson aims to enhance understanding of these dynasties’ lasting legacies in Chinese history. Taken from a series of 7 lessons on history of Ancient China. They provide an excellent and engaging introduction to ancient China and provide a great foundation for understanding how this vital nation has shaped our world. Each lesson is designed to cover a range of historical and exam skills to build up students knowledge and exam skills ready for any exam board, external and internal. They are also a huge amount of fun to teach! Those lessons are: Shang & Zhou Dynasties Qin Shi Huang (The First Emperor) Confucianism Kublai Khan Silk Roads The Forbidden City Zheng He & The Treasure Fleets Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount. Use code ‘WOLSEY’ for 10% off at the Wolsey Academy Web Store Please help us, help you, help them. Thank you. Hope it helps. W

lesson looking at the events of the First Battle of the Marne in 1914. A crucial battle that stopped the German advance on Paris, wrecked the German Schlieffen Plan and was the beginning of trench warfare/stalemate. Activities include… 1.Discuss the legend of the Taxis on the Marne 2.Answer questions on the causes, events and consequences 3.Put together a timeline 4.Categorise the factors behind the battle. 5.Evaluate the relative importance of the different factors involved. 6.Complete a reading comprehension task. 7.Test your new knowledge in a conversation task. 8.Use a grading matrix to assess an example answer. 9.Try your own answer using a PEEKA paragraph template to support you. Hope it helps. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet

This series of lessons will explore the rich and diverse history of Ukraine, from the ancient civilization of Kievan Rus to the present day. Students will learn about the country’s cultural and political heritage, including its struggles for independence and democracy, and its contributions to art, literature, and science. The 10 lessons are as follows: The emergence of the Kievan Rus in the 9th century The Mongol Invasion in the 12th century The Union of Lublin in 1569 The Cossack Uprising in the 17th century The Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century The Ukrainian War of Independence in 1917-1921 The Holodomor Famine of 1932-1933 The Chernobyl Disaster of 1986 The Orange Revolution of 2004 The Euromaidan protests in 2013-2014 In each lesson, students will… Study the context of the topic Sort a timeline of the events into the correct order. Watch a video and answer questions on the content. Study historical perspectives of the topic. A study of images and artifacts from the period and what they can teach us. Sort factors into order of relevance and significance Agree on a grading matrix for answering a written question. Read an example answer and look for what went well and even better if. Try writing your own answer to the topic question. Tackle a stretch task to take your learning further These lessons have been created by Wolsey Academy. Each lesson has been taught to high-school students successfully. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps. Slava Ukraïni!