BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / GCSE: The Atomic bomb. Worksheet to support the BBC website
Worksheet to support the excerpt from Andrew Marrs’ History of The World
Andrew Marr explores the development and deployment of the first atomic bomb. He describes the moral dilemma faced by the scientists of the Manhattan Project, and the fallout from the detonation of the bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima
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This is a one page resource
BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 & KS4/GCSE: The brains behind the Industrial Revolution.
Worksheet to support the BBC documentary extract
Coal and steam are easy factors to identify in the Industrial Revolution but brains were another key factor.
Eminent scientists like Sir Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle had made important discoveries about gravity, and the behaviour of gases.
These discoveries were harnessed and turned into business ideas by men like James Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton.
Britain’s political system aided these developments.
Compared to most European states, the British Parliament held very little control over the economy, preferring to leave businessmen to run businesses rather than interfering.
At the same time, there was very little censorship or control of ideas and publications, so ideas could be circulated and developed.
In London, scientists met and discussed ideas at the Royal Society.
In the Midlands, the Lunar Society did much the same. Many scientists were interested in knowledge for its own sake, but there were others who were able to turn these ideas into new technologies to make fortunes too.
This short film is from the BBC series, Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here.
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An worksheet for the full BBC Documentary - Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here? Can be found at
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12138660
Mansa Musa, the 14th century African king of the Mali Empire, is said to have amassed a fortune that possibly made him one of the wealthiest people who ever lived. Jessica Smith tells the story of how Mansa Musa literally put his empire – and himself – on the map.
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What legacy has the British Empire left behind? Worksheet to support the Paxman, Empire Documentary extract
The Empire brought blood and suffering to millions, but it also brought railways, roads and education. For good or ill, much of the world is the way it is today because of the Empire, from the way it looks, to the sports people play, from the religion we practise, to the language we speak:
BBC - Empire - Learning Zone - What legacy has the British Empire left behind?
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A one page resource
BBC Teach - How wealthy slave owners entered British aristocracy. Worksheet to support the Olusoga extract
Search - BBC Teach - How wealthy slave owners entered British aristocracy
Historian David Olusoga visits Harewood House to explore how the wealth of slave owners returning from abroad in the mid-eighteenth century paid for monumental country estates at home - and sometimes elevation in to the British aristocracy.
by the mid 18th century as slave owners in the Caribbean became increasingly wealthy from their sugar plantations they started to return home bringing with them their fortunes
EDEXCEL 9-1GCSE - Topic 3: 1750-1900 SUMMARY 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ consolidation, revision, resource
This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for MEDIEVAL MEDICINE MEDICINE
Paper 1 Medicine Through Time and the Environmental Study on the Trenches Unit. It fully covers the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to:
a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning.
c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change.
d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards
e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable.
The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students.
Please see placemat at:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-1-edexcel-history-learning-topic-placemats-for-the-medicine-through-time-course-topic-3-11755274
BBC Teach - Class Clips History GCSE / National 5: How Britain reacted to the outbreak of war in 1914
How did Britain enter World War One? Jeremy Paxman explores the optimistic national mood at the declaration of war in 1914 after Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, invaded Belgium.
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A one page resource
Contextual slides for a quick overview of the Topic 4 content used at the start of each lesson in the unit of work.
Separate slides for:
1.Women
2.Persecution of the Jews
3.Nazi economic policy
A contextual slide for a quick visual overview of the Topic 3 content used at the start of each lesson in the unit of work
Slides cover:
The Nazi consolidation of power 1933-34
Propaganda, Police State, and Opposition
Religion
Three introductory slides to explain the chronological course of the break down in relationships between Britain and her Thirteen North American Colonies.
A lesson introducing the twentieth Century through art. Each decade is represented by an image which can be interpreted through comprehension and inference to improve an understanding of the century and to contextualise its principal events. Students are encouraged to see links and continuity between decades, as well as speculate as to which images typify the 21st Century.
Boom, Bust & Recovery- Worksheet to support J.W. Davidson’s ‘A Little History of the United States’ Chapter 32 - The New Deal
Written as part of an introductory reading programme for Yr 12 A Level students studying the Edexcel syllabus or extension materials for Ks3 or GCSE.
Written as Publisher files for printing on A3, they can be edited and printed as PDF files to accommodate A4 printing
Boom, Bust & Recovery- Worksheet to support J.W. Davidson’s ‘A Little History of the United States’ Chapter 31 - The Masses
Written as part of an introductory reading programme for Yr 12 A Level students studying the Edexcel syllabus or extension materials for Ks3 or GCSE.
Written as Publisher files for printing on A3, they can be edited and printed as PDF files to accommodate A4 printing
Boom, Bust & Recovery- Worksheet to support J.W. Davidson’s ‘A Little History of the United States’ Chapter 34 - Superpower
Written as part of an introductory reading programme for Yr 12 A Level students studying the Edexcel syllabus or extension materials for Ks3 or GCSE.
Written as Publisher files for printing on A3, they can be edited and printed as PDF files to accommodate A4 printing
Worksheet to support the BBC Historyfile - Boom & Bust documentary.
The film covers the inter war years of the USA and studies the contributing factors that caused the Boom and subsequent Bust.
The worksheet contains. a variety of data collection activities as well as lower and higher order questions.
The sheet was designed for both classroom work as well as a flipped activity to be undertaken outside the classroom to encourage independent learning and research.
BBC History File - Medicine Through Time - Ep.4 - War & Surgery Supporting Worksheet:
Suitable for the current Edexcel SHP Surgery Paper and new 9-1 History GCSE as lesson support, revision or flipped learning. Also appropriate for the legacy GCSE