Kate Humble joins a team of geologists on an awe-inspiring adventure to Ambrym in the Vanuatu island chain. Here, she undertakes an arduous journey to Marum - a volcano containing one of only five lava lakes on the planet - abseiling right to its heart to discover if another major eruption might be imminent. Along the way, she discovers how the volcano has shaped the customs and traditions of the islanders and discovers what it really means to live each day on the slopes of an erupting volcano. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 printing the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

Britain 2000 Years in The Making - Ep 5 Superpower - Worksheet to support the TV Documentary. Written to support the teaching of the A level: Britain: Losing and Gaining and Empire - 1763-1914. Suitable as an enrichment task for able KS3

Henry VII - The Winter King - Worksheet to support the BBC TV Documentary ‘Author Thomas Penn takes an extraordinary journey into the dark and chilling world of the first Tudor, Henry VII. From his victory over Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, to his secret death and the succession of his son Henry VIII, this programme reveals the ruthless tactics Henry VII used to win - and cling on to - the ultimate prize, the throne of England. Exploring magnificent buildings and long-lost documents, Penn reveals the true story of this suspicious, enigmatic and terrifying monarch.’ Written in Publisher to an A3 format, this sheet can be fully edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing. A Word file is included for ease of uploading to Google Calssroom

Based on Ian Mortimer’s popular ‘A Time Traveller’s guide to Elizabethan England’ series, these worksheets provide a useful note taking scaffold for KS3 and KS4 students. The set of resources could be used as a useful overview to the Edexcel 9:1 GCSE - Elizabethan England 1558 - 88 supporting the syllabus topics: Challenges to Elizabeth’s rule & Life in Elizabethan England. Each film clip is around 10 minutes in duration making them an ideal flipped learning task, starter or plenary activity based upon the BBC Class Clip: Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3: Why was London the centre of the Elizabethan world? The historian, Ian Mortimer, journeys back in time to find out why London was the centre of the Elizabethan world. He travels around the capital and visits the sights that were the most significant in the 16th century including the Tower of London, the River Thames, London Bridge, and the Globe Theatre. In the hustle and bustle of city’s streets, he uncovers a world of extremes, great wealth and poverty, magnificent buildings, theatres, slums and disease. He finds that as today, London was a centre of international trade, a place of new ideas and opportunities to make money. The Elizabethans were prepared to put up with the overcrowding, filth and unbearable smells to be part of this great city.

Based on Ian Mortimer’s popular ‘A Time Traveller’s guide to Elizabethan England’ series, these worksheets provide a useful note taking scaffold for KS3 and KS4 students. The set of resources could be used as a useful overview to the Edexcel 9:1 GCSE - Elizabethan England 1558 - 88 supporting the syllabus topics: Challenges to Elizabeth’s rule & Life in Elizabethan England. Each film clip is around 10 minutes in duration making them an ideal flipped learning task, starter or plenary activity based upon the BBC Class Clip: Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3: Who were the rich in Elizabethan England? The historian, Ian Mortimer, journeys back in time to find out who the rich were in Elizabethan England. He discovers an emerging new class of people who were becoming very wealthy in their own right. They were known as the landed gentry and held positions of increasing influence such as magistrates, sheriffs and MPs. On his travels he explores the everyday lives of the gentry including their homes, hygiene and travel. While they were comfortably well off they also had a lot to lose. Elizabeth I demanded the absolute loyalty from her subjects and had an extensive spy network designed at uncovering her enemies. Once discovered, she showed no mercy as her cousin Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington plotters discovered to their cost.

Based on Ian Mortimer’s popular ‘A Time Traveller’s guide to Elizabethan England’ series, these worksheets provide a useful note taking scaffold for KS3 and KS4 students. The set of resources could be used as a useful overview to the Edexcel 9:1 GCSE - Elizabethan England 1558 - 88 supporting the syllabus topics: Challenges to Elizabeth’s rule & Life in Elizabethan England. Each film clip is around 10 minutes in duration making them an ideal flipped learning task, starter or plenary activity. using the BBC link below: Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips -History KS3: What was life like for the poor in the towns of Elizabethan England? On his travels Ian Mortimer explores various aspects of town and city life in the sixteenth century, including the markets, which drew so many people in from the surrounding countryside. He also looks at how the Elizabethans tackled the problems of crime and disease, which were such a prominent feature of life for the urban poor. Although life could be tough, he discovers that the introduction of the Elizabethan poor laws did go some way to alleviating the worst times.

Written to support the extract taken from Jeremy Paxman’s BBC ‘Empire’ documentary series explores the idea that the British Empire wasn’t simply about conquest for conquest’s sake; but was built by a ruthless pursuit of wealth through money, profit and trade: Search - BBC Empire - Learning Zone - What was the role of money and trade in the British empire | History - Empire Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 it can be printed in A4 as a PDF document This is a one page resource

Travelling by water was an important part of Viking culture as it transported them overseas to distant lands as both invaders and as settlers. Neil Oliver travels to Oslo to find out how the Vikings’ skills as shipbuilders and sailors enabled them to travel so far from their homeland. Here, a close look at the famous Oseburg Ship reveals the extraordinary craftsmanship of the Vikings. Out at sea, on a replica of a Viking boat, he learns how they used the sun to navigate their way across the open sea, and in Russia he discovers how the Vikings overcame rapids and ice to travel up its mighty rivers to trade in the East. He finds evidence of an ancient settlement in Iceland from where Viking explorers embarked on journeys even further West, to become the first Europeans to discover North America. Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - KS2 / KS3 History: Viking ships BBC Teach > Primary Resources / Secondary Resources > History KS2 / History KS3 > Vikings Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing This is a one page document

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. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing A one page resource 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

Written to support the BBC Teach Olusoga extract BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > KS3 / GCSE History > Migration Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - Black people in Britain during the Atlantic slave trade era In this short film, historian David Olusoga looks at the lives of Black people in Britain in the 1600s and 1700s. He looks at portraits in Ham House in Surrey, which feature images of young Black men and women as part of family groups of aristocrats. Olusoga talks to Professor James Walvin, who suggests that often these figures were invented and were part of the exoticism associated with international trade and enslavement. Walvin describes Black people in the UK as the ‘flotsam and jetsam’ of the slave trade, individuals who found themselves in the UK. Most were in domestic service. Some were sailors in transit in and out of the ports. By the late 18th century the ideas of the French Revolution were spreading and some Black people were starting to have a political impact on British society. These included Robert Wedderburn, who argued passionately for the emancipation of Black slaves and poor whites. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing A one page document

Taught to Year 8 students the lesson explores the significance of the roles of Chadwick, Stephenson, Arkwright and Tull in the Industrial Revolution. The lesson has options on the initial quizzing of prior learning, and then an inquiry in two parts: initially researching one individual and then group work sharing findings on the remaining individuals to reach a conclusion on their significance.

Written to support the 1982 BBC Documentary: QED A Guide to Armageddon. The documentary studies the effects of a one megaton nuclear bomb being exploded over London The sheet supports the film with a table to test its predictions using NUKEMAPS: The resource is written in Publsiher and formatted to A4

Tsunamis - 10 Things You Didn’t Know About… Worksheet to support the BBC Doc with Iain Stewart Iain Stewart journeys across the oceans to explore the most powerful giant waves in history, with ten remarkable stories about tsunamis. These massive waves can be taller than the biggest skyscraper, travel at the speed of a jet plane and when they reach land, rear up and turn into a terrifying wall of water that destroys everything in its path. These unstoppable, uncontrollable forces of nature caused the ruin of an entire ancient civilization, may have played a small part in the demise of the dinosaurs, and in World War II were used as a weapon. Yet astonishingly, two men who surfed the tallest wave in history - half a kilometre high - survived. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing

BBC History File - The Cold War - Supporting Worksheets Worksheets to support the BBC Documentary History File Episodes: Ep.1. The Hungarian Uprising Ep.2. U2 Ep.4. The Cuban Missile Crisis Ep.5. The Evil Empire Written in Publisher and Pdf copies included Please find a copy of Ep.1. Berlin as a free resource to download Suitable for the new 9-1 History GCSE as lesson support, revision or flipped learning. Also appropriate for the legacy GCSE

EDEXCEL 9-1GCSE - Topic 4: 20th Century SUMMARY 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ consolidation, revision, resource This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for MEDIEVAL MEDICINE MEDICINE This is a one page resource 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.

Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today’s global trading systems. Four hundred years ago British merchants landed on the coast of India and founded a trading post to export goods to London. Over the next 200 years, their tiny business grew into a commercial titan. Using the letters and diaries of the men and women who were there, this documentary tells the story of the East India Company, which revolutionised the British lifestyle, sparked a new age of speculation and profit and by accident created one of the most powerful empires in history. Yet inexorable rise ended in ignominy. Dogged by allegations of greed, corruption and corporate excess, by the 1770s the company’s reputation was in tatters. Blamed for turning its back as millions died in the Bengal famine, and thrown into crisis by a credit crunch in Britain, the world’s most powerful company had run out of cash, sparking a government intervention. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be fully edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing

Gaining and Losing an Empire - Why Here? Why Now? Introductory slides for the Breadth Study on The Royal Navy. Three introductory slides to explain the chronological course of the changing role, rsponsibilities and challenges facing The Royal Navy

Gaining and Losing an Empire: 1763-1914 Nearly loosing an Empire - The British in India, 1829-1858 Overview/Revision Booklet. Introductory/Revision Booklet based around the Pearson Christie & Christie textbook. This resource deals with content and knowledge and does not contain any assessment