I use this resource to teach year 9 about WWI. All resources are included and some lessons can take more than one period.
1. Long term factors about the start of WWI
2. Short term factors about the start of WWI
Race Track WWI- this involved students working in groups to act out the causes of WWI
3. The BEF and the Schlieffen Plan
4. Recruitment and Conscientious Objectors
5. Trench Life
6. Weapons
7. Battle of the Somme L1
8. Battle of the Somme L2
9. Censorship and Rationing
10. Shell Shock (information on Harry Farr not included)
11. Assessment
Enjoy and use as you wish :)
I use this resource whilst teaching about early immigration and why people decide to move from different countries. This lesson can run over 1 or 2 lessons and it thoroughly enjoyed by students.
It involves them getting into groups, creating a name for their country, developing a national anthem, creating a flag, presenting their country and then deciding if they would like to emigrate to a different country.
This resource has been made for year 8 top ability - SEN. All resources are differentiated as I have taught top and bottom sets this year. This set of lessons includes:
1. Was Henry a man or monster?
2. What were Henry's early problems?
3. Who should Henry marry- Take me out
4. Why did Henry break from Rome?
5. Assessment
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This resource has been made to teach GCSE USA. It includes:
1. Hoover vs Roosevelt- who would you vote for?
2. Alphabet Agencies and the New Deal. The Hundred days and Alphabet Agencies (takes about 2 lessons)
3. Opposition to the New Deal
4. Extent of Recovery
5. Second New Deal
6. Roosevelt - success and failures
Some of the lessons may need the use of a text book or extra resources/ internet
Enjoy and use as your wish!
A detailed revision guide for the power and the people module. This is 20 pages and contains all of the information that is needed to revise with. We do not have textbooks in my School and therefore students found this resource very useful.
Thanks
This is a set of resources I use with Year 8 in the Summer term. I have had very positive reviews and Year 8 love to finish the year with this. You will need a copy of 'Roots' DVD to play along side these lessons, however you could use some of the lessons without.
Lessons:
1. Introduction to the slave triangle and slave trade
2. Why was slavery allowed?
3. African Culture
4. Capturing Slaves
5. Middle Passage
6. Middle Passage Assessment
7. Auction
8. Role Play auction
9. Slave routine
10. Plantation Life
11. Slave resistance
12. Underground railroad (fun lesson)
Enjoy and use as you wish :)
This is the first 12 lessons for an industrial revolution SOW.
Included: introduction- living conditions- health and medicine - factories- coal mining- population- towns - conclusion
All activities and support materials included (apart from video clips, but hyperlinks have been added).
This has been produced for a mixed ability year 9 class- but can be used with other years.
These are some ideas that I have created, found and adapted
Use how you wish and enjoy
These lessons have been designed for Year 7 Medieval History. This is not a SOW as such, but lessons that I teach throughout the Medieval module. For example, when teaching about Queen Matilda I first teach Medieval women; when teaching the Black Death, I first teach about Medieval Medicine You can use these lessons how and where you would like.
The lessons include:
1. Medieval towns- I use this at the beginning of the Medieval module before I teach about 1066 and Hastings as an introduction
2. Medieval villages- I use this at the beginning of the Medieval module before I teach about 1066 and Hastings
3. Medieval Fun- I use as a one off fun lesson
4. Medieval Church/ religion - I use this before I teach about Henry II and Thomas Becket
5. Medieval Women - I use this PP before I teach about Queen Matilda
6. Medieval Medicine- I use this before I teach about the Black Death
7. Medieval Law and Order- I use this before I teach Henry II
8. Medieval Food
Enjoy and use as you wish
This resource I have used with my Y11 GCSE class to teach them about the Cold War.
The PP work along side the Cold War booklet that I have on sale. (It is also included in this sale as well)
You will need to use a textbook for information for some of these lessons. I use the edexcel GCSE international relation text book- but any can be used. All of the lessons follow a very similar structure and their is a lot of exam practice in the lessons. This worked for my class as I was able to get through the content very quickly, however some of these lessons could take two lessons.
1. Introduction
2. Conferences
3. Iron Curtain and secret speeches
4. Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Satellite States and Cominform
5. The Berlin Blockade
6. The Arms Race and the Space Race
7. The Hungarian uprising
8. The Berlin Wall
9. The Cuban Missile Crisis
10. Czechslovakia
11. The Afghanistan War and Detente
12. Ronald Reagan
13. Gorbachex
14. The End of the Soviet Union
Enjoy and use as you wish!
This is a set of resources designed for Year 7 any ability. All lessons have been differentiated for top ability and for SEN groups. This includes:
1. What is a castle? What were the first types of castles?
2. Where should castles be built?
3. How to attack and defend a castle?
4. How did castles affect England? - source work lesson
5. Marshmallow challenge
6. Project- 6 week project booklet
My year 7 students have thoroughly enjoyed these lessons- in particular completing the castle History challenge at home :)
Use as you wish and enjoy!
This is lesson 8 of the KS3 Year 9 Cold War SOW that I have designed. During this lesson students investigate using evidence if the USA really did land on the moon or not. There is no need to use any textbooks, all resources are provided at the end of the PP to print.
I hope you enjoy. Please find the other lessons in my shop :)
I use this set of resources with Year 8 when introducing Elizabeth I. The students really enjoy these lessons as they have been designed to be quite creative. There are also SEN alternatives within the resources and Power Points for most lessons.
Lessons:
1. Elizabeth introduction- some problems Elizabeth I had
2. Elizabeth and marriage. Take me out lesson- (you will need information on the men as I have lost the electronic copy- if you would like me to take a picture of the sheet I use then message through.)
3. Elizabeth's problem image. (can take 2 lessons)
4. Who was Mary Queen of Scots (can take 2 lessons if students are designing movie trailers)
5. What should Elizabeth do with Mary?
6. The Spanish Armada - why was it sent? what happened?
7. Conclusion lesson and resources
8. Assessment
Use and enjoy as you wish.
These resources are used to teach USA 1919-41- Topic 1: The Economy, Topic 2: US Society, Topic 3: The Wall Street Crash; Topic 4: Roosevelt and the New Deal. There are 33 lessons, but could take anything up to 40/45 lessons to complete.
Overview- title page
US government structure
Isolationism- mass production
Boom cycle
Shares
Boom Conclusion
Who did the boom not affect
Underlying problems
Roaring 20s
Women and the changes
Prohibition
Race in the 1920s
Immigration and intolerance
Monkey Trial
Why Wall Street Crashed
The effects of the Wall Street Crash on the US society
The government reaction
Rising resentment
Hoover vs Roosevelt- who would you vote for?
Alphabet Agencies and the New Deal. The Hundred days and Alphabet Agencies (takes about 2 lessons)
Opposition to the New Deal
Extent of Recovery
Second New Deal
Roosevelt - success and failures
Revision Quiz and revision throughout
Some of the lessons may need the use of a text book or extra resources/ internet- but the majority have all of the resources provided.
Enjoy and use as your wish!
Elizabeth revision sheet and assessment lesson, wish SEN alternatives and help sheets.
The assessment title is: ‘Elizabeth was a strong Monarch’ Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
The A3 conclusion sheet allows the students time to get ready for their assessment and revise.
If interested then please see all of my Elizabeth resources for sale in my shop.
Enjoy and use as you wish.
I use these resources with Year 8 as an introduction into James I.
We first of all act out the story of the Gun Powder plot. We then look at whether the plotters were framed. We then put Cecil and Guy Fawkes on trial.
Enjoy and use as you wish.
I use this resource for Y7 to introduce interpretations and it leads nicely onto looking at the history of Britain.
I often set them HW to finish their research and then we act out dragons den the next lesson- this normally involves students getting dressed up and appearing out of the elevator (cupboard) to dramatic music.
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I use this resource as HW with my Year 8 classes after we have studied Elizabeth.
I use it as a preparation sheet for the assessment that the students sit the next lesson.
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This lesson can be used when introducing evidence in History.
It starts with a celebrity clue guessing game- different types of evidence- primary/ secondary evidence