IMPORTANT: Some of these worksheets and activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1 History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 2 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand the new approaches to prevention: the development and use of vaccinations. Case Study: Jenner The Power Point leads students through all activities with feedback and accompanying worksheets. These include a mystery image starter, storyboard and knowledge recall activity, analysis of reactions to and impact of the vaccine, cut, sort and stick on the development of vaccinations. The key assessment is a 12 mark explanatory question “Explain why there was rapid change in the prevention of smallpox after 1798.” This includes exam technique guidance and the opportunity for peer assessment.

IMPORTANT: Some of these worksheets refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1 History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers at least one lesson, depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand the extent of change in care and treatment: the Public Health Act 1875. The Power Point leads students through all of the activities with accompanying worksheets and activities. These include a short video/recall starter giving an overview of changes, comprehension questions, card sorts and class discussion on impact.

IMPORTANT: Some of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around one lesson depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To learn about the fight against lung cancer in the twenty-first century; diagnosis, treatment and government action. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets/resources. It also provides feedback and answers at intervals. Activities include paired and class discussion, individual research and note-taking and a card sort on government action with venn diagram.

IMPORTANT: Some of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 2 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. I have grouped two separate lessons/resource sets into one sale item as by this stage of the course I found that I was quite eager to get though the final content and that my students were becoming ready to move on to something fresh. Aims and Objectives: To learn about the improvements in diagnosis: the impact of the availability of blood tests, scans and monitors. To learn about the extent of change in treatment: advances in medicines, including magic bullets and antibiotics. The Power Points lead students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. They also provide feedback/answers at intervals which is handy as this part of the course is rather content-heavy. Activities are largely worksheet based and focus on analysing reasons for change. Worksheets provide an information overview using time lines etc. to reduce note-taking and speed up this section of the course. For assessment, I have included a 4 mark exam question on changes in diagnosis with advice, structure and the oportunity for peer assessment.

IMPORTANT: Some of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 1-2 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To learn about the extent of change in care and treatment: the impact of the NHS and high-tech medical and surgical treatments in hospitals. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. It also provides feedback/answers/demonstrations at intervals. Activities include watching the very quaint contemporary promotional cartoon which showcases the improvements offered by the NHS, cloze exercise, thought-shower, analysis of high-tech treatments and discussion/linking of NHS to the introduction of high-tech treatments.

IMPORTANT: Some of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around one lesson depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To learn about the advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease: the influence of genetic and lifestyle factors on health. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. It also provides feedback/answers at intervals. Activities include paired discussions, analysing the cause of change and individual note taking. I’ve kept the format and activities quite simple as the topic of DNA is so complicated and my class got quite unnecessarily caught up in trying to understand what DNA was (they do not need to understand the science for this course, only the history/development of medicine).

IMPORTANT: Some of these worksheets refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3-4 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate and whether you decide to write the exam answer in full. Aims and Objectives: To understand continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and illness. To understand the new scientific approach, including the work of Thomas Sydenham in improving diagnosis. To understand the influence of the printing press and the work of the Royal Society on the transmission of ideas. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheet. It also provides feedback/answers at intervals. Activities include card sort stater, comprehension questions/note-taking, think words, 4 mark exam question and essay planning for a 12 mark explanation question (could also be answered in full).

IMPORTANT: Some of these worksheets refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1 History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 2 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand how people dealt with the Black Death, 1348-49; approaches to treatment and attempts to prevent its spread. The Power Point leads students through all activities with regular feedback and accompanying worksheets. These include a starter fact file, information categorisation/analysis and a final TV news report group competition followed by the textbook end of unit recall quiz. Having already completed two full written assessments as part of the unit, the competition injects a bit of fun.

IMPORTANT: Some of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, The American West, c1835-c1895” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127309 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 4 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: Changes in the way of life of the Plains Indians, 1862-76 To understand the impact of railroads, the cattle industry and gold prospecting on the Plains Indians. To understand the impact of US government policy towards the Plains Indians, including the continued use of reservations. President Grant’s ‘Peace Policy’, 1868. To understand the conflict with the Plains Indians: Little Crow’s War (1862), and the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), the significance of Red Cloud’s War (1866-68) and the Fort Laramie Treaty (1868). The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback at intervals. Activities include a card sort on the impact of changes upon Plains Indians’ lives, paired/group discussions on options open to Plains Indians, analysis of Grant’s “Peace Policy” (positive and negative), chronological event ordering, a summary/revision table on the Plains Wars, an 8 mark narrative account exam question on the Indian Wars with support.

IMPORTANT: Many of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, The American West, c1835-c1895” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127309 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers 4+ lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: Changes in farming, the cattle industry and settlement, 1876-95. To understand the changes in farming: the impact of new technology and new farming methods. To understand the changes in the cattle industry, including the impact of the winter of 1886-7. The significance of changes in the nature of ranching: the end of the open range. To understand the continued growth of settlement: the Exoduster movement and Kansas (1879), the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback and answers at intervals. Activities include card sorts, group presentations/sales pitches on new methods of farming, an 8 mark explanation exam question on consequences of the winter of 1886-7, analysing/categorising information into positives and negatives, a letter from an Exoduster, narrative recall of the land rush and event ordering.

A lesson which looks at how people in the Middle Ages understood the Black Death. The starter activities clarify the facts about the Black Death, explaining how it really spread, the symptoms and its effects. PLEASE CHECK THE VIDEO IS APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR CLASS. My students loved seeing the re-enactment of the symptoms and tbh it’s really no worse than the state of myself by the end of term but please check that it’s not too graphic for your class. The activities will work without this video. My weaker classes complete the cloze exercise and then analyse the causes and cures. They then use a writing frame to produce a Black Death Diary ensuring that the information they include is true to medieval ideas. My stronger classes complete the cloze exercise and then use a collection of sources to work out the causes and cures for themselves, recording these in a table. They then wrote the diary without the writing frame

IMPORTANT: Many of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, The American West, c1835-c1895” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127309 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: The development of settlement in the West, 1862-76 To understand the significance of the Civil War and post war reconstruction, including the impact of the Homestead Act 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act 1862, and the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, 1869. To understand the attempts at solutions to problems faced by homesteaders: the use of new methods and new technology; the impact of the Timber Culture Act 1873 and the spread of the railroad network. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback/answers at intervals. Activities include analysis of achievements v. limitations, comprehension questions, exam consequence explanation question, inference work, a business analysis activity on the building of the transcontinental railroad, a promotional poster homework task, independent research and note-taking, charting and analysis of rise and fall in crime levels.

IMPORTANT: Many of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, The American West, c1835-c1895” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127309 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: Conflict and tension, c.1835-62. To understand the reasons for tension between settlers and Plains Indians, and the significance of the Fort Laramie Treaty (1851). To understand the problem of lawlessness in the West and what was done to tackle it. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback/answers at intervals. Activities include sorting and prioritisation of information, an 8 mark exam question on consequence explanation, a card sort, independent note-taking, group discussion, a short video, a 16 mark explanation question and an end of unit quiz.

This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand changes in the standard of living, including wages, housing, unemployment insurance. To understand changes in the position of women in work, politics and leisure. To understand cultural changes: developments in architecture, art and the cinema. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. Activities include an inference starter on living conditions, summarising/condensing information on changes in living standards, source comparison of women in early 1900s and 1920s, categorising evidence to show how society did and did not change for women, an extension diary entry for a young German woman (possible homework), defining key artistic terms and identifying examples of these artistic trends in a range of sources including art, architecture and film, analysing areas of art that might have come under criticism from the left and right-wing, a four mark interpretation source question and a final Weimar Republic revision quiz.

This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand the reasons for, events and consequences of the Munich Putsch. To understand the reasons for limited support for the Nazi Party, 1924-28. Party reorganisation and Mein Kampf. The Bamberg Conference of 1926. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets and resources. Activities include a video starter giving an overview of the causes, events and consequences of the Munich Putsch, a card sort/analysis activity on the causes of the putsch, a storyboard task on the events whereby students have to retell the story without reference to their notes, a colour-coding activity on the successes/failures of the putsch, a 12 mark explanation question with advice, worked example and writing frame, a ranking of Hitler’s views from Mein Kampf from moderate to extreme, analysis of written passage to understand how Hitler utilised the lean years to strengthen the party internally and a summary exercise on the reasons for their electoral disappointment at this time.

IMPORTANT: One of the activities refers to the textbook "Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1939 (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127347 and will not be usable without a copy of this text or one which explains the roles and functions of the various institutions of the Nazi police state. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 2-3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand the role of the Gestapo, the SS, the SD and concentration camps. To understand the Nazi control of the legal system, judges and law courts. To understand the Nazi policies towards the Catholic and Protestant Churches, including the Reich Church and the Concordat. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. Activities include a video starter on who controlled Germany and how, a research table on the role/function of each institution, source analysis on the ways in which they justified their activities, a 12 mark exam explanation question with advice, paired discussion on methods for ensjuring fair sentencing, thought-shower on Nazi control of the legal system, problem-solving starter using a range of symbols and images to compare Nazi and Christian values, analysing a written passage on the church looking for evidence of co-operation and oppression and a final summary revision diagram. The Power Point also contains answers and fedback at intervals.

This KS3 unit of work should take around 2-3 hours to complete. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources included. Aims and Objectives: To know the key events surrounding the evacuation. To understand how and why the event has been portrayed in different ways through studying sources. To reach a judgement on the accuracy of one portrayal (the film “Atonement”). Activities include a quick recap on the key events through questioning and information slides (at this stage in our course we have done an overview of the key events of WW2), an image based starter which considers similarities and differences in portrayal and why? We then move onto the main focus, which is to evaluate how accurately the Dunkirk evacuation is portrayed in the film Atonement when compared to actual source material. I used the beach scene from Atonement (please mute the first minute as there are f-bombs but apart from this it is fine for KS3). However, the lesson could easily be adapted to assess any film clip, such as the new Dunkirk film. Having noted down their summary of the portrayal in the film clip, students then analyse a series of sources, considering what they each show them about the evacuation and whether this agrees or disagrees with the film. A worked example is included. There is an SEN version with fewer/simplified sources- you’d just need to remove some source numbers from the research table if using this version. Students then move on to the assessment stage, where they produce an extended written answer to the following question “How accurately does the film “Atonement” portray the events of the Dunkirk evacuation?”. A writing structure and mark scheme is included. The pack also includes a quick quiz starter for lesson 2 and a model conclusion that I used during “red to react”/“level up”/review time.

A complete revision guide for Edexcel AS/2 History Paper 1 The Crusades, c1095-1204. Content covers all areas of the specification. Simplified student assessment grids for Sections A/B/C AS and A2. 66 pages long.