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. Aims and Objectives: To understand the approaches to prevention and treatment and their connection with ideas about diseases and illness: religious actions, bloodletting and purging, purifying the air, and the use of remedies. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. These include card sorts, analysis/categorisation of written notes, paired/whole class discussion, knowledge questions and note-taking. It also provides feedback/answers at intervals. It leads up to a 16 mark judgement question with explanation and support. A writing frame is also included if required.

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 2-3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and illness. The influence in Britain of Pasteur’s Germ Theory and Koch’s work on microbes. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. These include a true and false quiz, table comparison of old and new ideas, information categorisation and ordering and a 16 mark exam question with guidance. The experiment could be left out but my classes loved it and it really works if done correctly. You will need to keep the one bread sample totally sterile, so handle minimally with sanitised hands and bag straight up. The contamination of the other piece of bread is great fun- we rubbed it on door handles, the floor and one student had it under his armpits! Don’t pierce the sandwich bags but pin them in a light/warm place like your department staff room. Everybody will love to watch the mould develop whilst eating their lunch. It also provides a valuable lesson on why hands should be washed before eating.

This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers between 1-2 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand the extent of change in care and treatment: improvements in hospital care and the influence of Nightingale. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. These include event ordering of Nightingale’s life, summarising her impact and analysing continuity and change in hospital care. Having carried out numerous assessments already in this scheme of work, the lesson ends with a straight-forward Florence Nightingale obituary which could be set as a homework task.

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.

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 3-4 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: Migration and early settlement: To understand the factors encouraging migration, including economic conditions, the Oregon Trail from 1836, the concept of Manifest Destiny, and the Gold Rush of 1849. To understand the process and problems of migration, including the experiences of the Donner Party and the Mormon migration, 1846-7. To understand the development and problems of white settlement farming. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback at intervals. Activities include the colour-coding of pull and push factors causing migration and prioritisation of factors, a comparison/analysis of the failure of the Donner Party and success of the Mormon migration, an explanation of consequences exam question “Explain two consequences of the setting up of the Oregon Trail (1836)” and a letter writing task explaining the difficulties of migration (which could be set as a home work).

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: Some of the activities refer 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. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3-4 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand the reasons for the early unpopularity of the Republic, including the “stab in the back” theory and the key terms of the Treaty of Versailles. To understand the challenges to the Republic from Left and Right: Spartacists, Freikorps, the Kapp Putsch. To understand the challenges of 1923: hyperinflation; the reasons for, and effects of, the French occupation of the Ruhr. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. These include a presentation on the context and terms of the Treaty of Versailles which asks students to consider why these angered the German people, a summary table of reasons why the treaty angered Germans and a 12 mark explanation question on this issue with advice and examples. There is also a homework which asks students to cross-reference a source with their own knowledge to prepare them for future work on interpretations. The Kapp Putsch is introduced through two sources and a problem solving starter. The concept of right and left-wing politics is explored before a summary table of the Spartacist and Kapp uprisings is completed. A card sort is used to explore the concept of hyperinflation and a video activity asks students to summarise causes, events and consequences of the occupation of the Ruhr. There is also another optional 12 mark question on this topic.

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.

This KS3 unit of work should take around two hours to complete. The Power Point leads students through all activities. All resources referred to are included. Aims and Objectives: To know the key events leading up to and during the execution of King Charles I. To understand both the arguments for and against his execution. To write persuasively for one side of the argument. Activities include an introductory definition of “treason” and discussion as to why this is a controversial accusation in this case. A simple overview of the background events such as Pride’s Purge is given before the students analyse a short clip from the program “The Devil’s Whore” to consider the attitudes demonstrated by those involved. Whilst listening to an account of the execution day, students create a series of illustrations and symbols as memory joggers. They then retell the events as a class using their memory joggers. A Dutch engraving of the execution is used to make inferences before a series of statements are categorised into reasons for and against the execution. Students then use their understanding to write a speech either for or against the execution. We then listen to these speeches and turn it into a competition.

This KS3 lesson should take around two hours to complete. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources included and answers when required. Aims and Objectives: To know what they Trade Triangle was and how it worked. To understand how the Trade Triangle developed over time. To consider who was to blame for the Trade Triangle and why. To reach a judgement on who was the most to blame. Activities include a card sort starter on individuals involved. Students sort these people into a line from good to bad. This helps to break down stereotypes from the outset that all white people were powerful/bad and all black people were powerless/good, encouraging students to judge specific actions and not generalise. A series of tasks then ensure that students have the factual knowledge regarding the trade and its development. Students categorises reasons for the trade into tradition, African divisions and trade before writing a paragraph answer on who or what they feel was the most to blame for the slave trade.

This KS3 lesson should take one hours to complete. The Power Point leads the students through all of the activities with accompanying resources included. Aims and Objectives: To know the key events after the death of King Edward the Confessor, leading up to the Battle of Hastings. To consider which side was in the strongest position at the start of the Battle of Hastings. To predict what may happen at the Battle of Hastings in light of these prior events. Activities include a recap of the claimants to the throne where students quickly match the facts to the claimant. After a quick bit of context on what Harold actually did after Edward’s death, students work in pairs to discuss Harold’s options and their advantages/disadvantages using the information provided. Students then create a storyboard of the key events using the information sheet and then retell these events using only their storyboard. Finally, students analyse the advantages and disadvantages of both Harold and William pre-Battle of Hastings using what they have learnt this lesson.