This resources provides students with a secret mission. They have been appointed as William the Conqueror's head advisor and they must work out the best ways to help him gain total power over England. This is an independent learning task. They are provided with everything they need to succeed without too much teacher support. This lesson is excellent for getting pupils to understand what problems William faced when he first invaded England and the decisions he made to overcome them. Pages 11-20 are the work booklet that must be printed off and given to students.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain. This is a powerpoint which introduces medieval beliefs about medicine & diseases. It looks at the progress over time and introduces students to key concepts such as Galen's theory of the Four Humours. It guides the students through the knowledge through evidence analysis, graphs and a comparison of modern and medieval disease.

Goes alongside AQA Spec' B Unit Two Textbook: This booklet introduces students to the three main subject areas in the AQA Race Relations unit. It guides students through the subject knowledge and encourages them to evaluate and link factors as they go through. It also includes writing scaffolds and templates for the 12 mark answers and is particularly useful for supporting C/D border students. I have used this with my own students in the last few months and have found this method has increased students' grades significantly on this type of question.

This resource is useful to help students learn how to structure their ten mark answers.

This is a model answer I have written and colour coded to help students studying AQA History Spec' B. It shows them what knowledge and skills they need to employ for an A* answer.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain. Some of the text used is attributed to GCSE Bitesize & AQA History Spec' B. This booklet has been designed for students to use in addition to their studies of the Roaring 20s AQA Spec B. It has a variety of revision tips, information and exam practice. There are activities for students to complete each week.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain This lesson encourages students to think about the expansion of Islam, and uses a case study of the Prophet Muhammad's life, in order to help then understand why Islam expanded so quickly. The lesson introduces students to key events in Muhammad's life and encourages them to think of what the key turning point in Islam was.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain This is a lesson created for a year eight scheme of work, which is all about the expansion of Islam and how it influenced the Western World. This lessons helps students to understand concepts such as empire, expansion and influence. It enables students to understand and consider this through the comparison between the Islamic empire and the Roman empire.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain This powerpoint, takes students on a step-by-step tour of the the 'Road to War. It is meant as a revision powerpoint, so is better for students who have already studied this unit, and need to help with their revision. It looks in detail at each of the causes and events of the outbreak of WWII, and allows students to take notes, and watch GCSE Bitesize videos to enhance their knowledge. This was designed specifically for students studying AQA Spec, B: Hitler's Foreign Policies (it details all of the subject knowledge they need for their exam. It would be good for any students studying origins of WWII as well.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain This lesson has been developed to enable History GCSE students to understand the complexities of the US Stock Exchange, as well as considering the factors that led to the Wall Street to Crash in 1929. It encourages students to consider and evaluate a range of factors, and come to their own conclusions about what the largest contributing factor was.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain NB: You need AQA Spec B textbook to go alongside this lesson. It takes roughly 4-5 lessons to cover all the activities in the powerpoint. This lesson was developed to aid students' understanding of the Manchurian Crisis and the Abyssinian Crisis, as well as developing their 10 mark question skills (AQA Spec B paper one). I had found that many of my students really struggled with the details of both the Manchurian and Abyssinian Crises as such a range of new concepts are introduced. I developed this lesson as a response to that, and they have been achieving much higher grades on these topics since I have been teaching it this way. This lesson also includes a breakdown on answering ten mark questions.

This is a group based lesson that I prepared for an observation, so has vast amounts of differentiation in it. The students look at how young people used music to rebel against Victorian ideologies, their parents and protest against war, racism etc.

This unit goes alongside the AQA spec B, unit one text book. It is the entire unit of lessons on the origins of the cold war.

This is an entire scheme of work on the Vietnam War,

In this lesson, students compete with each other in groups to see who can solve the mystery or Thomas Becket's murder first.

This is an entire Year 9, Scheme of Work on 1960s Britain. It looks at topics such as women, drugs, music, counter & sub-culture etc.

This is a KS4 SOW, to alongside AQA Unit Two text book, Hitler's Germany, Includes explanations and exam practice,

This is a court case designed for the students to act out. It works well to give the G&T students the key parts of the court case (I always give me highest ability student the role of judge, as they have to co-ordinate the rest). The rest of the students act as the jury. They decide, based on the evidence whether Capone was a gangster or a business man. It also introduces students to the 10 mark question, Spec B AQA Paper Two,

This lesson introduces the idea of appeasement to students. There are various activities in the power point which will enables students to evaluate whether they agree with Chamberlain's policy of appeasement or not.

This is a market place activity. All of the instructions and information is provided within the powerpoint and the information sheets. It looks at a variety of factors that enabled Hitler to become chancellor in 1933.