Looks at life in towns and different townsfolk. Students compare towns to the work done by different townsfolk in order to choose the best town for them to live and work in.

A fun lesson to introduce ks3 to the idea of why there was a Witch hunt in the 17th Century. Characters are fictional although their circumstances very real. Designed to be adapted to teachers learning style. Used regularly on taster days and during 17th century topics with year 7.

The lesson focuses on the impact of the Black Death upon England and Europe. Designed to support KS3 students in building context and developing planning for assessment on change and continuity. Youtube video supports the task of building a spider diagram to a higher level for extended writing.

Starter lesson focusing on reasons for highway robbery. The lesson looks at factors that encouraged and discouraged highwaymen.

Lesson focuses on the early conquest of Cyrus the Great, his birth and the description of events by Herodotus. The lesson aims to test chronological awareness, the use of Herodotus as a historian and how Cyrus and Persia dominated the Medes under king Astyages.

Wonderful lesson and resource that focus on differentiated learning. Content focuses on why the Germans were able to beat France and Britain in 1940. Homework sheet can also be used in lesson and the students pick a certain amount of challenge tasks to achieve.

Ks3 lesson but good for ks4. Focus is on the less known reasons for why men joined the army in 1914, in particular personal reasons. Introduces the concept of recruitment and propaganda and uses the authors uncle as a case study, please feel free to change to another case study, but if not please respect my Great Uncle!

Lesson aimed at introducing the concept of siege warfare, comparison of various weapons and improving written responses.

Lesson that looks step by step at various sources on life for children in the mines.

Lesson that looks at what triangular trade was, why it was profitable and include numeracy challenge! Also focuses on differentiated learning. You will need a blank map of the Atlantic for the map task.

Lesson focuses on geography of Persia, by comparing the Persian world today to its origin before Cyrus the Great. Focus on how to use Herodotus and building knowledge of his characteristics as a historian.

Lesson looks at Cyrus’ conquest of Lydia and the tale of king Croesus.

Lesson that looks at the role and power of the church. It also focuses on key terminology, such as sins and their meaning. Students study a painting and how it reflects the importance and use of religion. Sins are described in second powerpoint and can be printed out and scattered around the room for students to locate and try to simplify, this is also great for literacy.

Great resource and lesson that has been used as a project over a few lessons. Great for investigation work in KS3. Break it down to look firstly at why the Somme was chosen for the 1916 attack. Then shift attention to why there were so many casualties on the first day, sources can be used to look at cause and consequence, or focus on source interpretation or both! students have opportunity to investigate as teams and pass knowledge on. Then focus on how far Haig was to blame for casualties and the pyramid task enables students to build up the concept of how to prioritise information. Video of Blackadder helps look at traditional view of Haig and ‘The Line of Fire’ can be used to build up a list of problems before the battle. This can also be used to develop essay writing and used as an assessment which has been really successful.

Lesson and resources that investigate the consequences of enclosure, focus is mainly the negative effects and there is a source analysis task.

Whole lesson devoted to developing written responses and building up source analysis skills.

Lesson that focuses on the effects of Enclosure in England. It includes tasks to interpret a source and build higher level responses.

Project based lesson, designed to run over a few lessons. The first part focuses on theories behind the defeat, the second focuses on watching the film ‘Zulu Dawn’ so that students can build up more own knowledge to explain reasons for defeat of British. Third part focuses on comparing Isandlwana to Rorkes drift. The main focus is to look at causes and consequences and builds this in as an assessment. with tips on improving writing skills and gaining a higher level of answer. A really fun set of lessons, but you will need access to the two famous films (Zulu Dawn and Zulu) I use this resource with Year 8 over 3 or 4 lessons to build in literacy, independence and causation. They love it. Hope you do.

Two lessons potentially investigating primary evidence of the Persian King Cambyses II in Egypt and if it supports Herodotus

Overview lesson of problems facing early Weimar republic, variation of activities and tasks to build knowledge of the events and individuals.

Resources and lesson on factors that enabled the RAF to win the Battle of Britain.