This resource is designed to be used with KS3 Students studying the Battle of Hastings and the Events leading up to it. A PowerPoint provides a timeline from January to October 1066 so students can understand what occurred in this year. These events are then used for students to complete a number of exercises: - Putting events into chronological order - Producing a storyboard - Evaluating the impact of these events on Harold Godwin and William of Normandy - Drawing conclusions as to how these events helped or hindered each opponents chances of winning the Battle of Hastings Resources to complete these activities are included, with the evaluation of the events on the opponents being presented through worksheets differentiated at 2 levels.

This resource can be used as the first lesson to introduce GCSE Students to the topic Germany 1918 - 1939. The resource focuses on the reasons why Germany lost WWI in 1918, the establishment of an interim government and the elections of 1919. The resource gives students a basic insight into the political system that emerged in Germany after the abdication of the Kaiser, how the Weimar Republic came into existence and provides a background for why political instability would follow. The resource is taught through a PowerPoint presentation, which includes a starter and plenary activity and suggests lesson objectives. A worksheet with a number of activities is included, which as well as asking students to write a short paragraph using a diagram, giving reasons why Germany lost the war, there are also comprehension exercises and an activity asking students to identify the aims and supporters of the main political parties. This can be carried out individually, as a group activity or as a whole class activity with the students completing a table from resources around the classroom.

This resource guides students, studying GCSE Nazi Germany, through the Final Solution to the Nazi’s ‘Jewish Problem’ from 1942 - 1945. The resource uses a powerpoint presentation to guide students through escalating violence towards Jews in Nazi Germany, the reasons for the final solution, the implementation of it and the post 1945 impact on the Jews of Europe. The resource also provides a worksheet with various primary, secondary, map and photographic resources to enable students to analyse different views of the final solution.