A bold and eye-catching A3 poser for the ‘Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88’ British Depth Study unit of Paper2! Catch your students’ attention Advertise to KS3 Inform your Y10 & 11s of what’s comming Posters include information on what percentage of the course the paper is worth, what the key skills are, what questions they will face and how to answer them! I’ve received lots of compliments since the posters went up from colleagues and my Year 11s have found them invaluable! Enjoy!

A bold and eye-catching A3 poster of the Period Study ‘British America, 1713-83’ Paper 2 unit! Catch your students’ attention Advertise to KS3 Inform your Y10 & 11s of what’s comming Posters include information on what percentage of the course the paper is worth, what the key skills are, what questions they will face and how to answer them! I’ve received lots of compliments since the posters went up from colleagues and my Year 11s have found them invaluable! Enjoy!

This lesson asks the question 'Were the Mujahadeen ‘freedom fighters’ or ‘terrorists’? The lesson uses Cold War movies such as Rocky IV and Rambo III to show how the US framed the Mujahadeen. Student then investigate, was that accurate? (This lesson has a lot of content and could be split over two lessons). This lesson is useful as a stand-alone lesson on the Soviet-Afghan War, on propaganda, media, or as part of a greater Cold War scheme of work. Lesson begins with Cold War retrieval practice questions. Key words are explicitly taught with the focus of the lesson being put in the students’ minds. Students will then investigate the key question with an analysis of Rocky IV and Rambo III, making a judgment on how the Americans portrayed both the Mujahadeen and the Soviets. Students will then research the war itself, this can be done as a teacher-led activity, individually or as group work. Using the information the students have put together, they will make a reasoned judgment in an extended writing task. Some key words and phrases from the lesson: Cold War, proxy war, Mujahadeen, terrorist, freedom fighter, bias, propaganda, communism This is a fully resourced lesson including a PowerPoint with videos embedded.

This is a full lesson with resources, including videos embedded. It works with any exam board investigating Stresemann’s foreign policies and made with Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39 in mind. This lesson looks at: ‘How did Stresemann improve Germany’s international position?’ Lesson outline: Begins with retrieval practice questions on issues from 1918-1920s. Students then are given key words to study. Comprehension task recapping economic recovery, rentenmark, reichsmark, Dawes Plan, Young Plan. Students practice GCSE skill analysing a primary source answering a mock question. Investigation task into the main elements of Stresemann’s foreign policy: Locarno Pact, League of Nations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Analysis of the effect on domestic politics Writing task to consolidate knowledge on Stresemann. Key points recapped; teacher-led Plenary quiz

In this pick-up-and-go lesson, your students will learn about how Dr Martin Luther King Jr. led the Civil Rights movement to enormous victories over inequality in the USA. The lesson begins with the students tackling a philosophical question. Students then share what knowledge they already have on Rosa Parks and MLK Students will then look at the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) and evaluate the role Parks and MLK played in it. Students will then complete an investigation into the March on Washington (1963) Knowledge is checked with a ‘true or false’ game Knowledge is consolidated with students completing a word cloud My students love this lesson, and I hope that yours will, too!