I am Head of Humanities in the West Midlands and have been teaching History for twenty years. I have marked exams and moderated coursework for GCSE History for a popular exam board since 2001. All resources published have been tried out in class before publication!
I am Head of Humanities in the West Midlands and have been teaching History for twenty years. I have marked exams and moderated coursework for GCSE History for a popular exam board since 2001. All resources published have been tried out in class before publication!
This is a 44 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder. The booklet follows Part 2: Section 2: Chapter 7- Elizabethan England.
Each page has tasks based on the information given in the texbook, for example,
- making specific notes
- answering key questions
- examining extracts based on the exam question stem
- practice essay
- completing tables
- spider diagram
- recapping key words
- timeline
At the end of the booklet are the two mark schemes for the source and essay questions for students to refer to.
A homework booklet with 16 pages for the second half term of year 7. The focus is on learning homework ready for a starter or exit quiz in lessons. Each homework comes with a revision activity as well. This terms homework focuses on Medieval England 1066 and includes:
Contents
Motte & Bailey castles
Stone / Square keep castles
Medieval Church
Thomas Beckett
Magna Carta
Causes & symptoms of Black Death
Causes of Peasants revolt
Consequences of Peasants revolt
Instructions for pupils are:
Each week in History, you will have a fact test on work you completed the week before in lessons. For homework revise the information on the topic which you learnt in your lesson and be ready to answer ten factual questions based on that work. To help you revise there are revision activities to do for each topic.
At the start of each half term and new term in History you will have a fact test which covers ALL the topics you have studied so far. Use this homework booklet to revise for your factual tests.
If you continually fail your factual tests (less than half marks) you will have to stay after school to retake your tests. Your teacher will be able to help you one to one to ensure you are learning.
A homework booklet with 28 pages for the autumn first half term of year 8. The focus is on learning homework ready for a starter or exit quiz in lessons. Each homework comes with a revision activity as well. This terms homework focuses on the Industrial Revolution and includes:
Contents
Britain in 1750
Population explosion
Beginnings of Revolution: The Agrarian Revolution
Factory Fever: Steam power and new factory industries
Factory Fever: Children & working conditions in factories
Case Study: Ironbridge
Transport: Turnpike trusts, roads, canals & railways
What were the most significant inventions of the Industrial Revolution?
The overall impact of the Industrial Revolution
Instructions for pupils are:
Each week in History, you will have a fact test on work you completed the week before in lessons. For homework revise the information on the topic which you learnt in your lesson and be ready to answer ten factual questions based on that work. To help you revise there are revision activities to do for each topic.
At the start of each half term and new term in History you will have a fact test which covers ALL the topics you have studied so far. Use this homework booklet to revise for your factual tests.
If you continually fail your factual tests (less than half marks) you will have to stay after school to retake your tests. Your teacher will be able to help you one to one to ensure you are learning.
19 personalised learning checklists for a variety of the new GCSE exam style questions based on the Elizabethan Age 1558-1603. Each includes the question, mark scheme and targets for improvement on a cover sheet for ticking and circling to make marking easy. Allows opportunities for peer and self assessment as well as targets for improvement.
Questions include:
-8 Connections questions on poverty, government, local government, Puritans and religion
- Summary questions on 5 topics
- 3 'why' questions
- 3 question 5's worth 19 marks
This is a 121 slide quiz focused solely on the topic of The Elizabethan Age, 1558-1603- designed to make students think about their answers! There are four rounds:
Round 1 - What’s the connection?
Round 2 - What come’s fourth?
Round 3 - Missing vowels for keywords
Round 4 - Word Wall
Can be played as a whole class or for individual revision testing.
This is a 37 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder. The booklet follows Part 1: Section 2: Chapter 4 on Henry VIII’s last years
Each page has tasks based on the information given, for example,
making specific notes
answering key questions
examining extracts based on the exam question stem
practice essay
completing tables
writing an epitath
spider diagram
recapping key words
At the end of the booklet are the two mark schemes for the source and essay questions for students to refer to.
This is a 35 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder. The booklet follows Part2: Section 2: Chapter 8 – Conflict & Exploration under Elizabeth I.
Each page has tasks based on the information given in the textbook, for example,
- making specific notes
- answering key questions
- examining extracts based on the exam question stem
- practice essay
- completing tables
- spider diagram
- timeline
At the end of the booklet are the two mark schemes for the source and essay questions for students to refer to.
This is a 36 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder.
The booklet follows Section 2: Part 1: Chapter 6 on the beginning of Elizabeth’s reign.
Each page has tasks based on the information given, for example,
• making specific notes
• answering key questions
• examining extracts based on the exam question stem
• practice essays and interpretations questions
• completing tables
• revising some relevant knowledge
• learning key words and key terms
This is a 40 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder. The booklet follows Part 1: Section 2: Chapter 3 of the AQA A Level textbook – The break with Rome in the 1530s
Each page has tasks based on the information given, for example,
- making specific notes
- answering key questions
- examining extracts based on the exam question stem
- practice essay
- completing tables
- map task on Europe in 1520
- mind maps
- recapping key words
At the end of the booklet are the two mark schemes for the source and essay questions for students to refer to.
These practice questions on the Entertainment & Leisure exam paper for Eduqas came about after my pupils wanted past papers to help them revise! I have put together a selection of practice questions in the style of all seven questions on the exam paper.
Question 1 Use Sources A, B and C to identify one similarity and one difference in forms of _________ over time. (8 questions)
Question 2 Which of the two sources is the more reliable to an historian studying...? (5 questions)
Question 3 Describe the...? (16 questions)
Question 4 Explain why...? (12 questions)
Question 5 Outline how… (8 questions)
Question 6a Describe two (3 questions)
Question 6b Explain why (2 questions)
This will give pupils a chance to get a real feel for the new paper and practice their exam skills.
A homework booklet with 33 pages for the autumn second half term of year 8. The focus is on learning homework ready for a starter or exit quiz in lessons. Each homework comes with a revision activity as well. This terms homework focuses on The emergence of modern Britain and includes:
Contents
Queen Victoria
The British Empire: Definition, colonies, map work, trading goods with colonies
The British Empire: How was the British Empire a force for good & bad? Case studies of two colonies: Canada, Australia, India, Kenya, Jamaica or South Africa
Living conditions in towns: Poverty & workhouses
Crime and Punishment: Law & Order / Prisons
Medical developments & advancements
Votes for women: Situation in 1884, reasons for votes for women
Votes for women: Campaigning and protesting
Votes for women: key people like the Pankhursts, Emily Davidson etc.
Votes for women: Reactions to campaigning: Men, Cat & Mouse Act, impact
Instructions for pupils are:
Each week in History, you will have a fact test on work you completed the week before in lessons. For homework revise the information on the topic which you learnt in your lesson and be ready to answer ten factual questions based on that work. To help you revise there are revision activities to do for each topic.
At the start of each half term and new term in History you will have a fact test which covers ALL the topics you have studied so far. Use this homework booklet to revise for your factual tests.
If you continually fail your factual tests (less than half marks) you will have to stay after school to retake your tests. Your teacher will be able to help you one to one to ensure you are learning.
A homework booklet with 28 pages for the summer first half term of year 8. The focus is on learning homework ready for a starter or exit quiz in lessons. Each homework comes with a revision activity as well. This terms homework focuses on ‘The Georgians 1714-1830’ and includes:
Contents
Georgian Kings
‘Bought and sold for English Gold.’ The Act of Union
George I, the elephant and the maypole: society under George I
A very modern government?
The Jacobite threat
Gin Lane
Crime and Punishment
Are you a Luddite?
Mad King George
What did the Georgians ever do for us?
Instructions for pupils are:
Each week in History, you will have a fact test on work you completed the week before in lessons. For homework revise the information on the topic which you learnt in your lesson and be ready to answer ten factual questions based on that work. To help you revise there are revision activities to do for each topic.
At the start of each half term and new term in History you will have a fact test which covers ALL the topics you have studied so far. Use this homework booklet to revise for your factual tests.
If you continually fail your factual tests (less than half marks) you will have to stay after school to retake your tests. Your teacher will be able to help you one to one to ensure you are learning.
A full scheme of work for the Elizabeth unit. Includes:
a cover page with general information like assessments, assessment objectives, key questions
specification
a skills page with all skills for every lesson identified
a space to write changes for each lesson as you go along - working document
all lessons to be taught (23 lessons) with key lesson objectives, resources, suggested teaching activities and skills
assessments at the end of the SOL
Revise the 2017 exam paper with at least three practice questions for each exam paper question. Covers the whole paper and the whole specification.
Question 1 covers problems and challenges.
Question 2 focuses on the economy
Question 3 covers culture and society
Features a PowerPoint presentation with all questions, sources and evidence.
Includes an answer booklet with writing frames for students to format all questions clearly and simply.
An excellent revision tool for the unit.
This is a 92 slide quiz focused solely on the topic of Germany 1919-1990 - designed to make students think about their answers! There are four rounds:
Round 1 - What’s the connection? (35 questions)
Round 2 - What come’s fourth? (14 questions)
Round 3 - Missing vowels for keywords (28 questions)
Round 4 - Word Wall (5 word walls)
Can be played as a whole class or for individual revision testing.
These flashcards are based on the AQA specification but include content on all the key policies, events, treaties etc. relating to King Henry VIII. There are two flashcards on each page and 15 pages in total. I printed them off on card, cut in half, hole punched and treasury tagged one corner. They were produced for the students I teach who struggle to remember facts!
Content based on the spec:
•• Henry VIII: character and aims; addressing Henry VII’s legacy
•• Government: Crown and Parliament, ministers, domestic policies including the establishment of
Royal Supremacy
•• Relationships with Scotland and other foreign powers; securing the succession
•• Society: elites and commoners; regional issues and the social impact of religious upheaval; rebellion
•• Economic development: trade, exploration, prosperity and depression
•• Religion: renaissance ideas; reform of the Church; continuity and change by 1547
28 homeworks for the USA 1910-1929 topic. Each week focuses on a different topic from the specification and also includes 'Round Up' homeworks to consolidate all prior knowledge. The focus is on the student to LEARN their key facts by answering 10 questions and then learning the 10 questions ready for a quick factual recap test next lesson. This test can be used as part of exit strategies or king or queen of History knowledge tests. Each homework uses the same format and the same question stems - they are very easy to mark and can easily be marked as a starter at the beginning of the lesson.
The questions follow the following format:
- Give 2 reasons why / Give 2... (2 questions)
- Name two ... (2 questions)
- Explain...
- What...
- Where...
- How...
- A true or false statement
- A key word anagram
Answers to the true / false statement and anagram can be found for each homework on the final two slides of the download.
The topics tested are:
- Immigration 1&2
- Red Scare
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- The Monkey Trial
- Black Americans
- KKK
- Native Americans
- Round Up 1
- Prohibition 1,2& 3
- Gangsters
- Government Corruption
- Round Up 2
- Boom 1 & 2
- Consumer society
- Car Industry
- Booming society
- End of prosperity
- Wall Street Crash
- Round Up 3
- Jazz Age
- Popular Entertainment
- Movies
- Women
- Sport
37 pages of possible exam questions and exam answers for Germany Outline Study for WJEC 1919-1991. Essential revision for Y11 students to try and prepare for the GCSE exam.
Contains questions and answers for topic 1: political and economic and topic 2: social
Includes plans and full differentiated answers for Questions 4 and 5 (essay questions)
A collection of six revision activities for Elizabeth I - 1558-1603
Includes:
Guess Who game - I laminated my game boards so that they can be reused
Revision of sources and interpretations - Over 20 different sources & interpretations to evaluate as practice
Spider diagrams (blank) for each key question
Blank template for students to make own flashcards
Blank templates for students to create own knowledge organisers on key questions
Knowledge test
A homework booklet with 35 pages for the spring 2 half term of year 7. The focus is on learning homework ready for a starter or exit quiz in lessons. Each homework comes with a revision activity as well. This terms homework focuses on Stuart England and includes:
Contents
Who were the Stuarts?
Why did the Civil War start?
Roundheads v Cavaliers
Weapons & Battles
Why was the King executed?
Cromwell ‘hero or villain’?
Which witch is which?
The ‘Merry Monarch’
London’s burning
The Catholic King & his ‘Glorious’ daughter
Instructions for pupils are:
Each week in History, you will have a fact test on work you completed the week before in lessons. For homework revise the information on the topic which you learnt in your lesson and be ready to answer ten factual questions based on that work. To help you revise there are revision activities to do for each topic.
At the start of each half term and new term in History you will have a fact test which covers ALL the topics you have studied so far. Use this homework booklet to revise for your factual tests.
If you continually fail your factual tests (less than half marks) you will have to stay after school to retake your tests. Your teacher will be able to help you one to one to ensure you are learning.