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Year 6 History Transition lesson
Year 6 History Transition Lesson designed to be delivered to Year 6 students who are doing a taster day or lesson.
This History lesson goes over;
What does History mean to you?
What Historical topics have you learnt so far and what topics would you like to learn about?
What will you be studying in Year 7 History at (chosen school)?
Why is History important - looking at historical quotes
Definition quiz of key terms (eg chronology, primary source, secondary source, century etc)
Activity with worksheet - looking at 5 inventions and having to…
Work out the order in which they were invented
Calculating centuries
Understanding significance and explaining which invention was the most significant and why
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Teacher Training | Introduction to teaching
I am a History teacher and Expert Lead in Education who trains History teachers on how to teach History.
Session 1: Introduction to teaching History
This is an introductory session for trainee teachers on how to teach History. This includes;
Why do we teach history?
Personal reflections on teaching history
How to enhance subject knowledge
KS3 National Curriculum
How should we teach KS3? What would you teach?
Also included:
PowerPoint presentation
Extra reading materials
Session resources
Session lesson plan
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GCSE American West | White Settlers REVISION
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 The American West c.1835-c.1895
Key Topic 2 White Settlers
This is a revision work booklet designed for a two hour lesson covering White Settlers. No additional resources are needed! This work booklet includes a range of activities, including multiple-choice quizzes, fill in the gap, card sorts and videos (all hyperlinked).
The topics covered are:
Reasons for Westward migration (Oregon Trail, Banking Crisis 1837, Manifest Destiny, Mormon Migration, California Gold Rush)
Donner Party
Impact of the American Civil War on migration
Homestead Act and Railroad Act 1862
Transcontinental Railroad
Exoduster Movement
Oklahoma Land Rush
Problems of farming on the plains and their solutions (including new technology)
Cattle trails and cow towns
Cowboys
Decline of the cattle industry
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GCSE American West | Plains Indians REVISION
**For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 The American West c.1835-c.1895
Key Topic 1 Destruction of Plains Indians Way of Life
This is a revision work booklet designed for a two hour lesson covering the destruction of Plains Indians way of life. No additional resources are needed! This work booklet includes a range of activities, including multiple-choice quizzes, fill in the gap, card sorts and videos (all hyperlinked).
The topics covered are:
Who were the Plains Indians
Tribal structures
Importance of the buffalo
Plains Indians beliefs
US government policy and the Plains Indians
Causes of conflict
The Indian Wars
Extermination of the buffalo
Reservations and cultural and legal end of the Plains Indians
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GCSE Elizabeth | Queen, Government & Religion REVISION
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Early Elizabethan England 1558-1588
Key Topic 1 Queen, Government and Religion
This a revision work booklet designed for two hours covering Queen, Government and Religion. This work booklet includes a range of activities, including multiple-choice quizzes, fill in the gap, card sorts and videos (all hyperlinked). No additional resources are needed!
Answers are included in the ‘notes’ section at the bottom of the slide, as well as any links to videos.
The topics covered are:
Elizabethan society
Elizabeth’s problems
Religious division in 1558
Challenges to the Religious Settlement
Why was Mary, Queen of Scots important?
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
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American West Key Topic 1 Revision Clock
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 The American West c1835-c1895
Key Topic 1 Revision Clock
GCSE Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's Problems
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Early Elizabethan England 1558-88
Queen, Government and Religion
What was Elizabeth’s biggest problem?
This lesson looks at the problems Elizabeth I faced during the early years of her reign. This includes:
Elizabeth’s character and strengths
Gender
Marriage and succession
Threats from abroad
How to run the country
Religion
Making her people happy
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
20 question quiz with answers based on the lesson
Describe two features exam question
12 mark ‘explain why’ exam question with AfL sheet
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GCSE Elizabeth I | Elizabethan Society
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Early Elizabethan England 1558-88
Queen, Government and Religion
Why was Elizabeth’s world complicated?
This is the first lesson of Early Elizabethan England. The lesson introduces the course and then looks at what Elizabethan society was like for Elizabeth I. This includes;
Introductory quiz on Tudor England
Who was Elizabeth I - family tree
Background to Elizabeth’s reign
Issues with religion
How was society structured
This was an outstanding graded lesson used for a formal observation!
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
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OCR Tudor Rebellions | Kett's and Western 1549
For teaching OCR A Level Rebellion and Disorder in Tudor England 1485-1603
Edward VI
How threatening was the Year of Commotion 1549 to the Tudor government?
This lesson looks at the Kett’s and Western Rebellions in 1549 under Edward VI. This includes:
Retrieval quiz starter task
Who was the Duke of Somerset?
Underlying problems in 1549
Causes of Kett’s and Western Rebellions
In depth look at the religious changes under Edward VI (New English Prayerbook) and why this was an issue for the Western rebels
How Kett’s Rebellion started
Nature of Kett’s and Western Rebellions
Impact of Kett’s and Western Rebellions
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
Fully resourced 2 hour lesson for teaching both Kett’s and Western Rebellion in 2 hours
Notes on the causes, nature and impact of both Kett’s and Western Rebellions 1549
Edward VI cover sheet for folders
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Weimar and Nazi Germany Edexcel GCSE BUNDLE!
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
EVERY LESSON NEEDED TO TEACH THIS COURSE! 19 fully resourced lessons!
Lessons are as follows;
Key Topic 1: Weimar Republic
Origins of the Weimar Republic
Treaty of Versailles
Spartacist Uprising and Kapp Putsch
Recovery of the Weimar Republic (Stresemann)
Weimar Republic Golden Age
Key Topic 2: Hitler’s Rise to Power
Nazi Party Early Years
Munich Putsch
Lean Years of the Nazi Party
Wall Street Crash
Growth of the Nazi Party
Hitler becomes chancellor
Key Topic 3: Nazi Control and Dictatorship
Rise to dictatorship (Reichstag Fire, Night of the Long Knives)
Propaganda
Terror
Key Topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany
Children
Women
Workers and the standard of living
Persecution of minorities
Lessons include:
Accompanying work booklets
20 question quiz with answers for each lesson (great revision tool or plenary activity)
Homework questions with AfL sheets
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GCSE Germany | Life in Nazi Germany BUNDLE
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
Key Topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany
BUNDLE of 4 lessons;
Children in Nazi Germany
Women in Nazi Germany
Workers and standard of living
Persecution of minorities
Each lesson comes with an accompanying work booklet. Each lesson includes exam questions, including sources and interpretations!
GCSE Germany | Persecution of Minorities
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
Life in Nazi Germany
Why was there increased persecution of minorities in Nazi Germany?
This lesson looks the persecution of minority groups in Nazi Germany. This includes:
Nazi racial beliefs and policies and the treatment of minorities: Slavs, ‘gypsies’, homosexuals and those with disabilities.
The persecution of the Jews, including the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses (1933), the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht.
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Explain why (12 marks) exam question
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GCSE Germany | Nazi control and dictatorship BUNDLE
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
**Key Topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship **
BUNDLE of 3 lessons;
Nazi control and Hitler’s rise to dictatorship
Nazi propaganda
Nazi terror
Also included:
BBC Rise of the Nazis worksheet for ‘First six months in power’
Each lesson comes with an accompanying work booklet. Each lesson includes exam questions, including sources and interpretations!
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GCSE Germany | Hitler's Rise to Power BUNDLE
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
**Key Topic 2: Hitler’s Rise to Power **
BUNDLE of 6 lessons;
Early Years of the Nazi Party
Munich Putsch
Nazi Party Lean Years
Wall Street Crash
Growth of the Nazi Party
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Also included:
BBC Rise of the Nazis worksheet for ‘Chancellorship’
Each lesson comes with an accompanying work booklet. Each lesson includes exam questions, including sources and interpretations!
GCSE Germany | Workers in Nazi Germany
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
Life in Nazi Germany
Did the standards of living improve under the Nazi regime?
This lesson looks at employment and living standards under the Nazis. This includes:
Nazi policies to reduce unemployment, including labour service, autobahns, rearmament and invisible unemployment.
Changes in the standard of living, especially of German workers.
The Labour Front, Strength Through Joy, Beauty of Labour.
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Explain why (12 marks) exam question with AfL sheet
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GCSE Germany | Children / Hitler Youth
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
Life in Nazi Germany
How effectively did the Nazis control the youth of Germany?
This lesson looks at children in Nazi Germany. This includes:
Who were the Hitler Youth and what did they do?
Who were the League of Germany Maidens
Fact Files on the Hitler Youth and League of German Maidens
How did the Nazis control education?
Video clip questions for BBC’s ‘Henry’s story’
Opposition groups
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
How useful sources question (8 marks) plus AfL sheet plus a breakdown of the sources (either for teachers or students!)
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GCSE Germany | Nazi Terror & Religion
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
Nazi control and dictatorship
How did the Nazi’s use terror and religion to control people?
This lesson looks at how Hitler used terror to maintain control of Germany. This includes:
What was the police state?
In depth look at the; SS, SD, Gestapo, Concentration Camps, Legal system
How the Nazis controlled religion - the Catholic and Protestant churches
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
Two practice interpretation questions (3b and 3c) with structure strips.
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GCSE Germany | Nazi Propaganda
**For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
Nazi control and dictatorship
How did the Nazis use propaganda and mass media to control people?
This lesson looks at how Hitler maintained control of Germany through propaganda. This includes;
Who was Joseph Goebbels and why was he so important for Nazi control?
Card sort activity on the different methods of propaganda
Assessing how effective Nazi propaganda was
Source analysis practice
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
A ‘how useful’ source question
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GCSE Germany | Rise to dictatorship
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
Nazi control and dictatorship
How did Hitler create a dictatorship 1933-34?
This lesson looks at how Hitler consolidated power and created a dictatorship 1933-34. This includes;
The Reichstag Fire
The Enabling Act and the banning of other parties and trade unions
The threat from Röhm and the SA
The Night of the Long Knives
The death of von Hindenburg
Hitler becoming Führer, the army and oath of allegiance
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
An inference source question and 12 mark ‘explain why’ question with AfL sheet
Please review if you purchase, and check out my other Weimar and Nazi Germany resources.
GCSE Germany | Hitler becomes Chancellor
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
Hitler’s Rise to Power
How did Hitler become Chancellor?
This lesson looks at the events preceding Hitler becoming Chancellor, and who was most to blame for this happening. This lesson includes;
Timeline of key events
Inference question
Source analysis (Von Papen and Hindenburg lifting Hitler up) - complete with breakdown of content, provenance and own knowledge!
This lesson also includes an in-depth explanation on how to answer the interpretations questions for Paper 3 (3b, 3c and 3d) using an ‘I do, We do, You do’ worksheet which was used at a whole school CPD as an exemplar worksheet for how to effectively demonstrate worked examples and scaffolding!
Also included:
Accompanying work booklet to the lesson, with a wide range of fun activities!
Please review if you purchase, and check out my other Weimar and Nazi Germany resources.