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Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level History resources available for purchase and download. New Focus Education offer resources from a teacher with 10 years teaching experience, a track record of excellent outcomes and experience of leadership at several levels. The main focus is AQA 8145 and AQA A Level, with key stage three resources available with GCSE skills and requirements embedded throughout.

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Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level History resources available for purchase and download. New Focus Education offer resources from a teacher with 10 years teaching experience, a track record of excellent outcomes and experience of leadership at several levels. The main focus is AQA 8145 and AQA A Level, with key stage three resources available with GCSE skills and requirements embedded throughout.
Did all Germans benefit from Nazi rule? - two lessons
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Did all Germans benefit from Nazi rule? - two lessons

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Exploration of the impact of the Nazis on society. Starter considering who may or may not have benefitted, two hyperlinked videos explore positives and negatives of Nazi society, group task exploring one area and focusing on positive/negative impacts then team teaching others, judgement on how far Nazi Germany benefitted and judgement line/post-it plenary.
AQA 8145 Elizabeth - Hardwick Hall review lesson (pre-exam)
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AQA 8145 Elizabeth - Hardwick Hall review lesson (pre-exam)

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Lesson reviewing key content and linked to exam skills for Hardwick Hall. Recap starter on Hardwick, use of diagram to define how Hardwick is a "typical" manor house, card sort matching key features to key changes (e.g. rise of the Gentry), use of the cards to create PEE points linked to the 16 mark essay question, model paragraphs linked in to show use of PEEEE skills, post-it plenary writing criteria to the 16 mark essay question.
Anne Frank case study - the Holocaust
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Anne Frank case study - the Holocaust

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Empathy starter, card sort sequencing task using images and text to tell the story of Anne Frank, hyperlinked video of Anne Frank's story and diagram of the annexe for discussion in the PPT. Pupils use this information to create a 'spider diagram' with Anne's picture showing key information in speech bubbles around her. Explanation plenary of the significance of Anne's story in the context of the Holocaust.
Slave auctions - two lessons
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Slave auctions - two lessons

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Picture reveal starter showing an auction scene, source analysis of slave sale posters, layers of inference analysis task, clip form Roots with note sheet (video on youtube), discussion over how useful video eveidence is, building to a WWW/EBI answer about the utility of Roots with opportunity for peer/self-assessment and improvements.
What was the slave trade?
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What was the slave trade?

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Exploration of the start of the slave trade. Starter focusing on sources and inferences, group task exploring the roles various groups like the British and Portuguese played in the slave trade, source analysis of the experience of slavery and empathy plenary. Research homework task built in.
Ghettos in the Holocaust
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Ghettos in the Holocaust

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Whiteboard starter, hyperlinked video showing the Warsaw ghetto, source analysis of images of the ghettos to build a picture of life there, use of "lessons from the Holocaust" DVD (on youtube also) and "describe" question on the ghettos, use of 'the Holocaust KS3' textbook to discuss morality of life in the ghettos, plenary link to ghettos and the final solution.
Witch trials
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Witch trials

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Lesson exploring the different witch trials in England - starter identifying features of a witch, video hyperlinked showing a witch trial, freeze frame creation of the different trials with an explanation question linked in. Optional homework also included.
AQA 8145 - The Abyssinian Crisis 2 lessons
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AQA 8145 - The Abyssinian Crisis 2 lessons

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For AQA 8145 conflict and tension, 1919-39 Two lesson sequence exploring the events and impact of the Abyssinian Crisis on the League of Nations. Lesson 1 introduces the crisis with a video, and has a 'symbol' poster task included to consolidate the key facts. Lesson 2 focuses on the impact of the crisis, linking Manchuria and Abyssinia together then analysing the impact Abyssinia had on the failure of the League
Soldiers of the Civil War
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Soldiers of the Civil War

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Exploration of the sides in the civil war, analysis of the weaponry and which was most effective. Culminates in a judgement on which side pupils would like to have fought on.
Why was Prohibition introduced?
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Why was Prohibition introduced?

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Lesson exploring motives for the introduction of prohibition - group task exploring four groups in society and how they viewed prohibition, judgement activity focusing on the temperance movement and the impact of WW1.
Cromwell - hero or villain? Essay question linked to AQA 8145 included
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Cromwell - hero or villain? Essay question linked to AQA 8145 included

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Two lesson sequence exploring the rule of Oliver Cromwell and interpretations of him. Source starter and comparison of two paintings of Cromwell to explore how he is portrayed. Video hyperlinked in to gather contrasting evidence on Cromwell and categorisation card sort task. Leading to a 12 mark bullet point essay comparing Cromwell's legacy - hero or villain.
AQA 8145 America  1920-70: The rock and roll generation
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AQA 8145 America 1920-70: The rock and roll generation

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Picture starter, recap on 1920s and 30s society, carousel activity exploring aspects such as cinema, advertising, rock and roll music, application of knowledge in an 8 mark "in what ways were" question and an interpretation plenary. Model answer to question attached - used as a starter in the following lesson.
The end of slavery
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The end of slavery

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Lesson exploring the impact of abolition on black Americans. Videos hyperlinked show the rise of the KKK and the start of the civil rights movement.
AQA 8145 America  1920-70: Kennedy and Johnson - how far was a 'Great Society' created?
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AQA 8145 America 1920-70: Kennedy and Johnson - how far was a 'Great Society' created?

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Lesson exploring social and economic policies of Kennedy and Johnson. JFK picture starter, analysis of JFK quote, highlight successes and failures of 'new frontier', assessment of success of this, analysis of Johnson quote, card sort on Great Society Programme - used to create a positive/negative table, video interpretation of the Great Society (opportunity to analyse provenance), justification plenary on who made a larger impact to society in the 1960s - Kennedy or Johnson.
What was life like for a peasant - KS3 and suitable for AQA 8145
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What was life like for a peasant - KS3 and suitable for AQA 8145

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*Seventh lesson in the scheme - how the Normans changed England * Lesson exploring the life of a Medieval peasant. Source starter to introduce peasant life, video introducing peasant living, cartoon strip on the daily life/routine of a peasant (limited words for challenge), positive/negative table creation on the life of a peasant, GCSE style interpretation plenary.
AQA 8145 Society in Elizabethan England
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AQA 8145 Society in Elizabethan England

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AQA 8145 - analysis of Elizabethan society with focus on Great chain of being and use of videos to assess different groups in society. Summary hand out covers different groups. Assessment focus on the impatc of the rise of the Gentry in Elizabethan England.