Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
This lesson examines which groups in German society benefitted from the improved living standards in Germany in the mid 1920s as well as those groups who did not.
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
**This lesson students will know: **
Who Gustav Stresemann was and his aims for Germany.
How his 3 economic plans (Dawes, Young and Rentenmark) helped Germany recover.
How his 3 foreign policy plans (Locarno, League of Nations and Kelogg-Briand) allowed Germany to recover.
Why these actions still caused some opposition - the students introduced to opposition from the NSDAP.
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This lesson includes:**
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
**This lesson provides students with the information needed to understand how events in the Ruhr and following hyperinflation caused more problems for the Weimar Government. **
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
Learning Aims:
To know the difference between right and left wing.
To identify the challenges from the right and left wing in and out of the Reichstag.
To explain why the extreme right and left challenged Weimar.
To explain how Ebert tackled the challenges.
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This lesson covers:
What the Treaty of Versailles was and its aims
The features of the Treaty of Versailles
Why there was opposition to the Treaty of Versailles.
The impact of the Treaty of Versailles
Inference and 12 mark explanation questions linked to the Treaty of Versailles.
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
What was the Weimar Constitution?
Why was it needed?
What were the strengths and weaknesses of it?
What impact might this have on Germany in the future?
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Engaging background information
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
FULLY UPDATED & READY FOR THE 2025 EXAM SERIES
These writing frames provide a useful guide to help students answer all of the questions they will face in the Edexcel GCSE History exams. They have been updated to include the amended exam question numbering, mark schemes and wording ready in time for 2025.
**This is a set of 6 power point slides which can be printed off and given to students to help them structure their answers to the Edexcel GCSE History exam questions. **
Sheet 1: How to answer questions for Paper 1 (Thematic Study)
Sheet 2: How to answer questions for Paper 1 (Historical Environment)
Sheet 3: How to answer questions for Paper 2 (British Depth Study)
Sheet 4: How to answer questions for Paper 2 (Period Study)
Sheet 5: How to answer questions for Paper 3 (Modern Depth Study)
BONUS SHEET: A writing frame/guide to help students form PEE paragraphs, especially useful for the 8, 12 and 16 mark questions.
You can use these to stick into student books or print out for reference or revision.
This final lesson of the Crime and Punishment unit looks at the treatment, laws and punishments of Conscientious Objectors during and after World War One and World War Two.
Slide 1: Title slide - The Treatment of Conscientious Objectors
Slide 2: Starter Task - students watch a short documentary clip taken from the BBC One Show and write down three facts about Conscientious Objectors.
Slide 3-6: Poster inference activity-students examine World War One propaganda posters to infer what the attitudes towards these men were at the time.
Slide 7-8: Background information
Slide 9: Option Task sheets
Slide 10-14: Sheets which will help students learn about the Conscientious Objectors using their preferred learning style.
Slide 15: Challenge question - which other groups from the study have been persecuted in law because of their beliefs and/or actions?
Slide 16: Example exam questions
Slide 17: Lesson Fact Sheet
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the case study of Derek Bentley, with a focus on the public reaction to his sentence and how his punishment led to the abolition of the death penalty.
Slide 1: Title slide - To explain the controversy of Derek Bentley’s execution in 1953
Slide 2-4: Learning recap - key terms, with printable version for students and answers revealed.
Slide 5: Starter Task - Students read and listen to the lyrics of Elvis Costello’s Let him Dangle’ in order to infer information about the Derek Bentley case.
Slide 6: The story of the Derek Bentley case, written in a student friendly format.
Slide 7: Explanation practice table
Slide 8: Activity - students imagine they are on the side of the defence and the prosecution and write down what their arguments would be.
Slide 9: Learning Task questions with challenge
Slide 10 - 11: Practice 12 and 4 mark questions
Slide 12: Lesson Fact Sheet
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines how prisons have developed, especially with their specialisation and focus on the reform of young people.
Power Point 1:
Printable A4 Worksheets
Power Point 2:
Slide 1: To explain the development and specialisation of the prison system in modern Britain
Slide 2-3: Prison chronology recap activity
Slide 3: Key terms to help with the lesson
Slide 5-7: Discussion about the case of Vicky Pryce and Chris Huhne
Slide 8: Source inference about the prison population in Britain
Slide 9: Discussion - why has the prison population rapidly increased?
Slide 10: Source inference about the prison population of age and gender
Slide 11: Background information about the changing attitudes towards children in prison.
Slide 12: The main changes to the penal system after c.1900
Slide 13-17: A variety of short clips about young people in prisons. This will go along with the worksheets provided.
Slide 18-19: Practice exam questions
Slide 20: An additional activity which looks at the public attitudes towards prisons in modern Britain.
Slide 21-22: Key term crossword with answers revealed
Slide 23: Lesson Fact Sheet
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson helps students to explain the reasons that led to the abolition of the death penalty in the later years of the 20th century.
Power Point Presentation 1: Two A4 worksheets to go along with the main power point lesson
Power Point Presentation 2:
Slide 1: Title slide - To explain the reasons for the abolition of the death penalty in Britain
Slide 2: Topic Recap Quiz
Slide 3: Topic Recap Quiz answers
Slide 4: Starter Task - what can students infer from the graph about the impact of the abolition of the death penalty?
Slide 5: Discussion - why do students think the death penalty was abolished in this time (prompt questions also given)
Slide 6-8: Background information about the events which led to the abolition.
Slide 9: How to structure a point, evidence and explain paragraph
Slide 10: A table from which students can note down the Point, evidence and explain for each factor that caused the abolition of the death penalty.
Slide 11: Two challenge tasks
Slide 12-13: Practice exam questions
Slide 14: The lesson fact sheet
Slide 15: The factors that cause change sheet
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the developments of the modern police force, especially in terms of its specialisation.
**PowerPoint 1: **
A series of worksheets and exam question sheets
**PowerPoint 2: **
Slide 1 - To explain the development and increased specialisation of the police since c.1900
Slide 2-4: The story of the police so far - a filling in the missing key terms activity with printable student handout.
Slide 5-6: Starter timeline activity - can students place the developments of the police into the correct order?
Slide 7-11: Background information and teacher led activities based upon themes such as crime prevention, neighbourhood watch, PCSOs and police specialisation.
Slide 12-13: Activity - students match the specialist unit to theor description.
Slide 14: Printable worksheet and table
Slide 15: A set of 3 challenge tasks
Slide 16-19: Practice exam questions
Slide 20: Learning review activity
Slide 21-22: Lesson Fact Sheets
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the newly defined crimes of the 20th century such as race related crimes, driving crimes and rape with the aim of explaining their creation. It also looks at why some acts have been decriminalised.
Slide 1: Title slide - To explain the changing definitions of crime between c.1900-Present Day
Slide 2-3: A recap quiz which asks students to match the creation of a crime with the era it was created in. Answers revealed for self assessment.
Slide 4: The wider historical context of the period c.1900 = Present. An activity sheet which students use to think about why aspects of crime have changed.
Slide 5: Discussion Task - What are our modern attitudes towards crime?
Slide 6: Discussion Task - Why do students think attitudes towards some crimes have changed in the modern era?
Slide 7-8: Task Sheets to help students make notes on the various crimes and how they have changed.
Slides 9-13 - Fact Sheets for each crime which can be printed and then swapped between students.
Slide 14: Challenge Tasks
Slide 15-16: Practice exam questions
Slide 17-18: Two lesson fact sheets
Slide 19-20: Learning Review with answers revealed.
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the role played by Home Secretary and Prime Minister Robert Peel on both the prison system and punishments in this era.
Powerpoint 1 - An A4 crossword about the actions of Robert Peel with answers revealed. All answers will be achievable using the fact sheet in the main Power Point.
Powerpoint 2 -
Title Slide:The impact of Robert Peel’s Penal Reform
Slide 2-3:Punishment recap quiz with the answers revealed on slide 3
Slide 4-5: Recap of Pentonville Prison - students have to match the fact to the number or date
Slide 6-7: A politcal cartoon showing the negative attitude of the public and wealthy classes towards the police. Chance for students to use source analysis skills.
Slide 8-9: Robert Peel background information
Slide 10: BBC Class Clips documentary with some questions linked to the clip
Slide 11: Students to pick from a choice of three tasks
Slide 12: Differentiated Robert Peel CV sheet linking to the task options
Slide 13: Challenge, evaluation and debate questions
Slide 14: Learning review - which factors have caused change in the period 1700-1900?
Slide 15: Practice Exam question
Slide 16: Practice exam question model answer
Slide 17: Lesson Fact Sheet
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the development in the prison system during the 18th and 19th century and the roles played by Robert Peel, Elizabeth Fry and John Howard.
Worksheet 1: Practice Exam Question and outline
Worksheet 2: The task sheet on A4
Slide 1: Title - To explain the development and reform of prisons between 1700 - 1900
Slide 2-3: Previous lesson recap about punishments from this time
Slide 4: Short clip reminding students of the way prisons were run before 1700.
Slide 5: Source and information sheet for students to recap the problems that faced the previous prison system
Slide 6: A slide to record student ideas
Slide 7: BBC Class Clips about Victorian prisons
Slide 8: Background information about Humanitarianism
Slide 9: Elizabeth Fry
Slide 10 and 11: Image based information about the development of prisons
Slide 12: The role played by Robert Peel with prison reform
Slide 13: Learning Task - students to identify and categorise the reasons why prisons reformed
Slide 14: Follow up qiestions
Slide 15-16: Recap crossword with answers revealed
Slide 17: Lesson Fact sheet
Slide 18: Example practice exam questions
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the reasons for the development of the Bow Street Runners with the work of the Fielding Brothers and how this resulted in the first professional police force by the early 1800s.
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Worksheet 1: **
An alternative 2 page worksheet for students to complete
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Worksheet 2: **
A set of different timelines (differentiated) for students to complete their study of the development of the police.
Slide 1: Title - To explain the early development of the police in Britain
Slide 2-4: Law enforcement recap - match up the key terms along with additional recap questions
Slide 5-8: Background information about law enforcement at the start of 1700 and the creation of the Bow Street Runners
Slide 9: Two clips covering the development of the Bow Street Runners and the police
Slide 10: Timeline task overview (links to the additional worksheets)
Slide 11: Follow up tasks and questions
Slide 12: Challenge Task - Comparison of two political cartoons about the development of the police
Slide 13-16: Examples of exam questions (4, 12 and 16 mark questions)
Slide 17: Lesson Review: Students have to decide which set of options provides the correct series of events with the development of the police
Slide 18: Lesson Fact Sheet
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines punishments in the 18th and 19th century and in particular asks students to explain the end of public executions, the decline of the Bloody Code and the end of the use of transportation.
A4 Worksheet - Differentiated filling in the missing information style worksheet.
Slide 1: Title - To explain the decline of the Bloody Code and the end of public executions
Slide 2: A discussion recap about the idea of the Bloody Code
Slide 3-4: Starter Task - A study of the painting of the Tyburn Treet with 4 levels of prompt questions.
Slide 5-8: Background information about the Tyburn Tree and the use of public executions.
Slide 9: Useful clips about the use of public executions and transportation
Slide 10: The factors which explain the end of Public Executions/end of the Bloody Code
Slide 11: A worksheet for students to make notes about the end of public executions
Slide 12: A levelled question sheet
Slide 13: The reasons for change slide
Slide 14-15: Example 4, 12 and 16 mark exam questions
Slide 16: Lesson review - What’s the Question
Slide 17: Lesson information sheet
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the case study of the Tolpuddle Martyrs with a focus on their ‘crime’, their punishment as well as the public pressure on the government to reverse the punishment.
Power Point 1: Main Presentation
Slide 1: Title slide - To examine the case of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Slide 2: Recap Task
Slide 3: Key Term - Martyr
Slide 4: Key Term - Trade Union
Slide 5: Clip about the Tolpuddle Martyrs from Timeline TV
Slide 6: Challenge Tasks
Slide 7: Task Sheet overview
Slide 8: Learning Recap Quiz
Slide 9: Chronology Recap
Slide 10: Lesson Fact Sheet
Slide 11: Reasons for change slide
Power Point 2: Worksheets on A4
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the changing definitions of crime by the period 1700-1900 and in particular the crimes of: smuggling, poaching, highway robbery and the decline in the belief of witchcraft.
**Also included: **
A set of 3 A4 worksheets based on the changing nature of the crimes
Main Power Point:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Recap your crime knowledge - match the fact to the crime
Slide 3-4: Starter Task - Connect the events of 1700 with the events of 1900 to gain an idea of the changes that occured in this time.
Slide 5: Student print friendly version of the starter task
Slide 6-7: Background information about the time period and the crimes
Slide 7: Two useful clips with links included in notes and hyperlinked
Slide 8: Activity option 1 - a table for students to complete about the changing nature of the crimes using the fact sheet
Slide 9: An outline of Activity option 2 based on the worksheets provided with the lesson.
Slide 10-15: Example practice exam questions with sentence starters included
Slide 16-17: Plenary - Match the specific fact to the crime - answers revealed
Slide 18: Lesson Fact Sheet
To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.