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.
In this lesson, students are able to gain an understanding of the basic differences between capitalism and communism. This lesson can be used to pre-empt any topic where the terms are used such as the Cold War, inter-war years, Russian Revolution Vietnam War etc etc.
The main key questions of the lesson are:
What is capitalism and communism?
What are the features of capitalism and communism?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism and communism?
What are the common public attitudes towards capitalism and communism?
You will be purchasing:
1 x A4 worksheet
1 x 21 slide Power Point
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Progressive Learning Aims
Slide 3/4: A choice of discussion questions for students as they enter the room
Slide 5: The importance of learning about capitalism and communism.
Slide 6: Starter Task - What do you know about capitalism or communism?
Slide 7: Printable fact sheet
Slide 8-9: Background information about capitalism and its strengths and weaknesses
Slide 10-11: Background information about communism and its strengths and weaknesses
Slide 12-15: Activity 1 - Problem solving scenarios and answers
Slide 16: Instructions about the A4 worksheet - a sorting task to categorise communism and capitalism.
Slide 17: Higher level challenge questions
Slide 18: Learning Review 1
Slide 19-21: Learning Review 2 - Key term match up with answers.
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 lesson asks the students to examine the various problems that the police faced in Whitechapel. Students will have an opportunity to examine these reasons as well as explain them. They will also have a number of opportunities to complete practice exam questions (follow up) about the problems.
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the League of Nations and will be given the resources to help them decide how far it achieved it aims. The key questions set out in the lesson are:
What was the League of Nations?
What were the aims of the League of Nations?
What were the main successes and failures of the League of Nations?
How successful was the League of Nations?
The lesson pack includes a full variety of resources such as printable worksheets, source analysis activities, starter tasks, recap tasks, discussion questions, opportunities for extended writing and engaging background information.
Resources included:
2 x A4 printable source analysis worksheets (political cartoons)
1 x A4 printable worksheet about the successes and failures of the League of Nations.
1 x main powerpoint which includes:
Slide 1: Title Slide
Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
Slide 3: A choice of ‘As you enter’ questions to provoke discussion about the lesson.
Slide 4-6: A filling in the missing terms sheet to help students understand the background of the League of Nations and the historical context of the First World War.
Slide 7: Source Starter Task - An extract from a speech about the League of Nations made by Woodrow Wilson with supporting questions.
Slide 8: Background information - What was the League of Nations?
Slide 9: Background information - The aims of the League of Nations
Slide 10: Activity 1 Sort Task instructions - students to decide if each statement is a success or failure of the League of Nations.
Slide 11: Extended writing activity
Slide 12: Follow Up Challenge Tasks
Slide 13-14: Cartoon source analysis task (links to the 2 worksheets also included in the pack)
Slide 15 - 16: Learning Review - True or False quiz with answers
Slide 17: Final overview task - How successful was the League of Nations?
Positive reviews are always warmly welcomed
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.
In this lesson, students will be able to use factual information as well as the views from historians and historical sources to help them form their own opinion to the question – is the British Empire something we should be proud or ashamed of? As always, the lesson is fully resourced and contains a number of printable resources, engaging activities and information. The lesson presumes that students already have a knowledge of what the British empire was although this is quickly recapped at the start of the lesson.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson learning aims and progress
Slide 3: Recapping the British Empire – includes a British Empire map and discussion questions
Slide 4: Starter Discussion based on an old Indian saying about the British in India.
Slide 5: Source analysis activity 1
Slide 6: Source analysis activity 2
Slide 7: Source analysis activity 3
Slide 8: Printable worksheet/question sheet based on the sources used in the previous slides
Slide 9: The two historical interpretations about the British empire
Slide 10: Activity 1 – How have attitudes to the British empire changed in recent years?
Slide 11: Activity 2 – Documentary clips about the legacy of the British Empire
Slide 12: Activity 3 - Instructions
Slide 13: Activity 3 - printable information sheet which includes sources and interpretations about the British empire.
Slide 14: Activity 4 – What is your opinion?
Slide 15: Activity 5 – Based on a higher level question about the difference in two historical interpretations.
Slide 16: Printable worksheet based on the two interpretations about the British Empire
Slide 17: Learning Review discussion.
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
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. Thank you.
This set of resources is more than enough to cover at least two lessons.
The resources allow students to examine the Treaty of Versailles using the following key questions:
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
What was the impact of the Treaty of Versailles?
What were the attitudes towards the Treaty of Versailles?
This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a number of printable worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, activities, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The downloaded lesson includes the following:
3x A4 printable source analysis worksheets
1x A4 printable fact sheet
1x A4 printable Treaty of Versailles worksheet
1x main lesson 17 slide powerpoint.
Features of the power point include:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Progressive Key Questions
Slide 3: World War One recap activity
Slide 4-6: Background information and discussion questions about the Treaty of Versailles.
Slide 7-8: Think and discuss questions about the punishments given to Germany after WW1.
Slide 9: A map showing Germany’s loss of land after the Treaty of Versailles.
Slide 10-11: Activity - A diagram of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
Slide 12: Introduction to the A4 worksheet
Slide 13: Introduction to the source analysis sheets
Slide 14: Follow up challenge tasks
Slide 15-17: Learning Review Key Term Match Up
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 lesson examines the murder carried out by the killer known as Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel district in 1888. The students have a choice of tasks about how they wish to research the murders with a choice of websites and clips given in the notes. Students can then analyse the meaning and usefulness of sources from the time as well as recap their prior knowledge of the topic.
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
UPDATED & READY FOR THE 2025 exams!
This resource takes into account the latest amendments to Edexcel GCSE History question paper formatting, timing and question types.
This 15-slide presentation takes students on a step-by-step guide through the Paper 2 British Depth Study exam for Henry VIII & his Ministers and provides them with:
Example questions
Question walkthroughs
Advice about exam technique
Mark scheme reminders
Model answers
All past exam questions (2016-2023)
Slide 1: Introduction title slide
Slide 2: An overview of the British Depth Study question types
Slide 3-5: An outline of the ‘Describe one feature of [2 x 2]’ question type.
Slide 6-8: An outline of the ‘Explain why [12]’ question type
Slide 9-11: An outline of the ‘How far do you agree [16]’ question type.
Slide 12-15: All past paper questions from 2016 Samples to 2023.
Buyers of this resource have often used it as part of a walkthrough for their students before the exam, as an introduction to the topic or as a way to remind students of the exam techniques as they practice their skills.
Please be aware that any images used in this resource are copyright free. Others which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you feel any errors have been made with this, please email me in the first instance at raschoolresources@gmail.com
In this lesson, students will learn all about the events of the transatlantic slave trade from the stage of the slave auction to life on the plantations. Students will be able to describe the differences between the two methods of slave auctions and also use sources to describe the events of the auctions. They will then use a detailed fact sheet to help them understand what life on s slave plantation was like. This is a fully resourced lesson which includes printable fact sheets and worksheets as well as engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – Slave Auctions and Life on a Plantation
Slide 2: The purpose and aims of the lesson.
Slide 3: Recap Activity: Slave Trade recap quiz
Slide 4: Recap Activity answers
Slide 5: Source Analysis – A slave auction source with prompt questions and challenge questions.
Slide 6: Source Analysis – An alternative source about a slave auction with prompt questions and challenge questions.
Slide 7: Activity 1 – Source Analysis - instructions
Slide 8: Activity 1 – A printable sheet with 9 different sources about the slave auctions.
Slide 9: Background information about the two main methods of slave auctions.
Slide 10-16: Images of what life was like on a slave plantation.
Slide 17: Information/Fact sheet about life on a plantation
Slide 18: Printable question sheet about life on a plantation.
Slide 19: Challenge questions
Slide 20-21: 10 question learning review quiz with answers.
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
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. All of my lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This lesson allows students to use a wide range of sources to investigate the events of the Christmas truce during 1914. Students will use evidence from the diaries and letters of soldiers from both sides who experienced the ceasefire and build a picture of what happened. They will then use this knowledge to evaluate the usefulness and historical accuracy of modern interpretations of the truce such as adverts, films and music videos.
This is a fully resources lesson which includes a warmup, starter task, engaging background information, various learning activities, challenge tasks and learning reviews.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Outline of the main lesson aims
Slide 3: As you enter warm up discussion tasks – what is a truce and why might a truce happen?
Slide 4: Starter Task – Analysis of an illustration of the truce from the London Illustrated News, 1915.
Slide 5-8: Activity 1 – History Detectives! Students should be placed in pairs or groups and given the two packs of sources. They then record their findings about the truce on a printable worksheet also provided on slide 8.
Slide 9-10: Activity 2: Extended reading & comprehension task based on an extended source about the truce from Sergeant Bryans. Printable worksheet provided.
Slide 11-12: Activity 3: Evaluating modern interpretations of the Truce – Students given the links to various modern interpretations of the truce and are guided through assessing their accuracy, usefulness and purpose.
Side 13: Challenge Questions
Slide 14: Learning Review – Christmas Tree Recap!
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this and your feedback is highly valued.
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.