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 bundle contains all the lessons and teaching resources you will need to teach Unit 2 of Crime and Punishment
Lesson 9: Early Modern Crimes - Heresy and Treason
Lesson 10: Early Modern Crimes - Smuggling, witchcraft, vagabondage
Lesson 11: Early Modern Methods of Law Enforcement
Lesson 12: Early Modern Punishments
Lesson 13: Case Study - The Gunpowder Plot
Lesson 14: Case Study - Matthew Hopkins
2023 UPDATE INFO: 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 resource pack includes a wide range of revision activities on A4 which can be used by students in the classroom or at home.
The revision pack includes the following activities:
Activity 1: A blank timeline covering all of the main eras in the study which students can add key dates to.
Activity 2: Anglo-Saxon key individuals match up activity
Activity 3: ‘Who are we?’ - Students guess the group by their description.
Activity 4: Anglo-Saxon & Norman Key Event Research Sheet
Activity 5: William I’s Actions Diagram Fill
Activity 6: Anglo-Saxon England Glossary Fill
Activity 7: Norman England Glossary Fill (x2 sheets)
Activity 8: Statistics Multiple Choice Quiz
Activity 9: ‘Use your brain to explain’ activity to help prepare for 12 and 16 mark questions.
Activity 10: Two Features Practice Questions
Activity 11: ‘What’s the Question’ Activity
Activity 12: Battle of Hastings Crossword
Activity 13: Anglo-Saxon Quiz Sheet
Activity 14: 1066 Quiz Sheet
Activity 15: William I’s Control of England Quiz Sheet
Activity 16: Norman England Quiz Sheet
Where possible, answers have been provided either in the notes section of each slide.
Further Anglo-Saxon and Norman England revision resources can be found at:
Anglo-Saxon & Norman Timeline:https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12825103
Anglo-Saxon & Norman Fact Sheets:https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12225783
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 examine the Nazi policies towards women in the period 1933 - 1939.
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 bundle is for the final unit of Paper 3 USA: Home & Abroad. The bundle contains all the lessons and resources you will need to teach the unit without the need for any other resources.
The bundle contains:
Lesson 26: Why was there opposition to the Vietnam War?
Lesson 27: Why was there support for the Vietnam War?
Lesson 28: The Paris Peace Accords (1973) and the Fall of Saigon (1975)
Lesson 29: The Impact of the Vietnam War on America
Lesson 30: The Strengths of the Vietcong/North Vietnam and the Weakness of the US/South Vietnamese (ARVN)
This bundle includes all of the lessons and teaching materials you will need to cover the 18th and 19th century, Crime and Punishment Unit 3.
Lesson 15: New and old definitions of crime
Lesson 16: The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Lesson 17: The Bow Street Runners and the development of the police
Lesson 18:The end of public execution and transportation
Lesson 19: Prison growth and reform
Lesson 20: Case Study - Pentonville Prison
Lesson 21: Case Study - Robert Peel
**This high quality lesson provides you will all of the material and resources you will need to teach your students about the causes, events and consequences of the Harrying of the North. **
You will be purchasing a double page worksheet/fact sheet as well as the main power point presentation full of activities, discussion tasks, starter activities and learning reviews.
Worksheet 1
A fact sheet for students about the events
Worksheet 2
A set of increasingly more difficult tasks including key term match up, source analysis and explanation style questions.
Main Power Point Presentation
Slide 1: To examine the causes, events and consequences of the Harrying of the North
Slide 2: Source analysis of an illustration of the Harrying of the North - prompt questions given
Slide 3: Background information about William just after the Battle of Hastings
Slide 4: Background information about William being crowned King of England
Slide 5: Background information about the start of the Norman Conquest
Slide 6: Background information about the Anglo-Saxon Rebellions
Slide 7: Background information about the rebellions in the north
Slide 8: Background information about the Harrying of the North
Slide 9: Outline of the two worksheets and lesson fact sheets
Slide 10: Challenge questions
Slide 11: Key term learning review
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 bundle covers the lessons needed to teach the final unit about Crime and Punishment in Modern Britain
Lesson 22: The changing definitions of crime after 1900.
Lesson 23: The changing methods of crime after 1900.
Lesson 24: The development of the modern police in Britain
Lesson 25: The abolition of the death penalty
Lesson 26: The case of Derek Bentley
Lesson 27: The development of prisons in modern Britain
Lesson 28: The treatment of Conscientious Objectors
This is a 109 page Edexcel workbook is ideal for revision, student catch up, classroom use or home learning.
It covers the whole thematic Crime and Punishment
The workbook contains:
Useful key term glossary
Useful Crime & Punishment timeline
Fact Sheets for each lesson/topic area
2-3 question sheets for each lesson/topic area
Example Exam Questions throughout
This bundle contains all the lessons and resources you will need to teach the Historic Environment of Whitechapel (Crime & Punishment GCSE History).
The bundle includes:
Lesson 1: An introduction to the skills and knowledge for Whitechapel
Lesson 2: Problems with housing, poverty and employment.
Lesson 3: Migrant tensions in Whitechapel
Lesson 4: The Whitechapel Workhouses
Lesson 5: The difficulties of policing Whitechapel
Lesson 6: The Jack the Ripper Murders
Lesson 7: Police techniques to catch Jack the Ripper
Lesson 8: Police challenges - The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, illustrated press and police force rivalry.
BONUS FREE RESOURCE - Whitechapel Revision Mind Map
UPDATE 2024: 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.
This bundle contains all of the resources you will need to teach the Edexcel GCSE History Paper 1 Historic Environment - ‘The British Sector of the Western Front, injuries, treatment and the trenches’
Lesson 1: An introduction to the Historic Environment
Lesson 2: The Western Front and the Trench System
Lesson 3: The Main Battles on the Western Front
Lesson 4: Transporting the Injured
Lesson 5: Treating Illness and Infection
Lesson 6: Wounds and Injuries
Lesson 7: RAMC, FANY and VAD
Lesson 8: The Chain of Evacuation
Lesson 9: The Context of Medicine Before the War
Lesson 10: Developments in the Treatment of Infections, Broken Bones inc. the use of X-Rays
Lesson 11: Developments in Blood Transfusion and Storage and Plastic Surgery.
This bundle contains all of the resources you will need to teach the first Unit covering Crime and Punishment in Medieval England.
Lesson 1: An introduction to Crime and Punishment
Lesson 2: Anglo-Saxon Crimes
Lesson 3: Anglo-Saxon Law Enforcement
Lesson 4: Anglo-Saxon Punishments
Lesson 5: Norman Crimes
Lesson 6: Norman Law Enforcement and Punishments
Lesson 7: Later Medieval Crime and Punishment
Lesson 8: Case Study: The role of the Church
2023 UPDATE INFO: 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 pack of A4 sheets contains a variety of activities students can use to help them remember the subject content for the main Crime and Punishment topic. The revision resources cover the period c.1000 to the present day.
The pack contains the following revision activities:
Activity 1: Timeline (fill in the missing events) with answers
Activity 2: Key Individuals match up
Activity 3: Key Groups match up
Activity 4: Key Crime and Punishment individuals activity - based on the names mentioned in the Edexcel specification
Activity 5: Defintions of crime glossary fill
Activity 6: Defintions of law enforcement glossary fill
Activity 7: Definitions of punishments glossary fill
Activity 8: Multiple choice statistics quiz
Activity 9: Similarity & Different worksheet
Activity 10: ‘What’s the Question?’
Activity 11: Key term match up
Activity 12: An explanation practice worksheet
Activity 13: Chronology Activity
Activity 14: Medieval Crime and Punishment Quiz
Activity 15: Early Modern England Quiz
Activity 16: 18th and 19th Century Quiz
Activity 17: Modern Britain Quiz
Activity 18: Key word crossword
UPDATE 2024: 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.
This bundle contains
Lesson 14 - Detente, SALT 1, Helsinki, SALT 2
Lesson 15 - The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Lesson 16 - President Reagan and the Star Wars Programme
Lesson 17 - Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘New Thinking’
Lesson 18 - The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
This bundle contains all of my lessons covering the First World War and can easily be adapted to act as a full unit of work, especially for KS3 (ages 11-14).
Please note that EVERY lesson is fully resourced and ‘ready to go’. This bundle will save you many hours of preparation and each lesson contains a wide variety of activities to keep your students fully engaged.
The lessons included in this bundle are:
Lesson 1: The European Alliance System by 1914.
Lesson 2: The M.A.I.N. Long-Term Causes of the First World War.
Lesson 3: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand as a Short-Term Cause of the war.
Lesson 4: Recruitment and Enlistment into the British Army in 1914.
Lesson 5: The importance of Propaganda Posters for the Recruitment of Soldiers.
Lesson 6: The Features and Location of the Trenches on the Western Front.
Lesson 7: Evaluating the Weapons of the First World War.
Lesson 8: The Conditions in the Trenches and Trench Letters
Lesson 9: Medical Progress made during the First World War.
Lesson 10: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Lesson 11: The Role of Britain’s Empire in the First World War.
Lesson 12: The Contribution of Women to Britain’s War Efforts.
Lesson 13: The Treatment of Conscientious Objectors during the First World War.
In this lesson, students will learn about the location of the Western Front and be able to identify and explain the various features of a First World War trench.
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 come in warmup activity.
Slide 4: Starter Task 1: What can students infer (learn) about a trench from the photograph?
Slide 5: Starter Task 2: What can students infer (learn) about a trench from the photograph and how is it different from the image in the previous slide?
Slide 6-8: Image led background information about the location of the Western Front.
Slide 9: Image led background information about the trench system from a bird’s eye view.
Side 10: A fully labelled and clear diagram showing the cross section of a typical trench.
Slide 11-12: Activity 1: Creating a diagram on a First World War trench – printable student worksheet included.
Slide 13: Activity 2: The purpose of a trench
Slide 14: Activity 3: Explaining the importance of a trench – writing frame included.
Slide 15: Follow up challenge questions
Slide 16-17: Learning Review 1 with answers revealed
Slide 18-19: Learning Review 2 with answers revealed
Slide 20: Bonus fact sheet covering all the information from the lesson.
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. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
**This lesson allows students to identify and describe the many changes which happened in Britain during the period of the Industrial Revolution. The lesson allows students to contrast what Britain was like in c.1750 and by c.1900. **
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson learning aims
Slide 3: A slide to help students discuss and learn the definition of the term ‘Industrial Revolution’
Slide 4: An introduction to the changes of the Industrial Revolution
Slide 5: Lesson Warm Up Activity: What changes have you experienced in your lifetime?
Slide 6: Starter Activity: Spot the difference between the two paintings of Britain (c.1750 and c.1900)
Slide 7: Historical Source/Interpretation Activity
Slide 8: Documentary Link and Activity about the changes of the Industrial Revolution
Slide 9: An outline of the main learning task
Slide 10: Printable lesson fact sheet
Slide 11/12: Printable worksheets based on the fact sheet
Slide 13: Challenge Activity 1 – What was the impact of the Industrial Revolution?
Slide 14: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 15/16: Learning Review Quiz with answers revealed.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
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.
**In this lesson, students will investigate the main reasons why the British government began the process of abolishing slavery in 1807. As well as being able to make notes about each reason, students will be guided to complete an extended piece of historical writing about the causes of the abolition of slavery. **
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 main aims of the lesson.
Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up 1: Slave Trade vocabulary activity
Slide 4: Lesson Warm Up 2: Ordering the main events of the slave trade triangle
Slide 5: Lesson Warm Up 2: Answers
Slide 6: Lesson Warm Up 3: What reasons would there have been to oppose or support the slave trade at the time it was happening?
Slide 7: Starter Task: Why do you think the slave trade was abolished?
Slide 8: Background Information: Source analysis – economic reason for the abolition of the slave trade.
Slide 9-10: Background Information: The role of the anti-slavery campaigners
Slide 11-12: Background Information: The main reasons for the abolition of the slave trade.
Slide 13: Printable sheet to help students make notes about the reasons
Slide 14-15: Fact sheets designed to be printed back-to-back about the main reasons (black and white)
Slide 16-17: Fact sheets designed to be printed back-to-back about the main reasons (colour)
Slide 18: Introduction to the extended writing.
Slide 19: Model P.E.E. Paragraph
Slide 20: An optional/alternative task – writing a letter or speech to support the abolition of slavery.
Slide 21: Follow Up Challenge Tasks – Linking the reasons and evaluating the most important factors.
Slide 22-23: Learning Review – Who or What am I?
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. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This bundle includes all the lessons, resources and fact sheets you will need to teach Edexcel GCSE History Medicine in Britain. The lessons cover the period 18th and 19th century which forms Unit 3 of the course.
Lesson 17 - The key individuals of the 18th & 19th century.
Lesson 18 - Pasteur’s Germ Theory
Lesson 19 - Robert Koch & his study of microbes
Lesson 20 - The work of Florence Nightingale
Lesson 21 - Improved hospital care
Lesson 22 - James Simpson & Anaesthetics/Chloroform
Lesson 23 - Joseph Lister & Antiseptics
Lesson 24 - The 1875 Public Health Act
Lesson 25 -Edward Jenner and Smallpox Vaccination
Lesson 26 -Cholera in London 1854
Lesson 27 - Explaining the developments of the 18th & 19th century.
A 5 lesson bundle to take your students through all the information needed for Unit 2 of the Paper 3 topic.
As stated on the cover, all factual information has been included with a printable fact sheet available for each lesson.
Lesson 10 - The development of the Nazi Party
Lesson 11: The Causes, events and consequences of the Munich Putsch
Lesson 12: The Nazi Party's 'Lean Years', 1924-29
Lesson 13: The impact of the Wall Street Crash and growth in Nazi Support
Lesson 14: To explain how Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany by Jan.1933
Thank you very much for your purchase and I hope this really helps you out with your teaching of this topic.
The first 9 lessons with everything you will need:
Lesson 1: The legacy of war and the creation of the Weimar Republic
Lesson 2: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Weimar Republic
Lesson 3: The Treaty of Versailles
Lesson 4: Challenges to the Weimar Republic
Lesson 5: The Ruhr and hyperinflation
Lesson 6: Recovery and Stresemann
Lesson 7: Improved living standards in Germany
Lesson 8: Women in Weimar Germany
Lesson 9: Culture in Weimar Germany
Active starter tasks.
Recap quizzes
Example exam questions
A fact sheet for each lesson
A revision sheet for each lesson
Interactive presentations
Exciting, bold graphics to keep student attention.
Example answers for analysis.
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