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.
A look into William’s use of rewards and his creation of the Marcher Earldoms on the borderlands with Wales.
Slide 1: Learning Aim and Key Terms
Slide 2: GCSE Learning Outcomes
Slide 3: Recap from the previous lesson - students have to fill in the missing words from the list provided.
Slide 4: Recap answers revealed for peer or self assessment.
Slide 5: A teacher printable copy with 3 missing word sheets on an A4 page.
Slide 6:Starter Task: Students play the role of William and consider questions about who he should reward and what he should reward.
Slide 7: Background information
Slide 8: Background information
Slide 9: Information and map showing the creation of the Marcher Earldoms. Discussion task included.
Slide 10: Task Sheet - Students to write a speech as William to describe and explain his use of rewards to his followers and also explain his creation of the Marcher Earldoms.
Slide 11: Differentiated guidance sheet with sentence starters and levels.
Slide 12: Another task sheet which can be printed off for students in class. Two levels of difficulty for this sheet.
Slide 13: Extension questions.
Slide 14: Exam practice questions based on the lesson (4, 12 and 16 marker questions).
Slide 15: Plenary - Key term anagrams
Slide 16: Plenary answers
Slide 17: Fact Sheet to use with the lesson. This can be used without the need of GCSE text books or alongside them.
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 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 decline of the cattle industry during the 1880s and consequently the changing life of the cowboy. **
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every American West lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
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 looks at the further developments in farming techniques by the 1870s and 1880s, in particular: dry farming, barbed wire, mechanisation and steel wind pumps.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every American West lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
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 looks at US government policy towards the Plains Indians during the 1860s and 1870s with a focus on the increasing tensions between Plains Indians and the American government in reservation land, President Grant’s Peace Policy and the Indian Appropriations Act. **
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every American West lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
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 examines the causes and consequences of the extermination of the buffalo between the 1840s and the 1890s.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every American West lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
All of the lessons for the American West unit contain a variety of learning tasks suitable for all abilities, practice exam questions, engaging individual or group activities as well as the key information needed for the Edexcel Specification. Each lesson features a fact sheet which is intended to be used as a substitute for the text book. Therefore, this lesson contains everything you will need for the lesson.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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 examines the new era of Early Modern England and in particular has a focus on the crimes of heresy and treason. **
All of the resources for the teaching of this unit are included and so there is no need for any text books.
Slide 1: Title Slide - To explain the changing laws of heresy and treason in Early Modern England
Slide 2: Welcome to Early Modern England - Background Information
Slide 3: Early Modern England Recap Quiz
Slide 4: Early Modern England Recap Quiz answers
Slide 5: Early Modern England student print out
Slide 6: Background Information - Treason and Heresy
Slide 7: Printable activity sheet for students to begin explaining why crimes changed in this era
Slide 8: An outline of the two task sheets with challenge exam question
Slide 9: Lesson Recap (true or false and key word hangman)
Slide 10: Lesson Recap answers
Slide 11: Practice exam question
Slide 12: Lesson Fact Sheet
Slide 13: What causes change slide
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 lesson looks at the impact that the gold rush, cattle industry and the railroad had on the life of the Plains Indians. **
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every American West lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
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.
NEW SPEC - In this lesson, students examine the various threats and challenges which Queen Elizabeth faced from other countries such as Spain, France and Scotland as well as the influence of the Pope.
This lesson has been updated ready for the 2025 exams onwards and is based on the recently published GCSE specification.
The lesson includes:
1 x Fact Sheet/Revision Sheet - What were Elizabeth’s Threats from Abroad?
1 x Worksheet - Students outline, explain and then rate the threat of each nation.
Main Power Point Lesson - 15 slides:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2-3: Previous learning recap picture activity with answers revealed
Slide 4: Starter discussion
Slide 5: Starter Activity - Based on a religious map of Europe in 1558.
Slide 6: Task 1 - Instructions to the table based sorting activity (links to additional worksheet)
Slide 7-8: Task 2 - Outlining, explaining and rating the threats from abroad.
Slide 9: Follow up challenge questions
Slide 10-11: Learning Review 10 question quiz with answers revealed.
Slide 12-14: Example exam questions with printable answer sheets
Slide15: Lesson Fact sheet based on 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 contains a series of lessons aimed at increasing your students’ knowledge and understanding of women’s rights in Britain between c.1850-c.1980.
The bundle contains 5 lessons:
Lesson 1: The story of the Match Girls Strike in 1888
Lesson 2: How far had women’s rights improved in Britain by 1890?
Lesson 3: Who were the Suffragists and the Suffragettes?
Lesson 4: What were the arguments for and against the vote for women?
Lesson 5: How far had women’s rights improved the lives of women by the 1970s?
This bundle would be perfect for a study of women’s history.
**This lesson introduces the AQA Thematic Study, Britain: Health and the People. Students are provided with a choice of activities to get them thinking about the history of medicine and healthcare over time such as timelines, multiple choice quiz sheets and match up tasks. **
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.
I will be producing more of these lessons over the coming weeks!!
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – The Legacy of the Slave Trade
Slide 2: Outline of the main lessons aims
Slide 3: Starter discussion and diagram fill
Slide 4-7: An overview of the main question types for this topic.
Slide 8: Diagram – What factors caused changes to medicine and healthcare in Britain? Slide 9: Activity 1 - A basic timeline of the main periods covered in the Thematic Study Slide 10: Activity 2 – Printable timeline activity.
Slide 11-13: Activity 3 – Medicine and healthcare key term quiz (with answers and printable sheets)
Slide 14-17: Activity 4 – Match Up Task of key individuals and their achievements
Slide 18: Follow up challenge questions (also suitable for a learning review)
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 is the first lesson of Edexcel’s Paper 3 Modern Depth Study topic The USA, 1954-1975: Conflict at Home & Abroad.
The lesson provides a useful outline for students of the issues of racism, discrimination and segregation in the USA, in particular in the South. You will have no need for any text books as all resources and information (in the form of a fact sheet) are provided in the lesson.
Slide 1: Title slide - Discrimination and Segregation in the South in 1950s USA
Slide 2: Key Question included in the lesson
Slide 3: Essential key term match up & discussion activity
Slide 4: Sources Inference starter task
Slide 5: A clear map of America showing the areas known as the South and Deep South
Slide 6: A blank, printable map of America for students to shade and identify key states
Slide 7-9: Background information about discrimination and segregation in the USA during the 1950s.
Slide 10: ‘Pause, think & discuss’ questions
Slides 11-13: Usefulness and Inference practice sources and questions linked to the exam skills
Slide 14: Student Question/Worksheet for the lesson
Slide 15: An alternative creative task
Slides 16-17: Learning Review activity with answers revealed
Slide 18: Lesson Fact Sheet
Please note that all images (clipart/photographs/vectors) used in this presentation, to be best of my knowledge, are copyright free and in the public domain unless otherwise attributed in the links. If you feel any errors have been made please contact me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue. Thank you.
A quiz suitable for tutor time, assemblies, History lessons and more! 20 fascinating and varied questions about the Gunpowder Plot, the origins of Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes with answers and printable answer sheets.
The 44 slide resource includes:
20 multiple choice questions
Answers
A choice of answer sheets with bonus tasks relating to learning and firework safety.
This lesson examines how President Johnson used the events of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964) to increase America’s involvement in Vietnam after 1965.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
Slide 3-5:Previous Lesson Gap Fill - with answers revealed and a student printout version
Slide 6: Source Inference Starter Task about the increasing threat of the Vietcong by 1964
Slide 7: Discussion activity about the various reasons why the Vietcong were an increasing threat by 1964.
Slide 8: Overview and discussion task about Johnson’s aims in Vietnam in 1964
Slide 9-10: Background information about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and the passing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Slide 11: Instructions and challenge question for the timeline task
Slide 12: A printable version of the timeine for students to complete using their fact sheet
Slide 13: The significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Slide 14: Learning Review Quiz
Slide 15-16: Lesson fact sheets based on the Edexcel specification
I have included two fact sheets (one slightly differentiated) with the information needed for this part of the course which can be found on the final two slides. Therefore, no other resources are needed for the teaching of this lesson.
Please note that all images (clipart/photographs/vectors) used in this presentation, to be best of my knowledge, are copyright free and in the public domain unless otherwise attributed in the links. A number of clipart images have also been purchased for commercial use from ‘Artsy Bee Kids’. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue. Thank you.
**This lesson covers the experiences and impact of Asian migrants in Leicester after 1945. **
As always, the lesson comes with its own fact sheet and so there is no need for any additional text books.
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: GCSE graded lesson outcomes
Slide 3-4: Recap quiz about the previous case study about Bristol with answers revealed
Slide 5-6: Useful key term match up activity with answers revealed
Slide 7: An overview of the location of Leicester and the main aims of the lesson
Slide 8-9: Source inference starter task - Students analyse one source about the experiences of Asian migrants to Leicester. A printable student version also available.
Slide 10: A further source investigation sheet with 6 more sources about the experiences and impact of Asian migrants in Leicester along with a series of questions.
Slide 11-12: A timeline task which gets the students to outline the main events and statistics linking to Asian migration to Leicester. Printable timeline also there.
Slide 13: A series of overall challenge questions about migration over time
Slide 14: Example 4 mark practice exam questions
Slide 15: A 23 question recap quiz sheet for students to write on. The questions cover all of unit 4.
Slide 16: Lesson fact sheet about Asian migrants to Leicester.
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 resource contains all the subject knowledge needed to study or revise for Edexcel’s GCSE History Paper 1 Topic - Notting Hill (The Historical Environment). The resource contains two sets of fact sheets (one is more differentiated) and follows the specification guidelines.
The fact sheets are as follows:
Fact Sheet 1: The impact of the Second World War on Britain (A wider historical context)
Fact Sheet 2: The reasons for Caribbean migration to London and Notting Hill
Fact Sheet 3: Housing Conditions for migrants in Notting Hill and Bruce Kenrick’s Notting Hill Housing
Fact Sheet 4: The Impact of Caribbean culture on Notting Hill
Fact Sheet 5: Racism and Policing in Notting Hill and Anti-immigration groups
Fact Sheet 6: The Notting Hill Riots (1958)
Fact Sheet 7: The murder of Kelso Cochrane and the Union Movement
Fact Sheet 8: Black Activism - Claudia Jones and the West Indian Gazette and Caribbean Carnival
Fact Sheet 9: Frank Crichlow, the Mangrove Nine and British Black Panthers
2023 UPDATE: Please be aware that all images used in the production of these fact sheets are copyright free and in Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise stated in the notes section below each slide.
This lesson examines the racism in Notting Hill and in particular the institutionalised racism by the Metropolitan Police during this time.
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson aims
Slide 3-4: Recap Quiz about Caribbean culture with answers revealed on slide 4.
Slide 5: Starter Discussion - Questions about the treatment of black people by the police at the time
Slide 6: Background knowledge explaining why few black people in Notting Hill reported racially motivated crimes.
Slide 7: Discussion and information slide about the ways that the Metropolitan Police at this time were racist.
Slide 8: Background information about anti-immigrant groups such as the Teddy Boys, White Defence League and the Union Movement.
Slides 9-13: Photographic sources from the time
Slide 14: A source and knowledge based worksheet printable for students
Slide 15: Challenge questions
Slide 16 - 17: Example ‘Two features’ exam questions with printable student answer sheet.
Slides 18-20: Example ‘Follow Up’ question with printable students answer sheets, suggested structure and examples of sources which could be used as evidence.
Slide 21: Learning Review - 3 discussion questions from the lesson.
Slide 22: Lesson Information Fact Sheet
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 examines the impact of Caribbean culture in Notting Hill during the years c.1948-1970.
The lesson includes a fact sheet with all the subject content needed for the lesson and so there is no requirement for any text book.
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson aims
Slide 3-4: Recap Task - Filling in the missing words with answers revealed.
Slide 5: Printable version of the recap task for students
Slide 6: Worksheet - Students use the questions on the worksheet with the fact sheet to gain the basic facts about Caribbean culture in Notting Hill.
Slide 7: Source Worksheet - Students are given a set of questions about Caribbean culture which they answer from studying 6 sources on the sheet.
Slide 8-12 Photographic sources of Caribbean culture in Notting Hill
Slide 13-14: Example ‘Two features’ questions with student writing frame
Slides 15-20: Example ‘How useful’ questions with model answers, structure tips and student writing frame.
Slides 21-24: Example ‘Follow Up’ questions with model answer, structure tips and examples of sources which can be used to ‘follow up’.
Slide 25-26: Learning Review Crossword with answers revealed on slide 26.
Slide 27: Lesson Information Fact Sheet
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.