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The History Academy's goal is to share best practice at an affordable price so that you can focus on your own priorities. Our resources have been written to a high standard and fine tuned in the classroom. During my 35 years in challenging schools, I have published resources for Heinemann, Pearsons, Hodder, Folens, BBC and Boardworks. If you would like to receive updates, create your own customised bundle or join our team, then contact us via our Facebook or Linkedin pages.
This resources are designed to help students research and understand the impact of the Second World War on women in Britain. It includes a PowerPoint with the aims and objectives, sources and the activities listed below
There are several good video clips that can be used with this activity. I would recommend the BBC's History File the Home Front / Women.
Aims & Objectives:
You will learn:
Theme: What impact did the Second World War have on Britain?
Know: What roles did women play in the Second World War?
Understand: Why it was necessary to recruit women into the armed services?
Evaluate: How important was the role played by women during the 2WW?
Skills: Cause, Consequence, Evaluation and Judgement.
What Am I Looking For this lesson?
L4 = Describe - the different roles played by women during the 2WW
L5 = Explain - why it was necessary to recruit women into the armed services?
L6 = Analyse - how important was the role played by women during the 2WW?
Tasks & Activities
Task 1: Make notes from the video clip about the role women played during the Second World War
Task 2: Feedback results into a class spider graph
Task 3: Divide into groups and using the textbooks and laptops research the role that women played during the Second World War
Task 4: Produce a presentation with no more than 5 PP slides describing the role that women played in the area that you have looked at with your group.
Task 5: Peer assess each groups work giving marks for effort, content and delivery.
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This outstanding lesson looks at one of Britain’s first attempts to recycle or salvage resources during the Second World War. It is part of a series of lessons that I have created on the Home Front that can be either downloaded separately or as a discounted bundle. The lesson materials are suitable for the full range of ability.
When you purchase these resources you will be able to download a three page worksheet with the key information, sources and tasks, one of which includes a SEN missing word activity. You will also be able to download an accompanying Point Point with the aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, starters, plenaries, information slides, historical sources, relevant video clips and extension exercises to work along aide the activities on the worksheet.
The aims and objectives of this lesson are:
Theme: The Home Front
Know: Why did the government introduce a salvage campaign?
Understand: What impact did the wartime shortages have on Britain?
Evaluate: How successful was Britain’s first recycling campaign?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Identify & describe: Why did the government introduce a salvage campaign?
Explain: What impact did wartime shortages have on Britain?
Analyse: How successful was Britain’s first recycling campaign?
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These resources are designed to help students understand why Britain introduced rationing during the Second World War and begin to evaluate how successful the government was at feeding the population. It forms part of a series on the Home Front which can be downloaded separately or a discounted bundle from my TES store. The lesson has been designed so that it suitable for the full range of ability.
When you purchase this resource you will be able to download a PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying worksheet written in Microsoft Word. The PowerPoint includes aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, two starters, a plenary, relevant information slides, differentiated ‘ragged’ tasks, graphic organisers, historical sources and links to video clips on my You Tube Channel. The Word Document includes a three page worksheet with the key information, sources and tasks, one of which includes a thinking skills review activity.
The aims and objectives for this lesson are:
Theme: The Home Front
Know: Why did Britain introduce rationing?
Understand: What impact did rationing have on civilians?
Evaluate: How successful rationing at feeding the population?
Skills: Cause, Consequence, Evaluation and Judgement.
What Am I Looking For this lesson?
Describe - why did Britain introduce a system of rationing?
Explain - what effect did rationing have on everyday life?
Analyse - how successful was rationing at feeding the population?
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This outstanding lesson is designed to help students understand why Hitler launched the Blitz on Britain, the impact it had on civilians, whilst evaluating how close it came to breaking morale. In forms part of a series of lessons on the Home Front that can be downloaded separately or bought as part of a discounted bundle.
When you purchase this resource you will be able to download a four page worksheet with the key information, sources and tasks, one of which includes writing a report evaluating the impact of the Blitz on London. You will also be able to download an accompanying PowerPoint, which includes aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes and tasks as well as starters, plenaries, information slides, historical sources, graphic organisers, video clips and home work tasks. The PowerPoint also includes a living graph / continuum which can be used to evaluate the sources and how far the Blitz was successful at damaging morale. If you stop the show mode, you should be able to drag and drop the sources onto the continuum. For additional information, please view the preview files:
The aims and objectives of this lesson are:
Theme: The Home Front
Know: Why did Hitler launch the Blitz against Britain?
Understand: What impact did the Blitz have on civilians?
Evaluate: How successfully did the government prepare Britain for war?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Identify & describe: Why did Hitler launch the Blitz?
Explain: What impact did the Blitz have on civilians?
Analyse: How successfully did the government prepare Britain for war?
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This lesson is designed to help students understand why the government issued 38 million gas masks and how it convinced people to carry them around with them. It also looks at why Hitler didn’t used gas as a weapon against Britain, but did against the Jews and other ethnic groups in the concentration camps.
When you purchase this resource you will be able to download a PowerPoint which includes aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, starters, plenaries, appropriate information slides, sources and links to video clips. It includes a worksheet with the key information, sources and 5 tasks, one of which includes creating a spider graph summary as well as a propaganda poster. The PowerPoint also includes additional stretch and challenge questions.
The aims and objectives of this lesson are:
Theme: The Home Front
Know: Why did the government issue 38 million gas masks?
Understand: How did the government persuade people to carry them with them?
Evaluate: How successfully did Britain prepare its people for war?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Identify & describe: Why did the government issue gas masks?
Explain: How did the government persuade people to carry them with them?
Analyse: How successfully did Britain prepare its people for war?
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This great lesson is designed as an introduction to the Home Front during the Second World War. It has been designed to help students understand how the government tried to prepare for war, whilst trying to encourage people to keep calm and carry on to prevent panic within the population. This has been cleverly linked into the Blitzkrieg tactics that the Germans would used if they had invaded Britain.
When you purchase these resources you will be able to download a PowerPoint which includes aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, starters, plenaries, home activities, information slides,historical sources and links to video clips. It also includes a worksheet with the key information, sources and 5 tasks, one of which includes a SEN heads and tails activity. I have built in additional stretch and challenge tasks within the PowerPoint, including an alternative mind map activity. Students can chose their level of challenge through a ‘ragged’ activity slide.
The aims and objectives of this lesson are:
Theme: The Home Front
Know: How did Britain prepare for war?
Understand: Why was it important to keep calm and carry on?
Evaluate: How successfully did Britain prepare for an invasion?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Identify & describe: How did Britain prepare for war?
Explain: Why was it important to keep calm and carry on?
Analyse: How successfully did Britain prepare for an invasion?
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These outstanding resources have been designed to help students studying why women in Britain wanted the vote in 1900. They have been designed to suit a range of abilities and include a variety of tasks that can be easily adapted.
When you purchase this resource you will receive a PointPoint presentation which includes the aims, objectives, starters, plenaries and activities which drive the lesson. You will also be able to download a worksheet which will work along side the presentation and a card sort on arguments for and against women having the vote.
There are a total of eight activities built into this lesson including a snowballing starter of the key words, a collaborative exercise around the sister suffragette video, source questions with support, a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting why both rich and poor women wanted the vote and finally a persuasive speech activity along with a writing frame support and peer and self assessment activity sheets. Please see previews.
The aims and objectives of this lesson are:
Aims and Objectives:
Know: Why did women want the vote?
Understand: Why different social groups wanted the vote for women?
Evaluate: Why did the women’s movement split into two groups?
What am I looking For?
Describe: Why some women wanted the vote?
Explain: Why different social groups wanted the vote?
Analyse: Begin to form a judgment on why the women’s movement split?
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These outstanding resources have been designed to help students studying why women in Britain wanted the vote in 1900. They have been designed to suit a range of abilities and include a variety of tasks that can be easily adapted.
When you purchase this resource you will receive a PointPoint presentation which includes the aims, objectives, starters, plenaries and activities which drive the lesson. You will also be able to download a worksheet which will work along side the presentation and a card sort on arguments for and against women having the vote.
There are a total of eight activities built into this lesson including a snowballing starter of the key words, a collaborative exercise around the sister suffragette video, source questions with support, a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting why both rich and poor women wanted the vote and finally a persuasive speech activity along with a writing frame support and peer and self assessment activity sheets. Please see previews.
The aims and objectives of this lesson are:
Aims and Objectives:
Know: Why did women want the vote?
Understand: Why different social groups wanted the vote for women?
Evaluate: Why did the women’s movement split into two groups?
What am I looking For?
Describe: Why some women wanted the vote?
Explain: Why different social groups wanted the vote?
Analyse: Begin to form a judgment on why the women’s movement split?
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This resource can be used both as a class and revision guide to help students studying why support for the Nazis increased from 1923 - 1932. With the more able it would make a great homework activity.
The first section looks at how the Beer Hall Putsch and Hitler's trial launched his political career, whist the second section looks at the impact of the Great Depression on increasing support for the Nazis. The third section allows students to study several key sources to help them analyse why the German people started voting for the Nazis.
These activity section at the end of this resource is designed to help students summarise their learning. and discussions.
The worksheet is provided as a word document and can be easily adapted to suit your students. Please run it through a US spell checker as this resource was originally designed for use in British schools.
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This resource can be used both as a class and revision guide to help students studying why support for the Nazis increased from 1923 - 1932.
The first section looks at how the Beer Hall Putsch and Hitler's trial launched his political career, whist the second section looks at the impact of the Great Depression on increasing support for the Nazis. The third section allows students to study several key sources to help them analyse why the German people started voting for the Nazis.
These activity section at the end of this resource is designed to help students summarise their learning. and discussions.
The worksheet is provided as a word document and can be easily adapted to suit your students. The text level would support the able at KS3 and middle ability at KS4.
If you are looking for a fun, interactive revision game on the Cold War that can be used as a starter or plenary then this resource for you. Dingbats are interactive flashcards designed to help students focus on key terms and facts, transforming revision into a social and enjoyable experience. With Dingbats, say goodbye to solitary studying! They encourage teamwork and peer assessment, making learning more engaging. Regular use, combined with the strategies outlined in the accompanying PowerPoint, will enhance memory skills and foster essential connections for exam success.
These flashcards are perfect for starter activities, serving as a fun game at the beginning of a lesson or a mini plenary to assess understanding or reinforce learning. Their versatility allows them to be included in revision booklets or printed on cards for easy storage in students’ pockets or envelopes. Additionally, students can use them independently for their own revision.
Upon downloading this lesson, you’ll access a Word document featuring Dingbats for Cold War 1945 - 1962 , along with an 18-slide PowerPoint detailing how to utilize them effectively. Game 1 involves one player reading key words while the other guesses the topic, enhancing memory recall. Game 2 challenges players to describe the topic without using key words, making it more difficult. Other fun and competitive activities like Pictionary and Charades are also included. The lesson concludes with strategies for conducting a one-minute class talk and tips for creating your own Dingbats, supported by suggested homework tasks. Both documents are available as PDFs for easy printing and sharing.
Aims and Objectives of the Lesson:
Theme: Revision Cold War 1945 - 1962
Know: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Understand: Various card games that can be played
Evaluate: The effectiveness of these methods for revision
Skills: Revision techniques, competition, and collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Describe: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Explain: Different revision techniques applicable with Dingbats
Evaluate: The most effective strategies for your learning needs
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If you’re looking for an engaging and interactive way to revise Cold War material, look no further than this resource. These Dingbats flashcards are designed to make revision enjoyable and collaborative, allowing students to focus on essential terms and facts while transforming solitary study into a dynamic group activity. By fostering teamwork and peer assessment, Dingbats elevate the learning experience, ensuring that students are more engaged and motivated. Regular practice with these flashcards, alongside strategies provided in the accompanying PowerPoint presentation, will not only enhance memory retention but also help establish crucial connections for exam success.
These versatile flashcards are ideal for a variety of classroom situations. They can serve as a lively starter activity at the beginning of a lesson or as a mini plenary to assess understanding and reinforce learning. Their adaptability allows for inclusion in revision booklets or easy storage in students’ pockets or envelopes, making them accessible for independent study.
When you download this lesson, you’ll receive a Word document featuring Dingbats specifically focused on the Cold War (1945 - 1962), along with an 18-slide PowerPoint that outlines effective utilization strategies. The first game involves one player reading key terms while another guesses the corresponding topic, which enhances memory recall. The second game raises the challenge by requiring players to describe the topic without using any key terms. Additionally, the resource includes fun and competitive activities such as Pictionary and Charades. The lesson wraps up with strategies for conducting a one-minute class talk and tips for creating your own Dingbats, supplemented by suggested homework tasks. Both documents are provided in PDF format for seamless printing and sharing.
Aims and Objectives of the Lesson:
Theme: Revision Cold War 1945 - 1962
Know: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Understand: Various card games that can be played
Evaluate: The effectiveness of these methods for revision
Skills: Revision techniques, competition, and collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Describe: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Explain: Different revision techniques applicable with Dingbats
Evaluate: The most effective strategies for your learning needs
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This outstanding lesson has been designed to help students assess the causes of the English Civil War by evaluating the decisions made by James and Charles I and how they affected their popularity. This popular lesson has been repeatedly graded as outstanding by Ofsted, LEA Consultants and SLT as it’s a fun and engaging way to develop students critical higher order thinking skills. This lesson is suitable for the full ability range.
Once students have worked their way through a selection of starters that you can chose from, they complete the living graph or continuum exercise. They can then colour code the information cards as either economic, religious or political causes. This is then consolidated by a thinking skills review triangle activity to decide which factor was the most important. Once these tasks have been completed, the final result could be used for an assessment or for an extended writing task.
When you purchase this resource you will be able to download a two page word document which contains the information cards and a twelve slide PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is designed to help facilitate the lesson and contains aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, starters, plenaries, templates, tasks and activities. I have also included a lesson plan. Ideally, the continuum should be printed on A3 paper. For more detailed information, please see the detailed preview.
The aims and objectives of this lesson are:
Theme: Causes of the English Civil War
Know: Why did James and Charles I become increasingly unpopular over time?
Understand: What roles did politics, economics and religion play in causing the Civil War?
Evaluate: Which factor was the most important?
Skills: Cause, Consequence, Change & Continuity.
WILF - What Am I Looking For?
Identify and describe: Why did James and Charles I fall out with Parliament?
Explain: What roles did politics, economics and religion play in causing the Civil War?
Analyse: Which factor was the most important?
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This resource is designed to help students revise and prepare for the OCR exam on Votes for women 1890 - 1916. However, it could easily be adapted to suit another exam board with a few tweaks, The information and activities included in this pack could also be used to teach the topic at either KS3 or KS4.
Resources Included:
Comprehensive Revision Notes
Exam style source questions for the OCR with pupil mark schemes
Interactivities such as Venn diagrams comparing the different reasons women wanted the vote and pro and con organisers on suffragette tactics and how far women benefitted from the FWW
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This worksheet covers the key information on the Dreyfus Affair and its impact on anti-Semitism in France. This is a good example to study to highlight the fact that anti-Semitism existed all over Europe, not just in Germany and Russia.
There are activities designed for both core and foundation students.
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The module of work forms part of the Citizenship curriculum within School. It sets out to link the theme of ‘rights and responsibilities’ of our students at a local level of citizenship to the wider global context of human rights abuse.
The learning journey will see students explore Human Rights set out by the United Nations Convention of Children’s Human Rights before analysing abuses of such rights.
Case study examples are highlighted through the work of Amnesty International and the British Red Cross.
The concept of push pull factors are explained in relation to asylum seekers and refugees using a Doncaster context before tackling the issue of prejudice against such groups.
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This unit of study is designed to deal with issues relating to Healthy Eating and obesity and aims to build up student knowledge that may exist from their knowledge of health campaigns, Jamie Oliver impact, and School initiatives.
Assessment Opportunities
Self assessment:
Lesson 1 Human Barometer score
Lesson 2 Countdown anagrams score
End of module evaluation assessment log book.
Peer Assessment:
Lesson 3 Student presentation of their healthy meal.
Lesson 5 Showcase of Video produced via Oscar ceremony
Lesson 6 Fashion model showcase
End of module evaluation assessment log book.
Teacher Assessment:
Lesson 1-4 Homework tasks
End of module evaluation assessment log book.
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These interactive flash cards cover the key factors that you will need to know for the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s Russia 1924 - 41. Dingbats are interactive flashcards designed to help students focus on key terms and facts, transforming revision into a social and enjoyable experience. With Dingbats, say goodbye to solitary studying! They encourage teamwork and peer assessment, making learning more engaging. Regular use, combined with the strategies outlined in the accompanying PowerPoint, will enhance memory skills and foster essential connections for exam success.
These flashcards are perfect for starter activities, serving as a fun game at the beginning of a lesson or a mini plenary to assess understanding or reinforce learning. Their versatility allows them to be included in revision booklets or printed on cards for easy storage in students’ pockets or envelopes. Additionally, students can use them independently for their own revision.
Upon downloading this lesson, you’ll access a Word document featuring Dingbats for Russian Revolution and Stalin’s Russia 1924 - 41., along with an 18-slide PowerPoint detailing how to utilize them effectively. Game 1 involves one player reading key words while the other guesses the topic, enhancing memory recall. Game 2 challenges players to describe the topic without using key words, making it more difficult. Other fun and competitive activities like Pictionary and Charades are also included. The lesson concludes with strategies for conducting a one-minute class talk and tips for creating your own Dingbats, supported by suggested homework tasks. Both documents are available as PDFs for easy printing and sharing.
Aims and Objectives of the Lesson:
Theme: Russian Revolution and Stalin’s Russia 1924 - 41.
Know: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Understand: Various card games that can be played
Evaluate: The effectiveness of these methods for revision
Skills: Revision techniques, competition, and collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Describe: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Explain: Different revision techniques applicable with Dingbats
Evaluate: The most effective strategies for your learning needs
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This revision resource features revision cards that highlight key factors essential for understanding the Stalin’s Russia (1924 - 1941). The Dingbats format consists of interactive flashcards designed to help students concentrate on significant terms and facts, transforming the revision process into an engaging and social experience. With Dingbats, students can bid farewell to solitary studying and embrace teamwork and peer assessment, making learning both enjoyable and effective.
These flashcards are ideal for use as starter activities, providing a fun game at the beginning of lessons or serving as a mini plenary to assess comprehension and reinforce learning. Their flexible design allows for inclusion in revision booklets or for printing as cards, making them easy to store in students’ pockets or envelopes. Furthermore, students have the option to use these cards independently for their own revision needs.
Upon downloading this lesson, educators will gain access to a Word document containing Dingbats tailored for Stalin’s Russia (1924 - 1941), accompanied by an 18-slide PowerPoint presentation that outlines effective usage strategies. The resource includes Game 1, where one player reads key words while another guesses the topic, enhancing memory recall. Game 2 challenges players to describe the topic without using key words, adding a layer of difficulty. Additionally, the resource features other engaging activities such as Pictionary and Charades. The lesson wraps up with strategies for conducting a one-minute class talk and tips for creating personalized Dingbats, supported by suggested homework tasks. All relevant documents are available in PDF format for easy printing and sharing.
The aims and objectives of this lesson are:
Aims and Objectives of the Lesson:
Theme: Revision Stalin’s Russia (1924 - 1941)
Know: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Understand: Various card games that can be played
Evaluate: The effectiveness of these methods for revision
Skills: Revision techniques, competition, and collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Describe: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Explain: Different revision techniques applicable with Dingbats
Evaluate: The most effective strategies for your learning needs
If you like this lesson, then why not check out our other resources on similar topics in our TES shop. You can also follow ‘The History Academy’ on Instagram, X , YouTube and Facebook for the latest updates or even to get in touch and chat about how you have used this resource or to ask questions. We aim to produce cheap and affordable resources for the price of a good cup of coffee so that you can spend more time doing the things that you want. All our authors are paid the living wage so when you purchase our resources you are buying into our shared values of fair play.
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This resource features interactive flashcards that cover the essential aspects of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s Russia (1924 - 1941). Known as Dingbats, these flashcards are designed to help students concentrate on key terms and facts, transforming the revision process into a social and enjoyable experience. With Dingbats, students can say goodbye to solitary studying, as these cards promote teamwork and peer assessment, making learning more engaging and effective. Regular use of these cards, in conjunction with the strategies outlined in the accompanying PowerPoint, will enhance memory skills and foster essential connections for achieving exam success.
These flashcards are ideal for starter activities, providing a fun game at the beginning of lessons or serving as a mini plenary to assess understanding and reinforce learning. Their versatility allows them to be included in revision booklets or printed on cards for easy storage in students’ pockets or envelopes. Additionally, students can use them independently for their own revision purposes.
Upon downloading this lesson, educators will gain access to a Word document featuring Dingbats specifically designed for the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s Russia (1924 - 1941), along with an 18-slide PowerPoint presentation that details effective methods for utilizing these flashcards. Game 1 involves one player reading key words while another guesses the topic, which enhances memory recall. Game 2 challenges players to describe the topic without using key words, increasing the level of difficulty. Other competitive activities, such as Pictionary and Charades, are included to further engage students. The lesson concludes with strategies for conducting a one-minute class talk and tips for creating personalized Dingbats, supported by suggested homework tasks. Both documents are available in PDF format for easy printing and sharing.
Aims and Objectives of the Lesson:
Theme: Russian Revolution and Stalin’s Russia 1924 - 41.
Know: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Understand: Various card games that can be played
Evaluate: The effectiveness of these methods for revision
Skills: Revision techniques, competition, and collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Describe: How to use Dingbats and flashcards for revision
Explain: Different revision techniques applicable with Dingbats
Evaluate: The most effective strategies for your learning needs
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KInd Regards
Roy