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Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics: (i) Henry VIII and his ministers (ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present (iii) The British Sector of the Western Front (iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War (v) Weimar and Nazi Germany (vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution Edexcel Politics: (i) UK Politics (ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism (iii) UK Government (iv) Global Politics

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Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics: (i) Henry VIII and his ministers (ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present (iii) The British Sector of the Western Front (iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War (v) Weimar and Nazi Germany (vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution Edexcel Politics: (i) UK Politics (ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism (iii) UK Government (iv) Global Politics
Edexcel IGCSE - A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74
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Edexcel IGCSE - A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74

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Complete set of lessons linked to Edexcel IGCSE History: A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74. Full contents included: 1.1 The US political system 1.2 Reasons for the Red Scare: The Cold War 1.3 Reasons for the Red Scare: events at home 1.4 McCarthy and the Red Scare 2.1 Segregation and discrimination 2.2 Brown v Topeka and Emmett Till 2.3 Montgomery Bus Boycott 2.4 1957 Civil Rights Act 2.5 School desegregation - Little Rock Nine 3.1 Protests 1960-63 3.2 Protests 1963-65 3.3 Civil rights legislation 3.4 Protests 1966-74 4.1 Student protests and Vietnam 4.2 The women’s movement 5.1 The Watergate Scandal - causes and features 5.2 The impact of Watergate All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification. The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts. There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions. There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation. Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries. Thank you
Component 1: UK Politics, Political Parties: Established political parties
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Component 1: UK Politics, Political Parties: Established political parties

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Component 1: UK Politics - Political Parties Detailed lesson on the main political parties in the UK. Numerous activities that looks at the Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem political parties. There are detailed activities that looks at the history, values and policies of these parties. The different factions within the main parties are also covered, along with a 30 mark essay question on the extent to which all the major political parties support liberal ideas. The Knowledge House produce outstanding lessons for the new A-level politics specification by using content from the three approved textbooks from Hodder and Edexcel. However, you will not need the textbooks for these lessons. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
8. Renaissance literature
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8. Renaissance literature

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Part of a unit of nine lessons looking at the Renaissance from a variety of themes: Italian city-states Origins Literature Art Architecture Exploration Science Medicine The last lesson comes with an assessment and mark scheme based on the unit.
Edexcel IGCSE - USA, 1918-41
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Edexcel IGCSE - USA, 1918-41

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Complete set of lessons linked to Edexcel IGCSE History: USA, 1918-41. Full contents included: 1.1 The USA in 1918 1.2 Reasons for the economic boom in the 1920s 1.3 The social impact of the 1920s 1.4 Problem industries in the 1920s 2.1 Attitudes and policies towards immigration 2.2 The Palmer Raids and the Red Scare 2.3 Attitudes towards black Americans 2.4 Morals, values and the Monkey Trial 2.5 Prohibition and gangsters 3.1 The Wall Street Crash 3.2 The impact of the Great Depression 3.3 Hoover’s reaction to the Great Depression 4.1 Roosevelt’s aims with the New Deal 4.2 The First Hundred Days and the alphabet agencies 4.3 The second New Deal 4.4 Rural electrification 5.1 Opposition to the New Deal 5.2 Radical criticism of the New Deal 5.3 Achievements and shortcomings of the New Deal All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification. The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts. There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions. There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation. Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1588 - 2.2 Relations with Spain
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Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1588 - 2.2 Relations with Spain

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Easy to follow pack that guides your students through England’s relations with Spain during the reign of Elizabeth I and Philip II. The lesson links exactly to chapter 2.2 in the textbook and covers all the content from that chapter. Textbook is not necessary for the completion of these tasks. With colourful and engaging activities to keep your students enthralled and allow them to discover the Elizabethan era at their own pace. Keyword tasks, exam guides, card-sorts and video crib sheets, allow The Knowledge House to do the planning while you do the teaching. There is no textbook needed for this lesson, just print out the sheets and allow your students to work their way through. Unfinished tasks can be finished for homework. The Knowledge House provide outstanding resources that come in colourful activity sheets that can be glued into students’ books to give a neat and glossy CW book that will be perfect for revision at the end of the topic. Will need 1 double lesson to complete these tasks. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any queries. Thank you!
Component 3: Global Politics - Globalisation - Does globalisation resolves contemporary issues?
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Component 3: Global Politics - Globalisation - Does globalisation resolves contemporary issues?

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Comprehensive examination of the increasingly complex and interdependent world in which we are living. This is the second in a series of lessons from The Knowledge House that links to Chapter 2 of the new Edexcel specification on Global Politics - The state and globalisation. This lesson examines the issues raised by globalisation and the extent to which the international community meets these needs. The lesson focuses on: poverty human rights conflict environmentalism. This is an extremely important lesson within the Global Politics specification, as it raises the question as to whether the nation-state or the international community is best placed to meet the demands of an increasingly globalised world, highlighting the realist v liberal debate. This is done in an engaging and student-friendly manner, with interactive worksheets and an accompanying PPT that guides both teacher and student through the content. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries about these resources.
The origins and course of World War I, 1905-18
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The origins and course of World War I, 1905-18

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Complete bundle of lessons on the causes and major events of the First World War. While these lessons are explicitly linked to the Edexcel IGCSE specification, they cover the content in enough depth and detail to cover World War I for Year 9 and other examination boards in depth. Please check your exam boards content specification to ensure these sources are suitable. There are 15 lessons complete with: exam guide 15 lessons 15 PPTs Over 70 colourful resource sheets with differentiated and interactive activties for students to complete. Exam questions The bunndle adheres to the five major areas outlined by the Edexcel IGCSE specification: THE ALLIANCE SYSTEM AND INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY, 1905–14 THE GROWTH OF TENSION IN EUROPE, 1905–14 THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN AND DEADLOCK ON THE WESTERN FRONT THE WAR AT SEA AND GALLIPOLI THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Weimar and Nazi Germany: 1.1 The origins of the Republic, 1918-1919
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Weimar and Nazi Germany: 1.1 The origins of the Republic, 1918-1919

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New Edexcel or Hodder textbook is necessary for some of the activities. Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 1.1 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook. Lessons on this topic are newly planned to meet the exacting standards of the new specification; they are not recycled lessons from previous years. Encourages independent work and includes engaging resources to bring the topic to life for students. It also includes a glossary of all the key terms in the textbook with some spaces for extra words that may come up. Exam guide that guides students on how to answer questions for this paper included.
Reformation - Catholic Church problems
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Reformation - Catholic Church problems

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Lesson 1 of 12 that links to the English Reformation, beginning with Martin Luther and documenting the changes under the various Tudor monarchs. This lesson examines the Catholic Church in the 16th century and the problems many people started to have with the Church, leading to the Reformation. The main areas students will research are: Revision looking back at the role of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages Criticisms of the Catholic Church, including indulgences There is also a keyword sheet to introduce students to new words. There is an exam question and structure linked to ‘Describe two features …’ There is a guide to answering this question included. This is part of a series of lessons that aims to encompass the new 9-1 GCSE skills into Key Stage 3. Lessons are colourful and engaging and match the content of the new Exploring History textbook from Pearson, although the textbook is not necessary for any of the tasks. If you have any questions or queries please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk
World War I - 10. Somme and Passchendaele
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World War I - 10. Somme and Passchendaele

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The origins and course of the First World War, 1905-1918 All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification. Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson. The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts. There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions. There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation. Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries. Thank you.
The Schlieffen Plan
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The Schlieffen Plan

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Detailed lesson that explains the purpose of the Schlieffen Plan and reasons for its failure. Also includes a lesson that gets students to produce an extended piece of writing on the reasons for the failure of the Schlieffen plan through assessing a model answer and rewriting one of their own.
Changes in medicine: 1. Lack of progress by 1848
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Changes in medicine: 1. Lack of progress by 1848

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Changes in medicine: c.1848-c.1948 All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification. Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson. The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts. There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions. There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation. Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries. Thank you.
The Renaissance
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The Renaissance

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A series of 9 lessons looking at the Renaissance by using a thematic approach. The following areas are covered: Italian city-states Origins of the Renaissance Renaissance architecture Renaissance art Renaissance science Renaissance medicine Renaissance literature Renaissance exploration Assessing the greatest Renaissance individual There is also an end of unit progress check/assessment, along with a mark scheme.
CIE International Relations - Empire and the emergence of world powers
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CIE International Relations - Empire and the emergence of world powers

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Twelve lessons linking to the new Cambridge specification: Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489) Covers: Empire and the emergence of world powers, 1870-1919 Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum. Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated. Lesson bundle includes lessons on: New Imperialism Scramble for Africa I Scramble for Africa II Domestic reactions to imperialism Impact of imperialism on international relations Disputes with China Rise of Japan as an imperial power Impact of the Sino-Japanese War on international relations Russo-Japanese War and its impact Changes to US foreign policy Spanish-American War 1898 USA in World War I There is also a collection of historical maps included, many of which are relevant for the expansion witnessed in this period (the other maps will be relevant for the other international relations options). Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments. Thank you.
Component 2: UK Government - optional political ideology - nationalism
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Component 2: UK Government - optional political ideology - nationalism

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Links to both Edexcel and AQA specification - Component 2: UK Government and Optional Political Ideas Complete pack that looks at the role of nationalism as a political ideology. This is a detailed lesson pack that examines: -history of nationalism -core values of nationalism -different strands of nationalism -tensions within nationalism. This is planned using both the Hodder and Edexcel textbooks. However, neither textbook is necessary for these tasks. Engaging, instructive and student-led resources that gives a comprehensive understanding of nationalism. Email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk with any questions, queries or comments. Thank you.
The Crusades
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The Crusades

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Complete bundle including: Workbook with crib sheets linked to a series of YouTube videos on the First Crusade 10 lessons that detail the rise of the Islamic religion through to the Third Crusade Dozens of colorful worksheets and accompanying PPTs that guide teachers and students through the lessons Numerous GCSE exam-style questions suitable for Key Stage 3 students An end of term assessment Grade boundaries that allow for a Level 5- Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
Changes in medicine: 9. Women in medicine
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Changes in medicine: 9. Women in medicine

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Changes in medicine: c.1848-c.1948 All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification. Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson. The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts. There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions. There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation. Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries. Thank you.
Political ideologies
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Political ideologies

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Would suit a GCSE or AS level lesson introducing political ideologies. This is a very basic lesson that outlines the main ideas of conservatism, liberalism and socialism, with one main thinker from each ideology. Students then investigate the ideological stance of three mainstream politicians.
Civil rights in the USA - 4. Other protest movements: students, women, anti-Vietnam
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Civil rights in the USA - 4. Other protest movements: students, women, anti-Vietnam

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Two lessons linked to Chapter 4 of Edexcel IGCSE History curriculum unit: A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74. This chapter focuses on: Other protest movements: students, women, anti-Vietnam There are lessons on: 4.1 Student protests and Vietnam 4.2 The women’s movement All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification. The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts. There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions. There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation. Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind. Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries. Thank you.