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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 1.4 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.
Edexcel textbook necessary for some of the activities.