Classic Board Games adapted for revision of Cold War A-level (Superpower Relations) including who's who and Trivial Pursuit with adapted questions. I found an old version of trivial pursuit in a charity shop and printed the slides to fit the question cards and glued them on and laminated them. My classes play this as a revision activity.
Cold War; Superpower Relations A-level (The Nuclear Arms Race 1949-1963)
Learning Objectives
To identify how nuclear weapons were developed by the two superpowers
To explain why and how the arms race developed
To use the Cuban Missile Crisis as a case study to illustrate your explanation
To evaluate the impact of the arms race
Lesson examining Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland asking pupils to use textbooks to gather information and then apply to exam style question interpreting cartoon (Goose Step) with indiciative content/model answer for pupils to examine.
Cold War; Superpower Relations A-level (Detente 1969-1979)
Learning Objectives
To examine the factors that pushed both superpowers towards détente
To assess the key features of the main agreements of détente
To examine the ways in which détente was criticised by opponents on both sides
To understand and analyse the role of the factors that brought about the end of détente
Lesson examining economic disaster and hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic encouraging pupils to examine source evidence to explain the impact of hyperinflation on German society.
Lesson examining Native American tribes and the diversity between them - building on prior knowledge of the geography and climate of the different environment areas of the USA and how this contributed to the similarities and differences between tribes.
Lesson examining the Sudeten Crisis and British reaction through British Cabinet dialgoic learning activity, in addition to cartoon interpretation (making inferences)
*NEW AQA GCSE - Thematic Study - Power and the People*
Learning Objectives
To analyse the short term and long term impact of the Magna Carta
To evaluate how significant the Magna Carta was
Introductory lesson examining areas of Roman life; with activity of Walk-About-Talk-About; including information sheets; worksheet and instructions on PowerPoint.
IB History, PAPER ONE, PS3 Move to Global War Scheme of Work (SOW) document
Case Study 1: Japanese Expansion 1931-41
Case Study 2: Italian and German Expansion 1931-41
All corresponding lessons and resources can be found on TES, or are hyperlinked in the document.
Decision making activity encouraging students to empathize with representatives at the Paris Peace Conference; and engage in debate in order to understand how negotiations would have taken place.
*NEW AQA GCSE - Thematic Study - Power and the People*
Learning Outcomes
To outline the reasons why the Tolpuddle Martyrs were arrested
To describe why people were unhappy with their punishment
To explain the consequences of the Tolpuddle arrests
Learning Objectives
To describe the minor risings of Lovell and the Stafford brothers, 1486.
To explain the role of Lambert Simnel and analyse the nature of the threat to Henry VII
To evaluate the significance of the Simnel affair.
Cold War; Superpower Relations A-level (Post-Stalin Thaw 1953-1962)
Learning Objectives
To explain the process of the De-Stalinisation
To investigate how and why the policy of peaceful coexistence developed
To assess the significance of the achievements of the “thaw” and the impact it had on superpower relations
Edexcel iGCSE PAPER 2: B2 Changes in medicine
Lesson Objectives
To define the phrase “magic bullets’
To describe the development of Salvarsan 606, Prontosil and Penicillin
To explain how magic bullets were developed