An introduction lesson for Y8 when they are beginning the SOW focused on empire.

Learning Objectives To describe what happened to Pompeii in 79AD To explain why Pompeii is so useful for information about everyday life in Roman times. To analyse eye witness accounts and create your own

Lesson examining the outbreak of WW2 with American newsreel footage and British radio address from Chamberlain - students can examine the differences between the two, in addition to examining how Britain prepared for WW2.

Lesson examining how Rome expanded from a city to an empire while re-affirming skills of chronology.

Lesson examining different aspects of the Roman Army and why it was such an effective fighting machine.

Lesson adpated for high ability students including card sort (can be printed directly from powerpoint) where they decide on categories, analysis of propaganda and Adolf Hitler true or false wrap up game.

Activity Walk-About-Talk-About with information cards; handout and instructions on PowerPoint.

Enquiry Question: What is genocide? Learning Objectives To explain the concept of genocide To develop vocabulary that can help explain the concept of genocide To think creatively as to how genocide can be prevented

Presentation and quiz over Blood History of Surgery, YouTube video link included in PowerPoint

Edexcel International GCSE in History (4HI1) Paper 1 Depth Study 7 - A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74 Learning Objectives To explain the reasons for and key features of the Watergate scandal To analyse the impact of the Watergate scandal including; Nixon War Powers Act (1973) Election Campaign Act (1974) Privacy Act (1974) Congressional Budget Control Act (1974) To evaluate the extent to which Ford was ‘right’ to grant a presidential pardon for Nixon

Lesson examining the original 13 colonies and the road to revolution

Review materials for the study of Germany 1878-1989

Lesson examining education in Roman times - lesson started worked well with pupils, convincing them their curriculum was going to change.

Lesson examining the origins of Rome asking pupils to complete a cartoon storyboard of the myth behind the foundation of Rome (Romulus and Remus).

Handout examining the mistakes Charles I made.

Lesson examining the pros and cons of appeasing Hitler, encouraging pupil debate.

Resources to consider the importance of remembering the Holocaust.

Lesson examining the growth of the USA

Lesson examining the popularity of the Nazi party and why people continued to support them i.e. policies, Hitler as a leader etc.

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.