Worksheets to support the BBC Documentary History File Episode
Suitable for the new 9-1 History GCSE as lesson support, revision or flipped learning. Also appropriate for the legacy GCSE
BBC American Voices - Ep3. Hard Times - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the testimony of people who lived through Depression hit America
Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing.
Other episodes in the series are available from my shop
Andrew Marr - The Making of Modern Britain - Britannia at Bay - Supporting Worksheet
Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, but can be edited and saved as a PDF to print as A4
The worksheet deals with the evacuation of Dunkirk and the use of the ‘Little Ships’ to facilitate the rescue of Allied troops leading to the Dunkirk myth. It was written to serve as a starter activity. The material covers the first 9 mins of the episode.
Worksheet to support the documentary. The sheet was written over 4 pages to support independent study/flipped learning /overview/ revision and enrichment of the GCSE / A Level curriculum.
The tasks include a wide variety of data collection activities and higher order exercises to provide a wide range options. The last page includes overview grids asking students to summarise the reasons for the rise and fall of Wolsey and Cromwell as well as carry out a psychological profile of Henry VIII.
The worksheet is written in Publisher and formatted to A3. It can be saved as a PDF and printed in A4
Worksheet to support the Paxman BBC Great War video extract
Jeremy Paxman introduces Lord Kitchener’s iconic patriotic recruitment campaign and tells us about the Pals regiments, which were formed of men from one local area or of the same profession.
Lord Kitchener was Britain’s most famous living soldier in 1914, and newly appointed Minister of War. He launched a poster campaign on a huge scale, to persuade men to volunteer to fight.
We see what the posters looked like, and hear about the different ways they encouraged men to sign up, inciting duty, fear of invasion and guilt. We see contemporary footage of public recruiting events, and hear how a patriotic mood swept the nation, causing men to enlist at unprecedented speed and scale.
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - History GCSE / National 5: Why did thousands of men enlist at the start of WW1?
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain - Health and Hygiene- Supporting Worksheet for the Ian Mortimer book of the same name.
Written as an extension/reading/ independent learning activity for able GCSE 9-1 students studying the history of medicine looking at the Renaissance / Tudor period and changing medical understanding in Britain.
The resource is written as a WORD document for easy access to Google Classroom
BBC History File - The Cold War - Supporting Worksheets
Worksheets to support the BBC Documentary History File Episodes:
Ep.1. The Hungarian Uprising
Ep.2. U2
Ep.4. The Cuban Missile Crisis
Ep.5. The Evil Empire
Written in Publisher and Pdf copies included
Please find a copy of Ep.1. Berlin as a free resource to download
Suitable for the new 9-1 History GCSE as lesson support, revision or flipped learning. Also appropriate for the legacy GCSE
BBC American Voices - Ep5. Black America - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the experience of the Black minority in the USA during the first half of the Twentieth Century
Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
BBC American Voices - Ep1. Immigrants - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the testimony of four immigrants and their experience. Students will be asked to compare their experience with American ideas of their countries approach to immigration through the linked video (The Great American Melting Pot):
Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
BBC American Voices - Ep2. Boom and Bust - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the testimony of four women and their of both Boom and Bust within America from very contrasting perspectives
Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
BBC American Voices - Ep4. New Deal - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the testimony individuals and their experience of the Great Depression and FDR’s New Deal
Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
Introductory/Revision Booklet based around the Pearson Christie & Christie textbook. The PDF version includes scans of existing free resources available from my shop and the Edexcel overview grid published on their website as supporting course materials.
9-1 Edexcel History Learning/Topic Placemats for Superpower Relations and The Cold War - Topic 1 -Origins of the Cold War 1945-58
These interactive learning placemats were designed to meet the challenges of the new 9-1 GCSE. They build upon the successful Medicine Through Time Placemats that I previously designed (and which received 5* reviews by all who have purchased them up to the time of launching these new materials – see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-1-edexcel-gcse-history-of-medicine-place-mat-question-structure-11627611 ). The new placemats have been identified as best practice during a ‘Challenge Partners’ review as well as being identified as best practice by other History teachers on the Olevi ‘Outstanding Teacher Programme’.
The new design learning placemats support both teachers and students in addressing the:
a) dramatic increase in the curriculum content needed for the different units
b) support the need for increased literacy demands
c) help students become familiar and more confident in recognising the correct response needed for the unprecedented number of different question styles
The placemats are designed to be double sided. One side focuses on the CONTENT: providing an overview of key knowledge and understanding needed (this will change for each topic area within this GCSE unit).
Every placemat across the GCSE range is designed to encourage greater understanding of:
1. Historical Context - through timelines, picture prompts and key words
2. Awareness of the ‘big picture’ so students can see how individual lessons fit into the unit and make clearer links between prior and future learning – through ‘Big Picture’ questions.
3. Better Literacy – through selected ‘language for learning’ vocab box.
4. Memory prompts to support revision – through the use of carefully selected images.
5. Increased awareness of metacognition – through PME (Progress, Monitor and Evaluation Time) questions to encourage students to deconstruct their learning and identify key factors (eg. Social, economic, political) or key individuals and make links between features. A pictorial metacognition man with 5 question prompts will support student reflection.
6. A confidence thermometer is also included as a prompt to identify student confidence in the topic.
The reverse side contains guidance on EXAM TECHNIQUE through:
1. Identifying the nature of the question styles for each GCSE Unit and the allocated marks available
2. Examiners levelled mark schemes
3. Support writing frames with generic sentence starter
This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for the component unit Key topic 1: EDEXCEL GCSE HISTORY.
TOPIC 3: Conflicts & Conquest, c1876 - 1895
This is a one page resource
They fully cover the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to:
a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning.
c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change.
d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards
e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable.
The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students.
This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for the component unit Key topic 1: EDEXCEL GCSE HISTORY.
TOPIC 1: Development of the Plains, c1862 - 1876
This is a one page resource
They fully cover the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to:
a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning.
c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change.
d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards
e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable.
The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students.
Learning Placemats for this topic can be found at:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11926777
D-Day 75: How was the biggest ever seaborne invasion launched?
A worksheet to support the BBC Teach - D-Day 75 resource
BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > KS3 History / GCSE History > World War Two - The most destructive global conflict in human history
Students will work through a series of data retrieval activities and analytical activities
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing
A two page resource
Boom, Bust and Recovery - H.Brogan - The Penguin History of the USA Chp 21 Irresponsibility. Worksheet containing a variety of activities to support the reading of the chapter
Written to support the Edexcel A Level: Gaining and Losing an Empire 1763-1914 this worksheet is written as part of a reading and extension programme to expand students understanding and independence a learners. The worksheet takes students through the chapter using a variety of tasks and activities to develop and deepen their understanding.
‘The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery’ Paul Kennedy - Chapter 5 - The Struggle against France Renewed’
Written to support the Edexcel A Level: Gaining and Losing an Empire 1763-1914 this worksheet is written as part of a reading and extension programme to expand students understanding and independence a learners. The worksheet takes students through the chapter using a variety of tasks and activities to develop and deepen their understanding.
‘The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery’ Paul Kennedy - Chapter 4 - Triumph and Check