Students bake a cake or make an artefact from a time period (this PPT is Roman) Great, fun and interactive homework

KS3 appropriate but easily adaptable to KS4 - use of embedding KS4 skills at KS3 in line with the new Edexcel GCSE specification.

Focus of the lesson is, how did the Black Death arrive in England. Suitable for KS3 and adaptable for all abilities. Use of geography and other cross curricular activities

Focusing on the impact of the Black Death on England - focus on embedding GCSE skills at KS3. Has exam style questions and skills - following the new Edexcel GCSE History specification. Easily adaptable for all abilities and levels

Impact of the Black Death assessment. Resources available: assessment peer marking sheet marking codes available to reduce marking

Lesson based on the reasons the Black Death arrived in England. Map based activity with embedding KS4 skills at KS3 - in line with the new Edexcel GCSE specification. Easily adaptable to all levels and abilities.

KS3 lesson focusing on how people tried to cure and prevent the Black Death. Card sort, and writing activity. All material is easy to follow. Use of embedding KS4 skills at KS4 in line with the new Edexcel GCSE specification. Easily adaptable for all abilities

Introduction into Roman Britain and chronology. Great introductory lesson for Year 7. Resources included.

Take me Out themed lesson based on the positives and negatives of each of Henry's wives. Group work suitable for KS3 - really fun lesson with effective and good resources. Class go through the stages of Take Me Out and decide who Henry should take to the Isle of Fernadez

For assessment purposes - Gold, Silver, Bronze stickers to print off onto sticker sheets Suitable across all age ranges

KS3 lesson on 'Do the Vikings deserve their bloodthirsty reputation?' easily adaptable across the Key Stages and abilities

KS3 Lesson which can be easily adapted to KS4/KS5 and across all exam boards. Full lesson with resources focussing on how far the Angl-Saxon period was a 'Golden Age'. Lesson focusses: What a Golden Age is Are we in a Golden Age now? Diamond 9 activity - explaining which is the biggest reason we call it the Golden Age.

KS3 History - Topic: The Holocaust. Based on my Holocaust Knowledge Organiser which can be purchased in my shop. Knowledge Quiz based questions with a word fill of a paragraph - good for testing knowledge and modelling how to structure a paragraph using specific knowledge

KS3 Holocaust Knowledge Organiser with additonal quizzes to test students’ knowledge

Lesson focussing on the biggest event of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s: Brown vs Board of Education Emmett Till Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott Little Rock Arkansas Students work out the impact of the events on the Civil Rights Movement and how it helped the cause progress. They then make a judgement as to which had the biggest impact and the smallest impact. There is also source work - analysing a source and putting it into historical content

Lesson focussing on the black experience in America after the Civil War up till the Second World War. It covers the Jim Crow Laws and life in the South for African Americans. Primary and Secondary sources are used for students to categorise the different ways African Americans were discriminated against. Great for KS3 or KS4

First lesson in a SOW about the change of power in England during Henry VIII’s reign. This lesson concentrates on what religion looked like in England before Henry’s change. It looks at the control the Catholic Church had on the people of England. Really good introduction into the topic. It allows the students to understand the religious aspects in England, to be able to understand why the changes were later so significant.

Scheme of work for KS3 on Henry VIII and the religious power struggle in his reign. Lessons include: L1 - What did religion look like in England in 1500? L2 - What’s love got to do with it? Did he break from Rome because of love? L3 - Did money and power drive Henry to break from Rome? L4 - What was the real reason Henry broke from Rome? L5 - Assessment All lessons have higher order themes, questions and concepts throughout. Planned to a high standard. Multiple historical concepts used - focus on source/intepretation skills.

8 Rounds. Christmas themed - suitable for all ages. Answers and quiz sheet are included Rounds: Christmas Knowledge Guess the Celeb Famous Places General Knowledge Observation Music Historical Figures Christmas Films

Good Christmas quiz for all abilities - lots of different rounds