A wide range of resources available including:
- Leadership templates
- Emotional Wellbeing resources
- Assemblies
- Humanities resources
Contact me if you would like some further details about running CPD or embedding practice.
A wide range of resources available including:
- Leadership templates
- Emotional Wellbeing resources
- Assemblies
- Humanities resources
Contact me if you would like some further details about running CPD or embedding practice.
A fully resourced lesson on the Ancient Greeks which includes:
- Gap fill activities as a starter
- Outcomes and progress towards it
- Fun activity whereby students assess how dangerous the events where in the Olympics
Two lessons on the Battle of Britain with a heavy focus on source work.
- Simple to follow PowerPoint's help you see the plan of the lessons
- Fully resourced and ready to go
- Hand out the pilot names to pupils at the beginning of the lesson and they leave them on their desks. Then give them the outcomes sheets at the end so they learn the fate of what happened to them. Very thought provoking.
A double lesson will full resources that explores what Humanities means.
- Activities promote discussions
- Worksheets to help identify how geography, history and religious studies is relevant today
- Group activity gets pupils to talk about their lives and how they are connected. Teachers can use this activity to explore the world around us.
A detailed SOW that includes:
- Lesson Objectives and outcomes
- Key questions to use for lessons
- Coherent sequence of lessons that build up to an assessment
- Suggested activities to use in every lesson
A source sheet that can be linked to part of a lesson or used as the basis of one. One method I us is:
- Display a photograph of children being evacuated from a train station. Ask pupils to develop some questions they would want to ask them, e.g. "What's in your suitcase?" etc. Write these on the board.
-In pairs, pupils can study sources on the evacuation of children during WWII and attempt to answer the questions devised in the starter. Feedback to class. Extension – Pupils can try and create additional questions to ask about the evacuation.
- Afterwards set a homework around the questions that could not be answered
Aimed to be used at the end of a study of the key Cold War event. The lesson is structured as follows:
- Pupils create a mind map about what they already know about the Cuban Missile Crisis
- They then use sources (the number of which can be reduced depending on the ability of pupils) to populate the mind map during the course of the lesson. Pupils use a different colour pen for this so it clearly shows new material gleaned from the resources.
- Feedback and sharing with other members of the class. Again pupils should use another colour for this so it shows peer teaching
These 16 sheets will support your teaching of key areas of crime and punishment from 1000 - 1600.
They not only cover the current specifications but are also designed to support the new GCSE specs taught from September 2016.
Excellent for revision activities and also to use as standalone sheets to help with key knowledge in lessons. Many of these are also useful for lower ability and SEND pupils as they are visual with information broken up and presented in diagrams and with pictures. Topics covered include:
- Anglo Saxon crime and punishment
- Medieval court and punishment system (local and national)
- Trial by Ordeal
- Witchcraft
- Gunpowder Plot
- Religious persecution under the Tudors
- Bloody Code
A collection of resources to help you deliver lessons on the Holocaust. Includes:
- Assessment PowerPoint's (Slightly different formats)
- Mind map worksheets for pupils to complete on the Warsaw Ghetto and the significance of the Holocaust
- Information sheet on the Final Solution
- 2 starter activities which promote discussion
All resources are editable and can be adopted to meet your schools enquiry. Many of these go with my Holocaust map of lessons resource (Holocaust SOW) also found on TES.
A complete lesson which gets pupil to use their source skills to investigate an enquiry question.
I have used this for both an interview and for observations - succeeded in both. Pupils enjoy it too.
A seven page set of information sheets covering the changing patterns of adult work and working conditions between 1759 and 1850. This is designed to support the new 2016 A Level specification. Includes:
- Changing domestic system
- Increase and development of the Industrial System
- Water to Steam Power
- Titus Salt
- Emergence of Trade Unions
Can be used in lessons or as revision material. Aimed at A-Level pupils but accessible for 14 to 16 year olds.
A superb lesson I have used for numerous observations before. It works well as it is well paced, has group work and helps pupils consolidate their knowledge at the end with some extended writing.
You need some sugar paper or plain A3 would do. Stick the picture of a Motte and Bailey castle and the Stone Keep castle on either side of the sheet prior to the lesson. A good plan of how to run the lesson is below:
Starter: A map image is displayed showing Norman castles that were built by William the Conqueror. Pupils asked questions about the map e.g. What do the locations of the castles tell you about England at the time?
New Learning: Learning objectives displayed and pupils record the relevant one for their target grade into their exercise books.
Pupils watch a short clip about Norman castles and then answer some questions about them with the aid of a PowerPoint slide.
Learning development: In pairs, use the sugar paper to explore, analyse and consider the effectiveness of Motte and Bailey and Stone castles. Afterwards, pupils stick their own versions of the castles in in their books and complete a series of levelled activities.
Plenary: Think of a 15 second sales pitch you would give William about why he should invest in each type of castle to help him control the English.
Revisit Learning Objectives: Pupils consider how/why they have met their learning objective.
This presentation shows pupils the other side of Syria - the beauty and culture the country has. My pupils were genuinely shocked and impressed by the history of the country. I
A SOW and some of the resources linked to it. Includes:
- A lesson by lesson SOW with objectives, suggested activities and outcomes
- Resources for some of the lessons including the Berlin Wall, 9/11, 1960s and suffragettes
This is an assessment I use at the end of a year 9 unit looking at the significance of the Holocaust. All you need is some A3 sheets for the pupils and the worksheets attached.
It never fails to amaze me how much children enjoy a good murder investigation! This lesson is an introduction to how historians 'do' history. Pupils are introduced the concept of inference during the lesson. It also has a literacy twist in that after they have investigated the murder they have to write a piece of discursive writing.
A murder mystery exercise. Split the class into pairs or groups of three. Give each pupil the you decide worksheets to jot down their findings. then:
-Starter: As they sit down introduce the mystery using the presentation to get them engaged. They need to work out who was 'responsible' for the murder.
- Put sources into three envelopes and give them to the groups in 5-8 minute intervals so it feels like an ongoing investigation and they are not swamped.
- Finally discuss their findings.
A nice activity in which pupils colour in the areas dedicated to 1st, 2nd and 3rd class. Afterwards they can write about how parts of the ship were dedicated to the passengers and why so many 3rd class voyagers died.
A collection of 4 tasks to help support your SOW on Slavery:
1) An inference task on the journey slaves took after being captured in Africa
2) A slave ship activity in which pupils design their own ship and think about what was included for the journey
3) A memorial activity to complete at the end of the SOW
4) A creative task on plantation life in which pupils read the sources and draw details from it