A PowerPoint designed for a 1 hour lesson. Includes the option of printing off a worksheet. This lesson considers four of the factors which contributed towards the outbreak of the American Civil War. This lesson is designed to encourage students to think analytically about the causes.

A 1 hour lesson designed for online tutoring but could be adapted for classwork in schools. Images taken from google.com and wikipedia.org

A lesson focused around feedback and making improvements to the sample question “How significant was employment for the promotion of a stable Soviet society in the years 1953–85?” as featured in a previous exam paper. This lesson is designed to be an hour long, and intended for A-Level students of the Edexcel course ‘Russia 1917-1991: From Lenin to Yeltsin’. Sample material from Edexcel has been used for the making of this PowerPoint.

An ideal lesson for revision after teaching the content within the textbook geog.1 This lesson covers the topics: Planet Earth Map Skills The UK Glaciers Rivers Africa It does not come with printable worksheet resources as it is designed for use as an online lesson. Images are taken from Google and the geog.1 textbook.

An overview quiz to be used in conjunction with the topics studied in the geog.1 textbook (Gallagher, Parish, & Williamson) Quiz includes 5 questions on each of the following topics: Planet Earth Map Skills The UK Glaciers Rivers Africa

PowerPoint designed for a 1 hour lesson on map skills at KS3 level. This lesson is best taught in an online tutorial session as it does not come with resources. However, the presentation is interactive and students could possibly do the match up activity, the globe labelling, the consolidation quiz, and the OS map analysis in their exercise books if the teacher using this lesson were to print them out. This lesson covers map skills in the form of: How to read a compass How to interpret an OS map How to infer the format of an atlas map and how to label a 3D atlas map

This 1 hour interactive lesson is designed for low-ability students at KS3. As the League of Nations is quite a heavy topic this lesson gets the students to act out what happened with the League of Nations, and also why it did not work out as well as originally hoped. Each student performs the role of one of the countries. I taught this lesson to a low ability KS3 group and they retained the knowledge from it very well.

Designed for a KS3 mid to high ability group (1 hour lesson). Complete lesson featuring PowerPoint presentation and worksheet. Images taken from Google.

Murder mystery lesson designed for an hour long lesson. Students have to study evidence and reach their own conclusions (as detectives) about who was responsible for the death of William Rufus. Interactive lesson which can be teacher or student led. Students can work in groups to begin with then write down their own conclusions. Whole class discussion at the end. All round a very engaging lesson. Presentation is my own; images taken from Google.

Designed for a KS3 mixed ability class. Lesson is designed for an hour long lesson. PowerPoint includes a recap of causes, and then looks at what happened to society after the Black Death in England. Includes exam skills work. Presentation is my own, images taken from Google. Contains a YouTube link to a short video.

A specific lesson on the AQA ‘How Convincing’ GCSE question aimed at high-ability pupils (targeted grades 7-9). This lesson provides in-depth tuition on how to break down the question, gives samples of what to do and what not to do, and gives the pupil an opportunity to reflect on their own exam skills and then apply them to sample questions. This lesson focuses on the Norman England component of the AQA, and contains sample material focused on this topic. This lesson is ideal for those teaching Norman England, but the topical material could be replaced with interpretations and subject matter from a different topic within the British Depth Study. The author has been trained by AQA in how to approach and mark this question.

A complete lesson bundle including PowerPoint and resources. This lesson is designed as a ‘murder mystery’ on the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower. Students have to decide who out of the contemporary suspects they think is most likely/guilty for the two boys’ disappearance. This lesson includes PowerPoint and resources designed for a 1 hour lesson. Aimed at KS3. All images taken from Google. Presentation and worksheets are my own.