A current teacher of History and Government and Politics, with 15 years experience of creating excellent resources, delivering outstanding lessons, and achieving great results, with nine years experience of examining GCSE and A Level for Edexcel and AQA.
A current teacher of History and Government and Politics, with 15 years experience of creating excellent resources, delivering outstanding lessons, and achieving great results, with nine years experience of examining GCSE and A Level for Edexcel and AQA.
This is one of ten lessons for Government and Politics: Chapter One. As a teacher of 15 years and an examiner for several years, I have developed these lessons to ensure my students exceed their expectations and achieve excellent grades. Lessons are exam focused, thought provoking, engaging and cover all of the content necessary to achieve the highest grades at A Level. The first lesson of the chapter is available for free!
Each lesson includes:
•Clear objectives, incorporating differentiated, higher-order thinking skills
•Starter task, linking today’s topic to a contemporary issue for relevance, whilst recaping last lesson
•Example of an exam-style question for today’s topic
•Context slide and video link to ‘set the scene’
•In-depth reading, based on Edexcel textbook chapters
•Comprehension tasks to acquire knowledge and understanding
•A conclusion-writing activity, with writing frame, to help develop exam writing skills
•Plenary to assess learning and to challenge evaluative critical-thinking
Use these four detailed PPTs to cover all of the course content (created from the Edexcel textbook and specification - everything is covered!).
Each PPT can be used as a great final overview of CRIMES, LAW ENFORCEMENT and PUNISHMENTS.
Teachers can ‘talk and chalk’ whilst students take notes on the changing nature of crime from 1000-Present.
A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need, to be able to analyse Chapter 2: Cold War Crises.
Built from the Edexcel specification and textbook, this PPT covers everything you need to know to plan and answer practice questions, including key information for each event AND their consequences and the reasons why they were important!
Suitable for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from.
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
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A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need, to be able to analyse Chapter 1: Cold War Origins.
Built from the Edexcel specification and textbook, this PPT covers everything you need to know to plan and answer practice questions, including key information for each event AND their consequences and the reasons why they were important!
Suitable for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from.
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need to be able to analyse the changing nature of law enforcement, from 1000 - present.
With most questions focusing on comparing themes of either crimes, punishments or law enforcement over different periods, this PPT will cover everything you need to know to plan and answer practice questions!
Suitable for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from.
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need to be able to analyse the changing nature of crime, from 1000 - present.
With most questions focusing on comparing themes of either crimes, punishments or law enforcement over different periods, this PPT will cover everything you need to know to plan and answer practice questions!
Suitable for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from.
A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need to be able to analyse the main topic of Whitechapel, from 1870 - 1900.
The content will help students to answer questions on key features of Whitechapel and the two evidence questions.
Suitable for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from.
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
A giant bank of over 70 source questions for students to practice answering.
For each 2a ‘How Useful’ question, there is an accompanying 2b ‘Follow up’ question, with some model answers to help even further!
*Please feel free to review and add any comments on how this resource could be improved even further.
**A lesson that you can pick up and deliver, last-minute, without any preparation!
This lesson is self-explanatory, largely student led and with a lot of extra challenges, allowing students to get on with clearly instructed tasks.
A great, visually vibrant lesson, with an array of activities, including differentiated tasks for higher and lower ability students, designed to to get students thinking critically, whilst developing historical, communication and literacy skills.
Key components of the lesson include:
Clear objectives, incorporating differentiated, higher-order thinking skills
Context slide and video link to ‘set the scene’
Task 1: Reading, with comprehension task to acquire knowledge
An alternative comprehension task to offer variety
Task 2: Historical source skills activity
An alternative TASK 2, to develop critical thinking
Plenary to assess learning and to challenge evaluative critical-thinking
Differentiated task for lower ability students
Key word glossary for lower ability students
Extension tasks for extra challenge
A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need, to be able to analyse Nazi Control and Opposition, 1933-39.
Built from the Edexcel specification and textbook, this PPT covers everything you need to know to plan and answer practice questions!
Suitable for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from.
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need, to be able to analyse the Rise of the Nazis, 1918-1933.
Built from the Edexcel specification and textbook, this PPT covers everything you need to know to plan and answer practice questions!
Suitable for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from.
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need, to be able to analyse Weimar Germany 1918-1933.
Built from the Edexcel specification and textbook, this PPT covers everything you need to know to plan and answer practice questions!
Suitable for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from.
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need, to be able to analyse Chapter 2 of the GCSE Edexcel Elizabethan course: Challenges at Home and Abroad.
Built from the Edexcel specification and textbook, this PPT covers all main content that you need to know to plan and answer practice questions!
THERE IS A 10 QUESTION RECALL QUIZ ON THE LAST SLIDE TO TEST STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRESENTATION.
Great for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from!
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
A comprehensive and concise overview of all the content students need, to be able to analyse Chapter 3 of the GCSE Edexcel Elizabethan course: Society and Exploration.
Built from the Edexcel specification and textbook, this PPT covers all main content that you need to know to plan and answer practice questions!
THERE IS A 10 QUESTION RECALL QUIZ ON THE LAST SLIDE TO TEST STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRESENTATION.
Suitable for teachers to teach from or for students to revise from.
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
Use these three detailed PPTs to cover all of the Elizabethan England course content (created from the Edexcel textbook and specification - everything is covered!).
Each PPT can be used as a great final overview of the three main chapters of the course, namely: GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION, THREATS AT HOME AND ABROAD and SOCIETY AND EXPLORATION.
Teachers can ‘talk and chalk’ whilst students take notes on Elizabethan England.
Also a great resource to share with students for their own revision at home.
*Please review and feel free to offer suggestions on how the resource could be improved further!
A 15 slide, chronological, content overview of the main events of Henry VIII’s foreign policy for A Level History.
A perfect aid for a pre-mock or pre-exam revision session on Henry VIII’s foreign policy!
A comprehensive A Level Tudors PowerPoint lesson on Northumberland’s Government of Edward VI’s England, made by a Tudor A Level teacher of 16 years (plus several as an examiner).
ALL content from the AQA specification is included (also relevant to other exam boards).
Also included:
Retrieval activities
Open-ended questions and opportunities for debate
Content overviews
Historical extracts and exam questions
Video clips
Plenary debate
Essay planning grid
A comprehensive A Level Tudors PowerPoint lesson on the Western and Kett Rebellions of Edward VI’s England, made by a Tudor A Level teacher of 16 years (plus several as an examiner).
ALL content from the AQA specification is included (also relevant to other exam boards).
Also included:
Retrieval activities
Open-ended questions and opportunities for debate
Content overviews
Historical extracts and exam questions
Video clips
Plenary debate
Essay planning grid
A comprehensive A Level Tudors PowerPoint lesson on Socio - economic issues of Edward VI’s England, made by a Tudor A Level teacher of 16 years (plus several as an examiner).
ALL content from the AQA specification is included (also relevant to other exam boards).
Also included:
Retrieval activities
Open-ended questions and opportunities for debate
Content overviews
Historical extracts and exam questions
Video clips
Plenary debate
Essay planning grid
A comprehensive A Level Tudors PowerPoint lesson on Henry VIl’s aims in foreign policy, made by a Tudor A Level teacher of 16 years (plus several as an examiner).
Detailed content overviews from the AQA specification are included (also relevant to other exam boards).
Also included:
Retrieval activity to start
Open-ended questions and opportunities for debate
Content overviews
Historical extracts and exam questions
Video clips
Plenary debate
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