A wide-ranging collection of 8 purposeful lessons covering the troubles the Soviet Union faced in Eastern Europe until it eventually collapsed. They include PowerPoints and supportive materials. These lessons enable all students to maximise their potential by raising key questions and presenting focused thought-provoking exercises. They will also enable students to develop a range of essential skills. Asserting and Maintaining Control – A step away from history and a chance for students to be dictators! At least for one lesson. This fun exercise is designed to underpin understanding of authoritarianism. Hungary, Berlin + Czechoslovakia – Exercises that underpin what these crises had in common and what was unique about each crisis. Unions and Parties – Another step away from history, and another interesting and fun series of exercises. to underpin your students understanding of trade unions and political parties. Solidarity – Was it a trade union, a movement or a political party? This exercise is designed to help your students decide. Gorby - A really interesting set of group exercises, writing essays, but doing so by making use of Gorbachev’s speech on Christmas Day, 1991 which formally announced that the Soviet Union had dissolved Conclusions – Three perspectives for your class to work on. Why at this time? - An exercise that serves to look back at some of the crises in this topic and, at the same time, think about another type of source question. Something to think about – A final exercise, with supportive material, in which students face the problems Gorbachev faced.

A wide-ranging collection of 7 purposeful lessons covering the Origins of the Cold War that include PowerPoints and supportive materials. These lessons enable all students to maximise their potential by raising key questions and presenting focused thought-provoking exercises. They will also enable students to develop a range of essential skills. Introduction - A PowerPoint to introduce not only this topic but the Cold War as a whole. What was the Cold War? - A guided exercise that will leave your students with a very good sense of just what the Cold War was. Choices - A fun and interesting exercise that gives a chance for students to discuss how they would have made a post-war settlement at Yalta and Potsdam. The Battle for Control of Europe - A series of short exercises with the focus firmly on applying knowledge and understanding to potential exam questions. When did the Cold War start? - An interesting and a useful exercise that doesn’t have an obvious answer. Who said what, and when? A fun, interesting and valuable exercise that will get students to revisit the “Who was to blame?” debate. Are you surprised? - A lesson that considers the “surprised” source question.

A wide-ranging collection of 7 purposeful lessons covering the Origins of the Cold War that include PowerPoints and supportive materials. These lessons enable all students to maximise their potential by raising key questions and presenting focused thought-provoking exercises. They will also enable students to develop a range of essential skills. Introduction - A PowerPoint to introduce not only this topic but the Cold War as a whole. What was the Cold War? - A guided exercise that will leave your students with a very good sense of just what the Cold War was. Choices - A fun and interesting exercise that gives a chance for students to discuss how they would have made a post-war settlement at Yalta and Potsdam. The Battle for Control of Europe - A series of short exercises with the focus firmly on applying knowledge and understanding to potential exam questions. When did the Cold War start? - An interesting and a useful exercise that doesn’t have an obvious answer. Who said what, and when? A fun, interesting and valuable exercise that will get students to revisit the “Who was to blame?” debate. Are you surprised? - A lesson that considers the “surprised” source question.

A wide-ranging collection of 7 purposeful lessons covering Germany and the causes of WW2 that include PowerPoints and supportive materials. These lessons enable all students to maximise their potential by raising key questions and with focused, thought-provoking exercises. They will also enable students to develop a range of essential skills. Introduction - A power point to introduce the topic, including key questions. Blame WW1 + the Treaty of Versailles - An exercise that will get your students thinking about links, something key to high grades. Blame Hitler – Exercises that examine “Hitler’s War” in an analytical way and gives your students the chance to explore key focus points. Blame Appeasement - An exercise that is designed to add depth to the debate about Appeasement and to show that history is very real, is about choices made, and not made, and is highly contentious. Your class should find it fun. The Nazi-Soviet Pact - An exercise that, though it focuses on the Nazi-Soviet Pact will strengthen your student’s preparation for a number of potential questions. Dealing with that Pesky Exam - A series of three exercises to help students make use of their knowledge and understanding in answering potential essay questions as well as a tricky source question. How useful is this source? – A look at approaches to another frequently asked source question.

A wide-ranging collection of 8 purposeful lessons covering the League of Nations that include PowerPoints and supportive materials. These lessons enable all students to maximise their potential by raising key questions and with focused, thought-provoking exercises. They will also enable students to develop a range of essential skills. Introduction - A PowerPoint to introduce the topic as well as raise the first discussion points. Aims and Problems - An exercise to raise awareness of the scale of the League’s aims and enable students to place the League’s work in critically important context. The Organisation of the League - A simple but useful notes framework covering the League’s organisation coupled with an interesting task that gets students thinking like a diplomat. Keeping the peace in the 1920s – Exercises focused on possible exam questions with a PowerPoint to introduce the topic and supportive material. The League in the 1930s – An exercise that will complement the work you will do regarding Manchuria, disarmament and Abyssinia, focusing on the context to the 1930s. The League’s Humanitarian Work – a fun exercise fully supported with reading material. And there is a plenary exercise looking at possible exam questions. Conclusions – Valuable exercises to consolidate your students learning with a strong focus on possible exam questions. The message in a cartoon - An exercise that teaches students how to approach the “message” question when the message is in a cartoon.

A wide-ranging collection of 8 purposeful lessons covering the Paris Peace Treaties that include PowerPoints and supportive materials. These lessons enable all students to maximise their potential by raising key questions and with focused, thought-provoking exercises. They will also enable students to develop a range of essential skills. WW1: the all-important context to the Paris Peace Treaties - A valuable exercise for a proper understanding of the Peace Conference and the treaties they produced. Different experiences, different views, different aims – Individual and group exercises to explain why the Big Three had different aims. The Treaty of Versailles – Exercises that will demonstrate how good notes can be put to very good use in the exam hall. Reactions and Events up to 1923 – A valuable focused note-taking exercise as well as opportunity to deconstruct the message in cartoons. The other treaties - A short PowerPoint that highlights the factors common to all the treaties and presents key questions to direct notes. Conclusions – A PowerPoint essentially designed to generate class discussion but also underlining key concepts. Comparing two sources - An exercise that gets students to think about what has been the most frequently asked source question (after Q6, of course) in the past few years: How far do two sources agree?

Material for a complete set of lessons on the Treaty of Versailles. Ideal for KS3. Easy to adapt to the specific needs of your class with both differentiated reading and tasks that enable as well as test learning. You will find it both stretches and challenges students, enabling them to make analyses and evaluate whilst keeping them fully engaged in their lessons. What is included? • PowerPoint to introduce the topic • Differentiated and directed reading focused on the question: Was the Treaty of Versailles fair? • Differentiated source-based exercises • Crossword to test knowledge

Material for a complete set of lessons on the experience of WW1 and how the war was won and lost. Ideal for KS3 as well as context for (I)GCSE students studying the Paris peace treaties. Easy to adapt to the specific needs of your class with both differentiated reading and tasks that enable as well as test learning. You will find it both stretches and challenges students, enabling them to make analyses and evaluate whilst keeping them fully engaged in their lessons. What is included? • A PowerPoint that gives an overview of the war • A Timeline of the war • A PowerPoint of life in the trenches • A PowerPoint of life on Britain’s Home Front • An analysis of war-time experiences, both in the trenches and on the different Home Fronts, accessible at two levels • A PowerPoint on the War at Sea • An analysis of how the war was won and lost, accessible at three different levels, each with a framework for notes • An analysis of the ‘Lions led by Donkeys’ debate, accessible at two different levels • A series of exercises: With a focus on life in the trenches With a focus on Total War and the Home Front With a focus on how the war was won and lost On the ‘Lions led by Donkeys’ debate • A crossword to test knowledge

Material for a complete set of lessons on the causes of WW1. Ideal for KS3 and as context for (I)GCSE students studying the Paris peace treaties. Easy to adapt to the specific needs of your class with both differentiated reading and tasks that enable as well as test learning. You will find it both stretches and challenges students, enabling them to make analyses and evaluate whilst keeping them fully engaged in their lessons. What is included? • Alternative introductory PowerPoints • A narrative accessible at two levels, broken up with things for students to THINK about and used as discussion points, as well as exercises, so the reading can be broken up across a number of lessons • A variety of exercises • A timeline exercise incorporating, for the more able students, a chance to evaluate the significance of events • Further differentiated tasks turning narrative into analyses, both of which are supported by note frameworks • A focus on countries • A focus on imperialism and nationalism as well as alliances • A chance to consider a third perspective – significant individuals - through sources with a further differentiated task that sets out to analyse a specific source • Three-source-based exercises • A focus on significant individuals • An extension task that looks at different ways the same source can be interpreted • A PowerPoint that uses war time posters to analyse the reasons Britain and Germany presented to the public for going to war • A fun task concerning the Balkans • An exercise that focuses specifically on the July Crisis • A crossword to test knowledge • A choice of two essay titles

Fun for your students shouldn’t mean work for you! So, here’s a Christmas gift for teachers. A Christmas quiz for each year group in KS3 with the possible option of a second “Christmas lesson” if you have them twice in that last week of term – you will see it at the end of the “Answers” PowerPoint for each of the year groups. You could also use it for your tutor group. For Year 7 it is quite simply a fun Christmas quiz but for Years 8 + 9 there is also an opportunity to (a) appreciate just how big a subject history is, i.e. how much history there is; and (b) a chance to learn a few things. They will not have studied everything that is asked but the questions are hopefully general enough to allow them to answer most of them. Besides, you can always change any questions you are not happy with. And it will hopefully whet their appetite for more history!