The PowerPoint presentation takes students through different tasks (information gathering and role play) and the worksheets are used to supplement this. The higher attainer worksheet should prompt students to consider the significance of the Crusades in bringing about the Renaissance.

Works like a domino puzzle to create a timeline from the exit of the Romans to the coronation of King Harold. Can be used to inform greater discussion at the beginning of the topic.

A worksheet that can be used by students as they watch the film adaptation of the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. It challenges students to decide whether the film presents the reality of the Holocaust by looking at several themes. They should first analyse the sources in the middle column and compare this with the film.

Students must read each card, in pairs or as a group, and match them up from end to end creating a rough timeline by way of introducing them to England just before the Wars of the Roses. Discussion can then take place regarding the order and content. N.B. Chaucer card is out of order on master copy.

Six top trump cards showing RAF and Luftwaffe fighters and bombers, sharing different categories in order to compare their strengths and identify some of the reasons why the British won. N.B. For obvious reasons there are no British bombers.

Students can use the cards (which represent Henry Tudor, Richard III, Northumberland and Stanley) to play top trumps. There are several categories to choose from, but students must argue their way to winning instead of relying on a number scale. Students can record their victories on a piece of paper, and use the additional information to support their ideas. Some information taken from Birmingham Grid for Learning website, which is very informative.

Get students into groups. Play students a version of the nursery rhyme. Hand each group the worksheets and get them to use the accompanying sources to come up with interpretations as to what the nursery rhyme is getting at. A good introduction to deciding whether Mary was truly bloody.

The worksheet can be handed to students in pairs. The quiz is and points are shown in the PowerPoint along with other tasks that might be of interest. Students can use the second worksheet page to decide which religious persuasion Henry is when considering his Great Matter. N.B. Explain to the students that more points does not mean they win, or mean one religious persuasion is better than another! It is just designed to differentiate between the different beliefs.

Holocaust This resource, inspired by the Holocaust Education Trust, acts as a very straightforward list of anti-Semitic laws in Germany between 1934-1942. Students can put them in chronological order (as cards) first and then reflect upon the impact each law would have on German Jews.

These two lessons borrow use primary sources made available from the National Archives concerning the Special Operations Executive’s planning for the assassination of Hitler. Students are first introduced to the SOE (James Bond is referenced) and their role, including a chance to make educated guesses about real SOE gadgets, with students then evaluating how successful the two proposals would be in killing Hitler (I’ve have edited these slightly, but it remains a really good chance for students to analyse primary, formerly top secret material). In the second lesson student consider why the assassination attempts didn’t go ahead by looking at the results of Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination and the possible consequences of killing Hitler on the war. There is a chance to evaluate historical interpretations.

This resource can be used to help introduce the concept of slavery, particularly alongside children’s study of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The card sort illustrates that slavery was not new to the world in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and that it is a cultural phenomenon that is unfortunately still present today. The map cards introduce the civilisation, the blue cards describe how the civlisation acquired its slaves and the yellow cards explain the motivations behind slavery for this civilisation. This will create 6 threads. Students can then consider the change in motivations across time.