Source Analysis Table KS3

Source Analysis Table KS3 (PREVIEW IS ONLY A SECTION)

What is this: a source analysis table that I developed to allow KS3 students to briefly and easily analyse sources - I usually pair this with an A3 sheet of sources.
The skills featured are based on those used at GCSE but with the absence of Nature, which is a difficult concept for a KS3 student.
I will post a GCSE level version of this table also.

Printing: best printed out double sided (flip long edge) with the instructions on the other side so students can just curl up the bottom to see the instructions.

There are accompanying slides to use with this resource which I may post at a later date.

Curriculum: the current descriptions are based on a Year 7 topic about Castles and required prior knowledge of analysing and picking out elements of sources. However, the resource can be adapted to suit any topic.

Delivery: two choices about how the resource can be deployed in lessons:

1. All students try to complete the whole table for X amount of sources - this will definitely require a model done together in class and prior knowledge.
2. This was originally developed as a group work resource with students being given a ‘colour’ at the start of the lesson or prior to this in order to facilitate differentiation - purple (content) being the easiest to handle moving up to blue (reliability) being the most difficult.

In either scenario it’s important to stress that full sentences are not needed but they must add explanation. For example, they can’t just write ‘yes’ in the reliability section, they must state why or why not.