History Skills

4 x detailed and editable, one hour lessons to introduce students to history skills. The pack includes:

1. History Skills Introduction - A fun Year 7 History lesson which can be used either on a transition day or in the first week at secondary school as an introduction to history. The lesson focuses on familiarising students with the key skills they will be using throughout history lessons in KS3- source analysis, source comparison, chronology and literacy through history (spag and essay skills). It includes engaging teamwork tasks, fact-finding activities and lots of introduction to new key terms.

2. History Skills - Evidence. A detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson all about how to assess evidence / sources for usefulness, with PowerPoint and accompanying worksheets. It’s editable and very easy to pick up and run with.
   The lesson lasts one hour and is very easy to just pick up and use. The lesson is best suited to Year 7 (but could be used with an older, perhaps lower ability group as a refresher) . The download includes: a one hour PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, clip tasks and more.

3. History Skills - The Ice Man. A detailed and well differentiated, editable history skills lesson with a focus on the importance of using evidence. This hour long lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) was created for Year 7 (but could be used with a different group) to illustrate the importance of source work as historians (and those working in archeology) in order to gain a detailed picture of the past. The lesson focuses on the story of the Ice Man and how he died and came to be buried and preserved he was.
   Students will use evidence to create a detailed profile of the Ice Man’s last days and explore the artifacts he left behind and the clues left for historians to decipher.

4. History Skills - Pompeii. A detailed and well differentiated, editable history skills lesson with a focus on the importance of using evidence. This hour long lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) could be used with any KS3 group to illustrate the importance of source work as historians (and those working in archeology) in order to gain a detailed picture of the past. The lesson focuses on the story of the Pompeii and the evidence left behind that historians have pieced together to create an accurate view of the disaster.
   Students will use evidence to create a detailed profile of the last days of Pompeii and explore the site left behind and the clues left for historians to decipher.