This Cold War lesson investigates life behind the wall and reasons why the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with flow diagram, categorising events activity, diamond 9, a consolidation ‘write an account’ question and two plenaries. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. This lesson is the perfect follow on to our ‘Berlin Wall’ lesson, which focuses on why the wall was built (purpose and propaganda) available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12921677 This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘The Cold War’ which includes the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Introduction, Salami Tactics, Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan, the three Conferences, Vietnam and the My Lai Massacre. Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This History of Medicine & Surgery lesson investigates the impact made by Semmelweiss, Lister & Halsted in the development of antiseptics in 19th century surgery. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, source analysis, card sort, mini plenaries, a consolidation explain written question and two plenaries. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Medicine, Public Health & Surgery’ and includes lessons on the Renaissance, Pare, Harvey, anaesthetics, John Snow and Cholera, small pox and penicillin. Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This lesson investigates big events that have happened on Christmas Day or within the Christmas season! Students work in groups to complete challenges - they will have to work together to earn as many points as possible for their group to win at the end. There is a picture round, clip fact finding task, reading and information gathering task through to a final group presentation. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons, as well as other seasonal lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This 17th century lesson investigates whether or not Charles I deserved execution. It encourages students to consider alternatives to execution but to understand why it seemed the other option. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, paired discussion, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with table, mini plenary, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘The 17th Century’ which includes Charles I & Causes of the Civil War, Witch craze, Women in the Civil War and James VI. Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This Historical Skills lesson investigates the importance of the discovery of bog bodies across Europe. It gives an investigation into the Tollund Man and encourages students to use other examples such as the Lindow Man, the Grauballe Man and the Elling Woman to explain what we can learn from bog bodies and therefore, why they are so important. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, card sort with Venn diagram, mini-plenaries, think pair share task, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. THIS LESSON IS PART OF A GROWING HISTORICAL SKILLS & AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES BUNDLE, which includes lessons on ‘using evidence’, Pompeii and Inca Mummies (check back for Otzi and Diaries!). Find the Historical Skills bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/history-skills-12982510 Find the Archaeological Discoveries bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/archaeological-discoveries-12985815 Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This Historical Skills / War of the Roses lesson investigates what happened to Prince Edward and Prince Richard - it presents students with theories of who may have killed them, including Richard III, Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII, Henry Stafford (Duke of Buckingham) or whether they are actually survived! Students can use evidence to provide their own theory on what happened to the princes in the tower. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks,information sheets which can be used as groupwork or individual work with table to complete, mini-plenary, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. THIS LESSON IS PART OF A GROWING BUNDLE: History Skills: includes lessons on ‘using evidence’, Pompeii, Inca Mummies, the Tollund Man (check back for Otzi and Diaries!). Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/history-skills-12982510 Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This Historical Skills lesson investigates what evidence we can gain from diaries such as Anne Frank’s diary (written during the Holocaust in WWII) and Zlata’s Diary (written in the 1990s in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War). Students will evaluate ‘how useful’ diaries are. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, think pair share card sort, thought provoking mini-plenaries, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. THIS LESSON IS PART OF A GROWING HISTORICAL SKILLS BUNDLE, which includes lessons on ‘using evidence’, Pompeii, Inca Mummies and the Tollund Man. Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/history-skills-12982510 Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This Medicine Through Time lesson investigates factors outside medicine that helped the Ancient Egyptians make progress including the River Nile, writing, trade, religion and money. It encourages students to compare with prehistoric Britain at the same time. Although this lesson was made for GCSE students, it can easily be adapted for KS2 or KS3. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, starter thinking comparison table, groupwork talking information sheets with a table to complete, mini-plenaries, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. THIS LESSON IS PART OF A GROWING MEDICINE, SURGERY & PUBLIC HEALTH BUNDLE, which includes lessons on Renaissance Medicine, John Snow, Great Stink & Pencillin PLUS MANY MORE. Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medicine-surgery-and-public-health-12921774 We also have a smaller Medicine & Surgery bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medicine-and-surgery-12921765 AND a Medicine & Public Health bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medicine-and-public-health-12921764 Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This Medicine Through Time lesson investigates what the Ancient Egyptians believed caused and cured disease. It looks at causes such as Gods and evil spirits as well as natural thoughts such as blockages. Although this lesson was made for GCSE students, it can easily be adapted for KS2 or KS3. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheets with a table or mindmap to complete, mini-plenaries, a consolidation explain written question with sources and a plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. THIS LESSON IS PART OF A GROWING MEDICINE, SURGERY & PUBLIC HEALTH BUNDLE, which includes lessons on Renaissance Medicine, John Snow, Great Stink & Pencillin PLUS MANY MORE. Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medicine-surgery-and-public-health-12921774 We also have a smaller Medicine & Surgery bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medicine-and-surgery-12921765 AND a Medicine & Public Health bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medicine-and-public-health-12921764 Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This lesson investigates the history of Easter and where our Easter traditions have come from! Students will timeline a number of Easter traditions and events to explain how it has changed over time. This is very relevant to Easter traditions in Britain today! This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons, as well as other seasonal lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource,** PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW**! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This History of Medicine & Public Health lesson investigates the significance of the Great Stink in London in 1858. Students will look at the contribution of Bazalgette and the creation of the sewers. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with differentiated questions, mini-plenary, a consolidation explain written question and two plenaries. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Medicine, Public Health & Surgery’ and includes lessons on the Renaissance, Pare, Harvey, John Snow & cholera, antiseptics, smallpox and penicillin. Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!