History is just full of wonderful stories isn't it? Intrigue, war, competition, greed, progress, romance(!)...but unfortunately there just isn't enough time to plan EVERYTHING, so keep an eye on this shop for free and inexpensive lessons, worksheets, assessments and homeworks. Coming soon!
History is just full of wonderful stories isn't it? Intrigue, war, competition, greed, progress, romance(!)...but unfortunately there just isn't enough time to plan EVERYTHING, so keep an eye on this shop for free and inexpensive lessons, worksheets, assessments and homeworks. Coming soon!
This Genocide lesson investigates what happened during the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
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 mindmap, a consolidation ‘write an account’ question and three plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used along with our lesson on what caused the Rwanda Genocide, which can be found as a bundle at the bottom of this page.
This lesson can also be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Genocide’ which also includes Holocaust Nazi laws, ghettos and concentration camps, as well as genocide in Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This Genocide lesson investigates what life was like in a Jewish ghetto, including housing, food, health and work. Students also look at the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
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 sources and mindmap, a consolidation explain question and two plenaries.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used along with our lessons on ‘Nazi laws’ and ‘concentration camps’, which can be found as a bundle at the bottom of this page.
This lesson can also be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Genocide’ which also includes Holocaust Nazi laws, concentration camps, as well as genocide in Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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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!
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This Weimar Germany lesson on the Kapp Putsch of March 1920 investigates the causes, events and consequences of the rebellion.
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 discussion task, information sheet with conversion activity, source exam style question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundles on ‘Weimar Germany’ and ‘Weimar & Nazi Germany’ which includes lessons on the Treaty of Versailles, Reichstag Fire & Enabling Act, Night of the Long Knives, Nazi Opposition and many others.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This Terrorist or Freedom Fighter lesson investigates how terrorism can be defined, how difficult it is to define and looks at 5 differerent types of terrorism: bio terrorism, cyber terrorism, state terrorism, religious terrorism and eco terrorism. Students will look at all 5 types and explain the impact of them.
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 activity, mini-plenary, information sheets for groupwork, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
THIS LESSON IS PART OF A GROWING TERRORISM BUNDLE!
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This great value Historical Skills / Archaeological Discoveries bundle includes really interesting lessons such as:
Pompeii
The Inca Mumies: Children of Llullaillaco
King Richard III : The King in the Car Park
Bog Bodies: The Tollund Man
Otzi : The Ice Man
This download includes everything you need to teach these lessons - all powerpoints, clips, activities, instructions, worksheets and information sheets. Scaffolding and challenge activities are included where possible. All lessons last at least one hour and are fully editable.
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:
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 the way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts!
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This AMAZING VALUE Henry VIII & Tudor Society bundle includes:
The Reformation
The Reformation Rollercoaster
Henry VIII & Sources
Catherine of Aragon: a tragic life?
Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn
Tudor Palaces of Henry VIII
Tudor Palaces case study : Hampton Court Palace
Wealthy Tudor Women: Mary Boleyn
Why did the Mary Rose sink?
Why is the Mary Rose so important?
This download includes everything you need to teach these lessons - all powerpoints, clips, activities, instructions, worksheets and information sheets. Scaffolding and challenge activities are included where possible. All lessons last at least one hour and are fully editable. Activities have been designed to promote thinking and discussion.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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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.
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This Tudor lesson investigates why the finding of Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, was such an important find. Students will learn about the archaeological and scientific challenges faced by pulling up the ship as well as make inferences about life and work onboard from looking at the items found and discoveries made by archaeologists and scientists.
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, clip questions/activities, card sort, information sheets with a table and tasks to complete, mini-plenaries, a consolidation evaluation written question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have another great Mary Rose lesson focusing on why she sank available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/why-did-the-mary-rose-sink-13056883
This lesson can be used as a part of our huge, and growing, bundle on ‘Tudor Times’ which includes lessons on the Reformation, Elizabeth & Spanish Armada, Elizabeth I & Mary Queen of Scots, Bloody Mary and Reformation Rollercoaster, which you can find here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tudors-12921738
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!
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This Civil Rights in the USA lesson investigates how the Jim Crow laws affected the lives of black Americans. Students will learn about how it impacted everyday life including voting, education and work.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, clip questions/activities, think pair share activity, mini plenary, sources with inference questions, sources with table to complete, a consolidation written questions and a true or false plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have other great Civil Rights lessons in our TES shop including the KKK and Martin Luther King - many more are on their way!
https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=22174227&q=civil rights&shop=DiscoveringHistory
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free and inexpensive lessons:
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This great value Enslaved Peoples of the Americas and Civil Rights Movement bundle includes the following lessons:
The Underground Railroad
Abolition of the Slave Trade
Jim Crow Laws
KKK - Ku Klux Klan
Civil Rights Movement - Education
Martin Luther King & Civil Rights
Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott
This download includes everything you need to teach these lessons - all powerpoints, clips, activities, instructions, worksheets and information sheets. Scaffolding and challenge activities are included where possible. All lessons last at least one hour and are fully editable. Activities have been designed to promote thinking and discussion.
We also have a smaller ***Civil Rights Movement ***bundle available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/civil-rights-in-the-usa-13128425
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This great value 20th Century Dictators / Leaders bundle includes the following lessons:
Joseph Stalin : USSR
Benito Mussolini : Italy
Mao Zedong : China
Adolf Hitler : Germany
Winston Churchill : UK
Hitler, Stalin and Mao comparison lesson
All these lessons follow the same theme - how ‘great’ were these leaders? The word ‘great’ is used in an open way, students are encouraged to interpret the word as they want.
This download includes everything you need to teach these lessons - all powerpoints, clips, activities, instructions, worksheets and information sheets. Scaffolding and challenge activities are included where possible. All lessons last at least one hour and are fully editable. Activities have been designed to promote thinking and discussion.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This 20th century Historical Disaster bundle includes:
Titanic
Aberfan Disaster
Chernobyl
This download includes everything you need to teach these lessons - all powerpoints, clips, activities, instructions, worksheets and information sheets. Scaffolding and challenge activities are included where possible. All lessons last at least one hour and are fully editable. Activities have been designed to promote thinking and discussion.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This lesson investigates the story of Pare in the history of medicine and how his discoveries affected the development of surgery during the Renaissance.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated 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, sources with questions, mini-plenaries, source example exam question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have a wide range of free and inexpensive KS3 & KS4 History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out in our TES shop: 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.
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This FREE download encourages research skills, gives essay structure guidance, encourages assessment preparation and provides students with example answers for them to assess what they are aiming to do in an assessment.
As always, it is fully editable for you to adapt to your students.
More Cold War resources will be added soon: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=22174227&q=cold war&shop=DiscoveringHistory
Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons:
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This Appeasement lesson investigates the Sudetenland Crisis (Czechoslovakia), looking at what happened, how it affected the policy of appeasement and how it led to World War II.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated 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, source breakdown/analysis tasks, consolidation explanation question and plenary.
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:
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This Tudor lesson investigates why Henry VIII split from the Catholic Church - it looks at reasons such as love, money, faith and power. Students will evaluate the reasons to decide which was the most important reason.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated 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 table, think pair share task, a consolidation explanation question and a What if plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
Please take a look at our growing TES shop for free and inexpensive lessons:
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This FREE homework pack contains two activities for students to complete - use one, use both, it’s up to you!
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This homework pack contains 6 x homeworks - 1 x appeasement and who caused war (Chamberlain or Hitler), 4 x quick questions (covering Nazi Germany) and 1 x exam style questions. These could also be used as cover lesson activities or for independent learning.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
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This pack contains 2 x resources that could be used as homeworks, assessments, research tasks or for independent learning - 1 x exam style question and 1 x essay question covering:
Charles I & Cromwell: who was a better leader?
Great Plague
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and skills.
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This lesson investigates the strengths and weaknesses of the League of Nations from the beginning.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need.
It is differentiated 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, mini plenaries, think pair share discussion task, card sort, example exam essay question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have other lessons focusing on the League of Nations, free or inexpensive in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory
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Watch a great documentary on the Great Stink,shown in the UK in February 2023, and use these questions to help your students structure their notes.
Perfect for a cover lesson or to add depth and visual aids to your students learning.
Lots more FREE documentary questions coming soon!
We have a wide range of KS3 & KS4 History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out. Social media pages to follow soon.
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