www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
www.ecpublishing.co.uk A collaboration between a long-term Head of History and Humanities and EC Resources. We have 20 years experience teaching all humanities subjects around the UK and a particular passion for creating top-notch secondary history resources. We will be uploading loads of free lessons as well an inexpensive ones in the coming months, so why not follow us? Hopefully we can save you an afternoon or two of planning!
A detailed and well differentiated 90 min - 2 hour, editable history lesson with all about the IRA and why some people in Ireland see them as freedom fighters and others see them as terrorists. Students will investigate the crimes of the IRA before examining sources and peer assessing each other on their learning so far.
This fully resourced lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) is editable, easy for follow and extremely comprehensive.
A Terrorism topic bundle is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/terrorism-ks3-history-12078335
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
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 historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
This bundle contains a variety of lessons and activities for your to complete with your students during the Christmas term, or on your last day for some educational fun before you break up.
Included:
A History of Christmas lesson - this lesson covers where our traditions today have come from.
History Christmas Quiz - a fun and silly quiz covering the most popular aspects of the KS3 curriculum
An Egyptian themed end-of-term escape room. Can you crack the codes and solve the mystery of the lost scroll of Ra?
A British History themed escape room, covering 1066 to the present day.
All resources are editable, fun and easy to pick up and use.
A detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson all about the genocide in Cambodia. The lesson lasts one hour and is very easy to just pick up and use. The lesson is suitable for any Middle School class . The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, source questions, exam style practice questions, clip tasks and more.
Easy to use source work history cover lesson. All you need to do is print it out and leave it with the cover teacher - all the instructions are on the worksheets. This doesn’t contain any of our previous material so you don’t need to worry about students having already completed any tasks,
The pack includes:
5 sources
3 worksheets
8 tasks in total to work through
Check out loads more history and geography resources - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
If you’re also teaching Citizenship GCSE or PSHE next year, why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with almost 4000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
Easy to use source work history cover lessons. All you need to do is print them out and leave them with the cover teacher - all the instructions are on the worksheets. This bundle doesn’t contain any of our previous material so you don’t need to worry about students having already completed any tasks,
Each pack includes:
4 or 5 sources
3 worksheets
8 tasks in total to work through
Check out loads more history and geography resources - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
If you’re also teaching Citizenship GCSE or PSHE next year, why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with almost 4000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
Please see our other resources in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks
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 historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
A fun, British History-themed escape room, which is perfect as a last lesson before Christmas or as educational end of term fun for any history class. This has been created for secondary students and covers a wide range of British History topics. It is filled with codes, puzzles and activities to engage students in the last lessons of term as they work in groups or ‘escape crews’ to escape the room that they have been locked in by Henry VIII!
Includes answers for every mystery and puzzle (see the notes attached in the PowerPoint) and answer slides. Please see each slide’s notes for answers. The chart question’s answer is up to the teacher for the best justification.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE new Curriculum 2020 resources at EC Resources
**2 HOURS **- A detailed and well differentiated editable history lesson with enough material for a two hour lesson. This lesson is all about different interpretations of what happened at Dunkirk and heavily focuses on source analysis. This also includes homework - the images are a small preview of what’s included.
This pack includes an editable PowerPoint, source packs, clip tasks, homework and extended literacy tasks. It is very easy to follow with all instructions on the slides as you go along.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Leadership of Churchill lesson - A detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson all about how Churchill was far more than a one-dimensional character who lead the allies to victory. This lesson allows students to investigate to what extent Churchill was a ‘hero’ or a ‘villain’ by evaluating his policies, successes and failures.
This lesson investigates the strengths and weaknesses of Churchill as a politician and was created for Year 9 but could be used for other years as it’s all editable - it’s full of exam-style GCSE practice questions.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, source questions, exam style practice questions, clip tasks and more.
A differentiated and editable AQA GCSE history lesson all about the My Lai Massacre. It is perfect for AQA 8145, paper 1 section b, option d, but could be used with a Year 9 group or as a general recap on My Lai for any exam board.
The lesson focuses on what the massacre was and how it affected public opinion back in the US towards the Vietnam War.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, practice exam questions and mark-scheme, clip tasks, a variety of activities, worksheets and more. It’s very easy to follow and will last at least one hour.
A detailed, differentiated and editable 90 min - 2 hour lesson all about the Spartacist Rebellion / Revolt and its consequences. Perfect for an upper KS3 unit on the causes of WWII, or as an introduction / revision lesson for GCSE.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, information sheets, practice GCSE (AQA style) exam questions and mark-scheme, clip tasks, a variety of activities, worksheets and more. It’s very easy to follow and can be used straight away :)
KS3 Geography lesson all about non-renewable energy and the problems extracting this is causing to the environment. There is a focus on the pertinent issue of fracking and the damage this can potentially do as well as the arguments on the other side citing the advantages.
The lesson is adaptable, easy to follow and fully differentiated. This resource pack includes an hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, well differentiated activities, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it.
More free and inexpensive Humanities lessons can be found here.
Perfect as an introduction to the Cuban Missile Crisis - focusing on what happened in Cuba, how and why. This lesson allows students to explore the subject in detail, complete exam style questions, complete partnered tasks, clip tasks, debate tasks and more.
The lesson is detailed, editable and suitable for KS3 or KS4.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, three-way differentiated tasks, a variety of activities, clip tasks, exam-style practice plenary, peer teaching tasks and more.
It’s very easy to follow and can be used straight away :)
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 historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
This lesson can be used as part of our Cold War topic which also includes: Atomic bomb, Salami Tactics, Berlin Blockade and Vietnam. These are available individually or as a bundle.
7 HOUR UNIT - a detailed, challenging and editable unit, best suited to upper KS3 (due to the nature of the subject). The unit starts with an introduction to why genocide was such a significant and horrendous hallmark of the 20th century, before focusing on 4 genocides in particular, then an additional lesson on the Stolen Generations (not a genocide, but a mass replacement of indigenous peoples, and something many students are unaware happened).
Genocide - an introduction
The Holocaust
The Cambodian genocide
4/5. The Bosnian genocide (2 lessons in one pack, 2 hours total)
The Rwandan genocide
The Stolen Generation
A lot of hard work went into this unit and it would probably save you about 10 hours of planning from scratch.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
A detailed and well differentiated, editable history or Citizenship lesson with all about terrorism and why people become terrorists. Students will investigate why people become involved in terrorism before examining case studies of historical figures who could be interpreted as either freedom fighters or terrorists.
This hour long lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) was created for Year 9 (but could be used with a different KS3 group) and includes exam style practice plenary questions for students to reflect upon their learning and demonstrate their explanation, description and analysis skills. This could also be useful as a KS3 Citizenship lesson.
This lesson is part of our Terrorism topic which includes types of terrorism, Suffragettes, Israel and Palestine, the IRA and Al Qaeda.
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 historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
Focusing on Al Qaeda, the Twin Towers terrorism plot of 9/11 and the London Bombings of 7/7. This detailed, editable and interesting lesson allows students to delve into a plethora of information and evaluate for themselves why even through all this, Al Qaeda and some sympathisers still the group as Freedom Fighters rather than terrorists.
Practice exam style questions, clip questions and debate task all in the PowerPoint too and accompanying worksheets included.
The lesson will last up to two hours and is detailed, editable and suitable for KS3 - very highly differentiated and is best suited to Year 9 or Year 8.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, differentiated tasks, a variety of activities, clip tasks, exam-style practice plenary, peer teaching tasks and more.
This lesson is part of our Terrorism topic which includes types of terrorism, why people become terrorists, the Suffragettes and the IRA.
It’s very easy to follow and can be used straight away :)
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 historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
A one hour to 90 minute lesson all about how the British government used propaganda and censorship during World War II, using war photos and Dunkirk sources as case studies. The lesson is fully editable and could be tweaked for any exam board or KS3.
The lesson is complete with a differentiated PowerPoint and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenary, exam practice question, source analysis tasks, peer assessment and LOs to three levels throughout. Created by a experienced Head of History in a UK secondary school.
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 historygeeksuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
A 7 hour unit (6 lessons, one is a double) covering the Reformation and the religious turmoil (and more) in Tudor Times. Everything is editable, contains detailed PowerPoints and accompanying worksheets, and is ready to go.
Included:
What was the Reformation, why did it happen?
How was Henry VIII involved in the Reformation, why did he change the Church?
What can we learn from sources about Henry VIII’s reign?
Does Mary Tudor deserve her name, ‘Bloody Mary’? Why?
What happened with Elizabeth I’s reign? Why did she kill her cousin?
An overview of the religious turmoil in Tudor Times (includes Edward’s reign).
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Fully resourced and editable, one hour lesson about what happened at Chernobyl in 1986 and why it was such a terrible nuclear disaster.
This download includes a fully editable PowerPoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and accompanying worksheets . It is differentiated 3 ways and includes clips and related tasks, reading comprehension task, analysis tasks and more. It is very easy to just pick up and teach.
MORE ADDED, now 7 x fully resourced, hour long lessons all about caring for the environment and living sustainably. Best suited to KS3.
Each includes: a one hour PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, activities, worksheets and is fully editable.
All lessons are ready to teach and each to use. All powerpoints, worksheets, information sheets and tasks are provided and are differentiated three ways wherever possible to suit all your students.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Perfect as an introduction to Charles I. This lesson allows students to explore and discover who the monarch was and why his reign was so troublesome. Great for practicing source work and extended writing tasks, with clip and other tasks also included.
The lesson will last up to two hours and is detailed, editable and suitable for KS3.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, differentiated tasks, a variety of activities, clip tasks, exam-style practice plenary, peer teaching tasks and more.
It’s very easy to follow and can be used straight away :)
