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 differentiated and editable history lesson all about horrors of the Middle Passage and an introduction to the Triangle Trade. The lesson is very easy to follow and will last at least one hour.
This is most suitable for a KS3 class (created for Year 8) but could be used for other year groups.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, clip tasks, a variety of activities, worksheets, source tasks, clip tasks, active tasks and more.
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 Slavery Units or Black History Units, which also include lessons on life as a slave and abolition, available in our TES shop.
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
A differentiated and editable history lesson all about how the Jim Crow Laws affected the lives of Black Americans. The lesson is very easy to follow and covers every aspect of life, from housing to entertainment to school and travel.
This lesson lasts one hour and is very easy to just pick up and use. This is most suitable for a KS3 class (created for Year 8) but could easily be used with other year groups as it’s editable.
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, clip tasks, a variety of activities, worksheets, source tasks and more.
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.
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.
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:
4 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 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 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.
It’s the end of term! So, you need something educational, but fun and creative to do, to keep those students occupied!
This end of term fun pack for history includes:
An hour-long History Quiz,
A ‘history of summer holidays’ special one off lesson
A Christmas-through-the-ages lesson
A free PowerPoint and template packs for making subject knowledge cubes.
A social media template pack, which can be used to create profiles for historical figures
A free end of term creative ‘make a historical figure’ history lesson.
An Easter lesson
Special Valentine’s Day love lesson
Worst Christmas Jobs lesson
Christmas Events in History Special lesson
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.
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
4 x easy to use social media ‘update’ activity templates, which can be used for any subject. Included 2x Instantgram (Instagram), 1 x Factbook (Facebook) and 1x Snappychat (Snapchat).
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
Please leave a review if you like it :)
This easy, free, fun activity can be used in any subject and is perfect to spice up revision lessons. All you need is a topic that can be divided into three categories - the kids are given the templates and they do all the hard work!
This pack includes an instruction Powerpoint and template packs for making revision / subject knowledge cubes. These are great for using as display pieces or for revision too!
I have permission to freely share this idea (as given in the Tes author group for any author) from Twitter’s wonderful Mr Fitzgibbon. Check him out on twitter for loads more creative ideas! https://twitter.com/mrfitzhist
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
Please leave a review if you like it :)
A differentiated and editable history lesson all about The Stolen Generations, what it was like for native Australians at the time of British rule and whether or not an apology from a later Prime Minister is really ever going to be enough to make up for the travesties forced onto the Aboriginal people.
This lesson lasts around 50 minutes (or an hour and a half if you manage to book laptops as suggested) and is very easy to just pick up and use. This is most suitable for a KS3 class (created for Year 8).
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, source tasks and more.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
A detailed and well-differentiated, editable history lesson focusing on General Dyer and the Amritsar Massacre. Students explore the context, facts and sources about the massacre before attempting a GCSE-style practice question on their learning.
This lesson lasts 1 hour and is very easy to just pick up and use. This is most suitable for a KS3 class (created for Year 8).
The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, a variety of activities, worksheets, source tasks and more.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, Tutor Time, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
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 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.
4 hours of lessons created for OCR GCSE History A - War and Society and coving the theme ‘Impact of War on People’ and the ‘Beginnings of Total War’.
These resources are editable, contain exam practice questions and peer mark schemes, and could be tweaked for any exam board covering the same theme.
The lessons are complete with differentiated PowerPoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenary, exam practice question and peer assessment and LOs to three levels throughout. Created by a experienced Head of History in a UK secondary school.
Many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, Tutor Time, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
A one hour lesson all about how the British government controlled civilian life in Britain during WWI. This has been created for the OCR GCSE History A - War and Society and covers he theme ‘Impact of War on People’ and the ‘Beginnings of Total War’. However, it is editable and could be tweaked for any exam board covering the same theme.
The lesson is complete with a differentiated PowerPoint and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenary, exam practice question and peer assessment and LOs to three levels throughout. Created by a experienced Head of History in a UK secondary school.
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 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
3/4 hours (one lesson is a double) of very detailed and well differentiated history lessons all the Reformation.
Included
What was the Reformation? What happened and why did it affect the whole of Europe?
Why did Henry break with Rome? What was the English Reformation?
Why was religion so turbulent through the reigns of the Tudor monarchs? What was religion like under Edward, Mary and Elizabeth?
This would be ideal for any KS3 group, or could be used for a KS4 group brushing up on content, GCSE exam-style practice and source analysis skills.
The bundle includes 3x three-way differentiated PowerPoints, source analysis packs and guidance, practice GCSE exam style questions, loads of clip and questions activities, literacy focus tasks - everything you need to teach outstanding history lessons and training your classes up ready for History GCSE.
Each lesson pack is tried and tested by a history UK department and is editable, engaging and full of content.
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
A one hour to 90 minute lesson all about life for men and women in Britain during WWI. It covers Kitchener’s recruitment campaign, women in new job roles, conscription, conscientious objectors and much more. This has been created for the OCR GCSE History A - War and Society and covers the theme ‘Impact of War on People’ and the ‘Beginnings of Total War’. However, it is editable and could be tweaked for any exam board covering the same theme.
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.
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 one hour lessons all about civilian life in Britain during WWI. This has been created for the OCR GCSE History A - War and Society and covers he theme ‘Impact of War on People’ and the ‘Beginnings of Total War’. However, it is editable and could be tweaked for any exam board covering the same theme.
The lesson is complete with a differentiated PowerPoint and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenary, exam practice question and peer assessment and LOs to three levels throughout. Created by a experienced Head of History in a UK secondary school.
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
Causes of World War 2
World War Two 7 lesson bundle - 7 x detailed and fully resourced lessons for a KS3 unit (or GCSE revision unit) on the causes of WWII. Includes:
The Treaty of Versailles
The Kapp Putsch
The Spartacist Rebellion
The Great Depression
Hitler and the Nazi Rise
The Sudetenland Crisis
Appeasement
All lessons are complete with differentiated PowerPoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenaries, LOs to three levels throughout. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school. All individual lessons have been highly-rated by Tes users.
Suitable for KS3/4 and easy to adapt (everything is editable). The pack also includes loads of GCSE style source practice exam questions, peer assessments, homeworks and past exam paper question practice.
Please also check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
20 x fully resourced lesson packs (one is a double lesson) - all complete with differentiated PowerPoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, plenaries, LOs to three levels throughout.
Topics covered: The Cold War, Nazi Germany and 20th Century Terrorism.
Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school. All lessons have been highly-rated by Tes users.
Suitable for KS3 and easy to adapt. The pack includes loads of GCSE style source practice exam questions, peer assessments, homeworks and past exam paper question practice.
Or check out some Citizenship GCSE, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources
