This is a huge bundle - 100+ hours of KS3 History. These lessons are a selection of our very best lessons and units originally created for Years 7 , 8 and 9. The pack is divided into topics as well as a ‘Miscellaneous’ album (the final folder contains cover work and end of year fun materials). There is far, far more content than in the TES previews. Every lesson is differentiated to at least three levels of challenge, has source analysis tasks, peer or mini-assessments, clip tasks with differentiated questioning and essay or literacy focus tasks for GCSE skills prep. This is inclusive of all the standards you’d expect - starters, plenaries, measurable LOs, well presented PowerPoints, homework and easy to follow worksheets with instructions. What’s included? **Year 7 History Skills Unit (4 hours) Medieval History Unit (16 hours) Tudor Times (8 hours) **Year 8: Black History Unit (13 hours) Terrorism and Disasters (10 hours) **Year 9: World War I (9 hours) World War II (including Nazi Germany) (21 hours) The Cold War (8 hours) **Misc, home-learning and cover lessons - 15 hours All lessons could be used stand-alone and everything is editable too. All these topics are available in individual bundles in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=21074955&q=bundle&shop=History_Geeks Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email or message us from one of our social media pages! **Who are History Geeks? ** History Geeks are the History Department of EC Publishing. EC Resources are the top TES PSHE + RE 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, 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.

An hour long fully resourced and well differentiated lesson all about the history of the British Monarchy, how it eventually became a constitutional one, how this happened and the key events along the way. Used as a high ability year 8 lesson but easily edited to suit any group. All activities have three challenge levels of tasks. The pack includes a Powerpoint, clips, worksheets and a timeline of monarchy and British government through the ages, which could be used as a display or part of a chronology activity.

Geography lesson all about carbon emissions, why levels are rising and how these are contributing to the Greenhouse Effect. The lesson investigates how carbon is released, when levels started to rise as well the effect this is already starting to have on the Earth’s temperature. 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.

Valentine’s Day resource pack. with a gory twist. The pack includes a PowerPoint full of information about the history behind Valentine’s Day, why the festival is celebrated today in the way it is and how the Romans and Christian Church changed the mid-February celebrations to suit their own objectives. The pack also includes a clip task with differentiated questions, a quiz and a creative SMSC activity - making historically accurate Valentine’s Day cards. Everything is editable, well-differentiated and all information included, so you can just pick it up and go. The slides shown are just a preview sample.

History GCSE 9-1, a detailed, well differentiated lesson on Poverty, Liberal Government and an introduction to why reforms started to happen, for the British Depth Study. Designed to last an hour - last task can be set as homework or done as plenary, depending on time. Clip question and differentiated questions, starter sheets, LO check sheet with key terms and reasons cards all included with 1 hour Powerpoint. Leave a review and choose any other resource from my shop for free: email me at info@ecpublishing.co.uk with your choice :)

History GCSE 9-1, a detailed, well differentiated lesson on Liberal Government, Lloyd George and an examination of the political consequences of reform, for the British Depth Study. Designed to last an hour - last task can be set as homework or done as plenary, depending on time. Clip question and differentiated questions, starter sheets, LO check sheet with key terms and reasons cards all included with 1 hour Powerpoint. Leave a review and choose any other resource from my shop for free: email me at info@ecpublishing.co.uk with your choice :)

History End of Term Summer Lesson - A fun, one off history, summer celebrations lesson for students in the last week of term. Could be used as a reward lesson the last time you see your class before the holidays. Students will study how summer celebrations have changed over time, from the medieval period in Britain, through to the present day. The download includes: a detailed PowerPoint, differentiated tasks, a variety of activities, 3 different fun plenaries, timeline task and more. It’s very easy to follow and can be used straight away :) 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.

An hour long, fully resourced lesson with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task focusing on the Triangular Trade and who was to blame for the start of transatlantic slavery. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.

An easy to read and assemble, colourful display explaining the main events which formed the British constitution as we know it today. It can be used for either Britsih Values, History or Citizenship. Please note the first few files are just previews so you can view this easily on Tes, the final high quality copy is a PDF.

A fun and creative history project lesson for students in the last week of term. Could be used for activities week in Humanities or just as a reward lesson the last time you see your class for the summer. Very easy to set up - you will just need a few balloons, string, sellotape, felt tips and a bag of old clothes. The students work in small groups to research and recreate a famous historical figure (info sheets and clip tasks included - all instructions on Powerpoint). The lesson can last as long as you want it to, and I gave prizes of sweets at the end for the best one - but that’s optional! My students really enjoyed it and we took pictures at the end for the school website. Hopefully yours will love it too. I’m going to be adding lots more free History lessons over the coming months. Follow me to see when they’re uploaded! :)

A fully resourced KS3 lesson about the trade routes that developed when the Old World met the New and how Europe was changed by the new discoveries from the Americas. Complete with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying tasks. Like this? Follow me and check out my store for more!

A detailed and well differentiated introduction to terrorism - a 90 min - 2 hour, editable history lesson all about the different types of terrorism. This lesson serves as the introduction lesson to our Terrorism unit (which is suitable for upper KS3). Students will investigate the different types of terrorism and explore what makes someone a terrorist as well as different ideas and opinions about terrorism from a historical perspective. This lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and worksheets) was created for Year 9 (but could be used with a different KS3 group) and could also be useful as a KS3 Citizenship 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. You can find more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS Or check out some Citizenship, RE, PSHE + RSE resources at EC Resources

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

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 light-hearted Kitchener poster to encourage your students to turn off social media / TV and start revising! 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 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.

A light-hearted Henry VIII poster to encourage your students that if they don’t like the grade (cough…cough wife) they have, to keep trying hard until they do. 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 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.

Two KS3 History Home Learning booklets - the focus of these packs is terrorism . All ready to go, with both editable versions (in the zip files) and PDFs included. Plenty of work to keep your students occupied for the week, with well differentiated tasks for every activity. If you like this pack, we have more to upload this week and as usual, many more history lessons - both inexpensive and free at our store: HISTORY GEEKS