Collection of activities on Suffragettes. Protest, propaganda, success. Includes gap fill, match ups, comic strips and Emily Davison assessment. Designed for lower ability students on long term absence.
Revision booklet created for students to complete. Aims to support new AQA GCSE 1D 1920-1973 America. Includes some links, key words, possible questions, how to answer questions, timings and key words and questions for students to work through.
Collection of resources for students to work through independently covering aspects of the cold war and the JFK assassination. Designed for students with long term absence
Full lesson with resources on the bombing of Hiroshima in the context of the Cold War. Students to assess effects and justifications. Ideas for higher and lower abilities included
1-2 lessons with worksheets and video links to cover an introduction to Elizabethan theatre- who visited, what it looked like, Shakespeare and Marlowe. Links with AQA Hodder textbook but I’m sure you could find the information in alternative textbooks and adapt appropriately.
Collection of activities on WWI causes, trench, warfare and propaganda. Includes gap fill, match ups, interpretation question. Designed for lower ability students on long term absence.
A lesson arc giving an introduction to AQA GCSE Elizabeth I’s government- includes information on the Privy Council, Parliament, Royal Court and Church. Differentiated worksheets and a computer research task on Privy Councillors.
A set of 6 lessons aimed at KS3, considering the enquiry question “How Did Britain Stand Firm against the German Threat 1939-1945” All tasks included with printable resources at the end of powerpoints. Includes: Appeasement, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, D-Day, Home Front.
KS3 (Year 9) Lesson 3 & 4 of 7. Lesson 3 has information carousel of why Hitler disliked the Jews. Students to look at reasons and assess why these are not acceptable reasons for his future persecution of Jews. GCSE-style 4 mark describe question with success criteria and peer mark.
Lesson 4: Students to look at possible Nuremberg laws and sign whether they think each is true or false. Revealed all are true. Students are to assess which surprised them most and write into table. Challenges included. Source analysis and extra info on Kristallnacht if required.
Final 3 lessons in year 9 Holocaust unit. Range of tasks, information and pictures covering the treatment of Jews under Hitler. Students have also watched "the Pianist" to gain a better understanding of life in the ghettos. Range of tasks with worksheets and links to useful clips. Progress marking sheet also included and marking sheet for extended piece of writing (this is linked to old levels but can be easily adjusted)
Whole lesson with links and resources on the idea of MAD. Looks at "duck and cover" advice and fallout shelters. Several activities and different ideas, adaptable.
Lesson for lower ability on the enigma code, scrambled information activity with challenge codes to break. A look at how enigma impacted the Atlantic and plenary on how Alan Turing should be remembered using the Imitation game.
Set of 10 (ish) lessons designed for new History AQA GCSE. Some lessons refer to information in the green AQA textbook but I'm sure you can find equivalent information. Some lessons also based on Dan and Peter Snow documentary. Link provided on slides for the version I used. Range of activities and a couple of different exam questions, this was the first time we had looked at Sources so a lesson trying to break down how to approach them is included as well. Hopefully useful to you. Thanks
Two lessons on long and short term causes of WWI. Information for MAIN causes for summarising activity and link to Blackadder episode. the assassination: Link to Dan Snow in Sarajevo and newspaper activity.
Lesson 1 of 7 for KS3 (year 9) on the Holocaust. Introduces the idea of stereotyping and why it is wrong and how it led to the Holocaust. Fun gingerbread man activity to assess what a stereotype is followed by source analysis of anti-Semitic propaganda and how this might lead to the holocaust. Students will go on to assess anti-Semitism through the ages in the next lesson.
Presentation with resources at bottom of slides