I am Head of Humanities in the West Midlands and have been teaching History for twenty years. I have marked exams and moderated coursework for GCSE History for a popular exam board since 2001. All resources published have been tried out in class before publication!
I am Head of Humanities in the West Midlands and have been teaching History for twenty years. I have marked exams and moderated coursework for GCSE History for a popular exam board since 2001. All resources published have been tried out in class before publication!
A set of flashcards ready for pupils to write on to aid their revision of the Elizabethan age. Just photocopy onto card and cut each page in half. There are 19 pages in total which means 38 flashcards for the topic. Each flashcard addresses a key content description from the key questions in the spec. Use them for pupils to write their notes on and then keep for revision.
Eduqas GCSE History
The Elizabethan Age
The USA 1910-1929
Germany 1919-1990
Changes to Entertainment & Leisure c500 - present day
Included for each topic:
knowledge organisers
Practice Exam questions
Revision only connect quiz
Marking grids
Flashcards on how to answer each question
All you need to revise and practice with your pupils for the Elizabethan Age exam.
Includes:
• Practice questions
• Revison quizzes
• Revision flash cards for each question on the paper
• Marking grids for marking practice questions
• Revision game with over 40 slides in the style of the only connect quiz
• Student workbooklet to complete for revision
• 61 practice exam questions for the new paper.
Knowledge organisers
All you need to revise and practice with your pupils for the Changes to Entertainment and Leisure exam.
Includes:
• Revison quizzes in the format of 10 questions each
• Revision flash cards for each question on the paper
• Revision game with over 80 slides in the style of the only connect quiz
Knowledge organisers
• 68 practice exam questions for the new paper.
Student workbooklet
All you need to revise and practice with your pupils for the Germany 1919-1990 exam.
Includes:
• Practice questions
• Revison quizzes in the format of 10 questions each
• Revision flash cards for each question on the paper
• Marking grids for marking practice questions
• Revision game with over 90 slides in the style of the only connect quiz
• Two practice mocks
• 83 practice exam questions for the new paper
A workbook for students to complete for revision
Knowledge organisers for Germany
All you need to revise and practice with your pupils for the Elizabethan Age exam.
Includes:
Practice questions
Revison quizzes in the format of 10 questions each
Revision flash cards for each question on the paper
Marking grids for marking practice questions
Revision game with over 100 slides in the style of the only connect quiz
A walking talking mock and practice mock
68 practice exam questions for the new paper.
This is a 121 slide quiz focused solely on the topic of The Elizabethan Age, 1558-1603- designed to make students think about their answers! There are four rounds:
Round 1 - What’s the connection?
Round 2 - What come’s fourth?
Round 3 - Missing vowels for keywords
Round 4 - Word Wall
Can be played as a whole class or for individual revision testing.
This is an 84 slide quiz focused solely on the topic of Changes to Entertainment and Leisure c500-present day - designed to make students think about their answers! There are four rounds:
Round 1 - What’s the connection?
Round 2 - What come’s fourth?
Round 3 - Missing vowels for keywords
Round 4 - Word Wall
Can be played as a whole class or for individual revision testing.
This is a 92 slide quiz focused solely on the topic of Germany 1919-1990 - designed to make students think about their answers! There are four rounds:
Round 1 - What’s the connection? (35 questions)
Round 2 - What come’s fourth? (14 questions)
Round 3 - Missing vowels for keywords (28 questions)
Round 4 - Word Wall (5 word walls)
Can be played as a whole class or for individual revision testing.
This is a 45 slide quiz focused solely on the topic of the USA 1910-1929 - designed to make students think about their answers! There are four rounds:
Round 1 - What’s the connection?
Round 2 - What come’s fourth?
Round 3 - Missing vowels for keywords
Round 4 - Word Wall
Can be played as a whole class or for individual revision testing.
A simple question and answer quiz on the content of USA 1910-1929 - it comprises of 5 rounds of 10 questions and 3 tiebreak questions. Answers are included.
I made this resource for my Y12 students whilst they were on their summer holiday last year. It can easily be used as an additional work booklet to introduce or consolidate work on King Edward VI. It includes tasks on the following:
Portrait of Henry VIII and his children
Edward VI’s policies
Somerset and Northumberland
Foreign policy
Comparing the Tudor Kings
Treaty of Boulougne
Rebellions
Edward VI’s education
Great Chain of Being
Exam skills
This is a 37 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder. The booklet follows Part 1: Section 2: Chapter 4 on Henry VIII’s last years
Each page has tasks based on the information given, for example,
making specific notes
answering key questions
examining extracts based on the exam question stem
practice essay
completing tables
writing an epitath
spider diagram
recapping key words
At the end of the booklet are the two mark schemes for the source and essay questions for students to refer to.
A resource which can be used whichever options / components you are doing for the Eduqas GCSE. Comprises marking grids for each examination question which can be used as a student friendly markscheme and a teacher feedback sheet when answering exam questions.
Each sheet has:
the question stem and marks allocated
Columns for band, marking criteria, mark and a tick column for when marking
Includes all AO’s and Spag
Estimated grade boundaries for each question
Totals row for inputting marks
Comment box
Includes four files:
Component 1 - British study in depth
Component 1 - Non-British study in depth
Component 2 - Period study
Component 2 - Thematic study
We also use it as a tool for KS3 assessment to try and gets students familiar with the types of questions tested at KS4.
This is a 40 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder. The booklet follows Part 1: Section 2: Chapter 3 of the AQA A Level textbook – The break with Rome in the 1530s
Each page has tasks based on the information given, for example,
- making specific notes
- answering key questions
- examining extracts based on the exam question stem
- practice essay
- completing tables
- map task on Europe in 1520
- mind maps
- recapping key words
At the end of the booklet are the two mark schemes for the source and essay questions for students to refer to.
This is a 35 page work booklet based on the AQA course textbooks on The Tudors 1485-1603 published by Hodder. The booklet follows Part2: Section 2: Chapter 8 – Conflict & Exploration under Elizabeth I.
Each page has tasks based on the information given in the textbook, for example,
- making specific notes
- answering key questions
- examining extracts based on the exam question stem
- practice essay
- completing tables
- spider diagram
- timeline
At the end of the booklet are the two mark schemes for the source and essay questions for students to refer to.
These practice questions on the USA 1910-1929 exam paper for Eduqas came about after my pupils wanted past papers to help them revise! I have put together a selection of practice questions in the style of all seven questions on the exam paper.
Question 1 Use Source A and your own knowledge to explain why (15 questions)
Question 2 What was the purpose of Source B? (14 questions)
Question 3 Do the interpretations support the view that (8 questions)
Question 4 Which of the sources is more useful to an historian studying (13 questions)
Question 5 To what extent do you agree with this interpretation? (11 questions)
This will give pupils a chance to get a real feel for the new paper and practice their exam skills.
These practice questions on the Germany 1919-1991 exam paper for Eduqas came about after my pupils wanted past papers to help them revise! I have put together a selection of practice questions in the style of all seven questions on the exam paper.
Question 1 Describe (28 questions)
Question 2 How far did...? (13 questions)
Question 3 Arrange these reasons in order of their significance in terms... Explain your choices. (10 questions)
Question 4 Explain why...? (19 questions)
Question 5 How important was (13 questions)
This will give pupils a chance to get a real feel for the new paper and practice their exam skills.
These practice questions on the Entertainment & Leisure exam paper for Eduqas came about after my pupils wanted past papers to help them revise! I have put together a selection of practice questions in the style of all seven questions on the exam paper.
Question 1 Use Sources A, B and C to identify one similarity and one difference in forms of _________ over time. (8 questions)
Question 2 Which of the two sources is the more reliable to an historian studying...? (5 questions)
Question 3 Describe the...? (16 questions)
Question 4 Explain why...? (12 questions)
Question 5 Outline how… (8 questions)
Question 6a Describe two (3 questions)
Question 6b Explain why (2 questions)
This will give pupils a chance to get a real feel for the new paper and practice their exam skills.
These practice questions on the Elizabeth I exam paper for Eduqas and WJEC came about after my pupils wanted past papers to help them revise! I have put together a selection of practice questions in the style of all five questions on the exam paper.
Question 1 - What can be learnt from Sources A and B ... (8 questions)
Question 2 - To what extent does this source accurately reflect the...? (11 questions)
Question 3 - Why was...? (17 questions)
Question 4 - Explain the connections between TWO of the following that are to do with...? (9 questions)
There is a space underneath each question for pupils to write notes when going over them in class.
Question 5 - 2. How far do you agree with this interpretation of...? (23 questions)
This will give pupils a chance to get a real feel for the new paper and practice their exam skills.
N.B. There are no questions specifically focused on Wales during the Elizabethan era.