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Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level History resources available for purchase and download. New Focus Education offer resources from a teacher with 10 years teaching experience, a track record of excellent outcomes and experience of leadership at several levels. The main focus is AQA 8145 and AQA A Level, with key stage three resources available with GCSE skills and requirements embedded throughout.

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Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level History resources available for purchase and download. New Focus Education offer resources from a teacher with 10 years teaching experience, a track record of excellent outcomes and experience of leadership at several levels. The main focus is AQA 8145 and AQA A Level, with key stage three resources available with GCSE skills and requirements embedded throughout.
Why did the Wall Street Crash happen?
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Why did the Wall Street Crash happen?

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Lesson exploring the causes of the stock market crash - links made to why the boom occured as a starter, video hyperlinked in explores key causes of the crash, moving on to a card sort activity allowing thematic categorisation and ranking of the relative significance of factors. Differentiated judgement questions included.
Depression focus - how and why did Hitler come to power?
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Depression focus - how and why did Hitler come to power?

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Building on the prior lesson students focus in on the importance of the depression in enabling Hitler to come to power. Video (hyperlinked) introduces the depression, focus on key individuals in Germany and how they felt with an assessed piece of work: Write an account of how Hitler and the Nazis came to power (8 marks) - AQA 8145 link
AQA 8145 - Health and the People: How did doctors deal with the Plague?
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AQA 8145 - Health and the People: How did doctors deal with the Plague?

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Lesson exploring the impact of the Plague on medical development. Starter for 10 recapping previous learning (answers included), hyperlinked video on the Plague, plague worksheet with assessment of attempted solutions, planning of similarities with black death answer, plenary assessment of a model paragraph for students to focus on WWW and EBI.
AQA 8145 Conflict and tension in Asia: Why did protests increase against Vietnam in the 1970s
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AQA 8145 Conflict and tension in Asia: Why did protests increase against Vietnam in the 1970s

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Two lesson sequence: Reasons for opposition ranking starter, case study on Kent State University (video and pictures), data collection task on Kent State, case study on the Fulbright hearings (worksheet and video), discussion of presidential power (link to Donald Trump), video on Watergate and information on hand out, essay planning session around this question: “The Fulbright hearings were the most significant factor in increasing opposition to the Vietnam War”. How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer (16 marks). Post-it plenary on most significant reason for opposition.
AQA 8145 - Health and the People: Why did the government introduce reforms after 1900?
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AQA 8145 - Health and the People: Why did the government introduce reforms after 1900?

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Lesson exploring the liberal reforms up to 1945. Starter exploring health issues exisiting, hyperlinked video showing key health issues/solutions, analysis of reforms and changes made, categorising of causes of reforms (e.g. individuals, governments...), planning of question: how useful is source A to an historian studying the liberal reforms using the grid ( mark scheme and model answer included).
AQA 8145 Conflict and tension in Asia: Why did the US lose the Vietnam War?
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AQA 8145 Conflict and tension in Asia: Why did the US lose the Vietnam War?

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Card starter categorising reasons for loss into either US failures or success of the VC, group information poster task on the relative significance of key factors (one factor per group: impact of My Lai, protest movement etc), mind map creation using the group posters, continuum group task on relative importance of factors to the US loss, individual judgement on the most significant factor, essay planning (optional) or essay homework and model answer built in: “The main reason that the USA failed to win the war in Vietnam was the tactics of the Vietcong”. How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. (16 marks + 4 SPaG)
AQA 8145 - Health and the People: Why is the NHS so significant?
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AQA 8145 - Health and the People: Why is the NHS so significant?

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Starter exploring exisiting knowledge of the NHS, hyperlinked video on what the NHS is (make notes), Beveridge report hand out and answers to questions, hyperlinked video of impact of NHS, comparison of benefits/issues of NHS (using photocopy of Oxford AQA book pp. 82-83, voting slip plenary comparing NHS to other liberal reforms - allows direct comparison and judgement on which was most successful.
WW1 - The Christmas Truce 1914 - High ability
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WW1 - The Christmas Truce 1914 - High ability

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Lesson analysing the Christmas Truce using sources of accounts from soldiers/the press at the time. Comparison to the Sainsburys advert to test if the interpretation is accurate. Plenary focuses on assessing if the article in 'The Guardian' is accurate in its assessment of the Christmas advert. The sources are attached to the PowerPoint.
AQA A level - Making of Modern Britain Level 3 and 4 essay review/planning - B/C target grades
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AQA A level - Making of Modern Britain Level 3 and 4 essay review/planning - B/C target grades

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Lesson focused around the sample question: Conservative electoral success in the years 1951-64 was due to rising living standards". Assess the validity of this view (25 marks) Lesson explores Level 3-5 criteria, examining how to reach this, pupils then plan an answer using the DEALs frame. Pupils then explore the model answer highlighting and identifying why it would achieve L5. Pupils then set a target for their next response.
AQA 8145 - America 1920-73 - Immigration experience during the 1920s
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AQA 8145 - America 1920-73 - Immigration experience during the 1920s

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A lesson exploring why immigration increased pre and during the 1920s and assessing the overall immigrant experience. Hyperlinked video starter, explanation and ranking task of causes, assessment of positives and negatives and challenge questions built in, leading to a source analysis plenary assessing a cartoon linked to immigration laws
AQA 8145 - thematic lesson bundle on public health
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AQA 8145 - thematic lesson bundle on public health

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Series of lessons exploring public health form Medieval England to the present day. Including topics like conditions in medieval towns and monasteries, hospitals, cholera epidemics, public health acts, liberal reforms and the NHS. Integrated exam practice and mark schemes and model answers where appropriate