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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.
Ku Klux Klan and Black Americans
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Ku Klux Klan and Black Americans

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Exploration of who the KKK were using video and pictoral sources, analysis of primary source material regarding the activities of the KKK and judgement regarding the impact they had on black Americans.
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: How healthy were the public in medieval England?
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AQA 8145 - Health and the People: How healthy were the public in medieval England?

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Two lesson sequence exploring medieval public health. Town picture starter labelling positives and negatives, hyperlinked video exploring positives and negatives, group task comparing towns to monasteries - swap and share in a marketplace or carousel activity, table creation of similarities and differences of towns and monasteries, judgement on why monasteries were healthier and corners plenary.
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)