A thorough break down for students (and staff!) of how to tackle each question type on this unit. Developed from the mark / exam feedback sheets we created with help from AQA, so you can be confident the guidance enables students to hit all assessment points. Includes where questions are similar across both sections, timings for each question and sentence starters for each question. Can also be used as a warm up before exams are attempted! Marking/ exam feedback sheets are also available for each section of each unit - have a look at my other resources and please do review!

A break thorough down for students (and staff!) of how to tackle each question type on this unit. Developed from the mark / exam feedback sheets we created with help from AQA, so you can be confident the guidance enables students to hit all assessment points. Includes where questions are similar across both sections, timings for each question and sentence starters for each question. Can also be used as a warm up before exams are attempted! Marking/ exam feedback sheets are also available for each section of each unit - have a look at my other resources and please do review!

Students analyse the aims tactics, supporters and achievements of key groups working for the civil rights of black Americans in the early 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Works as both a teaching and revision lesson. Differentiated group task builds to an evaluation of most successful group - according to what criteria?!

An engaging way to get students to review the events that contributed to Hitler becoming Fuhrer/establishing dictatorship in Germany, but also encourages students to consider what key powers were won at each point and to evaluate the most important cause. Essay question is AQA GCSE 9-1, but could be easily adapted for an alternate exam board. You can print out the board game onto A3 for groups of four students to play (I have 6 or 7 laminated and they can be pulled out when we get bored of other types of revision). It is essentially a snakes and ladders game, so you just need a few sets of dice (1 die per board) and some sort of counters (pieces of paper with students initials on them??). I have found that my students get quite competitive and often ask to play again. The only proviso is that I sometimes have to introduce a rule that your go is invalid if you don’t read out the history on the square you land on! Could also be used as a family activity during Covid lockdown?

Over two lessons, students are asked to develop their understanding of the links between events in the Cold War, as well as reviewing the main events (Origins, Crises, Detente: 1945-72) and evaluating relative importance. I have used this resource over and over with my classes, printing out the 3 sections on A3. I adapt their use depending on my focus - sometimes getting students to add detailed evidence, sometimes getting them to add a picture for each event as a mnemonic. (The activity laid out here focuses on spotting and explaining how the main events ink). I find breaking the story down into clear, managable chunks helps hem to “hold” it in their heads, making it easier then to see causes, consequences and changes. I have used and reused these resources!

Lesson looks at events from independence movements in Baltic/ Eastern Europe and coup against Gorbachev to Yeltsin in power & declaration of end of USSR. Students are given engaging evidence to sort into chronological order and are then asked to analyse to identify key causes of communism’s collapse in the USSR. Final task is a Diamond 9 evaluation of the importance of these causes (with optional help provided in working out what the relevant causes are!) All resources are differentiated for higher and lower ability classes and suitable for use w all exam boards.