Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
In this lesson, students will examine Henry VIII’s main religious reforms between 1534-40 and then evaluate the impact that the Reformation had on the English Church. The lesson is suited for or could easily be adapted for students aged 12-16
This lesson examines the following questions:
What religion reforms took place between 1534-40?
What was the role of Thomas Cranmer and Thomas Cromwell with these reforms?
What was the overall impact of the Reformation on the English Church?
The downloaded lesson includes the following:
1x main Power Point:
Slide 1: Title slide – Henry VIII’s Religious Reforms – What was the impact of the Reformation on the English Church?
Slide 2: Main Lesson Aims
Slide 3: As You Enter Warm Up Discussion: What is meant by the term ‘reformation’.
Slide 4-5: Recap Activity: Which religious beliefs are Catholic and which are Protestant – sorting activity with answers revealed.
Slide 6-8: Starter Task: Key religious term match up. The terms will be useful to know to fully understand the religious reforms. Answers revealed and includes printable worksheets.
Slide 9: Starter Task 2: Source analysis about the way Henry VIII dealt with opposition.
Slide 10-11: Background Information: Information about the influence of Protestant Reformers and Catholic Traditionalists on Henry with the dangers they faced if they pushed the king too far.
Slide 12-13: Task 1: A chart students fill in to show Henry’s religious reforms and how Catholic/Protestant they were. Includes a printable student worksheet.
Slide 14: Task 2: How much religious change was there? What was the impact of the Reformation on the English Church?
Slide 15: Task 3: What was the impact of the religious changes on ordinary people and why?
Slide 16: Background Information: An image of the front cover of the Great Bible with information and discussion questions included.
Slide 17: Follow up challenge questions.
Slide 18: Follow Up Research Tasks.
Slide 19: Example Exam Questions
Slide 20-21: Learning Review Quiz 1: 13 questions of varied difficulties with answers.
Slide 22: Learning Review Quiz 2: What’s the Question?
Slide 20: Lesson Fact Sheet
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
Slide 1: Title slide: To examine the Bloody Code and other punishments of Early Modern England
Slide 2: A recap quiz asking students to match a fact about Early Modern Law Enforecement methods to the matching role.
Slide 3: Answers revealed to the recap
Slide 4: Source analysis. A chart showing the decline in the crime rate between 1500-1700. Students asked to infer from this then question its usefulness.
Slide 5: Useful short clips covering the bloody code and punishments of this time.
Slide 6: An outline of the main purposes of punishments
Slide 7: Activity: students use the images to demonstrate their knowledge of Medieval punishments
Slide 8-9: Background information about the Bloody Code
Slide 10: Background information about prisons
Slide 11: Background information about Houses of Correction
Slide 12L Background information about transportation
Slide 13-14: Task sheet with instructions given
Slide 15: Challenge questions linked to a 16 mark question format
Slide 16: Lesson Fact Sheet
Slide 17: What causes change slide
Slide 18: A 4 mark question example
Slide 19: A 12 mark question example
Slide 20: A 16 mark example
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the changing definitions of crime: smuggling, poaching, highway robbery and witchcraft
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Recap your crime knowledge - match the fact to the crime
Slide 3-4: Starter Task - Connect the events of 1700 with the events of 1900 to gain an idea of the changes that occured in this time.
Slide 5: Student print friendly version of the starter task
Slide 6-7: Background information about the time period and the crimes
Slide 7: Two useful clips with links included in notes and hyperlinked
Slide 8: Activity option 1 - a table for students to complete about the changing nature of the crimes using the fact sheet
Slide 9: An outline of Activity option 2 based on the worksheets provided with the lesson.
Slide 10-15: Example practice exam questions with sentence starters included
Slide 16-17: Plenary - Match the specific fact to the crime - answers revealed
Slide 18: Lesson Fact Sheet
Also included: A set of 3 A4 worksheets based on the changing nature of the crimes
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
I have produced 2 sets of fact sheets/knowledge organisers in line with the GCSE History specification for The USA, 1954-75: Conflict at home and abroad. Each fact sheet directly links to the Edexcel specification and therefore includes all of the subject knowledge needed for this course.
These resources can be used as a text book replacement for the classroom, home learning resources or for revision materials.
Set 1: This set is aimed at the mainstream mid-high ability students
Set 2: A slightly differentiated set of fact sheet for lower to mid ability students
In line with copyright rules, all images/vectors/clipart used in the resources are in the public domain and copyright free or have been attributed where needed in the notes. Several images are also copyright of RA Resources.
This resource pack will help your students revise for the Historic Environment of Notting Hill section of the Paper 1 topic Migrants in Britain. There are 10 different activity sheets ready for students to use. Answers, where appropriate, have been given in the notes section of each slide.
The activity sheets are as follows:
Activity 1: Notting Hill Key Individuals Match Up
Activity 2: General Notting Hill Glossary Fill
Activity 3: Migrants in Notting Hill Glossary Fill
Activity 4: Notting Hill Types of Evidence Activity (useful for the follow up & usefulness question)
Activity 5: ‘Follow Up’ Question Practice
Activity 6: Statistics Multiple Choice Quiz
Activity 7: ‘Two Features’ Practice Questions
Activity 8: Notting Hill Fact Question Sheet
Activity 9: The Big Notting Hill Quiz Sheet
Activity 10: Topic Mini Mind Maps
Activity 11: Notting Hill Crossword
I also have a revision resource pack available for the Thematic Study of Migrants in Britain which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12829683
This useful timeline clearly displays all of the main events covered in the Edexcel Paper 3 topic The USA, 1954-1975: Conflict at home and abroad. The resource can be used as a revision tool, book insert or high quality display for your classroom.
Once purchased you will receive:
1 x full colour timeline (Power Point)
1 x black and white timeline which can be then adapted or coloured by students
1 x PDF version of the above
I would really appreciate a review of the resource if you feel it has been useful. I will also soon be begin publishing lessons and bundles for this topic (April 2023).
This lesson examines the causes and main events/features of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-56. Students have an opportunity to analyse the main causes as well as look at the details of the groups and individuals involved.
I have included two fact sheets (one slightly differentiated) with the information needed for this part of the course which can be found on the final two slides. Therefore, no other resources are needed for the teaching of this lesson.
Included in the lesson:
Slide 1: Title Slide
Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
Slide 3-4: Previous Learning about Brown vs Topeka & Little Rock quiz with answers revealed
Slide 5: Student discussion and outline diagram of all of the methods used to oppose segregation so far covered in the course
Slide 6: Source Inference Starter Task about Martin Luther King
Slide 7: Source Inference Starter Task about Martin Luther King in an exam question format
Slide 8-11: Animated and engaging background information about the bus boycott
Slide 12: Student discussion questions about the impact of the boycott
Slide 13: An outline and instructions to the learning task
Slide 14: A print out version of the main learning task
Slide 15: Follow Up Challenge Questions and further source analysis
Slide 16-17: Learning Review Crossword with answers revealed
Slides 18-19: Lesson Fact Sheets based on the Edexcel specification
Please note that all images (clipart/photographs/vectors) used in this presentation, to be best of my knowledge, are copyright free and in the public domain unless otherwise attributed in the links. If you feel any errors have been made please contact me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue. Thank you.
The aim of this lesson is to use a wide range of written and visual historical sources to help introduce the topic of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to students. Students will use these sources to help them infer information about the slave trade and build upon their source analysis skills. As always, this lesson includes a number of printable resources, engaging activities and information.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: The purpose and aims of the lesson.
Slide 3: Warm Up – What do we mean by the term ‘Transatlantic Slave Trade’?
Slide 4: Activity 1 – Instructions – how to ‘infer’ information from sources.
Slide 5: Activity 2 – Practice whole class inference instructions
Slide 6: Activity 2 – Practice whole class inference possible answers
Slide 7: Printable answer sheet/table
Slide 8 - 14 : Written and visual source printouts
Slide 15: Follow Up & Challenge Questions
Slide 16: Learning Review Activities
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will focus their study on the conditions of the Middle Passage of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The lesson provides facts, visual and written sources to help students understand the Middle Passage. There are also optional tasks relating to the 1977 TV series Roots as well as a further online activity based on the BBC Bitesize website about the Slave Trade. This is a fully resourced lesson which includes printable fact sheets and worksheets as well as engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
Please note that I am not able to provide any links to the TV series Roots but this is easily available on most streaming services as well as on DVD.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – The Conditions on the Middle Passage
Slide 2: The purpose and aims of the lesson.
Slide 3: Recap Activity: Match the stage of the slave trade to the number on the slave trade map
Slide 4: Recap Activity answers
Slide 5: Starter Task – How could we find out about the Middle Passage?
Slide 6: Recap Activity 2 – Use the 8 images on the slide to discuss how the slave trade worked.
Slide 7: Visual Source Analysis of The Brooks slave ship – source inference
Slide 8: Visual Source Analysis of The Brooks slave ship - source usefulness
Slide 9: Visual Source Analysis of The Brooks slave ship – printable worksheet
Slide 10: Main Task - instructions
Slide 11: Main Task – sources about the Middle Passage printable information sheet
Slide 12: Main Task – Table printout for students
Slide 13: The origins of the TV series Roots – background information
Slide 14: The origins of the TV series Roots – background information
Slide 15: Think & discuss question about the usefulness of Roots as evidence
Slide 16: Roots table task
Slide 17: Assessing the usefulness of the TV series Roots
Slide 18: Online Activity & Research – BBC Bitesize
Slide 19: Printout of the question sheet needed for the BBC Bitesize task
Slide 20: Middle Passage Creative Task options
Slide 21: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 22: Learning Review Activity
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the League of Nations and will be given the resources to help them decide how far it achieved it aims. The key questions set out in the lesson are:
What was the League of Nations?
What were the aims of the League of Nations?
What were the main successes and failures of the League of Nations?
How successful was the League of Nations?
The lesson pack includes a full variety of resources such as printable worksheets, source analysis activities, starter tasks, recap tasks, discussion questions, opportunities for extended writing and engaging background information.
Resources included:
2 x A4 printable source analysis worksheets (political cartoons)
1 x A4 printable worksheet about the successes and failures of the League of Nations.
1 x main powerpoint which includes:
Slide 1: Title Slide
Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
Slide 3: A choice of ‘As you enter’ questions to provoke discussion about the lesson.
Slide 4-6: A filling in the missing terms sheet to help students understand the background of the League of Nations and the historical context of the First World War.
Slide 7: Source Starter Task - An extract from a speech about the League of Nations made by Woodrow Wilson with supporting questions.
Slide 8: Background information - What was the League of Nations?
Slide 9: Background information - The aims of the League of Nations
Slide 10: Activity 1 Sort Task instructions - students to decide if each statement is a success or failure of the League of Nations.
Slide 11: Extended writing activity
Slide 12: Follow Up Challenge Tasks
Slide 13-14: Cartoon source analysis task (links to the 2 worksheets also included in the pack)
Slide 15 - 16: Learning Review - True or False quiz with answers
Slide 17: Final overview task - How successful was the League of Nations?
Positive reviews are always warmly welcomed
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This lesson examines the reasons for the development of the Bow Street Runners and how this resulted in the first professional police force.
Worksheet 1: An alternative 2 page worksheet for students to complete
Worksheet 2: A set of different timelines (differentiated) for students to complete their study of the development of the police.
Slide 1: Title - To explain the early development of the police in Britain
Slide 2-4: Law enforcement recap - match up the key terms along with additional recap questions
Slide 5-8: Background information about law enforcement at the start of 1700 and the creation of the Bow Street Runners
Slide 9: Two clips covering the development of the Bow Street Runners and the police
Slide 10: Timeline task overview (links to the additional worksheets)
Slide 11: Follow up tasks and questions
Slide 12: Challenge Task - Comparison of two political cartoons about the development of the police
Slide 13-16: Examples of exam questions (4, 12 and 16 mark questions)
Slide 17: Lesson Review: Students have to decide which set of options provides the correct series of events with the development of the police
Slide 18: Lesson Fact Sheet
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
This lesson examines the newly defined crimes of the 20th century with the aim of explaining their creation.
Slide 1: Title slide - To explain the changing definitions of crime between c.1900-Present Day
Slide 2-3: A recap quiz which asks students to match the creation of a crime with the era it was created in. Answers revealed for self assessment.
Slide 4: The wider historical context of the period c.1900 = Present. An activity sheet which students use to think about why aspects of crime have changed.
Slide 5: Discussion Task - What are our modern attitudes towards crime?
Slide 6: Discussion Task - Why do students think attitudes towards some crimes have changed in the modern era?
Slide 7-8: Task Sheets to help students make notes on the various crimes and how they have changed.
Slides 9-13 - Fact Sheets for each crime which can be printed and then swapped between students.
Slide 14: Challenge Tasks
Slide 15-16: Practice exam questions
Slide 17-18: Two lesson fact sheets
Slide 19-20: Learning Review with answers revealed.
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
For Edexcel GCSE History (1-9) British Depth Study – EARLY ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
Newly created for the most recent Specification changes 2023/4
This resource can either act as a revision booklet, a set of knowledge organisers or be easily adapted into a basic workbook to accompany students’ learning about Early Elizabethan England.
It includes 27 pages and each A4 page includes:
An outline of the topic area
Information directly linked to the GCSE specification
Key terms linked to the topic area
Questions and activities
I would be really grateful if you could leave a review for the resource if you feel it has been effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as your feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this resource are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues.