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.
**This lesson contains a variety of resources and activities to help students learn about the causes, events and overall impact of the Great Plague in England, 1665. **
For example, students will study the famous nursery rhyme, ‘Ring o’ Roses’, examine extracts from the diary of Samuel Pepys, analyse the orders given by King Charles II to help prevent the spread of the plague, discuss the similarities between the plague and recent Covid outbreak, analyse various sources and statistics about the Great Plague and have an opportunity to create their own poster warning people about the plague.
The lesson contains a variety of discussion tasks, warm up start activities, printable resources, and learning reviews as well as engaging background information and challenge questions for higher ability students. There is a choice of printable resources to suit different ages and abilities. The lesson is mainly aimed at KS3 students between the ages of 11-14 but can easily be adapted for younger or older students.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
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.
This is a 109 page Edexcel workbook is ideal for revision, student catch up, classroom use or home learning.
It covers the whole thematic Crime and Punishment
The workbook contains:
Useful key term glossary
Useful Crime & Punishment timeline
Fact Sheets for each lesson/topic area
2-3 question sheets for each lesson/topic area
Example Exam Questions throughout
UPDATED & READY FOR THE 2025 exams! This resource takes into account the latest amendments to Edexcel GCSE History question paper formatting, timing and question types.
This 26-slide presentation takes students on a step-by-step guide through the Paper 1 exam for Migration in Britain and provides them with:
Example questions
Question walkthroughs
Advice about exam technique
Mark scheme reminders
Model answers
All past exam questions (2020-2023)
Slide 1: Introduction title slide
Slide 2: An overview of Migration in Britain question types
Slide 3-5: An outline of the ‘Describe one feature of’ question.
Slide 6-8: An outline of the ‘How useful’ question type
Slide 9-11: An outline of the ‘How would you follow up’ question type.
Slide 12: A helpful print out of the type of sources which could be used for the ‘follow up’ question.
Slide 13-15: An outline of the ‘similarity’ or ‘difference’ question.
Slide 16-17: An outline of the ‘Explain why’ question.
Slide 18-19: An outline of the ‘How far do you agree’ question.
Slide 20-26: All past paper questions from 2020 to 2023.
Buyers of this resource have often used it as part of a walkthrough for their students before the exam.
Please be aware that any images used in this resource are copyright free. Others which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you feel any errors have been made with this, please email me in the first instance at raschoolresources@gmail.com
UPDATED & READY FOR THE 2025 exams!
This resource takes into account the latest amendments to Edexcel GCSE History question paper formatting, timing and question types.
This 13-slide presentation takes students on a step-by-step guide through the Paper 2 Period Study exam for the American West and provides them with:
Example questions
Question walkthroughs
Advice about exam technique
Mark scheme reminders
Model answers
All past exam questions (2016-2023)
Slide 1: Introduction title slide
Slide 2: An overview of the American West question types
Slide 3-5: An outline of the ‘Explain one consequence’ question type.
Slide 6-7: An outline of the ‘Narrative account’ question type.
Slide 8-9: An outline of the ‘Importance’ question type.
Slide 10: General tips for the Period Study exam
Slide 11-13: All past paper questions from 2016 Samples to 2023.
Buyers of this resource have often used it as part of a walkthrough for their students before the exam, as an introduction to the topic or as a way to remind students of the exam techniques as they practice their skills.
Please be aware that any images used in this resource are copyright free. Others which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you feel any errors have been made with this, please email me in the first instance at raschoolresources@gmail.com
This resource contains 20 slides which cover the whole Cold War & Superpower Relations topic. Each slide includes all the key information needed in line with the Edexcel GCSE specification.
These fact sheets can be used for revision or as information sheets for the teaching of the unit.
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This lesson outlines the development of the smallpox vaccination from the use of inoculation to Edward Jenner’s use of a vaccination. Students also explain the reaction to Jenner’s work as well as the impact it had.
The 12 slide lesson includes:
Lesson aims
Starter & Discussion tasks
Printable worksheets
Example exam questions.
Learning Reviews
Source based activities
Lesson fact sheet based on the GCSE specification
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 resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
**This lesson covers the impact of Florence Nightingale on improvements in hospital care and nursing in the 19th century. **
The lesson includes:
Clear learning aims and achievements
Recap task: Recapping previous improvements in hospital care
Starter activity & Background: Students given plenty of discussion and problem solving tasks while being taken through the early life of Florence Nightingale.
Task Sheet 1: A table where students select and then explain the impact that Nightingale had (printable)
Task Sheet 2: An additional task sheet with further tasks and aspects to think about.
Exam focus: Three exam questions linked to the lesson.
Plenary: Which statistic for which fact?
Additional Research: Link to the National Archives
Challenge Question: Linking Nightingale to Covid-19
FACT SHEET: Every lesson comes with a fact sheet which can be given to the students as a replacement for a text book. This means you will not need any other resources for the lesson unless you feel you would like to offer more…
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 resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use. **
**This lesson covers Koch’s identification of microbes as well as the importance of the methods he used to further the progress in medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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**The lesson includes: **
Clear learning aims and achievements
Recap task: Fill in the missing term to recap the knowledge of Pasteur
Starter activity: A source analysis showing Koch as St. George.
Task Sheet 1: A task sheet which can easily be adapted for students to use with their text books or on the sheet itself.
Extension Task Sheet: A series of 5 interesting and optional questions or tasks to complete.
Exam focus: Example GCSE questions linked to the lesson and unit
Plenary: Finish the sentence discussion.
FACT SHEET: Every lesson comes with a fact sheet which can be given to the students as a replacement for a text book. This means you will not need any other resources for the lesson unless you feel you would like to offer more…
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 resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use. **
This lesson covers the work, findings and impact of Louis Pasteur’s Germ Theory on the understanding of the cause of disease.
**The lesson includes: **
Clear learning aims and achievements
Recap task: Students have to think about and identify the past theories about the cause of disease.
Starter activity: A source analysis from a sceptic of the Germ Theory with linked questions.
Background information: 6 student friendly information slides about the work and findings of Louis Pasteur.
Differentiated Task Sheet: Students taken through the process of completing a storyboard with additional extension questions.
Task Sheet 1: A slightly more challenging task sheet with higher level questions.
Exam focus: Linked questions about the Germ Theory
Plenary/Learning Review: ‘Sentence Me’ - students have 8 key terms from the lesson which they then have to include in a factual sentence.
FACT SHEET: Every lesson comes with a fact sheet which can be given to the students as a replacement for a text book. This means you will not need any other resources for the lesson unless you feel you would like to offer more…
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 resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This lesson covers the factual knowledge needed about the main battles fought by the British on the Western Front such as the Ypres, Somme, Arras and Cambrai.
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
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 resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This is the full set of fact sheets that can be found in each of the lessons for the Paper 1 Medicine in Britain thematic study. There are 43 slides in total with 35 lesson’s worth of fact sheets.
They can be used for home learning, catch up, revision or in class.
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 resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
This lesson covers the increased role and responsibility of the British government in methods of disease prevention. It will focus on the development of new vaccines, government laws and healthy lifestyle campaigns.
All resources such as worksheets and information sheets are included with this lesson meaning that you will not need any additional resources.
This lesson includes:
Clear learning aims/targets
Provoking starter tasks and discussion activities
Printable worksheets
Challenge tasks
Exam links
Learning Review
Fact Sheet linked to the GCSE specification
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 resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use. **
Students will learn about the events before such as the Battle of Stamford Bridge which led to the Battle of Hastings by creating their own storyboard/cartoon strip.
Starter: Students infer information about the events from an infographic
Background: Students led through the various events with a series of interactive and entertaining information slides.
**Task: **Students are given a sheet to place the events they have just heard about in the correct chronological order.
Task 2: Students are given a success criteria to help them plan and then create their own storyboard/cartoon strip about the events which led to the Battle of Hastings.
Assessment: Once completed, students self or peer assess their work based on the criteria.
Recap Quiz: Can be used mid way through the task
Challenge Tasks: Which ask the students to evaluate what they have just learned about the events.
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 resource is for personal use only and for copyright reasons should not be copied/amended for commercial use.
**In this lesson, students will fully understand the events which led to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and how the assassination then triggered the First World War. **
Students have various learning options such as creating a timeline of the key events, creating a storyboard, analysing historical interpretations and explaining how each country became involved in the First World War.
This is a fully resources lesson which includes a warmup, starter task, engaging background information, various learning activities, challenge tasks and learning reviews.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Outline of the main lesson aims
Slide 3: As you come in warmup activity – Analysis of an illustration of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Slide 4: Discussion about the definition of ‘assassination’.
Slide 5-6: Starter Task 1: A recap knowledge quiz with answers revealed.
Slide 7: Image led background information about the location of the Balkans and key places such as Bosnia, Serbia and Sarajevo.
Slide 8: Background information about the events in Sarajevo.
Side 9: A fact sheet covering all the information needed for the lesson.
Slide 10-11: Activity 1: Students create a timeline of the main events of the assassination and the steps towards war. Print out included.
Slide 12-13: Activity 2: A series of questions and sentence starters which ask students to explain why each country became involved in the war and the Domino Theory. Printable worksheet included.
Slide 14: Activity 3: A printable storyboard for students to complete using the fact sheet.
Slide 15-16: Activity 4: A higher ability challenge task based on the various interpretations about the causes of war. Printable worksheet included.
Slide 17: Follow Up Challenge Task – A cartoon showing the causes of the First World War and Domino Effect – cartoon analysis.
Slide 18: Links to three useful clips/videos covering the events of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Slide 19-20: Learning Review Quiz with answers
I would be really 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 and your 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.
This is the final lesson of Unit 1 and looks at what the events of the Black Death can teach us about Medieval medicine and healthcare. Students will learn about the believed causes of the Black Death, methods of treatment and prevention, why the plague spread so quickly and its impact on society. There is also a 20 question Unit 1 revision quiz at the end of the lesson.
This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet based on the GCSE AQA specification as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – What does the Black Death tell us about Medieval Medicine?
Slide 2: Outline of the main lesson aims
Slide 3: As you come in activities.
Slide 4: Think & discuss question based on an illustration of the Black Death.
Slide 5: Starter Task 1: Discussion based on a map of how the Black Death spread through Europe.
Slide 6-7: Starter Task 2: What did people believe the causes of the Black Death were?
Slide 8: Background information: The difference between bubonic and pneumonic plague.
Side 9-11: Printable worksheet and explanation of the main fact sorting task.
Slide 12: Bonus printable worksheet based on the two fact sheets from the lesson.
Slide 13: Bonus creative task to create a news report about the Black Death.
Slide 14: Follow Up Challenge Questions and Tasks
Slide 15: Useful class clips and further reading
Slide 16: Example Exam Question – Usefulness
Slide 17-18: Learning Review Crossword
Slide 19-20: Unit 1 20 question quiz with answers.
Slide 21-22: Two lesson fact sheets in line with the AQA GCSE specification.
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.