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 takes the students through the causes, events, consequences and importance of the building of the Berlin Wall.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every Cold War lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
**The main PowerPoint includes: **
Starter: Recap Quiz to go over the Berlin Ultimatum and Refugee Crisis
Background Slides: With easy to follow maps and an outline of the events shortly before the building of the Berlin Wall.
Task Sheet 1: A printable comprehension sheet about the causes, events and consequences
Task Sheet 2: A sort task (see image) where students read each statement and decide if the fact is a cause, an event or a consequence of the building of the wall.
Task 3: Write Kennedy’s West Berlin Speech
Exam Questions: One question about the building of the Berlin Wall for each of the three types in this paper.
Fact Sheet: All the information the students need on one A4 sheet. This can be used in place of the text books.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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 asks the students to study the Berlin Refugee Crisis and link it to Khrushchev’s Berlin Ultimatum of 1958.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every Cold War lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
The main PowerPoint includes:
STARTER: Students recap the differences between East Germany and West Germany by organising a mixed up set of facts into a table.
RECAP: A filling in the missing term task to help students recap their knowledge of the Berlin Blockade. the Berlin Airlift and the official division of Berlin into East and West.
BACKGROUND: An animated ad easy to follow narrative of the key events of the Berlin Ultimatum with clear maps of Germany and Berlin, photographs and key terms (see image).
TASK 1: Students to complete a w/s covering the timeline of events and explaining them.
TASK 2: Students to advise John F Kennedy about how to deal with the Soviet Union. Writing frame included.
EXTENSION TASKS: Were the Summit Meetings a waste of time?
EXTENSION TASK: A political cartoon about the Berlin Ultimatum.
LESSON RECAP: A 14 question quiz.
FACT SHEET: Can be easily copied onto A4 and means that this lesson does not require any text books.**
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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 10 lesson bundle contains the first 10 lessons needed to teach Edexcel (or other) Cold War and Superpower Relations for the 2016 1-9 specification.
Bundle includes:
Introduction lesson
Grand Alliance
Atomic Bomb and Telegrams
Satellite states and Iron Curtain Speech
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Cominform and Comecon
Berlin Crisis, Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift
Nato and Warsaw Pact
The Arms Race
The Hungarian Uprising
Every lesson includes a fact sheet which can be used in place of the GCSE text books. No other resources needed to teach this unit.
This bumper lesson contains everything you need to teach the causes, importance, events and consequences of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every Cold War lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
The main PowerPoint includes:
Recap: A task where students are asked to look at a timeline of Cold War events so far and discuss which events will have caused the most amount of tension between the USA and the Soviet Union.
Task 1: Short term and long term consequences table.
Task 2: A narrative account storyboard which can easily be used alongside the fact sheet.
Task 3: Students organise the events into either causes, events or consequences (see image). This will help students identify a consequence for the exam question.
Task 4: A comprehension sheet with additional extension task if needed asking students to explain why the USA did not support the uprising.
EXAM QUESTION: Explain two consequences of the Hungarian Uprising 1956 [8] - Students given two example sections to analyse and then expected to write their own.
RECAP 1: Students given 10 answers and have to write one question to fit each
RECAP 2: 10 basic questions about the Hungarian Uprising to test student knowledge.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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 has a focus on the development of nuclear weapons from 1945 until the end of the 1950s along with its impact on US Soviet Relations at the start of the Cold War.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every Cold War lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
The main Power Point Includes:
RECAP: Students given an A-Z grid and asked to think of one or two key terms they have already learned for this whole unit.
BACKGROUND: A basic slide covering the development of nuclear weapons. Allows the students a chance to understand and discuss the various types of nuclear weapons at this time.
STARTER: Questions and key terms to be discussed. A class clip which key questions to the side.
TASK 1: A printable comprehension sheet using the fact sheet from the lesson which is also provided.
TASK 2: Students to use the fact sheet to create their own timeline/living graph to show the development and threat level of each stage.
EXAM QUESTION: Explain the importance of the Arms Race to the development of the Cold War after 1945. Sentence starters and help given.
EXTENSION TASK: To infer meaning from a political cartoon about the Arms Race.
RECAP: 10 Key questions from the lesson.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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 helps students identify the consequences and importance of the creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every Cold War lesson!
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
The main Power Point includes?
RECAP: Two versions of a card sorting task (see image) which asks students to organise events and key terms into ‘east’ and ‘west’.
STARTER: A filling in the missing terms starter to recap the Berlin Crisis and link to the creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Answers revealed and animated for student peer/self assessment.
DISCUSSION: An A4 chart which statistics about the two military alliances. The students have to work together to infer meaning from the chart.
BACKGROUND: A teacher led, animated version of events with a clear map to show the two military alliance sides.
TASK 1 AND 2: A letter to be written from the leaders of each country to their alliance members. Each short letter will outline the aims of the military alliance and its reason for being created. Instructions given on the sheet.
EXAMPLE EXAM QUESTION: Explain two consequences of the Berlin Crisis for the development of the Cold War [8] Two examples are given and students need to provide reasons for one answer being better than the other.
RECAP QUIZ: Is the fact about NATO or the Warsaw Pact?
FACT SHEET: An A4 printable fact sheet with all information needed for the lesson. This will save the use of the text book.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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 a jam packed lesson which covers the Berlin Crisis of 1948-49. There are a wide choice of resources to select from and easy to follow visual steps to help your students follow the narrative of the events.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) - Included in every Cold War lesson
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
The Main Power Point Includes
RECAP QUIZ: Student shave 10 questions about their learning so far. Answers revealed on the following slide for self assessment.
STARTER: A simplified map of Europe -the students have to identify Germany and describe what has happened to it after the war.
BACKGROUND: 10 slides of colourful, animated images and text to take students through the narrative of the events linked to the Berlin Crisis.
TASK OPTION 1: A map labelling excercise on a printable sheet. All instructions included on the sheet and students can gain information from the PP slides or the fact sheets.
TASK OPTION 2: A simple comprehension sheet which can either be printed and written on or displayed on the board. Simple answers only needed to show knowledge and understanding.
TASK OPTION 3: A narrative storyboard - 10 boxes which include a variety of linking connectives for the students to start using in their narrative accounts. Students can use the fact sheet to help them complete this.
RECAP: Another 10 question quiz about the Berlin Crisis with answers revealed on the following slide.
FACT SHEET: All the information needed for this topic on one A4 sheet.
EXAM FOCUS: An example of the three question types for this topic which link to the Berlin Crisis.
MAPS: I have included the original maps used in case you would like to edit them.I have created all of the maps myself to hopefully make them clearer for students.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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 examin the reasons for Stalin’s creation of Cominform and Comecon as well as the consequences for the future of the Cold War with the USA.
The lesson resources include:
1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT)
1 x Main Power Point Lesson
The Main Power Point Includes:
RECAP 1: Heads and Tails - match the Cold War key term to its meaning. Answers revealed in the presentation for students to peer mark afterwards.
RECAP 2: Vocabulary/Literacy - students select the terms which best describe the relationship between the USA and Soviet Union at this point in their study.
STARTER: A focus on the two terms Cominform and Comecon - what do they mean?
BACKGROUND: The possibility to run through the basics and the narrative of the announcement of the two organisations with your students.
TASK OPTION 1: Students to copy and complete a table to identify the main aims and outline Cominform and Comecon.
TASK OPTION 2: A printable worksheet for students to be used with the fact sheet.
EXAM FOCUS AND TASK: Another opportunity to focus on the narrative account. This time, students have the opportunity to complete a narrative timeline (see image) and link the causes and and consequences of each event together. Printable worksheet available and an example given to model what is expected.
RECAP: A 10 question quiz called ‘Cominform’ or ‘Comecon’? Students have to match the statement to the organisation it belongs to.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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.
**KEY QUESTIONS: **
What was the Truman Doctrine?
What was the Marshall Plan?
How did they affect US - Soviet relations by 1947?
Included in this resource:
1 x A4 Workbook Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT)
1 x Main Power Point
PowerPoint Includes:
RECAP: A true or false quiz based on previous learning. Answers revealed through animations.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Covers the historical context of 1947 with the problem Truman had to contain communism.
PROBLEM SOLVING: Students given 4 options to discuss about what they think Truman should do to stop the spread of communism in Europe.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION; Specifically about the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan.
DISCUSSION: Why was America able to offer these two solutions at this time?
TASK OPTION 1: Write a letter from Truman to a leader of a country in Europe, to outline and explain the plans. Differentiated slide/handout for printing available.
TASK OPTION 2: Comprehension task sheet. Printable for lower ability students or cover lessons if needed. Extention tasks given on the sheet.
EXTENSION CARTOON: What can the student infer from the cartoon about the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan? Printable if needed or can be displayed on the board.
EXAM QUESTION - A narrative account to analyse the development of US-Soviet relations. Some instructions given about this style of exam question.
EXAM QUESTION TEMPLATE - To allow students to structure their answer.
LESSON RECAPS: A choice of either anagrams or pictograms of the key terms from the lessons.**
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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.
UPDATED 2024!
What and where were the Soviet Satellite States?
What was the importance of the creation of the satellite states?
What was the impact of Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech in 1946.
This lesson includes:
2 x A4 fact sheets (PDF & PPT)
Main Power Point includes:
Clear learning aims
Origins of the Cold War recap quiz with answers
Cold War map discussion activities
Think & discuss questions
Source analysis of Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
Cold War Map activity
Printable maps & resources
Worksheets
Lesson recap quiz with answers
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.
UPDATED 2024 This lesson covers the teaching of the three Grand Alliance conferences at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam. The theme of the lesson is the consequences of the conferences and the declining relationship with the Soviet Union.
Included in this pack:
1 x A4 Workbook Fact Sheet - The Grand Alliance & Peace Conferences (PDF & PPT)
1 x Main PowerPoint
Power Point Includes:
STARTER: A recap of of basic Cold War terms with an odd one out quiz.
KEY QUESTIONS: Who were the Grand Alliance? What did they discuss? What were the consequences of the Conferences?
BACKGROUND: An outline of the purpose of the meetings and their locations.
TASK SHEET 1: A table to outline 3 consequences of each conference.
TASK SHEET 2: A differentiated question and task sheet. To be printed for students to complete.
EXAM QUESTION: Explain two consequences of the Yalta Conference in February 1945
EXAM QUESTION: How to complete the question and an example of a first paragraph given. Students are then asked to complete the second paragraph using the same structure and terms.
RECAP: 10 questions to finish statements of. Each one getting increasingly more difficult.
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.
**UPDATED 2024! This lesson provides a clear introduction to the skills and content needed for the unit Superpower Relations and the Cold War or for any lesson where you want to introduce the Cold War to your students. **
Key Questions for the lesson are:
What was the Cold War?
What was Capitalism and Communism?
What is meant by ‘West’ and ‘East’?
The resources include:
1 x A4 fact sheet about the Cold War (PPT & PDF)
The Main Power Point includes:
Clear lesson aims
A choice of visual starter tasks
A picture match up activity based on the main individuals and events of the Cold War era.
Cold War word fill with printable worksheets
Background information about the Cold War
Think & Discuss questions
Worksheets and activities
Learning Reviews
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 a 29 page revision pack/home learning pack for the Edexcel GCSE History Paper 2 topic Early Elizabethan England’. Each slide contains all the information needed to study or revise for the exam paper in line with the Edexcel specification.
2023 Update - Please note that all images (clipart/vectors/illustrations) are in the public domain and are Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes underneath each slide. If you believe there to be any errors, please email me in the first instance to resolve the issue.
Please be kind enough to leave positive feedback if you feel these are effective resources. Thank you.
This is a 44 page word document which includes all of the content needed for the Edexcel Paper 2 ‘Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-91’. The Unit has been divided into 20 main topics along with example exam questions and revision tasks at the end of each topic.
I have included the content page along with the resource so you can view the topic list for yourself, along with an image of a typical page of the revision guide.
UPDATED FOR NEW SPEC 2025/6: These fact sheets cover all the content information needed to cover the Historic Envronment of Whitechapel which forms a key part of the Crime & Punishment topic.
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Fact Sheets Included:**
Fact Sheet 1: Policing in Whitechapel and the Whitechapel District
Fact Sheet 2: Housing, poverty and employment in Whitechapel
Fact Sheet 3: The Whitechapel Workhouse
Fact Sheet 4: Migrant Groups and Tensions in Whitechapel
Fact Sheet 5: The difficulties policing in Whitechapel
Fact Sheet 6: Police Techniques to catch Jack the Ripper
Fact Sheet 7: Obsticles to the police investigation into Jack the Ripper
BONUS RESOURCE:
A sheet to help students answer the follow up question. It contains a variety of possible source types they could select to answer this question.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free. 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 a single sheet revision resource, that when enlarged to A3, will provide your students with an overall view of every topic they need to revise for the main part of Crime and Punishment in a clearly organised format. I have used this with my lower ability students who like the idea that they can begin their revision using this sheet as their starting point.
Please make sure you understand that this is a single sheet resource that hopefully you can preview here.
Hopefully you can appreciate the amount of time that was spent producing this resource, hence the price I am asking.
Hopefully this will be a resource that can last many years.
I also have similar sheets for Nazi Germany, Elizabeth and the American West.
This is a very useful resource to help students structure their revision for an end of unit assessment or their final exam. It has been organised Chronologically but also provides students with the information to revise thematically. I would suggest enlarging to A3 if possible and students have found this a great starting point to their revision as it sets out all of the topics covered in the American West on one sheet.
Please note that this is a single sheet resource, but due to the time it took to produce this, I hope this reflects the asking price for it. Hopefully it can last you many years.
This sheet provides a clear overview of all topics needed for Edexcel’s Germany 1918-39 Paper 3. Best enlarged onto A3 or given to students as an example of how to structure revision. This has worked particularly well for my lower ability students and provides other students a useful starting point for their revision.
This pack includes:
31 fact sheets for each topic needed for the Edexcel 1-9 Crime and Punishment GCSE History Paper 1 unit. Each fact sheet can be copied into a revision booklet for students or used within your lessons as a replacement for the text book. The amount of detail is high but key points are highlighted throughout for weaker students.
This will make a perfect revision booklet for the students as I find the revision workbooks currently available seem to lack some detail in key areas.
2023 UPDATE: Please note that all images used in this set of resources are in the public domain and copyright free unless stated otherwise in the notes below each slide. Contact me in the first instance if you see any errors.
This timeline is a one page resource which gives students a great visual guide to the main events in Elizabethan England between 1558-1588.
The resource can be used as a book insert, classroom display poster or revision resource. The timeline has been clearly organised into the main political, economuc, religious and foreign themes of Early Elizabethan England.
You will receieve:
1 x full colour display version of the timeline
1 x black and white version which students can colour code and key themselves
1 x Pdf file of both of the above versions.
Please be kind enough to leave a review if you find this resource useful.