A fully planned marketplace lesson that’s fun and makes Victorian England interesting.
Did you know that at some Victorian schools, girls were allowed to walk in twos, but not in threes?
Five factsheets on schools, poverty, home life, rich children and child labour. Split your class into five groups and let them discover these shocking facts before sitting back whilst they team each other.
Great as an introduction to Dickens or pre 19th C literature. Also perfect for History classes!
A mini unit exploring the life of Jack the Ripper. Targeted at KS3 classes, each lesson is fully resourced with a range of activities to engage your students. Links to YouTube supporting material are included.
Lesson 1: Intro to Jack the Ripper
Lesson 2: The victims (could be a double lesson)
Lesson 3: The suspects
Lesson 4: Why the police failed
Lesson 5: Essay planning
A comprehensive KS4 resource exploring meaning behind Wilfred Owen’s famous anti-war poem. This resource begins with background to Wilfred Owen’s military career and the propaganda posters that were used in the era. The resource moves on to explore Owen’s use of imagery and how he uses language for effect. A full annotation of the poem is also included as is a true or false revision activity. Everything you need to prepare your students for this EDUQAS poem in one resource.
A pack of three revision sessions exploring the events leading up to WWI, the stalemate that ensued and the ending of the war. Resources are aimed at KS4 students studying the QA syllabus.
A mini unit comprising five detailed lessons on the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. The lessons are fully resourced and designed for high flying Year 9 classes but can easily be adapted into KS4 resources. The lessons follow Hitler’s early life, the rise of the Nazis 1919-1929, their takeover of Germany 1930-33 and a double lesson on how they transformed Germany.
If you like this unit, a follow on unit exploring the holocaust is also available.
A comprehensive resource with everything you need to prepare your students for this GCSE poem. Carol Ann Duffy's poem, about a war photographer developing his images, explores how the British public react to the horrors of war. Featured on AQA's 'War and Conflict' cluster, this poem shows how the photographer, editor and readers respond to foreign tragedies.
Beginning with background reading about the life of a war photographer, this resource includes iconic war photographs for class discussion and a full annotation of the poem.
A KS3 unit of work exploring the rise of slavery and how the issue contributed to the American Civil War. Each lesson is fully resourced with a range of different activities. The resources can easily lead into a slavery museum project. A full half-term’s work in one bundle!
Lesson 1: Africa before slavery
Lesson 2: Trade Triangle
Lesson 3: Auctions and plantation life
Lesson 4: American Civil War
Lesson 5: Jim Crow and segregation
Lesson 6: Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains seven complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring the ending of WW1 from Wilson’s speech- 100 days-Foch and Haig. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
Two proceeding units: causes of WWI and stalemate are also available from SIK History.
A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains eight complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring the rise of the Nazi party from the impact of the depression- Nazi support-the Night of the Long Knives. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
Two supporting units: before the Nazis and Nazi policies are also available from SIK History.
A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains 8 complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring the stalemate during WW1 from Verdun- Somme-Gallipoli and Jutland. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
Two accompanying units: causes of the war and ending the war are also available from SIK History.
A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains eight complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring medieval medicines from Christianity to Islam and from surgery to the Black Death. An end of unit revision lesson is also included. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains 11 complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring the causes of WW1 from Bismarck- Morocco-Bosnia and the Schlieffen plan. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
Two follow up units: stalemate and ending the war are also available from SIK History.
A complete unit of work comprising 24 individual lessons and included assessment points. Beginning with The Charge of the Light Brigade and moving chronologically forwards to explore poems of WWI, WWII and the Cold War, this unit is designed for KS3 students and includes a variety of poems from classics by Wilfred Owen to modern poets. Themes covered include the Holocaust and the threat of Nuclear War.
Everything you need to teach this unit is included. The scheme has been taught to a number of Year 8 classes and is ready to go!
A full unit of work exploring the holocaust. Eight fully resourced lessons are included, each with a variety of activities to challenge and engage your students. The resources are designed for KS3 classes but can easily be adapted into KS4 resources.
Lesson 1: Intro to holocaust
Lesson 2: Ghetto life
Lesson 3: The final solution
Lesson 4: Auschwitz- Birkenau
Lesson 5: Effects of holocaust
Lesson 6: Liberation
Lesson 7: Remembering the victims
Lesson 8: Revision of unit.
This unit is designed to follow on from a mini unit on Hitler’s rise to power which is also available from SIK Lessons.
A full unit exploring the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon Britain. Each lesson is fully resourced with a range of activities to engage your pupils. Targeted at KS3 classes,
Lesson 1: Intro to topic
Lesson 2: Population Growth
Lesson 3: Town conditions and cholera
Lesson 4: Workhouses and child labour
Lesson 5: Transport changes
Lesson 6: Dragon’s Den style project - pupils have to work in groups to pitch their new products (e.g. steam engine) to the class. This lesson can easily be extended to 2/3 lessons plus homework research.
A mixture of resources exploring America in the 20th Century (other than its involvement in the world wars/ Vietnam). Each lesson is fully resourced with a mixture of written sources, documentary links and role play scenarios to help your pupils understand the changing face of America. Lessons explore the following topics: Intro and the 1920’s, prohibition and the mafia, the Wall Street Crash, the moon landing, the assassination of JFK and the Cuban missile crisis.
A complete KS4 unit of work designed for students studying AQA. This pack contains 10 complete and fully resourced lessons are included exploring the Nazis in power (1930-45) from propaganda- Hitler Youth-the Final Solution. Everything you need for a whole half-term in one bundle!
Two proceeding units: Before the Nazis and Nazi growth are also available from SIK History.
A full unit of work covering the formation of the UK. Designed for KS3 classes, this unit includes six full lessons and an assessment. Each lesson has a range of activities that can easily be adapted for any class.
Lesson 1: England and Wales
Lesson 2: England and Scotland
Lesson 3: Invasion of Ireland
Lesson 4: Irish famine
Lesson 5: The Troubles
Lesson 6: Assessment prep
Lesson 7: Assessment
A full KS3 unit exploring in detail the origins, reach and success/failures of the British Empire. A range of activities are included for each lesson as well as an end of unit assessment. A whole half-term’s work in one bundle!
Lesson 1: Origins of the British Empire
Lesson 2: America
Lesson 3: Trafalgar and Waterloo (could be taught as two separate lessons)
Lesson 4: The Indian takeover
Lesson 5: The Indian Mutiny
Lesson 6: Scramble for Africa
Lesson 7: The Boer War
Lesson 8: Empire- good or bad?
Lesson 9: Assessment prep/ revision
Lesson 10: Assessment