This is a Knowledge Organiser (KOs) which covers the short and long term causes of the English Civil War. Obviously as KOs, these only cover the absolute basics, however in conjunction with lessons and learning homework, the idea is that students gain valuable specific knowledge that they can then incorporate into their written answers. This KO could be used as a starter, recap, or as a learning homework that is then assessed in subsequent lessons. Some homework ideas that could be used along side this KO could be… Create 2 different revision (revision cards/ mindmap / mnemonic etc) to show how Charles ruled during his Personal Rule. Create a flow chart of the short term causes. Using the spider diagram on Tensions – recreate and give specific reasons for the increased in tensions between Parliament and the King 1629-1640. Create a mind map using the short and Long term causes of the Civil War. Don’t forget the key themes of tension!!! Quizzes on socrative The second sheet is exam specific criteria to help students identify the key skills for the GCSE Modern World A - Personal Rule to Restoration depth study.

This is a useful resource that shows the timeline of events and the basic history historians were using to write their histories. It covers the basic historiography to enable GCSE students to be able to examine the events that surrounded the historians and their view points. This is brilliant for the GCSE course OCR A Explaining the modern world, but it certainly useful as a basic or starter guide to historiography for A level students and is something that has worked great this year. See also the Appeasement Historical interpretations Timeline .

This is a timeline with the historical interpretations for appeasement and the view points of the historians linked the events that they use to argue their viewpoint. It was created with my OCRA GCSE students in mind to help them with the process of understanding what events were surrounding the historians who were writing and what evidence they used to support their claims. My Year 11 this year have found it incredibly useful for learning the interpretations but also to help them revise effectively. I also believe that this would be very useful for A level students who are studying this period and need a brief historical interpretations overview. See also my Cold War historical interpretations.

A whole lesson, that starts with some recap questions with answers on the Red scare in 1950s America. There is a link to the clip - He may be a communist. Students then need to complete a display page with images and words to complete about the reaction of the American government to the red scare using the text books - students The following slides are then advice on how to answer certain exam style questions on the American paper. There is advice and guidance for a 2 mark question and a 5 mark source work question.

A lesson which incorporates some knowledge on the government’s response to the Red Scare - as the lesson starts off with a simple bingo game! Students have to pick 3 out of the list of 7 and then have to guess by the clues if they have bingo or not! The answers are on the subsequent slides. There is then a link to a clip about the rise of McCarthy and some questions on a slide that can be printed out for students to use to make notes from. There is then a task which requires students to identify the different groups of people who did try to challenge McCarthy. The final activities involve answering some Questions using the text book and then drawing a leg and making a note of the legacy of McCarthy. A fun and easy lesson to help students understand the period where American citizens had their rights and freedoms trampled for the sake of their rights and freedoms.

A revision overview for students to complete. It is made up of a chart which is broken down into the three eras - Medieval, Early Modern, Modern and all the various wars. There is sections for students to complete key events and then spaces for the impact on the people, the government and other impacts. On the back page there is exam guidance for Paper 2 OCR War and society for the 4 exam questions. I usually print this off as an A4 booklet. The fact that it is in eras, really helps students then pull across the themes for the significance 14 mark Question and the comparing and contrasting period 24 mark question…

For the OCR modern World specification with the castles unit and the study of the historic environment. Kenilworth Castle is the chosen English Heritage site for the OCR A paper in 2019. The booklet is designed to guide you through the castle and enable you and your students to note specific key changes to the building, whilst allowing time for students to take pictures for their notes. The booklet has a combination of factual questions, based on students reading the history of the castle (supplied by OCR) before attending and questions based on general knowledge of castles throughout the ages. There is an answer booklet supplied also. There is also attached a pdf of all of the photos that I took. These can be used in their own right for students to label and refer to, especially if you are unable to attend the site. I have also attached the project sheet that our GCSE students are completing over the summer based on their site visit and prior reading of the history of the castle.

This is a whole revision session for OCR Modern world A USA 1945-1975 depth study. The lesson focuses on the political activism of the 1960s and 1970s linking to the Civil Rights movement. The lesson covers topics such as the women’s movement, Gay rights and the emergence of Gay pride, youth and student protests and hippy movement There is an interactive quiz and worksheet for students to record their answers and notes and a game at the end which enables students to discuss the role of each president’s actions during this time, evaluating their successes and failures.

A lesson examining the requirements for the AQA A2 syllabus the American Dream Primary source work. The lesson briefly covers what the students need to do for each primary source. This should NOT be set as a cover lesson, it needs teacher guidance through the analysis. Students can work in pairs or threes, they are to analyse their source (on the ppt - I would print and blow these up to A3). they are to spend 5/6 mins completing what they can examining content and argument, tone and emphasis, provenance and contextual knowledge. Students are then to swap their source with another pair and continue analysing another source. Ideally all pairs should have seen all six sources. Once everyone has seen and had ago at annotating the sources, these can then be collated and a set photocopied for all students to have a mini booklet of sample answers.

A lovely lesson (could easily be several) lessons for GCSE students to revise the international relations unit especially for OCR, but would work really well with AQA and Edexcel modern world syllabuses. The ppt explains the variety of tasks - Various slides should also be printed out as instructions for each table. Some of the tasks are also on the slides, but others are extra attachments such as the explain away game and the timeline cards. This is a good way to keep yr 11 engaged and proactive during those last few lessons.

A quick and simple revision game! This can be played as a whole class, in pairs or small groups, or even individually! Students will need a dice, they roll twice to gain the coordinates for the subject they must then explain. If they can talk relevantly about the topic for over 30 seconds they can double their dice score. This game covers the OCR specification Explaining the modern world from Treaty of Versailles up to the War on Terror.

This is an excellent revision on skills for the OCR modern world A syllabus with the depth study on USA 1945-1975. The lesson has some class led tasks on marking and answering certain styles of questions, with accompanying guidance on how they should go about answering the questions. At the end of the ppt there are extra questions which students can work through either in their own time or in another lesson. The lesson covers the short answer (2 mark), source work and the different types of styles that could be asked as well as the large 18 mark question requiring a balanced answer with a substantiated conclusion at the end.

A very simple revision game that can be done in pairs, small groups or as a whole class in teams. Students are to roll the dice twice to come up with their coordinates for their clue on the board. They are then to respond to the clue. If they do this successfully they win the points on the dice. If they are able to give examples and discuss for 30 seconds their scores can be doubled. I often do this kind of activity as a class with them in teams. If a team can not answer, then they must hunt out the examples before they can rejoin! A fun way to bring in and cover lots of content as part of the revision process.

A revision game to encourage students to explain the various key terms and events during 1945-1975 USA: Land of Liberty unit for the OCR Modern World A GCSE curriculum. This will also work along side any exam board for basic content as it more about getting students to recall information about certain topics to win points. This could be adapted as a whole class game / small group game and if students are unable to explain their answers, their task could be to go away and find out so that they can then come and join back in once they have gained the knowledge.

Attached is a very simple lesson, covering the entire Explaining the modern world A syllabus for OCR. The Lesson is simple clockface with various sections broken down into 5 min sections. Students are to spend 5 mins completing what they know about each section under the 5 min time slot! The sections cover Treaty of Versailles all the way through to the New danders and Post cold war. There is also an extra session where students can add notes and give examples of nationalism and internationalism.

This is a revision lessons that examines the other key issues in the civil rights movement. This has been designed with the OCR Modern World A USA 1945 - 1974 People and the state in mind but will work along side other exam boards for content. The lesson includes a worksheet to accompany the powerpoint and hyperlinks to various you tube links. The lesson does a brief recap of previous knowledge and then extends to the issue of Black Power, covering the Black Panthers and the Kerner report. It then examines the role and influence of Malcolm X and other groups who helped contribute to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - such as the African diplomats visit in the USA. The lesson then examines the role of each president in the 60s and 70s, with a card sort task for students to identify the contributions and limitations of each president in the civil rights campaign. There is also a slide about analysing sources and a source based question worth 5 marks.

This is a great GCSE revision lesson or 2 to allow students the opportunity to reflect on the whole OCR War and Society unit AD790 - 2010 in terms of themes. The lesson starts by explaining the various skills that they need and gives them a useful list of key words that they should be using when analysing significance, cause, consequences etc. Student can then use the table and list of divisions to identify the nature of the division, be it, plunder, ambition, conquest, defence, terror, etc and then assess whether for each period it was an internal or external conflict as well as then assessing the concept of support. There is then a list of the styles of questions, plus examination guidance on how to structure their answers for this unit. At the end there are then opportunities for students to reflect on their completed chart and identify key themes, such as how the nature of conflict has changed across time. As this course is so heavily content driven, this has proved invaluable in allowing students to reflect and form an overview, something which is essential for the bigger questions on this unit.

This activity is an excellent revision, covering all the aspects of the A2 AQA American dream unit from 1945- 1980. Students are asked to categorise the key events from social, economic, political, international and religious and then identify key changes and examples of continuity. The timeline alone is a useful resource for revision and can be printed out and used to check basic knowledge.

This is a one hour revision lesson on Imperial warfare covering the Seven years war, the Napoleonic, Boer and Crimean wars and their impacts on British society. The worksheet contains numerous tasks from making notes, to categorising. This is to enable the students to access a lot of material quickly so that they are then able to get onto the more important tasks of planning and answering GCSE style questions.

This is a revision lesson specifically for the OCR modern World A syllabus that deals with the two different styles of interpretation questions on Appeasement and the Cold War. Having found that students find interpretations challenging, this activity, involves examining 6 sources, 3 on appeasement and 3 on the cold war and then analaysing them according to the two different styles of questions. Q3 Is this a fair interpretation? and Q4 which states, Explain why not all historians would agree with this interpretation. For each source there is a basic writing frame for both style of questions. With support from the ppt and guided questions, this activity should allow students to identify what they need to do for each style of question.