Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics:
(i) Henry VIII and his ministers
(ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present
(iii) The British Sector of the Western Front
(iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War
(v) Weimar and Nazi Germany
(vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution
Edexcel Politics:
(i) UK Politics
(ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism
(iii) UK Government
(iv) Global Politics
Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics:
(i) Henry VIII and his ministers
(ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present
(iii) The British Sector of the Western Front
(iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War
(v) Weimar and Nazi Germany
(vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution
Edexcel Politics:
(i) UK Politics
(ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism
(iii) UK Government
(iv) Global Politics
Lesson 6/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
This lesson focuses on the disputes that began to emerge over China, with Japan, Russia, France, Germany, Britain and the US all wanting access to Chinese markets:
Teacher PPT on key events
Background - the Opium Wars
Imperialism in China
Japanese and Russian expansion into East Asia
The Sino-Japanese War 1895
The ‘scramble for China’
The Boxer Rebellion
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
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Lesson 4/12 linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
This lesson focuses on domestic reactions to imperialism in Britain, France and Germany:
Teacher PPT on key events
Imperialism in Britain
Imperialism in France
Imperialism in Germany
Extension activities
Exam questions
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
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Part of a series of lessons linked to the Edexcel GCSE curriculum for:
Option 33: The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel GCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resource.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
The origins and course of the First World War, 1905-1918
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
The origins and course of the First World War, 1905-1918
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
Complete bundle of lessons on the causes and major events of the First World War.
While these lessons are explicitly linked to the Edexcel IGCSE specification, they cover the content in enough depth and detail to cover World War I for Year 9 and other examination boards in depth.
Please check your exam boards content specification to ensure these sources are suitable.
There are 15 lessons complete with:
exam guide
15 lessons
15 PPTs
Over 70 colourful resource sheets with differentiated and interactive activties for students to complete.
Exam questions
The bunndle adheres to the five major areas outlined by the Edexcel IGCSE specification:
THE ALLIANCE SYSTEM AND INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY,
1905–14
THE GROWTH OF TENSION IN EUROPE, 1905–14
THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN AND DEADLOCK ON THE WESTERN
FRONT
THE WAR AT SEA AND GALLIPOLI
THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY
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Four lessons linked to Chapter 1 of Edexcel IGCSE History curriculum unit:
A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74.
This chapter focuses on:
The Red Scare and McCarthyism.
There are lessons on:
1.1 The US political system
1.2 Reasons for the Red Scare: The Cold War
1.3 Reasons for the Red Scare: events at home
1.4 McCarthy and the Red Scare
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
Complete lesson that links to Chapter 1.2 of the Edexcel curriculum on The American West, c1835-c1895, Migration and Early Settlement
There is no textbook necessary for any of these tasks.
This lesson consists of engaging and in-depth student led activities that allows students to investigate the reasons for migration, and the problems associated with both migrating and settling in the West. There are extension tasks for MABLE and a writing frame that shows students how to answer the ‘Explain two consequences’ question.
This lesson looks in depth at:
-push and pull factors that encouraged migration
-the Oregon Trail
-Californian Gold Rush
-the Donner Party
-the Mormon migration
-problems associated with settlement
There is also a guide for an Explain two consequences type exam question with a model answer to guide students.
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Detailed lesson that links to the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 curriculum.
Lessons are newly planned to meet the exacting standards of the new curriculum.
This lesson looks at the appointment of Gorbachev and the reasons for why he wanted to reform the Soviet Union.
It then goes on to examine the events that led to the loss of Soviet control in Eastern Europe, the end of the Warsaw Pact and the fall of Gorbachev.
There is exam practice and excellent student activities to complete.
Detailed lesson including numerous students led activities that analyses the events preceding, during and after the period of detente, including both SALT treaties and the Helsinki accords.
Lessons are newly planned to meet the exact requirements of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 spec.
Links to Chapter 3.1 of the Edexcel/Hodder textbook, although neither textbook is necessary for the completion of these tasks.
This is a complete series of lessons that links to Edexcel GCSE 9-1 specification on British America.
Nine detailed PPTs and activities that links to Chapter's 1,2 and 3 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 curriculum.
The following topics are covered:
1. British settlement in North America
2. A disrupted society
3. The loss of an empire
These lessons are planned using the Pearson and Hodder books although neither textbook is necessary for the activities.
Our resources aim to instill independent learning in students. Our activities are carefully created to develop historical concepts such as significance, chronology, causation and consequence while mastering exam technique.
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Part of a series of lessons linked to the Edexcel IGCSE curriculum for:
The USA, 1918-41
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
The third of eleven lessons that links to the role of religion in the Middle Ages.
This lesson examines the role of medieval monasteries.
Students will:
Annotate a picture of a medieval monastery to identify it’s various buildings
Categorise the role of monasteries and answer questions
Analyse different historical interpretations on the role of monasteries and answer a 4 mark exam question that links to Question 3b on Paper 3 of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
This is part of a series of lessons that aims to encompass the new 9-1 GCSE skills into Key Stage 3.
Lessons are colourful and engaging and match the content of the new Exploring History textbook from Pearson, although the textbook is not necessary for any of the tasks.
If you have any questions or queries please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk.
Comprehensive Complete series of lessons that introduces students to Chapter 2 of the new Edexcel specification - The state and globalisation.
The lessons are planned in the following order, and should be taught in this order:
The state and globalisation
Does globalisation resolve contemporary issues
Americanization and liberal/realist views
These lessons are planned to meet the exacting standards of the new specification and include over 20 worksheets and PPTs.
Each lesson comprises a series of student-friendly interactive worksheets that are differentiated to ensure they are accessible to all students yet include extension activities for high achievers.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries
21 page workbook that includes detailed and extensive activities linked to Edexcel GCSE (9-1) textbook Chapter 3, pp. 66-91. Covers the entire chapter on the Reformation and its impact.
Some activities require Edexcel book. Alternatively, photocopy sheets from the textbook and include in the workbook.
Could be used for high-ability KS3.
Any questions please email me on m.foley@becketkeys.org.
Please review!
Students to look at the impact of the Great Plague in London in 1665.
Series of sources and activities that assess how people thought the plague was caused, how it was treated and how they sought to prevent it.
Links to an online lesson from the National Archives.
Students to use Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Medicine through time textbook.
Detailed revision slides. Perfect for exam revision! For students of all abilities.
Content includes 4, 12 and 16 mark exam questions with relevant bullet points to achieve higher grades.
Three workbooks offering detailed and engaging activities that link to the complete Edexcel GCSE (9-1) curriculum on Henry VIII.
Essay questions and essay planning sheets included in the workbooks.
Edexcel textbook necessary for some of the tasks.
There is one work book for each Chapter.
Workbook 1: Wolsey
Workbook 2: Cromwell
Workbook 3: The Reformation
Five detailed revision slides on the key aspects of Thomas Wolsey. Perfect for exam revision for students of all abilities.
Content includes 4, 12 and 16 mark exam questions with relevant bullet points to achieve higher grades.
