Industrial Revolution: From a Scheme of Work on the Industrial Revolution. Target is KS3 but all assessments throughout are GCSE and use Edexcel criteria. Each lesson contains a lesson plan, quick start guide, printable resources, mini plenaries, challenge questions, mark schemes, writing frames, lots of differentiation, a nice mix of activity types and a lesson specific EAL activity sheet. There are 14 lessons in total, but each lesson has enough material to last 2 or 3 lessons for even high ability classes. Most lessons include some high-level source analysis. The lessons also include a link to a site hosting a self-marking End of Unit quiz and a revision guide which make for nice homework activities. The SOW has been used for several years (with continual updates and improvements) at a very successful History department in an outstanding school. If used at KS3 it also acts as a grounding for any History of Medicine modules they might encounter at KS4 (hence the focus on public health and inventions). The SOW covers the following topics: Introduction to the Industrial Revolution (free) Population Boom (free) Factories Coal Mining Transport Robert Stephenson Industrial Revolution inventors Child Labour Public Health Problems Public Health Solutions & Government Intervention Source Question on the Big Stink Luddites British Empire Source Question on Empire Revision Guide & EAL activities. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps.

One lesson from a series of 28 on China in the 20th Century. Each lesson comes with all the resources you need to teach it ‘out of the box’ including activities, worksheets, recap tasks, stretch and differentiated questions where appropriate – and each lesson comes with keywords and a revision slide and a writing homework exercise. The 28 lessons are as follows: China Intro Causes of the Boxer Rebellion Boxer Rebellion Events & Consequences 1911 Revolution May 4th Movement Sun Yat-Sen Recap Lesson United Front Northern Expedition Recap lesson Causes of the Long March Consequences of the Long March Second Sino-Japanese War Chinese Civil War Why was the CCP victorious in the Civil War? CCP’s Agricultural Reforms The Great Famine The Great Leap Forward Women in Mao’s China Political Control in Mao’s China USSR & China Causes of the Cultural Revolution Key Features of the Cultural Revolution Consequences of the Cultural Revolution The Sino-Soviet Split The Gang of Four Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms Tiananmen Square These lessons have been taught successfully for many years at a top international school and are very easily editable for your own students (they’d also work very easily without any editing!) Wolsey Academy is a non-profit that looks to share and sell excellent teaching materials. Every penny we make goes to one of the charity partners listed on our website – from carbon capture (we take in more carbon each year than we put out!) to local youth sports to housing refugees – we aim to be a positive influence in the world. Better Teaching, Better Planet. Check out our mission and our other resources at our website, just search ‘Wolsey Academy’ to find us!

This lesson examines the short-term cause of World War I: the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Students will explore the events leading up to the assassination, the key figures involved, and the immediate consequences. Activities include note-taking, video analysis, writing a newspaper report, and sorting events chronologically. The lesson concludes with a discussion on how this event acted as a spark in an already tense Europe. Lesson Content and Activities: Introduction: Overview of the significance of Franz Ferdinand’s assassination as a short-term cause of WWI. Major Events and People: Talk through slides 1-14 detailing the key events and figures. Students make notes using the provided worksheet. Video Analysis: Watch a video on the assassination and answer guiding questions. Background: Discuss the political situation in 1908 with Bosnia’s annexation and the resulting tensions with Serbia. The Visit: Explain Franz Ferdinand’s visit to Sarajevo and the Black Hand Gang’s plan. First Attack: Describe the failed bomb attempt by the Black Hand Gang. Assassination: Detail Gavrilo Princip’s successful assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Princip’s Capture: Discuss the capture and arrest of Gavrilo Princip. Newspaper Report: Students write a newspaper report based on first-hand accounts and quotes from witnesses. Sorting Activity: Sort timeline cards of events leading to the outbreak of war in chronological order. Path to War: Discuss whether the assassination alone would have been enough to start the war and the idea of long-term issues as the ‘soil’ and short-term triggers as the ‘spark’. Resources: Worksheet for note-taking Video link Printable timeline cards Quotes for newspaper report Taken from a series of over 30 First World War lessons made by Wolsey Academy. They provide a thorough foundation of knowledge in this vital period of 20th Century History and each lesson looks to focus on a range of historical skills and exam techniques to equip students with knowledge and transferable research, analysis and study skills. To find the complete bundle, search on the Wolsey Academy website. Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount. Use code ‘WOLSEY’ for 10% off at the Wolsey Academy Web Store. Please help us, help you, help them. Thank you. Hope it helps.

1 Lesson from a series of 28 lessons on UAE Social Studies (History). Each lesson contained keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills that students can use in their regular lessons too. A key focus is obviously on Historical skills, but also Geographic, Business as well as general skills of research, debate and presentation. Several lessons have been inspired by lectures given at the NYU Abu Dhabi by experts in their fields. The lessons begin with the formation of the Arabian landmass and end with the Arabs on Mars! Fairly comprehensive history. All lessons have been made with cultural sensitivities in mind. The lessons are: Historical Overview of the UAE Jebel Faya The Magan People Bronze Age Trade Wadi Suq and Umm Al Na The Iron Age Pre-Islamic Arabia The Prophet Muhammad and the arrival of Islam Battle of Dibba 632CE Mecca and Medina Khalid ibn al-Walid The Portuguese and the Persian Gulf The Islamic Era & Hormuz Bedouin Traditions Pirate Coast & Trucial States The Pearl Trade Diary of a Dhow Driver Qasr Al Hosn Emirati Homes and Architecture Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Founding of the UAE 1971 Famous Emiratis Famous Ex-Pats UAE The Global Crossroads The Dubai Miracle Sovereign Wealth Funds UAE Space Program Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Fully resourced and ready to teach. One lesson of about 20 in the Wolsey Academy First World War series, tried and tested over several years - recently given face lift to make it that much more engaging and relevant to today’s students. Features a team summary task, mini-plenary, video links, evidence analysis task, Max Hastings scholarship task, research task of other unofficial truces in conflict, creative task with instructions. Hope it helps, And Merry Christmas :) W. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

This lesson looks into the significance of the Silk Roads and their impact on China. Students will learn about the historical trade routes, key figures, and events that shaped the Silk Roads. Activities include video analysis, timeline sorting, and categorizing imports and exports. They will explore how the Silk Roads facilitated trade, cultural exchange, and the spread of technologies and ideas. The lesson aims to highlight the interconnectedness of ancient civilizations and the enduring legacy of the Silk Roads on global history. Taken from a series of 7 lessons on history of Ancient China. They provide an excellent and engaging introduction to ancient China and provide a great foundation for understanding how this vital nation has shaped our world. Each lesson is designed to cover a range of historical and exam skills to build up students knowledge and exam skills ready for any exam board, external and internal. They are also a huge amount of fun to teach! Those lessons are: Shang & Zhou Dynasties Qin Shi Huang (The First Emperor) Confucianism Kublai Khan Silk Roads The Forbidden City Zheng He & The Treasure Fleets Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount. Use code ‘WOLSEY’ for 10% off at the Wolsey Academy Web Store Please help us, help you, help them. Thank you. Hope it helps. W

Industrial Revolution: From a Scheme of Work on the Industrial Revolution. Target is KS3 but all assessments throughout are GCSE and use Edexcel criteria. Each lesson contains a lesson plan, quick start guide, printable resources, mini plenaries, challenge questions, mark schemes, writing frames, lots of differentiation, a nice mix of activity types and a lesson specific EAL activity sheet. There are 14 lessons in total, but each lesson has enough material to last 2 or 3 lessons for even high ability classes. Most lessons include some high-level source analysis. The lessons also include a link to a site hosting a self-marking End of Unit quiz and a revision guide which make for nice homework activities. The SOW has been used for several years (with continual updates and improvements) at a very successful History department in an outstanding school. If used at KS3 it also acts as a grounding for any History of Medicine modules they might encounter at KS4 (hence the focus on public health and inventions). The SOW covers the following topics: Introduction to the Industrial Revolution (free) Population Boom (free) Factories Coal Mining Transport Robert Stephenson Industrial Revolution inventors Child Labour Public Health Problems Public Health Solutions & Government Intervention Source Question on the Big Stink Luddites British Empire Source Question on Empire Revision Guide & EAL activities. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

First of two well presented and active lessons introducing the Romans (buy the bundle, it works out 2 for 1). Numeracy/Liteacy/Historical thinking settler (I use these as a standard settler - works a treat once they’re in a routine). Context slide (I like to have a tiny bit of teacher talk - just to set the scene and link today;s learning to what they’ve already done) Visual map activity - what do we already know? Think/Pair/Share Writing comprehension task Cartoon creation and story sort. Group discussions of the advantages of Rome’s position + class feedback. Paragraph writing task Literacy support mat including in resources. Map of Empire included in resources. Hope it helps!

China: Conflict, Crisis and Change 1900 – 1989. Designed for the Edexcel IGCSE Breadth Study but features a wide range of activities and approaches, and is in depth enough, that makes it excellent for all China history courses. It is a standalone SOW (e.g. you don’t need to refer to a text book) and each lesson is self-contained, with all the information and resources required to deliver at least a Good rated lesson if not an Outstanding one. Assessment & activity types are introduced and revisited based on a retrieval grid to ensure maximum learning and imbedding of skills and knowledge. Each lesson is estimated to take 45-60 minutes to complete but in my experience many can stretch over 2 or even 3 lessons depending on teacher judgement. Each lesson features as a minimum: Numeracy & Literacy challenges. Keywords (to add to a student glossary). EAL support sheets. Stretch and challenge activities. Teacher Quick Start Guide. Literacy support mats. Homework extension task mats. Context slide for the lesson. Part 1: Lessons included: China History IGCSE: Intro to China & Course Set Up. (with online self-marking quiz) China History IGCSE: Boxer Rebellion Causes & Events China History IGCSE: Boxer Rebellion Consequences & Reforms China History IGCSE: The 1911 Revolution China History IGCSE: 4th May Movement China History IGCSE: Sun Yet-Sen, Chiang Kai-Shek & Guomindang China History IGCSE: Recap Lesson 1: 1900 – 1926 (with online self-marking quiz) China History IGCSE: The United Front & The Communist Party China History IGCSE: Expeditions, Massacres and Exterminations 1926 – 1934 China History IGCSE: Recap lesson 2: 1926 – 1934 (with online self-marking quiz) China History IGCSE: The Long March 1934-35 China History IGCSE: Consequences of the Long March WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

A fully resourced lesson which looks at everything needed for a thorough study of Operation Barbarossa. Learning episodes are as follows: Molotov - Ribbentrop recap/discussion Key stats match up activity Video activity Guided Reading (Extended Reading Article with tools to break it down). Fortunes Graph - plot the events of the battle on a time/fortune graph to show the shift in the battle) Factors sort activity (two ways - long/short - Nazi/Soviet) Image source to factor match up activity. Writing Task - with structure plan, PEEL paragraph sentence starters and an example paragraph broken down and analysed. Focus on appositive sentences to improve literacy. Peer Assessment Extended task - blog reading Video plenary task. It has been used effectively in high schools over a number of years and I have recently updated it. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps.

The History of India This is one lesson from a series of 11 on the History of India. Each lesson includes as a minimum: • A context slide for teacher talk/intro • A reading comprehension task • A sorting/categorising activity of factors/causes. • A writing task with support and guidance. All resources are included within the same PowerPoint for ease of organisation. They have proved very effective with our High School classes. The 11 lessons are as follows: The Mughals (free) The East India Company The Battle of Plessey (free) The Tiger of Mysore The Mahratta Revision & Feedback lesson for unit at half way point Trucial States, UAE & Oman The First War of Indian Independence (1857) Amritsar Massacre & Indian Independence Movement India, Gandhi and the Second World War Bengal Famine 1947 (free) Indian Independence and Partition Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps.

A lesson designed to take students through the causes and events of the Falklands Conflict and end with a developed paragraph discussing the factors behind the British victory. There is enough content here to easily stretch across 2 (if not 3!) lessons. It has also been successfully taught to KS2 and 4 - but also to Sea Cadet groups across the UK. It is a topic that is rarely taught in schools - but one that is fascinating and gets students engaged. A useful lesson for the end of term or as part of a wider study on Thatcher’s Britain and/or the Cold War. Lesson sequence as follows: Where is the Falklands? Guess the location. Why was it invaded? – Quiz Quiz Trade Thatcher’s response  Reading comprehension The task force  Match up task The taskforce  How would you structure it? The Belgrano  Right or wrong? The battle and landing events  Relay. Factors for success  Diamond 9 Pick a factor and turn it into a PEEKA paragraph. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. We hope it helps.

2 of 22 lessons that together teach the entire Vietnam Conflict, 1945-1975. Ideal for all specifications. Each lesson comes with a range of activities, flash cards for revision and assessments and checks throughout. Almost all include a written assessment with guidance and activities that ask students to consider a range of different historical interpretations of the events. All resources needed for the lesson are self-contained within the PowerPoint with printer friendly versions ready to go. The lessons are as follows: Vietnam Overview and Timeline Colonial Vietnam General Giap Dien Bien Phu 1954 Geneva Accords 1954 Domino Theory & McCarthyism Ho Chi Minh The Vietcong Strategic Hamlet Program Overthrow of Diem 1963 Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964 Vietcong Tactics US Tactics Khe Sanh, Tet & Hue Nixon Doctrine & Vietnamization Opposition to the War – Media & Atrocities My Lai Massacre 1968 Opposition to the War – Students, Kent State and the Draft Support for the War – Hard Hats Peace and the Fall of Saigon 1975 Why did the US Fail? 80 Flashcards Wolsey Academy is a non-profit with every penny we make going to good causes, see our website, Wolsey Academy (Google us), for more information and to access free History games and lots more resources. Hope it helps. W.