Lesson examining the roles (dilemmas, choices and responses) of bystanders, perpetrators and rescuers, then drawing out of this the factors that contributed to the holocaust. Use of dilemma cards for main activity from HET.
Information sheet pupils can stick in their exercise books at the beginning of the year identifying the key skills they are going to cover in history with some examples of how the skills might appear.
How significant are events in Native American history - lesson asking pupils to plot the significance of key events on a 'living graph' in order to examine the relative significance of the events they have studied.
Wordsearch for Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots - used on April Fools Day as there are none of the words in it - took pupils a good 5 minutes to figure it out!
Assessment lesson preparation for pupils writing an essay answering 'Why did William win the Battle of Hastings?' - can be used as ICT based lesson or non ICT based - both versions below.
Introductory lesson for German Depth Study introducing pupils to the basic geography of Europe and Germany, an giving pupils an idea of who Wilhelm II was and his personality traits. Pupils also briefly exaine what makes a country great. Textbook references to SHP Germany textbook (white).
Lesson resources to examine different approaches taken within the AA community to their own position and how to improve it. Can be used to demonstrate varying philosophies extent among blacks.
A look at each individual, their aims and objectives, their methods and a general picture of how far they succeeded.
Flow chart for use when analysing sources - can be blown up to A3 and used on classroom wall for pupils to refer to or shrunk to A5 for pupils to stick into exercise books.
Booklet produced as revision aid for soure skills for GCSE pupils including; primary and secondary sources, types of sources, utility, bias, reliability, sources that agree, sources and own knowledge and source glossary.
Lesson using walk about talk about (market stall) activity to examine what life was like in the trenches for soldiers, in addition to labelling parts of a trench (diagram) and general introduction.
Lesson adpated for high ability pupils including card sort (can be printed directly from powerpoint) where pupils decide on categories, analysis of propaganda and Adolf Hitler true or false plenary game.
Lesson focusing on the skill of making inferences from sources, cartoon interpretation modelled step by step on powerpoint with selection of cartoons for pupils to attempt on their own - can be adapted for group work and feedback to whole class.