An introduction lesson for Y8 when they are beginning the SOW focused on empire.

Lesson examining the ideas behind lowering the voting age, with homework and debate assessment lesson to support oral assessment in citizenship (grades/levels may not correlate to other school assessment systems but can be easily adapted.

Learning Objectives To describe what happened to Pompeii in 79AD To explain why Pompeii is so useful for information about everyday life in Roman times. To analyse eye witness accounts and create your own

Lesson introducing the constitutional amendments with examples of amendments approved by Congress and not approved by Congress - could be used in conjunction with articles on a wedge issue e.g. flag burning

Lesson examining the powers of the president, range of notes/articles can be used to support a more in depth understanding of the powers of the president. Hunt for example activity has been completed in this version, however can not show pupils and have them construct their own example bank from independent research.

Enquiry Question: What is government? Learning Objectives To understand the concept of government To explain the different ways in which countries can be governed To research examples of different government systems Civics curriculum designed to be delivered in an International school to a largely American student body.

Lesson examining the outbreak of WW2 with American newsreel footage and British radio address from Chamberlain - pupils can examine the differences between the two, in addition to examining how Britain prepared for WW2.

A lesson constructing a model answer to an exam question assessing how effective parliament is, building on previous learning of the methods parliament uses to scrutinise the government and the legislative process.

A lesson examining the 6 sources of the UK constitution, including 10 mark exam pratice question to apply the knowledge in order to describe the sources of the UK constitution.

Lesson examining the use of the filibuster and to what extent the legislative process is difficult - using past exam question and a Virtual Learning Environment Task - but this can easily be adapted for paper within the lesson simply by printing copies of the articles pupils can share.

Lesson examining the different types of democracy and sovreignty evident in the US political system with a design-a-constitution activity

Lesson examining how Rome expanded from a city to an empire while re-affirming skills of chronology.

Lesson examining the role of parliament in the UK political system

Enquiry Question: What is genocide? Learning Objectives To explain the concept of genocide To develop vocabulary that can help explain the concept of genocide To think creatively as to how genocide can be prevented

Edexcel International GCSE in History (4HI1) Paper 1 Depth Study 7 - A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74 Learning Objectives To explain the reasons for and key features of the Watergate scandal To analyse the impact of the Watergate scandal including; Nixon War Powers Act (1973) Election Campaign Act (1974) Privacy Act (1974) Congressional Budget Control Act (1974) To evaluate the extent to which Ford was ‘right’ to grant a presidential pardon for Nixon

Lesson examining the original 13 colonies and the road to revolution

Quick plenary game for pupils to recognise the Prime Ministers for UK fro 1936-present - used when teaching PM & Cabinet module at AS

Lesson introducing pupils to the idea of the Weimar Republic and the circumstances out of which it emerged at the end of WW1.

Revision booklet

Lesson examining education in Roman times - lesson started worked well with pupils, convincing them their curriculum was going to change.