Glossary of election terms and definitions for pupils and test that can be used to ensure pupils understand key terms.

Resources to help give pupils context for election results leading up to the 'fall' of the Labour in 2010.

Revision aid articles for Unit 4 Governing the USA covering presidency, cabinet, congress, constitution etc. Can be combined as part of a revision booklet or used individually to supplement lesson materials.

Revision aid articles for US Parties, can be combined to produce a revision booklet or used inivdiually to supplement lesson materials.

Revision aid articles for US Judiciary topic, can be combined to produce a revision booklet or used indidvidually to supplement lesson materials.

Revision aid articles for US Elections topic, can be combined to form revision booklet or used individually to supplement lesson materials.

Revision articles and materials for exam comparing similarities and differences between the US and UK political systems - can be combined into a revision booklet for pupils or used individually to supplement lesson materials.

Guidance for comprehension based exam questions, including source comparison

Source Skills Classroom Signs to refer to during lessons when analysing sources

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.

Decision making activity encouraging pupils to empathise with representatives at the Paris Peace Conference, and engage in debate in order to understand how negotiations would have taken place.

Assessment preparation lesson for pupils examining why WIlliam won the Battle of Hastings - lesson can be delivered as an ICT lesson with pupils completing task on computers or as a card sort for a non-ICT based alternative. Lesson focuses on pupils using explanatory language and being able to prioritise information.

Lesson using think incident scene investigation to encourage pupils to identify the causes and consequences of road accidents as well as examining what could have been done differently in order to prevent the accident.

Lesson examining how congress scrutinises the executive, including recent contextual examples that can be used in exam answers as evidence.

Lesson examining the factors that influence how members of congress decide to vote - pupils can examine the pressures members of congress face and examine which factors are the most important in deteriming how a congressman may vote on a certain issue. This can be adapted by using specific examples - especially on wedge issues.

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.