The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England - Health and Hygiene- Supporting Worksheet for the Ian Mortimer book of the same name
Written as an extension/reading/ independent learning activity for able GCSE 9-1 students studying the history of medicine looking at the Renaissance / Tudor period and changing medical understanding in Britain.
The resource is written as a WORD document for easy access to Google Classroom
1 July 1916 was the blackest day in the British army’s history. Richard Holmes walks the fields where 57,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in just a few hours, and continues the story until the end of the Somme campaign in 1916.
Written in Publisher to an A3 format the worksheet can be edited and amended for A4 printing as a PDF. A Word file is included for uploading to Google Classroom
War Walks - Agincourt - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary with Richard Holmes
In 1415, Henry V won a remarkable victory against a French force that outnumbered him by five to one. Professor Holmes retraces Henry’s route to Agincourt and finds a story of heroism and brutality.
The Great Stink - Worksheet to support the Peter Bazalgette Documentary
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can also be edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
Historian Dr Thomas Asbridge explores the BBC’s archive to reveal how television’s telling of the Crusades has changed over the last 60 years. Using footage from Crusade documentaries shot during the Vietnam era, the Palestinian Crisis, the First Gulf War and the more recent War on Terror, he reveals how our interpretation of this medieval story has been influenced by modern political and social change. Thomas highlights the alternative Arabic perspectives on the Crusades, and asks whether this 1,000-year-old story really does cast its long shadow over the modern world, as so many have claimed.
With contributions from Monty Python star and medievalist Terry Jones, Washington economist JK Galbraith, and historians Simon Sebag Montefiore, Dr Peter Frankopan, Prof Konrad Hirschler and Dr Fozia Bora.
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Vanessa Collingridge examines the life of Elizabeth Tudor, with particular interest in how documentary television and the BBC has examined her legacy and interrogated her reign. Using Timewatch and other BBC archive stretching back over 60 years, Vanessa looks at her upbringing, her conflicts with her enemies including Mary, Queen of Scots, and her greatest victory against the Spanish Armada. The programme seeks to understand how Elizabeth I created a legacy that we still live with today, and examines how that legacy has changed over the centuries.
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Based on Ian Mortimer’s popular ‘A Time Traveller’s guide to Elizabethan England’ series, these worksheets provide a useful note taking scaffold for KS3 and KS4 students. The set of resources could be used as a useful overview to the Edexcel 9:1 GCSE - Elizabethan England 1558 - 88 supporting the syllabus topics: Challenges to Elizabeth’s rule & Life in Elizabethan England. Each film clip is around 10 minutes in duration making them an ideal flipped learning task, starter or plenary activity based upon the BBC Teach - Class Clips link:
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - KS3 History: What was life like for the rural poor in Elizabethan England?
Through a journey back in time, we discover that for many Elizabethans living in the countryside life could be very harsh. Ian Mortimer visits a reconstructed Elizabethan thatched cottage to experience the living conditions for himself. Inside it is very basic and its inhabitants would have had few possessions. Society was strictly divided by class, and these people were among the poorest. They would have earned a meagre living by labouring on nearby farms. Without growing some of their own food and making their own clothes, life would have been a real struggle for survival.
Based on Ian Mortimer’s popular ‘A Time Traveller’s guide to Elizabethan England’ series, these worksheets provide a useful note taking scaffold for KS3 and KS4 students. The set of resources could be used as a useful overview to the Edexcel 9:1 GCSE - Elizabethan England 1558 - 88 supporting the syllabus topics: Challenges to Elizabeth’s rule & Life in Elizabethan England. Each film clip is around 10 minutes in duration making them an ideal flipped learning task, starter or plenary activity. using the BBC link below:
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips -History KS3: What was life like for the poor in the towns of Elizabethan England?
On his travels Ian Mortimer explores various aspects of town and city life in the sixteenth century, including the markets, which drew so many people in from the surrounding countryside. He also looks at how the Elizabethans tackled the problems of crime and disease, which were such a prominent feature of life for the urban poor. Although life could be tough, he discovers that the introduction of the Elizabethan poor laws did go some way to alleviating the worst times.
A5 Data collection worksheet to support the Paxman clip from his Empire documentary series
Search - BBC Learning Zone - What was the role of money and trade in the British Empire?
This clip explores the idea that the British Empire wasn’t simply about conquest for conquest’s sake; but was built by a ruthless pursuit of wealth through money, profit and trade.
BBC Teach - The Industrial Revolution - Andrew Marr’s History of the World. Worksheet to support the documentary extract
Andrew Marr tells the story of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. He explores the context and triggers, the inventions and innovations that powered the revolution, He also looks at the important economic, political and social consequences. This clip is from the BBC series Andrew Marr’s History of the World. Marr goes on an epic journey through 70,000 years of human history, telling the story of how great forces of nature and individual genius shaped the world we live in today.
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A two page resource
Worksheet to support the BBC Jeremy Paxman - Empire - Documentary extract
Search - BBC Learning Zone - How did the British Empire affect migration?
This clip explores how, through the history of the British Empire, millions of people travelled huge distances across the world, some forced, and others looking for new opportunities.
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A 1 page resource
BBC Learning Zone - Was the British empire a force for good? (part 1/2) worksheet to support the BBC Jeremy Paxman Documentary: Empire
This clip tells the story of how Hong Kong came under British control, reflecting the Empire’s often ruthless pursuit of profit - opening up China for trade, at a cost of thousands of ruined lives.
Search - BBC Learning Zone - Was the British empire a force for good? (part 1/2)
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This is a one page resource
BBC Learning Zone - Was the British empire a force for good? (part 2/2) worksheet to support the BBC Jeremy Paxman Documentary: Empire
Search - BBC Learning Zone - Was the British empire a force for good? (part 2/2)
This clip explores the British expansion into Africa. In the summer of 1861, David Livingstone and a small band of missionaries travelled to what is now Malawi to establish the virtues of two Victorian obsessions – ‘Christianity and commerce’.
In the summer of 1861, David Livingstone and a small band of missionaries travelled to what is now Malawi to establish the virtues of two Victorian obsessions – ‘Christianity and commerce’. However, what Livingstone found in Africa shocked him. Britain had abolished slavery in the Empire decades before, but he still found Africans being captured and sold by Portuguese and Arab slavers. He made it his mission to rid West Africa of slavery. His crusade captured the minds of the public back home. People believed the Empire could be about more than conquest and dominance; it could be a force for good and justice. This clip is from the BBC series Empire. Jeremy Paxman travels the world exploring different aspects of the British Empire. He sets off in search of the extraordinary characters, burning ambitions and surprising principles which created an empire four times the size of ancient Rome.
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Written to support the BBC Teach Olusoga extract
BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > KS3 / GCSE History > Migration
Search - BBC Teach - Class Clips - Black people in Britain during the Atlantic slave trade era
In this short film, historian David Olusoga looks at the lives of Black people in Britain in the 1600s and 1700s.
He looks at portraits in Ham House in Surrey, which feature images of young Black men and women as part of family groups of aristocrats.
Olusoga talks to Professor James Walvin, who suggests that often these figures were invented and were part of the exoticism associated with international trade and enslavement.
Walvin describes Black people in the UK as the ‘flotsam and jetsam’ of the slave trade, individuals who found themselves in the UK.
Most were in domestic service. Some were sailors in transit in and out of the ports. By the late 18th century the ideas of the French Revolution were spreading and some Black people were starting to have a political impact on British society.
These included Robert Wedderburn, who argued passionately for the emancipation of Black slaves and poor whites.
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Taught to Year 8 students the lesson explores the significance of the roles of Chadwick, Stephenson, Arkwright and Tull in the Industrial Revolution. The lesson has options on the initial quizzing of prior learning, and then an inquiry in two parts: initially researching one individual and then group work sharing findings on the remaining individuals to reach a conclusion on their significance.
Written to support the 1982 BBC Documentary: QED A Guide to Armageddon. The documentary studies the effects of a one megaton nuclear bomb being exploded over London
The sheet supports the film with a table to test its predictions using NUKEMAPS:
The resource is written in Publsiher and formatted to A4
This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for the component unit Key topic 1: EDEXCEL GCSE HISTORY.
TOPIC 1: THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST, C1835 - 1862
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They fully cover the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to:
a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning.
c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change.
d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards
e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable.
The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students.
This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for the component unit Key topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39 for Paper 3 of the Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39. They fully cover the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to:
This is a one page resource
a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning.
c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change.
d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards
e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable.
The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students.
This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for the component unit Key topic 2: Hitler’s rise to power, 1919-33 for Paper 3 of the Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39.
This is a one page resource
They fully cover the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to:
a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning.
c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change.
d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards
e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable.
The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students.
EDEXCEL 9-1GCSE - Topic 4: 20th Century SUMMARY 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ consolidation, revision, resource
This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for MEDIEVAL MEDICINE MEDICINE
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Paper 1 Medicine Through Time and the Environmental Study on the Trenches Unit. It fully covers the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to:
a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning.
c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change.
d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards
e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable.
The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students.