A fantastic puzzle solving lesson that build in difficulty throughout the lesson.
Round 1: Competition within groups of 4 working as an individual.
Round 2: Puzzle solving skills using team work with a partner.
Round 3: Building on previous rounds and strongly focusing on communication and teamwork skills.
Very engaging and excellent atmosphere in the classroom - you will want to join in!
Powerpoint is well designed and ready to go with built in answers to show students.
Enjoy
Excellent interactive lesson for KS3 on reasons and causes of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
Interactive starter with links to modern day - something everyone will have held in their hand but wont have realised the reason (great debate point)
Keywords
Card sort activity in teams (categories on the wall, sort cards into the appropriate one - very interactive and looks great to an observer!)
Extension task sorting factors that lead to abolition into actions by blacks and whites
3 Step assessment - excellent summative assessment strategy that guides progress
Homework or plenary task that allows students some options or a very nice and successful strategy for the teacher to guide differentiation.
A well designed resources that aims to embed knowledge securely.
The lesson:
Background info
Key character profile sheet to research and complete about Sun Yat-sen and General Yuan Shikai.
Interact with current knowledge to create a flow diagram of the creation of the Chinese Republic in 1911.
Rank and explain the issues facing China: Yuan Shikai and the disintegration of China
Information race about Yuan Shikai’s time in power 1912-16.
Intro the warlords (which is the next lesson)
Further reading task with an article included.
Some tasks refer to textbook pages (Cambridge International AS Level, International History 1870-1945 by David Williamson). This could be substituted for another textbook or online resources.
I think it is a well structured lesson that progresses through the content well. Any feedback welcome.
Enjoy!
Fully resourced and ready to go.
This is a background lesson leading into a lesson titled ‘Revolution & Creation of the Chinese Republic, 1911’.
Students work in groups with different texts to analyse and evaluate the events of the Boxer Revolt - challenging students to create flow diagrams from notes to increase understanding and improve memory recall.
A nice ‘can you sound smart’ task to encourage students to verbalise their knowledge and interact with their learning
Well designed task and ready to go.
Tasks:
Quick quiz based on previous learning with answers
anagram solver challenge of key terminology
Factors for and against the planned expedition
Student discussion work on some previous key terminology that is important to fully understand this part of the course
Student task to research and collect points of evidence: summary of events, problems faced, decisive factors of success (Suggested use of Cambridge International AS Level: International History 187o-1945: David Williamson but could be replaced with another textbook/internet resource)
Can you sound smart? Task to encourage students to be able to verbalise their understanding and discuss ideas etc
Further reading article to stretch understanding.
Very interactive and engaging and looks fantastic to senior staff and forward thinking schools.
"history bookmark" to support the learning or introduce next learning.
Differentiated tasks with "stretch" task for the more able!
QR code is very interactive and allows students to use their phones for their homework which has encouraged participation in my experience.
QR code links are already built in - 2 different links for different levels.
Resource is simply print and go. Enjoy. Please Review :)
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and high level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
Please review :)
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and high level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
Please review :)
NOW WITH VIDEO LINK EMBEDDED AS WELL!
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and high level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
Please review :)
NOW WITH VIDEO LINK EMBEDDED AS WELL!
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
CHALLENGE & ENGAGEMENT
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and high level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
Please review :)
NOW WITH VIDEO LINK EMBEDDED AS WELL!
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and high level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
Please review :)
NOW WITH VIDEO LINK EMBEDDED AS WELL!
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
CHALLENGE & ENGAGEMENT
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and high level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
Please review :)
NOW WITH VIDEO LINK EMBEDDED AS WELL!
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
CHALLENGE & ENGAGEMENT
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and high level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
Please review :)
NOW WITH VIDEO LINK EMBEDDED AS WELL!
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
CHALLENGE & ENGAGEMENT
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and high level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
These have taken hours to produce, please review :)
NOW WITH VIDEO LINK EMBEDDED AS WELL!
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
Included is a QR Task Instruction ppt to make this effortless and really productive.
CHALLENGE & ENGAGEMENT
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and higher level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
These have taken hours to produce, please review :)
NOW WITH VIDEO LINK EMBEDDED AS WELL!
Nicely designed "History Bookmark" Task. Designed them as an interactive homework to encourage engagement and be a fantastic tool for revision rather than just another homework that gets lost and forgotten.
Included is a QR Task Instruction ppt to make this effortless and really productive.
CHALLENGE & ENGAGEMENT
The QR codes are already implemented using various reliable resources from the internet such as BBC bitesize and high level websites for stretch tasks.
Task is easily differentiated and altered for your needs.
Ready to go apart from changing the logo and school name.
QR readers are free on any device to download.
These have taken hours to produce, please review :)
A whole lesson as part of a KS3 Change in Warfare unit.
The lesson is completely ready to go.
Interactive and engaging.
Discussion of a source as a starter.
Brief contextual overview
Group work to become experts on 1 of 3 case studies of early cannon use. (I have designed the task to produce a news report but could be altered to be an ask the expert task very easily. Information sheets are built into the powerpoint.)
Students give their news reports whilst the class collect information about each in a table.
Assessment comes in the form of a PEEL paragraph with useful sentence starters.
Hope you enjoy :)
Fully resourced lesson ready to go - Will probably last 2 lessons.
This is part of a change in warfare SOW for KS3 and focuses on the siege of Rochester Castle in 1215.
Wordsearch of keywords to start
Contextual information about the civil war between the Barons and King John.
Information about Rochester Castle
Defending a castle VS attacking a castle
Documentary about the siege
Cartoon strip with fill in the blanks
Keyword match up
Plenary/ homework of a diary entry from either a soldier attacking or defending perspective.
Enjoy
Full lesson ready to go with no prep needed. This lesson covers all information necessary for the Spartacist Uprising and Kapp Putsch.
The lesson:
Research based homework task to set the previous lesson
Quick quiz starter to test prior knowledge of Weimar Germany.
Keyword match up
Fill in the blanks exercise
Ask the expert based task in which students become an expert on either the Spartacists or Kapp Putsch and then teach each other.
Keyword sort task
Reverse quick quiz plenary
I hope you enjoy :)
A well designed and fully resourced lesson introducing Topic 4 of the Cambridge AS Level.
Begins with students analysing information sheets to gain an understanding of China in the early 1900s and think about what factors have influenced change.
Next students use a Khan Academy video to build a timeline overview of the course.
Students then research two key individuals in Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai.
There is an opportunity for class discussion before a final tasks in which students extend their knowledge by evaluating the role of China in WWI and the impact of this.
Enjoy!