A collection of 8 project booklets covering various topics from history. These are suitable for KS3 and KS4 but can be adapted upwards. Each can be used to evidence an AQA unit award, but are also good for homework, summer learning activities, or to set as projects for pupils who are long-term absent. Each should take a couple of lessons to complete. All are fully editable.
Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages
Witchcraft
Henry VIII
Black History
Empire
Trench Warfare
Causes of WWII
Period Study (independent study project)
A 45-minute revision lesson on the Homestead Act. You needn’t use exercise books.
This lesson recaps some outcomes of the Homestead Act and asks pupils to write an 8-mark exam answer. There is a partial model answer included to critique, mark, comment on, and provide an outline/structure.
I designed this lesson for an interview. Feel free to adapt/edit/use in any way you like.
Here are 5 lessons on the Industrial Revolution designed for Year 8 to be used when working from home. These word documents contain all the information required to complete the tasks therein and so these are perfect to be set on Show My Homework as online learning. I have also included three lessons on the Empire for free.
If you have any questions please ask.
Included are two lessons, one focusing on the Civil Rights Act and one focusing on the Voting Rights Act. These were originally designed for Year 9. These are differentiated and fully resourced. If you have any questions please get in touch.
Included in this bundle are several lessons focusing on key junctures of medieval life. They are as follows:
Lesson 1 + 2 - Magna Carta
Lesson 3 + 4 - Black Death
Lesson 5 + 6 - Peasants Revolt
Lesson 7 + 8 - King Edward I
Please feel free to download these for free to help with your teaching over the coming weeks.
This bundle includes eight schemes of work designed for Year 7 pupils, covering the academic year. This does not include a scheme of work document.
The schemes are as follows:
Scheme 1 - Introduction / Skills
Scheme 2 - 1066 + The Norman Conquest
Scheme 3 - Norman Life
Scheme 4 - The Murder of Becket
Scheme 5 - King John + The Magna Carta
Scheme 6 - The Tudors
Scheme 7 - The Civil War + Restoration
Scheme 8 - (Additional Thematic) Revolutions
This is a fully resourced and differentiated mini-scheme of work designed as a follow up to a Scheme of Work on the Holocaust, examining the Bosnia genocide. It includes 4 lessons:
Lesson 1 - Background to the Genocide
Lesson 2 - Comparison to the Holocaust
Lesson 3 - UN intervention
Lesson 4 - Plenary + Holocaust Similarities/Differences
If you have any questions please ask.
Included in this bundle is a thematic scheme of work examining five revolutions, with the overarching question of “what is a revolution?”. The five lessons included are fully resourced and differentiated and are as follows:
Lesson 1 - What is a Revolution?
Lesson 2 - The English Civil War
Lesson 3 - The American Revolution
Lesson 4 - The French Revolution
Lesson 5 - The Industrial Revolution
If you have any questions about these resources please do message.
Included in this bundle of lessons is a scheme of work covering the Civil War, restoration, and the interregnum period. It contains nine fully resourced and differentiated lessons. The lessons are as follows:
Lesson 1 - What Caused the Civil War?
Lesson 2 - The Declaration of War
Lesson 3 - How did Parliament Win?
Lesson 4 - Killing the King
Lesson 5 - The New Commonwealth
Lesson 6 - Cromwell in Ireland
Lesson 7 - Cromwell’s Statue + Remembrance
Lesson 8 - Charles II - The New King (of Bling)
Lesson 9 - The Glorious Revolution
Included in this bundle is a scheme of work covering the Tudor period. This scheme of work is fully resourced. It includes the following ten lessons:
HENRY
Lesson 1 - An Introduction to Tudor Life
Lesson 2 - Henry VIII and Power
Lesson 3 - Henry VIII and Religion
Lesson 4 - The Dissolution of the Monasteries
JANE + MARY
Lesson 5 - The Reign of Lady Jane Grey
Lesson 6 - Was Mary Bloody?
ELIZABETH
Lesson 7 - Elizabeth I and Power
Lesson 8 - Elizabeth I and Propaganda
Lesson 9 - Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots
Lesson 10 - The Spanish Armada
If you have any questions about these resources please do message.
Included in this bundle is a scheme of work examining King John and the Magna Carta. This scheme of work is resourced and differentiated. It contains the following three lessons:
Lesson 1 - King John - Effective of Ineffective?
Lesson 2 - What was the Magna Carta?
Lesson 3 - Extended Writing / Mini assessment
Included in this bundle are three fully resourced lessons on Thomas Becket and Henry II. They are as follows:
Lesson 1 - The Murder of Thomas Becket
Lesson 2 - Who Killed Thomas Becket?
Lesson 3 - Who Killed Thomas Becket? (Source Analysis Skills)
These lessons are differentiated within. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Included in this resource are 8 fully resourced lessons covering 1066 and the Norman Conquest.
These lessons are:
Lesson 1 - Edward the Confessor
Lesson 2 - Claimants to the Throne
Lesson 3 - The Battle of Gate Fulford
Lesson 4 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge
Lesson 5 - The Battle of Hastings
Lesson 6 - The Bayeux Tapestry
Lesson 7 - The Harrying of the North
Lesson 9 - Motte + Bailey Castles
Please feel free to message with any questions you have about these resources prior to purchase. Each lesson contains all relevant worksheets and each lesson is fully resourced and differentiated.
A scheme of work designed to introduce Year 7 to key historical concepts. Lessons are fully resourced and are as follows:
Introduction (What is History?)
Artefacts
Causation
Pompeii
The Romans
The Anglo Saxons
Any questions please ask. Please leave a review if you download.