A lesson ideal for the new 9-1 Edexcel GCSE Elizabeth course. This lesson looks at the reasons for the launch of the Armada, the events, and the reasons for the defeat. It also looks at the significance of the victory for Elizabeth. Ends with a 12 mark question, with a model answer for students to annotate.
Breadth 1 lessons for the new A-Level 'The British experience of warfare 1790-1918'. This bundle of lessons covers 3/4 weeks worth of lesson time, along with numerous assessment points. There are two essay plans included in the bundle. I have used the 'Edexcel A Level History. Paper 3 The British Experience of Warfare C1790-1918 by Rick Rogers, Brian Williams',, however, I can scan and email the pages if you need to.
A KS3 scheme of work that explores World War One. All lessons included starters, challenges and super challenges as well as differentiated tasks for different abilities. Lessons included are:
1. Causes of WW1
2. How soldiers were recruited
3. Why some people refused to fight
4. Life in the trenches
5. The Battle of the Somme
6. Was Haig the 'butcher of the Somme?'
7. Weapons used in WW1
8. Life on the Homefront
9. How surgery and medicine developed because of WW1
10.. Impact of WW1
11. Poetry in WW1
Lessons also practice key skills needed for the new GCSE, practicing inference questions, as well as explaining questions
A revision lesson looking at all of the different problems Elizabeth faced and how well she dealt with them. Includes a worksheet, and an end of unit assessment to use for specification point 1.
Ideal for KS3 lessons looking at crime and punishment over time, or for the new Edexcel GCSE course.
This lesson looks at smuggling today and how far smuggling has changed since the 18th century, looking at the increase in drug smuggling and people smuggling.
Includes a table, worksheet and differentiated activities throughout.
Ideal for the Edexcel GCSE course, this bundle offers everything you need for the first specification point of the new Edexcel GCSE course.
Looks at;
- The situation on Elizabeth's accession
- The religious settlement
- Challenges to the settlement
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Overview
- End of unit assessment
A lesson summarizing why Jack the Ripper was never caught. Asks students to link and prioritize the reasons. Provides differentiated resources throughout, as well as challenge activities for each task.
Ideal to be used as part of a Jack the Ripper scheme of work, or crime and punishment over time. This bundle includes the effectiveness of the police force in the 19th century, how far the police were to blame for him not being caught, and why he was not caught,
A series of lessons that are suitable to be used for the new Edexcel GCSE History course.
Includes resources and lessons as well as teacher notes for the whole of unit 1 and covers;
1) Overview of course and end of WW1
2) The Treaty of Versailles
3) Weimar Constitution
4) Weimar economic problems
5) Weimar political problems - including the Munich Putsch
6) Weimar success to 1924
7) Weimar recovery and the Golden Years
Excellent resources to aid planning and delivery!
A powerpoint and accompanying worksheet and resource to let students decide what Elizabeth should do about Mary, Queen of Scots. There are a range of different activities for students of all different abilities to choose from - there are three activities for the lower, middle and higher ability students.
A resource that helps students understand how Britain got their first Parliament. Differentiated worksheets that allows students to categorize reasons for the first meet, and priorities the reasons. Includes a video too which students really enjoy.
A 2-part lesson that looks at what happened to the Princes in the Tower. Goes through what happened, and asks students to look at sources and use these to make a judgement about whether or not Richard III killed the Princes. Differentiated
Students will look at whether or not Henry VIII was a man or monster. They will use sources to reach a supported conclusion. Ideal to be used as an assessment. Differentiated resources for different abilities.
An overview of how the Normans used the Feudal System. Differentiated activities for higher, middle and lower ability students, and different resources for each of the activities. Ends by comparing the Domesday Book and the Feudal System and which one was the most effective in controlling England
A powerpoint and worksheets looking at different historical figures in History. Each group gets a different worksheet on a different figure, they are to prepare a presentation and a speech on this person, and then the class votes on who was the most significant.