A lesson that looks that the impact and failures of prohibition, the St Valentine’s Day massacre is used as a focal point for the investigation. This forms part of a 3 year GCSE scheme of work for AQA America 1920 -1972 Opportunity and Inequality. The lesson includes an GCSE style exam question with sentence starters to help those who need it and challenge tasks throughout to stretch and challenge the top end.

A lesson that looks at the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and gets students to think about what it shows about America in the 1920s, a chance to link to immigration and the red scare. This lesson forms part of a SOW for America 1920 - 1973 Opportunity and Inequality. The lesson comes with a GCSE question with sentence starters for those who need them and challenge tasks throughout to stretch and challenge the top end.

This lesson forms part of a SOW for year 8 students. This lesson that looks at the changes that occurred in Britain between 1750 and 185, students complete an information gather, and sort task before completing a GCSE style question. The lesson includes sentence starters and challenge tasks to stretch the top ability. There is a chance to focus on literacy describing the changes that occured.

This lesson looks at how Eisenhower and Kennedy were involved in the Vietnam War, students evaluate the success of each of these presidents involvement. There are challenge tasks and GCSE practice questions with sentence starters to help.

A lesson that looks at how the war escalated under LBJ and after the Tonkin incident. This lesson is very much teacher led, with points to get students to expand and explain. There are two GCSE source questions included with sentence starters and hints. There are challenge tasks as well to stretch the top end.

A great way to test understanding of topic or lesson. This an editable resource to best fit your needs. Its interactive. Place your topics and questions onto the slide and add in the clues and change the A’s to the correct answers. Place the easier answers with the higher scores. When playing press the small circle to reveal the answer to the class press the large purple circle if the answer is correct and students score 100, students keep track of the scores in their teams. Lowest score by the end wins.

A range of plenary activities. The Plenary wheel rotates when pressed. The plenary chooser will light up one of the activities. The ometer acts as a class meter reading on a debate question, students vote by clicking agree or disagree button and the needle will move with each vote till the last one which will show the class average and a discussion can follow. Use the class voter to carry out a class poll on their opinions to a question. Work well when comparing who they think is the most important person. The shoot out works by splitting the class into teams. Ask the students questions and if they get it right they can press shoot button and keep score of the item that was shot. Students loved this task. The plenary activities are all different version of the same task.

A lesson that looks at the Bus boycott and its impact on the civil rights movement. Include a GCSE styled question, with key words, sentence starters and challenge tasks.

Created for GCSE but also used for year nine, students investigate how a peace treaty could set the foundation for Hitler and future conflict. The lesson includes group work and a source analysis question. There are sentence starters, model answers, and challenge tasks to help both sides of the spectrum in a mixed ability class.

A revision activity inspired by the Chase game show, read the instruction and adapt to your needs in the lesson. Students liked this and use as a way to break up a longer revision activity.

Created for a revision task where students roll dice to decide upon an emoji and must then link it in someway to something we have learnt about the topic e.g Ship = Spanish Armada or baby = succession crisis . It worked well with by lower ability students having something to visualize we then began explaining and describing in more detail. Students take it in turns rolling the dice if they land on the same one as someone else they need to think of a different connection. I have also used this in lesson in conjunction with some of my other revision board games

A great way to engage students into a lesson with this as a starter. Change the picture and it will slowly move the spotlight around the picture only revealing a bit at a time and students need to work out what it is showing and how it may link to the lesson. Can have this working as students walk in as it will keep going until moved to the next slide. For history this is great for source analysis and getting students to pick out key details. To change the picture all you need to do is click on the black object send to back then add new picture and bring it foward again.

A lesson that aims to teach the skill of chronology to students. PowerPoint has challenge tasks that aim to push higher ability students. The timeline group task engages students and can be a competition between different groups

A lesson that gets students to recap education topic. The lesson includes a revision clock activity, a cobs and robbers knowledge task, key word bingo (with 30 unique sheets), a block busters game as well as a practice question with a writing frame. Students enjoy the range of activities before building up to a question.

A tutor time activity to look at the upcoming election, at first it introduces the idea of how the general election works. Then a chance to look at the main parties, the key people and their ideas. The idea is to look at two every day then on the last day to hold our own mini election.

This lesson focuses on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Students write a report about the events that had happened in Sarajevo. The lesson includes sentence starters, with key words, and a worksheet for the less able students. There are challenge tasks to stretch the top end.

A lesson in a SOW intended for a three year GCSE looking at the AQA: America 1920 -1973. Students look at the impact of the car industry on America. The lesson is largely teacher led with information and question to pose to the class, as well as discussion about images and graphs. There is a GCSE question included with sentence starters for the less able and challenge tasks to stretch the top end. There is also a model answer for students to evaluate as a class or on their own.

A task for a homework or recap of the topic of religious change, students use the info to look at how much religion changed under different monarchs. Either use the graph or on a piece of blank paper use the info sheets to plot how much religious changed.