A lesson aimed at students learning about the main long term causes of the First World War, looking at Militarism, Alliance, Imperialism and Nationalism. Students build up their knowledge and then practice a GCSE describe question about each. There are sentence starters and key words for each question for the lower ability and challenge tasks for each activity to stretch your top end.

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.

Students investigate the Harrying of the North and how it gave William control over England. Students complete a information hunt round the room for information before completing a GCSE styled question. The lesson as a literacy based task as well as scaffolds for less able students as well as challenge tasks to stretch the high end.

A lesson that looks at the Motte and Bailey castle and looking at how it gave William control. There is a literacy focus getting students to write using connectives as well as practicing GCSE questions. There are sentence starters for the less able and challenge tasks to stretch the top end.

A murder mystery lesson. This is aimed at getting students to work out facts and use evidence to work out the truth. The lesson was super engaging for both my top and bottom sets. Can be taught two ways either place the information around the rooms and students walk around and try and find it/ or place all the evidence into a pack (brown envelope, can place stickers on the envelope, students loved the little touches made it feel like a real CSI investigation). Students then work as a group trying to find out the story, this allows a competition element. The lesson ends with a write up of an account a writing frame is provided.

This lesson looks at the impact the railway had in Britain. Students complete, recap starter, a colour coding and categorizing task, a source discussion as well as a GCSE styled question. The lesson includes challenge tasks to stretch the top end and sentence starters to aid students.

This lesson forms part of a SOW on the Industrial Revolution for year 8. The lesson looks at inventions developed during the industrial revolution and gets students to explain their important. The lesson includes a homework activity, a group task, a GCSE question, challenge tasks to stretch and challenge and writing frames to help those that need it.

This lesson looks at the changes occurring in medicine. It looks at the work of Harold Gillies in Reconstructive surgery, as well as Blood Transfusions, Hospital Treatment and injured limbs treatment. Lesson includes solo and group work There is a GCSE style describe question with sentence starters and challenge tasks to stretch the high ability students in a class.

A lesson that looks at the work of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Students compare the work of the two nurses, students look at their efforts during the Crimean war and their impact. Lesson includes a source question with a worksheet to build up to answering the question. Then there is a choice of essay question

A lesson that looks at Elizabeth and her potential suitors. Students try and find the best match for Elizabeth, looking at their pros and cons, and whether they solve any of the problems that she faced. There is a GCSE style question, with sentence starters and challenge tasks to stretch the top end.

There is over a 150 medicine key words, events, people, cards based on the history of medicine GCSE topic. These can printed and laminated. When printing choose to print 8 pages on one page as they they are a better size for tasks. These can then be used for a multitude of tasks, such as timing them into putting them into a time periods. I did this every so often after a couple of times, the time it took was halved. They can also be used for class game of pictionary where they have to choose one at random and describe or draw it for the class to guess. Placing them on the tables and then with whiteboard pens making links between different people and events or group them into different factors such as war, communication government etc. AFL task where the table has to sort them into those they can explain and the ones that they struggle with.

This lessons forms a scheme of work for AQA Health and the People. The lesson looks at how the church impacted medicine and whether it hindered or helped medical development. Students complete a task as well as a source question and essay question. The lesson includes challenge tasks and writing frames for questions.

This lesson looks at trenches during World War One. Students read through sources to find out about life in trenches. There is a diagram task to learn about key features of a trench Lesson include a writing frame for low ability as well as a differentiated worksheet for the source activity.

The America topic has been divided up into each decade with a timeline of key events and key statistics for each, as well as a separate one for Women’s liberation and Civil Rights. I use these for recap tasks where students complete what they know and use these to DIRT and improve their answer. I have also printed of a couple and laminated and key changed together for students to take home for revision purposes.

A lesson that looks at whether Mary deserves her title of Bloody Mary, and why she may have got this infamy. Lesson includes some source work and GCSE styled question. There are sentence starters and challenge tasks.

This lesson looks at how the crises of the early 20th Century brought war closer to Europe. Students look at the Boer War, Moroccan Crises and the Balkan wars and how the actions of other countries would have affected others.

A lesson for GCSE AQA Health and the people SOW. The lesson gives an overview for medieval medicine. Students look at beliefs and treatments for diseases in the middle ages, as well as medical practitioners and how they observed medicine. Students complete a main task, recap activities, and an essay question. Lesson includes challenge tasks to stretch and challenge high ability and a writing frame for essay questions.

A lesson that looks at the reasons why Boudicca’s revolt failed. This can be used with the Horrible Histories Boudicca song. Students have to read through different sources and work out why Boudicca lost and begin to explain different reasons for failure. Students end with a GCSE styled question, there is a writing frame for lower ability students.

This lesson gets students to study how the Domesday Book helped William with controlling the country. Students read through an extract from the Domesday Book and Anglo-Saxon chronicle to work out the impact of the survey. Students have a worksheet to complete (there is a differentiated version). There is also a GCSE styled question with a writing frame to help weaker students.

Sheets that recap medicine in every time period;prehistoric to modern day. It includes key words and people with definitions. These can be placed on tables to help students when writing essays. I found that they worked well when cut up and used a bookmarks during revision.