A lesson aimed at a high ability year 8 class. This looks at whether Louis was to blame for the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy. Students look at the events that faced Louis and how they would react then they find out what Louis himself did and the consequences. Students throughout should be questioned about why they would make the choices. Then why was Louis choice a mistake or did he have any other options. You should try and push for a balanced picture of Louis as much as possible. Then students should discuss what their verdict of Louis is. Was he stupid, naive or just a disaster of a king? This lesson comes with challenge tasks and a homework task (though i used this for by less able students in the lesson as well). This lesson is very much a narrative lesson. Get students to read the information.

A good way to end the lesson. Press the spin button and see what social media themed plenary it will land on students then end the lesson in the task. Click on the app and the activity will appear to increase interest and engagement I’ve also created it in a dice format and five each group one to use and they can do this on their own and if under running complete two. Students really liked this task.

Timers give 1 or 3 minutes before they go off. The Volcano explodes with smoke and brimstone, with sound effects, whilst the iceberg melts away into the sea, the rain-forest timer starts a monsoon which ends after animals try to escape the rain and ends when the rain stops. These work well as hot seat activities, students have to answer as many questions or define as many key words before their time runs out.

This lessons looks at the Paris uprisings, including the Germinal, Prairial, and Vendemiaire, students read through the information about each of the Parisian revolts and compare the similarity and differences. The lesson includes challenge tasks and a A-Level Question. This lesson forms part of a SOW for AQA A level France in Revolution 1774-1815.

A booklet that goes through the key time periods in the study of history of medicine. This can be used as a homework task for students to recap what they have learnt or given out as a revision task. I used this as a starter coming up to exams to get students to focus on their weakest areas. It includes a section for them to recap the key factors needed to explain why medicine improved. There are also boxes to allow students to plan questions.

This lesson gets students to compare the experiences of women during the Civil War with the expectations of their gender. Students look at extracts from conduct books to look at expectations of women before the Civil War, then three examples of women during the Civil War. Chances for source work. Lesson includes challenge tasks and key word boxes.

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 collection of revision materials. Includes a detailed timeline, a key events table mat, a set of revision bookmarks that look at key questions, and a revision clock activity.

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 group of lesson resources medieval themed. There is a connectives word mat to help students with their writing in lesson. There is also a Takeaway Homework, where there are a range of options that range in difficulty. Furthermore there is a Question/Debate plenary Game. Students are split into two teams and take turns trying to out question and answer each other. They attack each time they get a question wrong first to loose three lives.

A group of lesson resources themed around space. There is a connectives word mat to help students with their writing in lesson. There is also a Takeaway Homework, where there are a range of options that range in difficulty. Furthermore there is a Meteor Word Game. At the end of the lesson students have to destroy all the meteors by defining the words. Student choose a word and define it if they are correct they press the word and it will dissolve with a sound effect.

Two activities that recap the 1920’s section of AQA’s USA topic. The game of draughts is differentiated so that one colour of the board has harder questions than the other. The finger twister can work with the powerpoint spinner. The revision clock worksheet allows students to check how much they understand of the topic. This can be followed by group work to fix the gaps that they have. There is also a Frogger inspired board game and Blockbusters

3 sheets for students to complete for revision. There are images to act as prompts, there are completed versions with answers as well to act as revision sheets for the Korean and Vietnam War.

This includes a Takeaway Homework, two interactive Plenary Battle activity where students are divided as a class and compete to answer questions to defeat the opponent. There is also a Star Wars inspired connectives word mat, which can be matched with a power point to introduce a DIRT activity. PowerPoints have animation and sound effects to engage students.

A group of resources inspired by the Game Mario. Include a word mat and themed takeaway homework. Also includes two interactive plenaries one is a question battle where the class is divided and aim to attack the other group’s character by answering question. The other one is a timed how many questions can you answer before the bullet reaches Mario, and score points by clicking on the boxes each time you answer. The plenaries are animated and have sound effects to keep students engaged.

This includes a Takeaway Homework, two interactive Plenary activities, where students are divided as a class and compete to answer questions to defeat the opponent. There is also a hero inspired connectives word mat. All the PowerPoints have animation and sound effects to engage students.

A lesson that looks at the break from Rome and get students to investigate why did Henry break from Rome. Students practice PEE paragraphs and using evidence to back up arguments. There are challenge tasks to stretch top end and sentence starters to scaffold.

A 43 page booklet that recaps the AQA america topic from 1920-45. The booklet contains key word prompts, questions and tasks. I use this as a bank of worksheets to keep refreshing their understanding of the topic. When it comes to their exams students can print these off for revision. Topics covered: -Reasons for the economic boom - Car Industry - Great depression - New Deal - WW2 and the economy - Entertainment and culture.

This works best printed off on A3, students use this concurrently with their study and add to it to form their own large knowledge organisers

This lesson is part of a SOW for AQA Health and the People. This lesson looks at the role and impact of Islamic medicine on medical progress. Students compare it with Europe during the middle ages and look at the 3 main islamic doctors, Rhaze, Abulcasis and Avicenna (Ibn Sina). The lesson has a GCSE styled question with a planning activity. There are challenge tasks to stretch the top end and writing frames and work sheets for the weaker students.