IMPORTANT: Some of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 2 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. I have grouped two separate lessons/resource sets into one sale item as by this stage of the course I found that I was quite eager to get though the final content and that my students were becoming ready to move on to something fresh. Aims and Objectives: To learn about the improvements in diagnosis: the impact of the availability of blood tests, scans and monitors. To learn about the extent of change in treatment: advances in medicines, including magic bullets and antibiotics. The Power Points lead students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. They also provide feedback/answers at intervals which is handy as this part of the course is rather content-heavy. Activities are largely worksheet based and focus on analysing reasons for change. Worksheets provide an information overview using time lines etc. to reduce note-taking and speed up this section of the course. For assessment, I have included a 4 mark exam question on changes in diagnosis with advice, structure and the oportunity for peer assessment.

IMPORTANT: Some of these worksheets refer to the textbook "Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, Medicine through time, c1250-present (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 2-3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and illness. The influence in Britain of Pasteur’s Germ Theory and Koch’s work on microbes. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. These include a true and false quiz, table comparison of old and new ideas, information categorisation and ordering and a 16 mark exam question with guidance. The experiment could be left out but my classes loved it and it really works if done correctly. You will need to keep the one bread sample totally sterile, so handle minimally with sanitised hands and bag straight up. The contamination of the other piece of bread is great fun- we rubbed it on door handles, the floor and one student had it under his armpits! Don’t pierce the sandwich bags but pin them in a light/warm place like your department staff room. Everybody will love to watch the mould develop whilst eating their lunch. It also provides a valuable lesson on why hands should be washed before eating.

IMPORTANT: Some of these worksheets refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3-4 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate and whether you decide to write the exam answer in full. Aims and Objectives: To understand continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and illness. To understand the new scientific approach, including the work of Thomas Sydenham in improving diagnosis. To understand the influence of the printing press and the work of the Royal Society on the transmission of ideas. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheet. It also provides feedback/answers at intervals. Activities include card sort stater, comprehension questions/note-taking, think words, 4 mark exam question and essay planning for a 12 mark explanation question (could also be answered in full).

IMPORTANT: Many of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, The American West, c1835-c1895” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127309 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers 4+ lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: Changes in farming, the cattle industry and settlement, 1876-95. To understand the changes in farming: the impact of new technology and new farming methods. To understand the changes in the cattle industry, including the impact of the winter of 1886-7. The significance of changes in the nature of ranching: the end of the open range. To understand the continued growth of settlement: the Exoduster movement and Kansas (1879), the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback and answers at intervals. Activities include card sorts, group presentations/sales pitches on new methods of farming, an 8 mark explanation exam question on consequences of the winter of 1886-7, analysing/categorising information into positives and negatives, a letter from an Exoduster, narrative recall of the land rush and event ordering.

IMPORTANT: Some of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit technically covers 3-4 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability-work rate. However, as this is the point in the course where I introduce the 8 mark source evaluation question and the follow-up question, it could easily take a lot longer if all of the practice opportunities are carried out in full. Aims and Objectives: To learn about the main medical problems, wounds and injuries that were faced on the Western Front and how they were dealt with. To learn how to answer the source evaluation exam question and the source follow-up question. The Power Point leads students through all of the activities with accompanying worksheets. It also provides regular feedback and answers which is useful with so much content being covered. Activities include source analysis video starter, independent note-taking, scenario diagnosis of case studies plenary, a developed analysis of Dulce et Decorum using video, a detailed introduction to the source questions with my technique for answering them (poster and handout to reinforce this), source evaluation work on gas attacks and problems with transport, follow-up source question and opportunities for peer assessment.

IMPORTANT: Some of these worksheets and activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1 History, Medicine through time, c1250-present” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127378 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 2 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand the new approaches to prevention: the development and use of vaccinations. Case Study: Jenner The Power Point leads students through all activities with feedback and accompanying worksheets. These include a mystery image starter, storyboard and knowledge recall activity, analysis of reactions to and impact of the vaccine, cut, sort and stick on the development of vaccinations. The key assessment is a 12 mark explanatory question “Explain why there was rapid change in the prevention of smallpox after 1798.” This includes exam technique guidance and the opportunity for peer assessment.

IMPORTANT: Many of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, The American West, c1835-c1895” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127309 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: Conflict and tension, c.1835-62. To understand the reasons for tension between settlers and Plains Indians, and the significance of the Fort Laramie Treaty (1851). To understand the problem of lawlessness in the West and what was done to tackle it. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback/answers at intervals. Activities include sorting and prioritisation of information, an 8 mark exam question on consequence explanation, a card sort, independent note-taking, group discussion, a short video, a 16 mark explanation question and an end of unit quiz.

This unit of work should take at least 3 hours to complete. The Power Point leads students through all activities with answers when required along with the necessary contextual subject knowledge. All accompanying resources are included. I have previously broken this unit down into three classroom lessons and one final IT lesson where students researched their Holocaust hero. LESSON 1 (Growing anti-Semitism of 1930s): Aims and Objectives: To know Hitler’s racial theories. To use sources to explore how these were put into practice throughout the 1930s in Germany. To empathise with those effected through producing a piece of creative writing in the first-person. LESSON 2 (Life in a ghetto): Aims and Objectives: To know what ghettos were and where they were set up. To understand the purpose of the ghettos. To carry out independent research into conditions inside the ghettos and demonstrate empathetic understanding of what it must have been like to live in one. LESSON 3 (The Final Solution): Aims and Objectives: To know the key events which led to the construction of death camps in Eastern Europe. To understand why these camps were created and how they eased the process of mass murder. To understand the motivation and psychology of those involved. The three lessons focus on the journey of two fictional Jewish children throughout the period 1933-45. A short diary entry is written at the end of each lesson explaining what has happened to them at this stage. Lesson 1 explores the growing anti-Semitism of the 1930s using a range of sources to chart the development and escalation. Lesson 2 explores conditions inside the ghetto using video clips and handout. The final lessons explains the process of the Final Solution and focuses upon how it was able to happen (from a psychological angle). The student booklet for this lesson uses a series of sources to explore the key issues. To end the unit on a more optimistic topic, students consider those who stood up against the Holocaust and create a information poster on their hero of the Holocaust.

IMPORTANT: Some of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, The American West, c1835-c1895” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127309 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3-4 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: Ranching and the cattle industry, 1862-76 To understand the cattle industry and factors in its growth, including the roles of Iliff, McCoy and Goodnight, the significance of Abilene and the increasing use of the railroad network. To understand the impact of changes in ranching on the work of the cowboy. To understand the rivalry between ranchers and homesteaders. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback and answers at intervals. Activities include key words, timeline analysis/colour-coding, independent note taking, a narrativ account 8 mark exam question, video Q&A, letter from a cowboy describing his first spring round-up, an explain 2 consequences (of ranching on the Plains) exam question.

IMPORTANT: Some of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, The American West, c1835-c1895” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127309 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3-4 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: Migration and early settlement: To understand the factors encouraging migration, including economic conditions, the Oregon Trail from 1836, the concept of Manifest Destiny, and the Gold Rush of 1849. To understand the process and problems of migration, including the experiences of the Donner Party and the Mormon migration, 1846-7. To understand the development and problems of white settlement farming. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback at intervals. Activities include the colour-coding of pull and push factors causing migration and prioritisation of factors, a comparison/analysis of the failure of the Donner Party and success of the Mormon migration, an explanation of consequences exam question “Explain two consequences of the setting up of the Oregon Trail (1836)” and a letter writing task explaining the difficulties of migration (which could be set as a home work).

IMPORTANT: Many of these activities refer to the textbook “Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History, The American West, c1835-c1895” (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127309 and will not be usable without a copy of this text. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: Specification area: The development of settlement in the West, 1862-76 To understand the significance of the Civil War and post war reconstruction, including the impact of the Homestead Act 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act 1862, and the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, 1869. To understand the attempts at solutions to problems faced by homesteaders: the use of new methods and new technology; the impact of the Timber Culture Act 1873 and the spread of the railroad network. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. It also provides feedback/answers at intervals. Activities include analysis of achievements v. limitations, comprehension questions, exam consequence explanation question, inference work, a business analysis activity on the building of the transcontinental railroad, a promotional poster homework task, independent research and note-taking, charting and analysis of rise and fall in crime levels.

This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand the political developments in 1932. The roles of Hindenburg, Brüning, von Papen and von Schleicher. The part played by Hindenburg and von Papen in Hitler becoming Chancellor in 1933. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. Activities include a starter/paired discussion testing memory on state of Germany in 1932, a break down of each stage of Hitler’s rise which asks students to create memory jogger images at each point, creation of a summary timeline of key events, colour-coding actions of individuals involved and summarising their actions before ranking them according to level of blame, a usefulness exam source question with support and advice (comprehending written sources and reading in context, strategies for evaluating sources) and a final end of unit quiz.

This KS3 series of lessons investigate whether or not Field Marshal Haig deserves the nickname “The Butcher of the Somme” leading into a final source assessment. The Power Point leads students through all of the activities with accompanying student task booklet. Two short video clips are used to introduce the way in which Haig has been portrayed and the true nature of the Battle of the Somme. A simple cloze exercise outlines the key facts before a collection of sources are analysed to determine whether or not Haig does deserve to be known as “The Butcher”. This leads into a formal assessment where the students are asked to use the sources critically to produced a balanced written answer with a final judgment. A writing frame and mark scheme are included.

This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 2 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate: Aims and Objectives: To understand the legacy of WW1. The abdication of the Kaiser, the armistice and revolution, 1918-19. The setting up of the Weimar Republic. The strengths and weaknesses of the new constitution. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying worksheets. These include an introduction to the Paper 3 question types, a timeline/overview starter activity giving context to the entire course, short video on the impact of WW1, an introduction to the inference question with a practice question and sample answer, a factual introduction to the foundation of the republic (matching questions to answers), and a card sort/analysis on the weaknesses and strengths of the Weimar constitution. There is a homework vocabulary sheet exercise.

IMPORTANT: One of the activities in this unit (Night of Long Knives fact file) refers to the textbook "Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1939 (editor Leonard A. and published by Pearson) ISBN 9781292127347 and will not be usable without a copy of this text or another text which explains the events of the Night of Long Knives. This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 2+ lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate. Aims and Objectives: To understand the Reichstag Fire. The Enabling Act and the banning of other parties and trade unions. To understand the threat from Röhm and the SA, the Night of the Long Knives and the death of von Hindenburg. Hitler becomes Führer, the army and the oath of allegiance. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. Activities include a video starter asking students to consider how the Nazis overcame the obstacles to their dictatorship, conversion of a staged written explanation of the events into condensed bullet points, colour-coding of actions into legal and illegal, a Night of Long Knives fact file and an exam interpretation question on this topic including a possible structure.

This KS3 unit of work covers several lessons and I’ve generally been quite flexible and allowed classes who are particularly engaged with the topic and research to spend longer on it. The lessons build up the students’ knowledge and understanding of trench structure, purpose, conditions and warfare. The booklet ensures that all students know the key facts surrounding this topic with the Power Point leading students through all of the activities. A few different starter activities are included at the end of the Power Point which can be selected according to the length of time spent on the main activities. Having worked through the key facts and background, the students undertake more independent research. Support materials are included for weaker classes, such as research tables and a source booklet which covers all of the key areas. I have used a great variety of resources depending upon each class- textbooks, library lessons, Internet, videos etc. Once the research is complete, the students complete the Trench Diary assessment task which is levelled according to subject knowledge and understanding of cause/effect. A mark scheme is included. Support materials are also included in this pack, such as a plan outline for students who require a little more guidance and a writing frame for the less able.

Includes a set of revision notes for each area of the specification. These notes are used in conjunction with my full revision guide. In contrast to the full guide, they follow a more analytical structure which matches previous exam questions. The notes can be used separately or put together into one booklet. I integrated previous exam questions and mark schemes which had been sorted by topic rather than by date set. Students used the full guide and revision notes to prepare essay plans on each unit in preparation for the exam.