Lesson focusing on my why the USA expanded up to 1838 to start the OCR SHP B Making of America Course. Summarised and differentiated information as well as a worksheet for pupils to use.

This resource contains two quiz cards for the start of the second year of teaching for the AQA Democracy and Nazism course. I cut these out stick back to back and laminate. I them display them in the classroom so students can access them. They are also put on the sixth form VLE. These have contributed to outstanding results and student's recall of knowledge has dramatically improved.

This timeline gives a detailed overview of the impact of war on Nazi persecution of the Jewish people. Included is plenty of precise detail and historian’s views. My A Level students have found this a very useful resource when approaching essays focused on this topic. It is especially good at demonstrating Christopher Browning’s ‘euphoria of victory’ interpretation on the decision making process concerning the ‘Final Solution’.

This enquiry can take 2-3 lessons to complete. Pupils work in small groups using the information sheets provided to come to their own conclusion. There is advice on how to approach the research, structure their notes and how to justify their conclusion. Pupils have to choose which historians they agree with, if they agree with either. I get pupils to move to an area of the room to make their judgement - this is shown on the PPT. Highly engaging lesson and builds the skills required on any young historian. You can add other sources to the lesson.

These three lessons are to help the teaching of the new GCSE 1-9 Elizabethan England 1580-1603 OCR SHP course. They are tailored to the OCR book and contain various tasks and stimulus to aid the delivery of the course.

A display to help pupils and students think about what it is historians actually do. It also helps pupils to get in the right mindset to approach studying history.

This resource was created for a ‘turbo’ revision lesson to be done in an hour. There is an overview of life for the Plains Indians and an example exam question based on this. There are two exam questions focusing on early settlers, including the Mormons and gold miners. Pupils worked well with the resource. All exam questions are structured for the pupils with hints about what to write.

This resource was created for a ‘turbo’ revision lesson with GCSE pupils. It has structured answers with example paragraphs and a detailed simplified timeline of Reconstruction in 4 distinct periods. Pupils found this very useful. There are two 10 mark questions (explain why America expanded and why the Civil War started) and an essay question on Reconstruction. This worked well and was designed to be done in an hour.

This enquiry will take two-three hours to complete. Students work in small groups to research the evidence for and against the execution of Charles I. It is a highly engaging lesson and students frequently question their thinking and judgment on the key question. The lesson concludes with student writing on the verdict sheet and announcing their justified conclusion.

This resource was created for a ‘turbo’ revision session that lasted an hour. There is an explain question on the expansion of slavery with a detailed but simplified overview of three key reasons why this happened. There is also a 9 mark (write an organised summary) question on the railways and two plans for questions on homesteaders. There is a detailed summary of the Homesteaders section to aid with these plans. Pupils found these very useful and were able to access the exam questions well.

Two storyboard revision activities to be used with the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE revision book. This activity reviews the content and themes for the third section of the course, looking at the rise of the Nazis.

This resource contains precise knowledge for each of the five protests you have to study for the OCR SHP Paper 2 - Luddites, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Rebecca Riots, Match Girls Strike and the Suffragists/Suffragettes. This knowledge is thorough and categorised into causes, methods, key events, authorities reaction and outcomes. The Suffragettes knowledge is presented on a timeline as I have found this the easiest way to demonstrate the changes in the methods of the protest.

These four lessons help deliver the new Elizabethan course for OCR 1-9 SHP. They contain good context, some source analysis and thorough resources that are tailored to the OCR Elizabethan England 1580-1603 textbook. Save hours of planning time.

These three lessons help with the delivery of the fourth section of the book on popular pastimes. There are excellent resources included and they are tailored to the OCR SHP Elizabethan England textbook. Will save hours in planning.

This resource has a thorough timeline of the Crime and Punishment course for OCR SHP 1-9. However, it can be easily amended for other boards. The timeline is split into 4 parts - 1250-1500, 1500-1750, 1750-1900 and 1900-present. There is Blue line and information for crimes, red for law enforcement and green for punishments. It is a very effective overview and cuts the course down simply for students. Students like these a lot as the can easily see key changes and continuities, and also the 5 key factors they have to analyse in each period.

These knowledge tests are influenced by research that has shown low-stakes knowledge testing significantly improves knowledge recall. There are 9 quiz cards in this resource, three for each section of the AS Year. You simply back them together, laminate and put on display for students to use (questions one side, answers on the other). This revision strategy has proven very popular at GCSE and is now even more applicable at A-Level with the new linear courses.

This is a thorough analysis of Nazi persecution against the Jews. I have found this best done after studying Nazi persecution against the Jews the period 1933-41, although it could be used as an introduction to this period. This resources provides a thorough and clear timeline of key laws and events that students can use to identify key turning points from 1933-1942. There is also a thorouh timeline on the period 1940-42 analysing the impact of the war on Nazi racial policy towards the Jews and historian’ interpretations, especially Christopher Browning’ ‘euphoria of victory’ interpretation. There is also a clear and thorough analysis of the Intentionalist and functionalist schools of thought and those of contemporary historians. Key events are also analysed according to these schools of thought to see which arguments the students find most convincing. Also provided is an overview of the debate on complicity in the Holocaust. Throughout the lesson there are key questions for students to discuss and debate. At the end of the PPT there are four exam style questions for students to analyse and plan on an essay planning sheet. Students find this resource/lesson very helpful and enjoy the rigour involved. A must for A Level historians.

Revision activities for the first section of the Democracy to Dictatorship course for the History IGCSE. Included is a storyboard activity to use with the information in the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE HIstory (9-1) revision book. Students review key content through the storyboard activity on Weimar’s early problems and then apply this to an exam style question.

Lessons covering the second section of the Edexcel IGCSE course focused on Social Tensions in 1920s America. They are created to be used with the authorised Edexcel IGCSE textbook. Lessons cover: immigration The Red Scare Sacco and Vanzetti Attitudes to Black Americans KKK Monkey Trial Prohibition Will save hours of planning time.