Lesson 11 of 12 in a Year 9 scheme of work for World War One.
This lesson focuses on the end of the war and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- starter voice starter
- discussion of the Big 3
- analysing terms task
- PEE paragraph (with sentence starters)
- source plenary
- quiz activity
Lesson 12 of 12 in a Year 9 scheme of work for World War One.
This lesson is an assessment opportunity for students to demonstrates their understanding of topics covered in the scheme of work through extended pieces of writing.
Students will cover:
Life in Accrington
Propaganda
Being part of a PALS battalion
Trench warfare
The battle of the Somme
Germany's surrender
Signing of Armistice
The Treaty of Versailles
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- Powerpoint showing the fate of the Accrington PALS battalion (students use this to complete their soldier profile for identified soldier earlier in the scheme of work)
- Assessment worksheet
Lesson 3 of 12 in a Year 9 scheme of work for World War One.
This lesson is an assessment opportunity to gauge student understanding of the causes of WWI.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- levelled assessment objectives
- literacy levelled objectives
- sentence starters
Lesson 6 of 12 in a Year 9 scheme of work for World War One.
This lesson focuses on introducing life in the trenches.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- starter source task
- independent activity (using resources provided) to understand why trenches were used, where they were, what they were like etc.
- 3, 2, 1 plenary
This is an assessment used in the current Year 10 new GCSE (AQA) for The American West 1840 - 1895. Used to assess student understanding of life on the Plains, the concept of manifest destiny and American progress, attitudes towards the Plains Indians (covering Fort Laramie Treaty 1851) and taking in to consideration students have previously studied some of the groups who settled the West (Mormons, Gold miners)
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives (and prompts to assist students with completing tasks) , write on multiple choice quiz (starter), write on assessment sheet, sources insert and mark scheme.
Lesson includes:
- multiple choice quiz (starter)
- key word definition
- timeline completion (chronology)
- source description
- interpretation questions
- self assessment plenary
- sources booklet (AQA)
- interpretation questions mark scheme (AQA)
Lesson 1 in a Year 8 scheme of work on China - the big question of the topic is "Does China have what it takes to be a superpower?"
This lesson focuses on a comparison between China and the UK so that students can see similarities and differences in climate, culture, history and industry.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- gimme 5 starter
- matching statistics task
- marketplace activity (with write on structured worksheet)
- similarities and differences class discussion
- extended writing task
- bingo plenary
Lesson 1 in a Year 8 scheme of work on China - the big question of the topic is "Does China have what it takes to be a superpower?"
This lesson focuses on introducing where China is in the world.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- think / pair / share activity: what is a superpower?
- key term definition (unscrambling task)
- China or not task
- identifying where China is in the world (map task)
- BBQ plenary
Lesson 2 in a Year 8 scheme of work on China - the big question of the topic is "Does China have what it takes to be a superpower?"
This lesson focuses on population distribution within China.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- matching task
- key word definition
- graph activity
- choropleth map task
- describing population distribution task
- self assessment
Lesson 4 of 12 in a Year 9 scheme of work for World War One.
This lesson focuses on the use of propaganda.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- starter picture task
- keyword definition
- analysing propaganda task
- image V reality plenary
Lesson 2 of 12 in a Year 9 scheme of work for World War One.
This lesson focuses on the spark that triggered the war.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- card sort activity
- timeline / chronology activity
- tweet the teacher plenary
Lesson 6 of 9 in a Year 8 SOW on Population
This lesson explains what population pyramids are. Students are shown examples of MEDC and LEDC pyramids and are given the opportunity to create their own. Assessment on graph skills.
Included is the PowerPoint and all handouts / worksheets needed
Lessons have Bronze, Silver, Gold learning outcomes for students to progress through.
Current Year 11 OCR History GCSE Lesson focusing on the actions of Gustav Stresemann.
Lesson includes bronze, silver and gold learning objectives for students to work through.
Includes:
- bell work activity / starter
- mind map activity
- video and question task
- information on achievements
- true / false progress check
- activity based on achievements and explaining impacts
- exam question
- peer assessment / self assessment grid (based on mark scheme)
- stretch task: significance
- stretch task: picture source
Current Year 11 OCR History GCSE Lesson.
Lesson includes bronze, silver and gold learning objectives for students to work through.
Includes:
- bell work activity / starter
- card sort the event in to chronological order
- success and failures activity
- exam question
- peer assessment (following mark scheme)
- exemplar answer
Lesson 5 of 9 in a Year 9 scheme of work for the Holocaust.
This lesson focuses on Aktion T4 (Euthanasia programme) - This is an assessment opportunity.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities.
Lesson includes:
- evidence gathering and hypothesis forming
- report writing task (bronze, silver, gold levelled objectives)
- self assessment plenary
Lesson 2 of 9 in a Year 9 scheme of work for the Holocaust.
This lesson focuses on anti-Semitic propaganda, the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities.
Lesson includes:
- bell work activity
- video and true / false activity
- make a judgement task
- event mind map (differentiated worksheet included)
- plenary
Year 10 History lesson for the AQA History new GCSE.
Causes of the civil war lesson includes:
- bell work activity
- key word and definition starter activity
- recap of previous lesson (north and south differences)
- causes card sort activity
- mind map worksheet (question framework)
- making links between causes worksheet
- stretch
- catergorising plenary
Lesson 1 of 9 in a Year 9 scheme of work for the Holocaust.
This lesson focuses on introducing the impacts of the Holocaust.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities.
Lesson 1 includes:
- bell work activity
- activity to gauge prior knowledge
- matching activity
- PEE task
Lesson 10 of 12 in a Year 9 scheme of work for World War One.
This lesson focuses on reasons for Germany's surrender and the signing of Armistice.
Lesson includes a PowerPoint with Bronze, Silver, Gold objectives, differentiation opportunities and stretch activities. All worksheets, resources and video clips included.
Lesson includes:
- numeracy starter task
- remembrance day task / discussion of what remembrance day is
- carousel activity describing reasons for surrender and explaining the impacts
- PEE paragraph task
- remembrance day poetry plenary