A 1 hour lesson designed to help students understand the interpretation question (section A) in the Unit 3 component. This lesson features topical content on the Civil Rights module as part of OCR unit 3.
1 hour lesson designed for the Crime & Punishment module of the Edexcel specification. This lesson includes information taken from the Edexcel revision guide. It specifically focuses on similarity and difference in law enforcement and change and continuity in law enforcement over a 1000 year period.
Designed as a revision lesson.
Designed for a KS3 mid to high ability group (1 hour lesson). Complete lesson featuring PowerPoint presentation and worksheet. Images taken from Google.
This 1 hour interactive lesson is designed for low-ability students at KS3. As the League of Nations is quite a heavy topic this lesson gets the students to act out what happened with the League of Nations, and also why it did not work out as well as originally hoped. Each student performs the role of one of the countries. I taught this lesson to a low ability KS3 group and they retained the knowledge from it very well.
This lesson could be aimed at a high-ability KS3 group, or a KS4/GCSE group.
This lesson covers a wide range of information that students will need to know for the earthquakes topic. It includes:
Earth’s layers (for example, the crust and plate margins)
Wegener’s theory of continental drift
Key words and definitions
Different types of plate boundary
How earthquakes are measured
Effects and human responses to earthquakes
Case studies from an MEDC and an LEDC
Human solutions to earthquakes
There is a section at the bottom where you could add in your own exam style question (depending on your exam board) to the end of the lesson.
There is also a quiz at the bottom which you could set for homework or as an exit ticket consolidation activity.
(This lesson includes material from BBC Bitesize and Google Images)
This is a 2-part lesson which can be used briefly as a 1 hour lesson or spaced out into a 2 hour lesson.
This lesson features case studies from MEDCs and LEDCs on how they have dealt with, and responded to, tectonic activity - with a specific focus on earthquakes and volcanoes.
It offers some activities as a ‘recap’ for example, recalling the types of volcanoes and severity of seismic activity on the Richter scale, so it assumes some prior knowledge. However, it builds on this through sorting information into primary/secondary effects, and local/national/international responses.
Intended for KS3 mid to high ability.
Resource has adapted material from BBC Bitesize.
This lesson measures how the lives of women changed throughout the 1800s, culminating in what their lives were like by 1900.
It allows students to assess changes in the following areas:
Work
Clothing
Women’s rights
Societal attitudes
Activities
This lesson includes activities on source work, chronology, and exam practice.
This lesson is designed for a 1 hour tutorial but slides could be printed to allow for a ‘carousel’ style activity. This lesson is a great accompaniment to the Edexcel KS3 ‘Exploring History’ course.
This lesson covers the reforms that Thomas Cromwell introduced to government during his tenure as Henry VIII’s chief minister.
This lesson was designed for the course ‘Henry VIII and His Ministers’ (Edexcel GCSE) but will be a useful overview to students of Tudor England (specifically government)
This lesson covers:
Reforms to the Royal Council
Uniformity of government
Reforms to finance
Management and use of parliament
It also contains a consolidation quiz and sample model answer to the question ‘‘The main changes to Henry VIII’s system of government and finance in the years 1534-40 was a greater role for parliament’. How far do you agree? Explain your answer (16 marks)’
Designed for 1 hour session. Uses material taken from the Pearson coursebook ‘Henry VIII and His Ministers’
Designed for a 1 hour lesson.
This lesson includes information on:
How Cromwell rose to power under Henry VIII
How Cromwell secured Henry’s annulment and how he was rewarded
Cromwell’s role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn
Exam practice on: Describe two features of Cromwell’s influence (1530-1536)(4 marks) - Edexcel style question used to support ‘Henry VIII and His Ministers’ module.
It also allows students to evaluate the significance of Cromwell in the long-term - ‘which of Cromwell’s changes do you think was most significant in the development of English history?’
1 hour lesson on Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of Henry VIII. Ideal for the Edexcel GCSE course ‘Henry VIII and his ministers’ but also appropriate for students of Tudor History.
Lesson includes content on:
Cromwell’s early life
His service to Wolsey
Cromwell’s personality
Cromwell’s appointment to the Royal Council
Features an Edexcel 12 mark question ‘Explain why Cromwell rose to become Henry’s chief minister’ which allows students to apply their knowledge to exam materials.
A lesson focused around how Henry VII was able to take power, and how he was able to secure power.
Designed as a 1 hour tutorial lesson. Is suitable for high-ability KS3 or KS4.
Featured content contains the lineage of Henry, individuals who helped him achieve power, and analysis of different interpretations of Henry,
A 1 hour lesson consisting of an overview of the OCR A-Level component ‘England 1485-1558: The Early Tudors’.
Introduction to the Tudors paper; main body of lesson is focused around how to break down Section A of the paper (source work).
Features sample questions and sources taken from previous OCR papers.
9 slides of vocab quizzes with specific terminology related to the Tudors topic. More appropriate for older students as it includes advanced terminology needed for the GCSE and A-level courses on the Tudors.
Slides have the terminology included, but students have to find the answers for themselves.
Intended as a homework activity spanning 9 weeks (9 slides)
Ideal for students aiming for high grades and need to write in a sophisticated manner.
Crime, punishment & law enforcement, 1900-present. Designed as a 2 hour tutorial lesson - perfect for a revision session.
An extensive, knowledge-rich lesson which includes information on the following:
Crime:
Definitions of crime
Attitudes towards social crimes
Old crimes resurfacing as new crimes
16 mark question practice on the above topic
Law enforcement:
How policing changed
Developments in science and technology in police work
Crime prevention
Specialism within the police
4 mark question practice on the above topic
Punishment:
Capital punishment & changing attitudes towards it
Derek Bentley
Punishment of juveniles
Changes to the prison system
Reform and rehabilitation
12 mark practice question
Case study on conscientious objectors and 4 mark practice question & consolidation quiz on the information in this PowerPoint.
All information in this PowerPoint taken from the Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Crime and Punishment c1000-present textbook.
This lesson introduces/recaps the Reform of Parliament breadth study component of the Edexcel A-Level History course ‘Protest, Agitation, and Parliamentary Reform in Britain, 1780-1928’.
This lesson includes information on:
The political situation in 1780. This includes the county franchise, the borough franchise, size of the electorate, and elections and interests.
The pressures which existed for change and the reasons for resistance. This includes the impact of the French Revolution and post-war unrest, 1815-30.
This lesson tests skills such as:
Recall of key words
Judgement line on the political situation - to what extent did each represent the people of Britain?
Comparison on pressures and resistance - which was the most significant?
Knowledge quiz
This lesson includes images sourced from Google.com, and extracts taken from the textbook ‘Protest, Agitation, and Parliamentary Reform’ by Peter Callaghan, Edward Gillin, and Adam Kidson (Pearson Education Limited, 2016)
Resource designed to help contextual understanding on the Edexcel GCSE Geography B specification (Development).
This lesson covers the demographic transition model, and illustrates to the student how development and population structure are inextricably linked. It then moves on to population pyramids, and how these look different depending on the development level of the country.
The lesson then explores the reasons for high fertility and mortality. Finally, the lesson finishes with a consolidation activity in which it asks students to apply this knowledge to practice questions taken from previous Edexcel GCSE Geography B exams.
This lesson was designed as a 1 hour tutorial lesson, but the slides on the DTM could be printed off as a match-up student-led activity.
Images taken from Google, Cambridge iGCSE Geography textbook, and BBC bitesize website.
This resource was originally designed as a 1 hour tutorial, and so it is knowledge-rich with exam practice embedded into it.
It contains information on:
Why Africa was an appealing destination for European Empires
What those empires hoped to gain from Africa
Why they thought they had the right to take other nations
A source practice question featuring Cecil Rhodes and imperialism
The Scramble for Africa
Britain’s presence in Egypt and Sudan
Evaluation/judgement question which asks the students what they feel was the most significant reason for expansion into Africa.
How useful are Sources A and B to a historian studying attitudes to European expansion in Africa? (8 marks)
This lesson has taken images from Google and the AQA GCSE History textbook published by Oxford.
An overview quiz to be used in conjunction with the topics studied in the geog.1 textbook (Gallagher, Parish, & Williamson)
Quiz includes 5 questions on each of the following topics:
Planet Earth
Map Skills
The UK
Glaciers
Rivers
Africa
For use with papers 1 + 3 (AQA A-Level Sociology)
Designed as a 1 hour revision lesson.
It tests and recaps the students on:
Qualitative v quantitative
Interpretivists v positivists
validity, reliability, objectivity, and representation
advantages & disadvantages of primary & secondary data
The next part of the lesson is student led: in pairs or small groups they are to assess strengths and limitations of each type of data.
To consolidate their learning within this lesson there is a practice exam Q at the end of the PowerPoint: ‘Outline and explain two problems of using primary qualitative methods in sociological research. (10 marks)’ There is also a mark scheme included from AQA so there is the possibility of peer-assessment within this lesson.
There is an optional homework activity included also which is a quiz which tests the students’ knowledge from this lesson.