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I have been a teacher for 8 years and am currently working in Dubai as a History teacher and Head of Year.
I put a lot of effort into creating my premium resources and will not upload them until I am confident the lesson will be graded at least a good if not outstanding.
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This Assembly is designed to enable students to reflect upon the priorities in their life.
Song, 'Time of your Life', plays as students enter (embedded). As students wait for everyone to enter they can silently reflect upon how the images displayed are connected. All will be referred to in the assembly.
Begin with asking a pupil to define the word 'priority' before demonstrating the 'Jar of Life'.
Required:
1. Large stones / golf balls
2. 2 empty jars / glass bowls
3. Pebbles
4. Sand / Pilau rice
5. Coffee / Water
The Jar = Your life
The Large Stones = the important things e.g. Family, Friends, Health, Love. Education.
The pebbles = Less important things e.g. Car, House, Holidays, Designer Clothes.
The Sand = Even less impornat things e.g. X-box, Phone, Facebook, Snap chat, Instagram, TV.
Further instructions are attached (see video).
Pupils then reflect upon the included embedded video, 'Your Life in Jelly Beans' which shows how much of your life is spent sleeping / eating / commuting etc and how many days left this leaves you with.
Question pupils on what their 'big rocks' are and why they need to prioritize a bit more in their lives.
Finish with a prayer and hand out reflection sheet for pupils to go away and reflect upon or complete as a Tutor activity later on.
The lesson focuses upon a series of student led tasks to assess and judge the worst aspect of factory conditions.
Lesson begins with intention and outcomes linked with the first recorded video footage from 1895 of factory workers to hook students in.
Students starter task sees them working in pairs through a ‘write - round - robin’ task where they will write the alphabet down the side of their book and pass between themselves to write as many adjectives as they can about factories in a set amount of time. Teacher will show image on the interactive white board. Prize to winning team who complete as many words as possible.
Students are then to watch a video (embedded) on life in a Victorian Factory - they are tasked with bullet pointing as many negative aspects of work life as they can. students then engage with a PICTIONARY style activity to embed the identified negative aspects (all explained within the PP description).
Students then either use their own ideas or the card sort provided to rank order factory conditions from worst to least to form an over all judgment as a group but then also individually. Students must justify their opinion as a plenary.
All music sounds and video are embedded into the PP.
The focus of this lesson is to build upon the delicate balance of world powers in the 1930’s with Hitlers Anschluss of Austria in 1938 and fits into the bigger picture of ‘Why had international peace collapsed by 1939’?
**Hook: **students are handed hook sheet as they enter to instantly complete focusing around recalling 5 key facts about Hitler’s foreign policy.
**Starter: ** students watch a video (optional but embedded) are challenged to suggest why they may be surprised by the message of the interview video. Teacher then links into and introduces the lessons intention.
Main task 1: Students are provided with a key information sheet breaking the stages of Anschluss down – students to highlight 3 key features of each stage. Students are then challenged to write a series of questions based on the information to quiz each other about the stages of Anschluss. Students then to meet back at their table and complete their table sheet in more detail.
Show consolidation video (embedded).
Students then to explain why Hitler was able to achieve Anschluss in 1938. Structure strips and success criteria (MARK Scheme) for differentiation.
Plenary: Students to apply their acquired knowledge to an exam style question – structure strips are provided for differentiation and a mark scheme to allow students to peer / self assess their answer afterwards as a plenary.
(Home work included for source evaluation).
The focus of this lesson is to build upon the Aims & the structure of the LON and fits into the bigger picture of ‘To What Extent Was The League of Nations a Success’? The lesson’s purpose is to introduce the league’s failures in the 1920’s and to judge the most significant through a series of student led and source evaluation (less teacher talk) tasks.
**Hook: **students are handed hook sheet as they enter to instantly complete focusing around recalling 5 key facts about the successes of the LON. Teacher introduces the lessons intention.
**Starter: ** After watching an introduction video about the League in the 1920s failures (summary video) (embedded into the PP) Students then answer a series of quick fire questions about the views people had of its structure and failures / flaws.
Main task 1: Student competition task: Teacher to display the success on the board and students to remember as many as they can to then fill in their map sheet. OR card sort and cut up the failures and students handed one each to become an expert in and complete the relevant section of their map sheet. Students then mix pair share to help each other complete their entire sheet.
Main Task 1 (optional): Students could then to arrange their card sort of failures into an arrow of significance and to form a judgment on the most significant failure.
Main task 2: Students to apply their acquired knowledge to source evaluation and exam technique through using a ‘layers of inference’ sheet to support weaker learners. Students then answer their exam style question and peer assess (proforma included).
Plenary: Students break into small groups who have selected the same ‘most significant failure’ they coach each other and then nominate a representative to go ‘Head-To-Head’ with another student with a differing opinion to argue out their opinion. Teacher decided on the most convincing / articulate reasoning and awards points.
**All videos embedded / descriptions and prompts included in the PP description. **
The focus of this lesson is to build upon the delicate balance of world powers in the 1930’s with Hitler’s Saar plebiscite 1935 and fits into the bigger picture of ‘Why had international peace collapsed by 1939’?
**Hook: **students are handed hook sheet as they enter to instantly complete focusing around recalling 5 key facts about Hitler’s foreign policy and key terminology.
**Starter: ** Teacher then links into and introduces the lessons intention.
Main tasks: Students to complete in pairs against each other to answer a series of quick fire questions in the form of a literacy relay (explained in the PP) to unpick the plebiscite’s main events. Students then use the answers to quiz each other in the correct answers before teacher takes feedback.
Students then use the information to create a short cartoon strip outlining the events.
Students complete a card sort assessing the significant and impact of the plebiscite (judgment line to consolidate)
Plenary: Students to apply their acquired knowledge to explain underneath their cartoon strip the significance of the plebiscite in the bigger picture.
Students then have a revision sheet completed to go into books / folders outlining the events of the Saar and its impact on why international peace had collapsed by 1939.
The focus of this lesson is to build upon the failures of the LON and fits into the bigger picture of ‘To What Extent Was The League of Nations a Success’? The lesson’s purpose is to introduce the reasons behind Japan’s Decision to invade Manchuria and to judge the most significant through a series of student led and source evaluation (less teacher talk) tasks.
**Hook: **students are handed hook sheet as they enter to instantly complete focusing around recalling 5 key facts about the Great Depression and its impact on LON + to complete a map of south East Asia with as much detail as possible. Teacher introduces the lessons intention.
Main task 1: Student competition task: Students to engage in a literacy relay task to summarize the various reasons behind Japan’s decision to invade (all explained on the PP).
After watching a consolidation video about the invasion (summary video) (embedded into the PP) Students then answer the questions from the relay task verbally as the teacher received feedback.
Main Task 2: Students then to arrange their card sort answers of reasons into order of significance to form a judgment for the main reason or the invasion. There is an option for students to do this as a team or individually (Both resources provided).
Plenary: Students then could meet with students who have the same significance opinion as themselves to discuss further why they believe this – students then to answer exam style question (Why did Japan invade Manchuria in 1931?) + peer assess each other’s work (WAGOLL Also provided to model a full mark response).
**All videos embedded / descriptions and prompts included in the PP description. **
The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to explain the impact and then longer term consequences of appeasement / Munich Agreement and Sudeten Crisis.
Hook: Students to enter and to complete a quick source of evidence settler based on appeasement. Students receive this as they enter the class from another student or the teacher (to be printed off the presentation) Teacher takes feedback and introduces the lessons intentions and aims.
Main task 1. students to play a mix -pair-share activity ‘hey did you know?’ all explained in the PP and linked to the shorter term impacts of the Munich agreement, there can then be a quick memory test before students detail some of these in their books / applied to a quick GCSE exam prep question (structure strips provided for differentiation).
Main task 2:
Students then complete a summary activity about specifically France and Britain’s reaction to Hitler’s further occupation of Czechoslovakia/ combined with an embedded video. Students are the n to use both of these as resources to complete a quick ‘newspaper style’ summary sheet detailing this information to go into their books.
All videos are embedded into the PP (Links provided)
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The purpose of this lesson is to inform students not only about the Great Exhibition but also it’s importance to the British Empire.
**Lesson Plan: **
Lesson starts Embedded song plays as students enter with a literacy hook to immediately begin work to define an exhibition to then challenge students to think of any modern day ones.
Starter: Students watch a short intro video (embedded) to then define ‘The Great Exhibition’.
The teacher than has the option to watch a more in depth video (embedded) which students have a series of questions to answer linked with it’s inception - what was on display and what countries exhibited products and goods. Answers provided then for students and teacher to go though.
Main Task: students engage in a literacy relay task and work in teams competing against each other to build their knowledge upon the Exhibition. there could be a prize for the winning team.
Teacher then embedded knowledge using the answers and student feedback - students can mix-[air-share the answers between each other.
**Plenary: **Acquired knowledge can then be demonstrated though the answering of an exam style question (differentiated though scaffold / mark scheme and sentence starters / key words).
***Lots of visuals / moving images and music embedded within the presentation. ***
The focus of this lesson is to build upon the collapse of international peace in the 1930s. The lesson’s purpose is to learn about Hitler’s decision to invade the Rhineland and in the bigger picture of the failures of the 1930s why this was allowed through a series of student led and source evaluation (less teacher talk) tasks.
**Hook: **students are handed hook sheet as they enter to instantly complete focusing around recalling 5 key facts about international relations at the time. Teacher introduces the lessons intention.
Main task 1: Student competition task: Students to engage with a video to introduce the situation and engage in a student led justification task where students must focus upon the decisions of France / Britain / Germany all explained in the PP.
Main Task 2: Students to then engage in a 6 monkeys style activity to outline the ‘story’ of the invasion now that the scene has been set before applying this knowledge to the evaluation of a source of evidence. Students will discuss the source but then engage in a WAGOLL (What a good one looks like) activity to form an overall judgment on the purpose of the source.
**All videos embedded / descriptions and prompts included in the PP description. **
The purpose of this lesson is to convey the causes of the wall street crash in a student friendly and accessible manner though a series of student led (less teacher talk) tasks.
Hook: students enter and use the displayed picture on the IWB to guess the title of the lesson.
Starter: Students are introduced by the teacher to the lesson’s outcomes and a brief introduction sheet which can be printed off and handed out for support. Students then to watch a video identifying in simple terms the causes of the crash. This is embedded, and students can list the causes they identify.
Main task 1: Students are supplied with some of the main causes of the crash broken down in the form of flash cards. Students to MIX-PAIR-SHARE their cards to remember as many causes as possible. Teacher then takes feedback on the IWB. Alternatively, students could be supplied with one set of flash cards each and could rank order the causes in order of importance or in a Dimond 9 ranking system.
Main task 2: Teacher hands out worksheet - Students record their specific cause from the card they were supplied with on the sheet (Summarizing) Students are then to mix around the room and support each other in completing the rest of their sheet through peer teaching.
There is also the option to categorize into long / short term causes plus rank order in significance. Teacher then can take feedback.
Plenary: Students to summarize the cause of the wall street crash in the form of a tweet to consolidate lessons learning.
All videos are embedded.
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The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to understand how Ford contributed towards the economic growth of the US through developing their understanding of key words and concepts.
Hook: As students enter they are challenged with completing an A-Z sheet of how many key words they already associate with the 1920s. Teacher introduces lesson / outcomes.
Starter: Teacher then uses the PP to introduce Henry Ford and a bit of his background / famous for. Students can then watch an introductory video (Embedded) and make some initial notes.
Teacher introduces the ‘Cycle of Prosperity’, students provided with a blank cycle and are challenged to memorize the completed version on the IWB in 30 seconds (timer included) Students then have 2 minutes to try and complete their blank sheet with as much detail as possible.
Link this then to some other major concepts associated with Ford (8 more in total), students to play a memory activity to remember them initially which then flows into a game of taboo - all explained in the PP.
Students can then watch another video and tick off where they can spot their newly learned words / concepts whilst watching.
Following this students are asked to complete an exam style question to explain the impact ford had being challenged to use as many words as possible, easily adapted structure strips provided for differentiation.
Finish with ‘learn beyond the lesson’ option for further stretch and challenge.
(Dragons den presentation style activity included also which could be another lesson in itself)
Easily enough for 2/3 lessons.
All videos etc are embedded with links provided.
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The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to collaboratively work together in order to explain the significance of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 in the wider context of ‘how intolerant was 1920s US society’.
Hook: Students enter room (cartoons / pictures to be placed on tables / walls) students are to use these to write their own title for the lesson, guided by the teacher.
Starter: Studenst watch 2 video clips (Simpsons / Morgan Freeman National Geographic) in order to define creationism v evolution theory. Teacher then use PP to outline fundamentalism in the southern states of the USA during the 1920s. There is the a quick 1925 textbook comprehension task to consolidate this.
Main: Students to work together in a 6 monkeys style activity (all explained within the PP description) in order to explain the causes and events of the trial, teacher can help facilitate but this is very much a student led lesson. There is then an embedded video to each to help students consolidate their write up / new report. (Teacher’s choice).
Plenary: Students are to MIX-PAIR-SHARE the varying different results of the trial then then apply all of their acquired knowledge to the question, ‘How significant was the monkey trial in demonstrating intolerance in US society during the 1920s?’. This can then be written up in another lesson or for homework.
All videos are embedded with links provided in the powerpoint.
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The purpose of this lesson is to help students address the question, “To what extent was US society tolerant?” Through a series of student led tasks and fits into a bigger picture of a 1920s USA Depth Study.
Hook: Students enter with dictionaries on their desks and are challenged to define ‘Immigrant’ or ‘Immigration’. Teacher takes feedback and introduces lesson title / outcomes. Students then watch an introductory video (Embedded) with an option to further define that ‘intolerant’ means.
Starter: students are provided with a worksheet about the concerns US society had about immigrants in the 1920s. Students are challenged to categories these into – social – economic – political reasons before teacher takes feedback with a WAGGOL on the board.
Main: Teacher shows another video (Embedded) and students are challenged to identify all the problems that they faced. Students each receive an ‘immigration experience’ sheet and one information sheet per table. Students to summarize. Circulate the class and select a student on each table who seems to have really grasped the topic. These students are to then stay behind at their table whilst the rest of the class circulate and spend 5 minutes each being peer taught about the immigration topic by the student who was selected to stay behind. Students can then summarize the experience of immigrants at this time in either a freeze frame or in a written task as a plenary.
I have included additional information / videos in the presentation which could be used by the teacher to further support this task.
Separate task for more able: I have included a work sheet, information sheet / video which more able students could be set as a separate task encouraging them to consider Native Americans and their experience provided the fact they were treated almost the same as immigrants despite being natives.
A source evaluation homework sheet is also included. All videos and sound are embedded into the PP with links provided.
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The purpose of this lesson is to lay the foundations for the causes behind the 1920’s Red Scare in the USA, kept specifically general to link with varying GCSE Exam Boards but specifically focusing upon developing critical thinking skills causes and judging significance.
Lesson begins with a hook: RE-call five to settle students before beginning the lesson with an introduction to rumour spreading: Example of Chinese whispers and video regarding ‘Fake News’ to hook students into the concept of a red scare and moral panic. Option to provide a secret students: with a mission to spread a rumour round the class to further hit home how news / rumours can spread (card provided).
Students supplied with the A3 causes sheet and are then to watch a short clip outlining some of the causes of the Red Scare between WW1-1921. Students are challenged to title the picture on the sheet with the causes identified within the video.
Following this students are asked to either: Circulate the room and museum walk the causes in more detail or students could be provided with a specific cause and become and expert in it then then peer teach the rest of the students in the class.
Lessons finished with students assessing and judging the mos significant cause of the Red Scare by standing next to the cause they believe was the most significant and think-pair sharing with any like minded students to critically explain the most important - writing or verbally explaining to the teacher.
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the causes of the US boom between 1919-1930.
Students enter with a task to immediately complete a recall five definitions they will need to understand for this lesson. The teacher introduces the lesson intention / the bigger picture and outlines definitions on the board.
Main task 1:
students are each supplied with a cause factor card. Students to watch a summary video and are challenged to look out for their particular factor title when it appears in the video. Students then summarize on the back of their card how this factor led to an economic boom in the USA. They will have the printed explanation on the other side if they require it for support.
A select number of students are then asked to become experts in their particular factor. they are to remain at their tables or at designated points around the classroom whilst other students circulate to ‘interview them’ and complete their factor sheet.
Main task 2: A challenge and more challenging option of tasks here for differentiation:
Challenge:
Diamond 9 rank order the factors in order of most to least significant. Then explain why you have placed the factors in those positions.
More challenging:
Students to receive factor title sheet to cut out - students then draw connections between each of the factors to explain how they link together - textbook support could be used here.
Students could add further sub factors of their own. To then verbally justify and present back to the teacher class as a plenary.
The focus of this lesson is to encourage students to form a judgment surrounding the character of Becket (not why he was murdered) but if he was a Saint or a Sinner.
Students enter class and handed a sticky note to settle . focus them on the starter activity (Why do I stand on this table?)
Students watch clip of the Dead Poets Society which links in with the historical skill of observing people / events from different interpretations.
Introduce the ideas behind Becket - students are supplied with an interpretation and on the back must summarise its message (saint or sinner and a quick summary) ten interpretations supplied. Students then are provided with a sheet and must circulate the room and interview each other to complete their worksheet of all the different opinions on Becket.
students then use the sheet to support a judgment activity where they rank order the opinions again in order of convincing / least convincing.
Plenary - students debate / judgment line their overall judgment and write up in their books.
All video are embedded.
The purpose of this lesson is to not only inform students about Hyperinflation but to challenge them to think about it in the bigger picture, how it was a product of the T.O.V and how it links into national and international impacts in the longer term.
Students enter with a task to immediately complete (Pictures will be scattered around the classroom, students are to study the picture and on a sticky note write down what they believe the lesson title will be - something along the lines of Hyperinflation (Critical thinking).
Teacher then goes through some starter quick fire true / false questions with the students to recall learning. Students think pair share what Hyperinflation could mean before it is outlines by the teacher (opportunity for student rewards). Students then watch a short embedded video about how Germany was impacted by the TOV which led to Hyperinflation.
The main task is centered around a memory activity regarding the consequences of Hyperinflation. students work in pairs to complete the card pairing activity before mix-pair-sharing the consequences between themselves.
Again opportunity for a consolidation ‘memory test’ where students could compete for prizes. Students then complete and exam style GCSE question assessing their acquired knowledge (structure strips provided for differentiation).
Students to peer assess for a plenary.
The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to explain why the reformation began though an escape room / chronology style activity.
Hook: Students to enter and define the words Reformation from a dictionary, prize / merit / house point to the student who is able to do this first. Teacher introduces lesson intention / outcomes before introducing the concept of the reformation and the main task.
Main task: Students work as a class or in 2 teams if a large class to locate the hidden time-line of events starting with Martin Luther and ending with the impact of reformation on England. Students will have 15 minutes (timer and dramatic music included in the PP!) to locate all the hidden events and arrange the time-line into chronological order outside of the classroom. Initiates collaboration / communication and element of competition. if students beat the clock they can be rewarded.
The correct order can then be gone though on the PP with 2 embedded videos to show throughout to help visualize and consolidate the story the the reformation.
Students to then be supplied with the the story on the handout and to highlight 2 key events to help explain why the reformation began. Students can then complete a write up in their books. Structure strips included for support (Easily adapted).
This is more than likely to consist of 2 lessons worth of material / activities.
All music and videos are embedded into the PP (Links provided)
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A bundle of Colour coded A3 / A4 knowledge organiser / Revision mat / book marks for the following topics:
Medicine Through Time.
Elizabethan England.
Civil Rights.
Significant Individuals / Government acts / Discoveries / Inventions / Dates / Key terms / Events.
This lesson has been designed for the GCSE Edexcel New Scheme (1-9) All outcomes are linked with Paper One’s Assessment Objectives 1 & 2.
This lesson focuses upon the significance and success of the government in preventing Lung Cancer.
The aim of this lesson is to judge how much of an impact the Government has had in preventing disease and illness from the 1800-Present day. This is then conslidated with an exam style question with a pupil friendly success criteria provided. Videos are embedded into the presentation with links also provided.
You will need to new GCSE Edexcel Medicine Through Time Textbook for part of this lesson.
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