Students examine the key push and pull factors that encouraged migration to the West. A range of student-led tasks, such as categorising/ prioritising activities through a card sort and a range of follow up tasks that help students to understand the factors that encouraged migration to the West.
Students learn about the problems of lawlessness in early towns and settlements. A range of student-led tasks, such as a card sort with categorising and prioritising activites, follow-up questions, exam style question with tips and structure strips and a key term quiz.
An active learning lesson which examines the Fort Laramie Treaty and its consequences. Students must complete tasks by meeting a range of people who were involved in the Treaty or who were directly impacted by the Treaty. Whist working their way through student-led activities they will begin to understand how significant the Fort Laramie Treaty was in influencing the lives of native Americans and opening up for west for white settlement. There is plenty of scope for discussion and a radar graph activity helps students analyse the consequences of the Treaty before attempting an exam style question (structure strips and tips included).
Which side was likely to win the English Civil War? This lesson examines the two sides advantages and disadvantages. Students work through a range of student-led activities such as a card sort with categorising and prioritizing tasks before completing a ranking card activity (Top Tr*mp style) style activity before completing an extended response question which develops GCSE skills.
Students create a card trading activity/ game for 4 influential female suffrage campaigners. They do this by attributing scores for various factors based on the information given. This gives the students an overview about who the suffragettes were and their actions. Other activities included also involve creating a fact file. Differentiated and easy to follow instructions.
A stand alone one hour enquiry lesson on the impacts of the slave trade. Students begin with a key term activity before assessing and evaluating a range of outcomes/ evidence from the slave trade. Students are introduced to some stamps that commemorate aspects of the slave trade and are challenged to create their own stamp based on their knowledge and understanding gained from the lesson. The activities in this lesson are differentiated to three stands.
A lesson that looks at 4 case studies linked to Tudor and Stuart exploration. Students work together to identify positive and negative aspects, collect evidence and judge each case. They then respond to questions before reaching a supported judgement which gives the opportunity to practice and develop exam skills.
This lesson introduces students to the importance of factors in history in prep for the new GCSE spec. They identify the key factors from knowledge cards and use these to sort cards and to rank the importance of events before responding to a 'how far' style question. Literacy support and differentiated resources included. As always there are clear step by step instructions with differentiated resources and activities.
Easy to follow lessons which examines the changes brought in by the Normans following the conquest of Britain. Several tasks and worksheets are included in this lesson, these include plotting the changes/ continuity on a graph, spotting differences between Saxon and Norman justice, self assessment tasks and a 12 mark question (with mark scheme).
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A lesson which examines the key factors leading up to the American Civil War. Students sort cards into categories, prioritise information, reach a supported judgement and complete a newspaper article activity. The lesson has a strong literacy focus and there are sentence stems, key word banks and differentiated materials.
Christmas Arranging task. Students choose between All I want for Christmas and Carol of the Bells to create a group performance arrangement. Should last for two lessons with opportunities for class and group discussions about musical elements. Can easily be modified to be an extension of a song writing or arranging project.
A lesson on the key factors that led to people voting for Hitler. There are a range of activities for all abilities, such as card sorts and prioritising activities, challenge questions, source based exercises, student-led activities, knowledge sharing active learning tasks and exam skills included throughout. As always there are clear step by step instructions and high-quality differentiated resources.
A lesson on the actions of the new Weimar Republic (1919-1923). Students analyse information cards about key events during the early years of the Weimar government and determine if they are positive or negative. They then priorities these cards. They are introduced to some stamps from the years 1919-23 and they discuss if they accurately represent the period under question. The main task involves the students creating their own stamps that they feel accurately represents the era and they provide a written explanation for the design. As always there are clear instructions and differentiated resources.
A lesson focused on the events of 1933-1934 which led to Hitler gaining control over Germany. Students analyse the key events (Reichstag Fire, Enabling Laws, Night of Long Knives, Hindenburg’s death, Oath of Loyalty) give examples and explanations of how each led to Hitler’s control and they must give each event various scores in order to create trump style trading cards. As always there are clear step by step instructions and high-quality differentiated resources.
This lesson looks at 3 key factors that contributed to the civil war (the role of individuals, money and religion). Students work through categorising and prioritsing activities before completing a Venn Diagram and a how far style question. As always there are clear step by step instructions and differentiated activities.
Easy to follow lesson on plantation life. The students analyse two clips from the film 'Twelve Years a Slave' and note down evidence of what was like on a plantation based on the scenes from the film. They are then introduced to some sources (they analyse one each) and match it to one of 4 categories (which I put on posters around the room). They stand by the poster and discuss with other students to ensure they are in the correct place and then they can complete the section on the worksheet that relates to their source. Following this they should exchange info and complete the worksheet. After discussion the main task is writing a letter to the director of the film to give their impression of how accurate the scenes are and how they could be improved. I recently taught this lesson for an observation and the class were really engaged and produced some excellent work. Differentiated materials included, as well as literacy support.
A Christmas themed quiz ideal for year 10 and 11. General Knowledge questions (linked to Christmas). Famous faces linked to their topics of study. True / false and memory rounds
This lesson looks at the problems faced by the Nazi Party in 1933 and how they addressed these problems. In the lesson the class will need to work in groups (4 per group). They are presented with some memos linked to propaganda and they have to identify the problems (for the Nazi party) included in these memos. They will need to decide which issues are the most important (and justify this - a good opportunity to encourage deeper level thinking through teacher questioning). When they have done this they can begin to construct some possible solutions that teh nazi Party could have implemented. each group will present their ideas to the class (I use sugar paper and coloured pens so that they can makes spider diagrams or mindmaps). I also ensure that they use the sentence stems provided when speaking to the class to encourage literacy development. Each student will need to complete their own matrix. There is a homework task included in the presentation which compares the students solutions to the actual solutions implemented by Goebbels. This lesson teachers itself.