Here are some free ideas on what topics you can use when designing or re-designing your schemes of work. I will provide more alongside these initial six
Here is a full collection of the 1920s for America Opportunity and Inequality. The lessons follow the specification and meet the criteria of ensuring pupils have sufficient knowledge and exam skills
The lessons are:
Why did America boom in the 1920’s?
How does the Model T-Ford show that America boomed?
Why was their inequalities of wealth in America?
What was the culture like in the 1920s?
How did the role of Women develop in the 1920’s?
What was Prohibition?
How did Prohibition impact America?
What was life like for African Americans in the 1920’s?
Who were the KKK?
How did the Red Scare alienate immigrants?
What does the case of Sacco and Vanzetti show us about Immigration restriction?
Assessment recap lesson
Here are a collection of lessons on The Neolithic Revolution. This is the first point of enquiry for Y7 so it emphaises developing simple concepts.
The lessons are:
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
How did Neolithic Life change?
What caused and effected the revolution?
What is Stonehenge?
What do sources show us?
Here are lessons on America in the 1930’s. It covers the AQA specification and examines exam skills and how to apply them.
The lessons are:
What was the Wall Street crash?
What was the impact of the Wall Street Crash?
Who was Hoover?
What did FDR do to fix the economy?
What was the New Deal? (The exam revision sheet will give you the content you need to do this lesson)
What was the impact of the New Deal?
What was popular culture like in the 1930’s?
How did life change for African Americans and Women during WWII?
New deal Argument lesson
American recap
Crusades lessons with a focus on the role of the Medieval church on English society
The lessons are:
Lesson 1: The Importance of Religion in Medieval England
Lesson 2: Why people went on Crusades
Lesson 3: What issues did people face on the Crusades?
Lesson 4: The Battles of the Crusades
Lesson 5: The role of Jerusalem in shaping Europe
Lesson 6: How powerful was the Church?
Lesson 7: How was the Church structured?
Lesson 8: What role did the Church have in Medieval society?
Lesson 9: What do Doom paintings tell us about Medieval beliefs towards religion?
Jack the Ripper lessons with an additional extra reading resource on the history of Jack the Rippers victims by Hallie Rubenhold
The lessons are:
Lesson 1: Why did Whitechapel make it easy for Jack the Ripper to kill?
Lesson 2: Why was Jack the Ripper so hard to catch?
Lesson 3: How did Eye Witness accounts interfere with police investigations?
Lesson 4: What difficulties did police face in their investigation?
Lesson 5: What was the largest issue for the police?
Lesson 6: Assessment: Which factor was the greatest in helping Jack the Ripper get away?
This is an ambitious and thought provoking set of lessons which focus on developing the second order concept of significance. All lessons demand pupils to consider the wider significance of post World War actions. The lessons are as followed:
How the war shaped Britain
How the war shaped Liverpool/Kirkby
How the collapse of Empires shaped the modern world: This lesson look at the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empire and links both collapses to current day conflicts in Ukraine and Israel and Palestine
How the War caused revolution: Focus of this lesson was on the Bolshevik revolution and the rise of the Nazi party
How the War made the world pay attention to Asia: Case studies on China/Japan/Vietnam. The significance question considers how the post war environment developed further conflict in Vietnam and how postwar settlements left still unresolved issues in Taiwan
Significance assessment: How WW1 was immediately significant - How it was significant over time - How it is significant to this day
This booklet offers support for all 6 questions on the AQA America unit. Each question has 4 aspects for the pupil to work with:
A example answer with a structure and mark scheme. Pupils will then use this to identify what the answer did well and how it can be improved upon
A question in which they can attempt using the structure and mark scheme]
A model answer so that they can self mark their own answer
Another question for some extra challenge
This booklet gives pupils a chance to analyse work, assess answers and then re-draft their own answer. All booklets have been trialled in classroom setting and have been instrumental in the support of pupils who struggle with applying content to their exam questions
This revision guide provides content that is in line with AQA expectations. The guide contains:
What was the problem with revision in England?
How did Protestants and Catholics differ?
Who where the Puritans?
How did the Northern Rebellion challenge Elizabeth?
Elizabeth and her excommunication
What Catholic plots did Elizabeth face?
How did Elizabeths government respond to the Catholic threat?
Who was Mary Queen of Scots?
How did Elizabeth treat Mary Queen of Scots?
Why did Spain and England have conflict?
What was the Spanish Armada and what was the outcome?
What was the consequence of the Spanish Armada?
This Elizabethan revision guide is in line with AQA expectations. The revision guide covers:
Elizabeth and her early life
How Elizabeth governed England
Elizabeths difficulties: Parliament
Elizabeths difficulties: Marriage
Elizabeths difficulties: Succession
Elizabeth at the end of her reign
Elizabeths challenges: Essex rebellion
This is a revision guide that provides content in line with AQA requirements for the Elizabethan unit. The revision guide provides guides on:
Living Standards and Fashion
The rise of the Gentry
Elizabethan theatres
Reception of theatres
Why poverty increased
Elizabethan attitudes towards poverty
Elizabethan Voyages
How voyages impacted the economy
Walter Raleigh and his exploration
Revision resource that provides foundational knowledge to aid pupils in their understanding of power and the people. All knowledge supplied covers all aspects of Conflict and Tension Inter War Years AQA modules
Revision resource that provides foundational knowledge to aid pupils in their understanding of power and the people. All knowledge supplied covers all aspects of Conflict and Tension Inter War Years AQA modules
Revision resource that provides foundational knowledge to aid pupils in their understanding of power and the people. All knowledge supplied covers all aspects of the Germany AQA module
Revision resource that provides foundational knowledge to aid pupils in their understanding of power and the people. All knowledge supplied covers all aspects of the Germany AQA module
Revision resource that provides foundational knowledge to aid pupils in their understanding of power and the people. All knowledge supplied covers all aspects of Conflict and Tension Inter War Years AQA modules
A collection of revision slides to be used for GCSE revision sessions. The slides contain all migration events and separate knowledge into basic and specific knowledge in order to accommodate all groups of learners. The slides also identify the key factors that the event is influenced by.
The slides contain:
Migration Conquered and Conquerors
Migration Looking West
Migration Expansion and Empire
Migration Collapse of Empire
Revision resource that provides foundational knowledge to aid pupils in their understanding of power and the people. All knowledge supplied covers all aspects of the Germany AQA module
Revision resource that provides foundational knowledge to aid pupils in their understanding of power and the people. All knowledge supplied covers all aspects of the Migration AQA module