This is the sixth lesson in a mini scheme of learning which addresses KS2-3 transition in history, and is a follow up to a baseline assessment (also available) aimed at ensuring that students are equipped with the correct skills from the outset to successfully approach KS3 history. This lesson ensures that students can identify the criterion for why people are important in history, and allows them to evaluate this through looking at the profiles of key people. The rest of the lessons are also available.

This is the fifth lesson in a mini scheme of learning which addresses KS2-3 transition in history, and is a follow up to a baseline assessment (also available) aimed at ensuring that students are equipped with the correct skills from the outset to successfully approach KS3 history. This lesson ensures that students can recognise and understand bias through the interrogation of a biased report… The rest of the lessons are also available.

This is the EIGHTH lesson for the EDEXCEL GCSE Super Power Relations and the Cold War, the events in Hungary in 1956. It contains various tasks and examination practice with modeled answers necessary for success at this level. Everything is included within the power point and no text book is needed.

This is the ELEVENTH lesson for the EDEXCEL GCSE Super Power Relations and the Cold War, including the consequences of the Cuban Revolution and the Significance of the Bay of Pigs. It contains various tasks and examination practice with modeled answers necessary for success at this level. Everything is included within the power point and no text book is needed.

This is the TWELFTH lesson for the EDEXCEL GCSE Super Power Relations and the Cold War, the Prague Spring. It contains various tasks and examination practice with modeled answers necessary for success at this level. Everything is included within the power point and no text book is needed.

This is the TWENTIETH lesson for the EDEXCEL GCSE Super Power Relations and the Cold War which examines the significance of Reagan’s and Gorbachev’s changing attitudes. It contains various tasks and examination practice with modeled answers necessary for success at this level. Everything is included within the power point and no text book is needed.

This is the TWENTY-FIRST lesson on the EDEXCEL GCSE Super Power Relations and the Cold War unit. It is the first part of the first key topic 3 flashpoint - the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It focuses on both the content and key skills needed for the examination; is fully resourced (no text book needed) and contains varied tasks. Part 2 also available.

This is the TWENTY-THIRD lesson on the EDEXCEL GCSE Super Power Relations and the Cold War unit. It is the first part of the first key topic 3 flashpoint - Reagan and the Second Cold War, and looks at the consequences of Reagan becoming president for the relations between the USA and USSR. It focuses on both the content and key skills needed for the examination using modelling ; is fully resourced (no text book needed) and contains varied tasks.

This is the TWENTY-FIFTH lesson for the EDEXCEL GCSE Super Power Relations and the Cold War which examines the collapse of Soviet control in Eastern Europe. It contains various tasks and examination practice with modeled answers necessary for success at this level. Everything is included within the power point and no text book is needed.

This resource contains 3 quizzes and word searches on Year 8 topics. The students have to find the words by filling in the gaps using their historical knowledge, and then locate them on the grid. The resource contains 3 quizzes/word searches: The First World War The Second World War The Cold War There are also 3 differentiated searches for lower prior attaining students where the letter at the beginning of each word is highlighted in the grid so that this becomes more of a heads and tails activity. I have found using these useful revision/extension/remote learning resources. It is also useful for GCSE knowledge revision.

This resource contains 3 quizzes and word searches on Year 8 topics. The students have to find the words by filling in the gaps using their historical knowledge, and then locate them on the grid. The resource contains 3 quizzes/word searches: The Tudors The British Empire The English Civil War There are also 3 differentiated searches for lower prior attaining students where the letter at the beginning of each word is highlighted in the grid so that this becomes more of a heads and tails activity. I have found using these useful revision/extension/remote learning resources.

This assessment is for use after teaching key topic 3 - The end of the Cold War on the Superpower Relations and the Cold War unit at GCSE. The 9 lessons for this topic are also available. It assesses AO1 and AO2 as required for this unit by the examination board, and is fully differentiated containing some simple recall questions and other extended examination questions so that teachers can plan their approach to key topic 2 using results of summative assessment.

This is the TWENTY-SEVENTH and final lesson for the EDEXCEL GCSE Super Power Relations and the Cold War which examines the collapse of the Soviet Union. It contains various tasks and examination practice with modeled answers necessary for success at this level. Everything is included within the power point and no text book is needed. There is an assessment available for the next lesson.

This resource is ideal for teaching an introduction to President Nixon for any A Level examination board. However it was originally created for AQA Unit 2Q TheAmerican Dream. It would probably take about 2 lessons to teach if all the activities are attempted, and contains a range of question answer/writing/research activities/election map analysis suitable for extending the students. It considers why Nixon won the 1968 election, and also contains a research task on Nixon’s administration.

This quiz/word search is a useful tutorial activity or starter/plenary for a history lesson to celebrate black history month. Students have to identify 15 key people who have contributed to black history from clues, and then they have to find their names in a word search. It takes about 20-30 minutes to complete.

This lesson is the 2nd in a series of two lessons investigating the causes of the First World War. The focus of this lesson is the short-term cause (the spark). It links the long-term causes to the shooting of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and is assessed through the use of sharing assessment criteria and peer assessment.

This lesson focuses on evaluating causes and reaching a conclusion about an historical interpretation. The key focus is cause and consequence, and it gets the students to start thinking about the causes of the First World War and evaluating their relative importance. Students have to identify information and fill in causation tables, and then complete an extended piece of writing evaluating an interpretation.