25 years of experience as Assistnt Head; Head of Humanities and AST for history.
Resources generally for KS3-KS5 history, some that can be used as English resources, and some politics/citizenship resources
25 years of experience as Assistnt Head; Head of Humanities and AST for history.
Resources generally for KS3-KS5 history, some that can be used as English resources, and some politics/citizenship resources
All of the resources needed for the A Level or IB study of the four presidencies. Varied activities/examination practice and assessment.
The whole bundle contains approximately 60 hours of learning.
This bundle contains 9 lessons and an end of key topic assessment for the GCSE Superpower relations and the Cold War Unit Key Topic 1 - the Origins of the Cold War. This is contains everything needed and is fully resourced (no text book required).
Lessons are differentiated and based on the requirements of the examination. The key focus is modeling exam answers and lots of other activities.
Lesson 10 is an assessment for formative use of summative assessment.
This bundle contains 9 lessons and an end of key topic assessment for the GCSE Superpower relations and the Cold War Unit Key Topic 2 - 3 Cold War Crises. This is contains everything needed and is fully resourced (no text book required).
Lessons are differentiated and based on the requirements of the examination. The key focus is modeling exam answers and lots of other activities.
Lesson 10 is an assessment for formative use of summative assessment.
This bundle contains fully resourced A Level lessons on the foreign policy of presidents Truman; Eisenhower; Kennedy; Johnson and Nixon. The first lesson also contains an introductory background to the USA in the context of 1945.
All lessons are fully resourced and contain varied activities to support the preparation of students for success at A Level.
This bundle contains 9 lessons and an end of key topic assessment for the GCSE Superpower relations and the Cold War Unit Key Topic 3 - the End of the Cold War, 1970-1991. This is contains everything needed and is fully resourced (no text book required).
Lessons are differentiated and based on the requirements of the examination. The key focus is modeling exam answers and lots of other activities.
Lesson 10 is an assessment for formative use of summative assessment.
KEY TOPICS 1 AND 2 ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN A SEPARATE BUNDLE.
This bundle contains all of the lessons required to teach the Presidency of Richard Nixon at A Level. It also includes a lesson on Nixon as Vice President under Eisenhower to give context to his character. All lessons are fully resourced and created to develop advanced skills necessary for success at A Level.
This bundle contains 14 fully resourced lessons that are ideal for teaching the Presidencies of Kennedy; Johnson and Nixon at A Level.
They contain varied activities targeted at developing high level analytical skills required for success at this level.
This bundle contains 10 A Level lessons which cover the teaching of the presidencies of Johnson and Nixon. All are fully resourced and contain various activities which allow the students to develop the high level analytical skills required at this level.
This unit of work contains 8 lessons including an end of unit assessment on the industrial revolution for key stage 3.
Each lesson contains a range of activities based on all assessment objectives. Resources are either contained as separate documents or within the power points for printing.
All aspects of the industrial revolution are included and they contain evaluative studies of key people and events. This is useful to teach in September to lay the foundations for October’s Black History month when the role of slavery in enabling the industrial revolution can be studied.
No resources/text book needed.
This bundle contains two units of work
What is Geography?
What is History?
for year 7. Each unit contains 6 lessons and is fully resourced, so no text book is needed. Lessons enable new year 7 students to demonstrate and consolidate their primary school learning while learning and developing new key skills essential for the study of history and geography in key stage 3 and beyond.
Both units also contain an additional assessment resource to enable teachers to plan and differentiate for their classes.
This bundle contains the first 5 lessons on the US Constitution to cover the requirements for the A Level US Government and Politics specification. They include a background lesson on the creation of the Constitution (also suitable forA Level History) and 4 lessons investigating the nature of the US Constitution including structure; entrenchment; amendment etc. The block of lesson is completed with introducing students to a section A exam question which is modeled.
This is fully resourced, but access to Pearson Edexcel A Level US Government and Politics text book would be useful.
The lessons are based on a one hour lesson, but students will have to complete significant independent study to complete the set tasks.
This bundle contains 10 fully resourced a Level lessons created to deliver the Democracy and Dictatoship in Germany 1919-1963 unit. They cover the first part of the course - The creation of the Weimar Republic and its early years of crisis.
They contain all of the AOs and would ideally be used in conjunction with the Access to History text book, but have been designed to that a text book is not necessary.
Each lesson contains a range of activities and assignments designed to support student in developing the high level thinking skills necessary for success at A Level.
This wall display for black history month wall display honours and highlights the achievements of twenty people who have contributed to black people under 4 categories:
Activists: Rosa Parks; Steve Biko; John Lewis; Harriet Tubman and Nelson Mandela
Artists: Sammy Davis Jr; Maya Angelou; Louis Armstrong; Akon and Whoopi Goldberg
Politicians: Barak Obama; Bernie Grant; Kamala Harris; Diane Abbot and David Lammy
Blak Sportspersons: Jackie Robinson; Venus and Serena Williams; Mo Farah; Marcus Rashford and Tiger Woods
You will require a relatively large display board - pictures can be printed on A4 instead of A3 if space is limited. Includes lettering and arrows for cutting out.
This bundle contains 4 lessons created to celebrate Black History Month. One a week during the month of October to trace the progress of African Americans from slavery to President of the United states. They are chronological and each shows a significant development:
L1 The Slave Trade
L2 The Abolition of Slavery
L3 Civil Rights
L4 The Most Powerful Man in the World
They are fully resourced with varied activities and video clips, and are suitable for either KS2 or KS3 students.
This bundle contains all of the power points and resources needed to teach A level units on Henry VIII and the mid Tudors. They are fully resourced and contain activities to stretch and challenge students doing A Level History units on the Tudors.
The whole of this bundle would probably take approximately two academic terms to deliver.
It also contains detailed A Level revision notes on Henry VIII.
This bundle contains all of the lessons required to teach the US Constitution for paper 3 A Level US Government and Politics.
The lessons are fully resourced, will each take an hour to teach (however, significant home learning will be required to complete all activities), and involve extensive examination skills as well as content.
There are 10 lessons, and they also include approaches to comparing the US and UK Constitutions.
This bundle contains resources to support the celebration of Black History month.
It contains:
A large wall display celebrating the achievements of 20 famous black celebrities
A quiz/wordsearch for a tutorial activity
4 lessons (one for each week in October which are a chronological breadth study from slavery to the President of the USA.
Also included is an assembly which demonstrates the progress made since Civil Rights and highlights the celebration of black culture in October.
This is the introduction A level lesson to a unit of work which investigates whether or not there was a Mid-Tudor Crisis. It outlines the concept of a crisis and investigates the legacy of Henry VIII. This lesson outlines what will be studied in the unit and sets the scene for investigating this hypothesis. The hypothesis will be studied through a series of 14 lessons which look closely at the reign of Edward VI and Mary I, and will results in reaching a conclusion to the question through investigating sources and interpretations.
This unit has been created to support all examination boards as it is devised for use with any examination board approved text book. It also uses both sources an interpretations in investigation thus being suitable for any Tudor unit.
Duration: 1 hour plus additional time to complete activities
This bundle is suitable for teaching A Level History - the Mid-Tudor Crisis. It contains 8 lessons covering the whole section on Edward VI. Each lesson is carefully prepared to ensure that they equip students with the ability to interrogate interpretations of history and contemporary source material thus making them suitable for any examination board. They are fully resourced and can be used with any examination board approved text books.
Most of the lessons contain 1 hour of teaching and one hour of home study plus optional video links, however 3 of the lessons will take 2 hours to teach.
This is a 23 slide power point tracing the history of the situation between Russia and the Ukraine. It is an assembly, but would probably take 45 minutes to deliver properly, so would be either 2 assemblies or a lesson - there is an obvious break point in the middle of the power point.
It starts with images of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and a news report in 1989. It then goes into an explanation of the Cold War and the USSR - citing the Ukraine as one of the founding members after the Russian Revolution. The power point then introduces Putin and his beliefs - cites his hatred of Tsar Nicholas II and Mikhail Gorbachev, and outlines his key beliefs in terms of Russia’s relationship with the Ukraine.
The final section focuses on how the war in the Ukraine is impacting on the rest of the world with rising energy prices; the refugee crisis and potential escalation. It ends with 24th February 2022 BBC news clip showing the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
Suitable for key stages 3-5
Duration: 40-45 minutes