Cheat sheets are an effective means of preparing students for their Edexcel 9-1 history exams. These easy to use sheets can provide students with a framework for planning answers to potential exam questions as part of their revision.
Teachers can issue these templates to students alongside a list of potential questions for both sections of Paper 2. This is an effective means of revision, and can be used by teachers to specifically direct students in their revision - something which is not always easy to do.
For those of you teaching American West, I have already produced such supplementary sheets which are also available on TES.
The workbook contains information specifically relating to the scheme of work for this topic. In addition to containing the specific context for Key Topic 1 (1250-1500) it also includes activities designed to assist students with knowledge retention.
The workbook also contains a wide range of exam practice questions and an extensive keywords glossary.
A six-round quiz to test students’ knowledge and understanding of key aspects of the Edexcel Paper 2 unit American West. Each round follows a different format to keep students engaged, and can be delivered in a variety of ways.
Rounds included within this quiz are as follows:
-Q & A Round
-True or false Round
-Picture Round
-Portrait Round
-Cartoon Round
-Logo Round
Publisher document contains questions and vactivities for all six rounds of the quiz, whilst PowerPoint can be used to accompany the quiz and guide students.
Don’t forget to check out my other activities and revision ideas for the American West topic.
Simple easy to use revision grid to direct student revision towards key aspects of the changing nature of warfare 1250-1500. Can also be used as a classroom recap activity or even a home-learning task.
Brilliant for equipping students with the specific knowledge necessary for success at GCSE.
Lesson 3 in a Roman Army scheme of work. This lesson focuses upon the equipment used by the Roman, using equipment cards to support information gathering.
Lesson includes new 9-1 style exam question (differentiated), starter, keywords and plenary.
Brief lesson PowerPoint to introduce students to the problems faced by the first settlers on the Plains. Lesson does require understanding on the part of the teacher, especially as information is kept to a minimum with visual resources being utilised more.
Exam practice question included, with sentence stems, as well as support and challenge tasks / slides. Big question included to hook students into learning, and there is also an engaging plenary.
The document contains a table of 25 potential Narrative Account exam questions relating to the Edexcel topic American West. Use this document to help equip students for what is an extremely difficult exam question.
The table can also be used to help direct students towards effective revision, which uses exam question planning as a way of revising content and exam technique at the same time. I have included a narrative account 'Cheat Sheet' which students will find useful when planning each of the 25 narratives.
A full list of events relating to Key Topic 2 of the Edexcel Paper 2 topic American West. Events are arranged chronologically by each of the three sub-topics, with additional columns available to record students' attempts at exam questions relating to each event - specifically the consequence and importance questions.
This can also be used in conjunction with my Paper 2 'Cheat sheets', as students can use this list to focus their revision on planning responses to the consequence and importance questions.
Help students to revise Edexcel American West Key Topic 1 with an exam question focused Personal Learning Checklist to use in conjunction with Paper 2 ‘Cheat sheets’ for students to fill as part of their revision.
Help students even further with the Key Topic 1 Knowledge Questions.
A collection of essential knowledge questions for students to answer on Key Topic 3 of the Edexcel American West syllabus.
Each sub topic is covered by Twenty Questions of varying difficulty, and presented in ready to print tables.
Very useful resource, which can be given to students as either:
-Homework tasks
-Revision tasks
-End of topic knowledge tests
-Weekly recaps
A collection of essential knowledge questions for students to answer on Key Topic 2 of the Edexcel American West syllabus.
Each sub topic is covered by Twenty Questions of varying difficulty, and presented in ready to print tables.
Very useful resource, which can be given to students as either:
-Homework tasks
-Revision tasks
-End of topic knowledge tests
-Weekly recaps
A collection of essential knowledge questions for students to answer on Key Topic 1 of the Edexcel Warfare Through Time, c.1250-Present syllabus.
Each sub topic is covered by Twenty Questions of varying difficulty, and presented in ready to print tables. The case studies are combined into one sub topic, with ten knowledge questions provided for each battle.
Very useful resource, which can be given to students as either:
-Homework tasks
-Revision tasks
-End of topic knowledge tests
-Weekly recaps
Help students to revise Edexcel American West Key Topic 1 with an exam question focused Personal Learning Checklist to use in conjunction with Paper 2 ‘Cheat sheets’ for students to fill as part of their revision.
Help students even further with the Key Topic 2 Knowledge Questions.
A collection of essential knowledge questions for students to answer on Key Topic 2 of the Edexcel Early Elizabethan England syllabus.
Each sub topic is covered by Twenty Questions of varying difficulty, and presented in ready to print tables.
Very useful resource, which can be given to students as either:
-Homework tasks
-Revision tasks
-End of topic knowledge tests
-Weekly recaps
A fully resourced lesson covering the religious explanations of the cause of disease.
This lesson contains hierarchical outcomes and tasks, allowing for lower ability students to be supported whilst offering more able students the opportunity to progress to more challenging content and / or activities
Collection of knowledge questions which focus on Edexcel GCSE PAper 2 Topic ‘American West’.
Each document contains 60 questions, 20 per sub-topic, designed to aid students with information recall.
Useful for a variety of tasks with will improve student understanding and boost performance.
This resource booklet contains 5 lessons worth of content which uses KS4 concepts. The lessons covered are:
-To understand the social and political structure of Tsarist Russia
-To understand the long term causes of the 1905 revolution
-To understand the impact of the First World War upon Russia
-To understand the political events of February 1917
-To understand the political events of October 1917
Whilst designed to follow a highly challenging KS3 scheme of work, the content within this booklet does apply to certain aspects of KS4 courses which cover Russia. Lessons tailored to this booklet are highly challenging and rigorously planned and as such the content within this booklet will stretch even the most able students.
Do check out the bundle which includes the lessons linked to this booklet.
Lesson 6 in a Roman Army scheme of work. This lesson focuses upon the tactics of the Roman Army, and in particular how they made the Romans successful.
Lesson is fully differentiated with 9-1 exam questions (differentiated and including self/peer-assessment). Also includes starter, keywords and plenary.
A full list of events relating to Key Topic 1 of the Edexcel Paper 2 topic American West. Events are arranged chronologically by each of the three sub-topics, with additional columns available to record students' attempts at exam questions relating to each event - specifically the consequence and importance questions.
This can also be used in conjunction with my Paper 2 'Cheat sheets', as students can use this list to focus their revision on planning responses to the consequence and importance questions.