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All lessons posted are full lessons, which include all necessary worksheets and sources. All lessons posted have been tried and tested in the classroom.
All schemes of work are available as a pack or individually, check out the free lessons to get an idea about the types of sources and activities included in other lessons.
This is the fifth lesson in a series of six covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Mao's China 1949 - 1976. This series of lessons covers Key Topic One: Establishing Communist Rule 1949 - 1957.
The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refer to the textbook "Communist States in the Twentieth Century " (Bunce, 2015 - Hodder) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons.
The lesson is quite long and could be easily split into two.
During the lesson pupils will:
* Identify the link between successful war and a leaders popularity. Make links with Mao in the Early 1950s.
* Identify and explain Mao's atttitude towards the west before and during the Korean War.
* Investigate the causes and main events of the Korean War and Chinese involvement.
* Complete a card sort activity to prioritise the positive and negative impact of the Korean War on China.
* Investigate and analyse communist propaganda linked to the Korean War.
* Homework task - Complete essay to decide if the Korean War was worth fighting for Mao.
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This bundle contains seven lessons that cover the Loss of the American Colonies depth study which forms part of the Edexcel A-Level History Unit 3: Britain losing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914.
The lessons include are ready to go and included all necessary sources and resources. The lessons refer to the Pearson textbook developed for the unit.
The pack contains the following lessons:
Lesson 1 - Introduction to the American Colonies
Lesson 2 - Increasing Tensions between Britain and the colonies
Lesson 3 - Long Term causes of the Revolution
Lesson 4 - From Tea Party to Revolution
Lesson 5 - Declaration of Independence and conflict
Lesson 6 - Britain vs America
Lesson 7 - The Battles of Saratoga and Yorktown and the end of the war.
All presentations are based on 100 minute lessons but could be easily adapted for other lengths.
This lesson pack contains five full lessons covering aspects of life in Medieval Europe, The influence and impact of the church and the causes, course and impact of the black death.
All lessons are completed and ready to teach including all resources and worksheets needed. They are aimed towards KS3 pupils but could easily be adapted for KS1 and KS2.
There are five full lessons including:
1. Introduction to Medieval Life
2. The Medieval Church
3. Introduction to the black death and symptoms of the black death
4. Causes and cures of the black death
5. Consequences of the black death.
The black death lessons have an assessment task/homework tasks that involved writing a piece of Historical fiction about life during the black death.
his is the fifth lesson of a scheme of work investigating life in Medieval Times, the Medieval Church and the Black Death.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and resources needed.
During the lesson pupils will:
- Evaluate their knowledge from previous lessons by completing a true or false activity.
- Complete a card sort activity to investigate and evaluate the impact of the Black Death of Europe.
- Decide if life improved for the survivors of the Black Death.
- Homework task: Complete the final chapter of the Black Death Historical fiction. (This homework project was started earlier in the SoW.)
This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed.
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This is the fourth lesson of a scheme of work investigating life in Medieval Times, the Medieval Church and the Black Death.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and resources needed.
During the lesson pupils will:
- Revise their learning about the Black Death from previous lessons.
-Think about and identify what causes illness and sickness.
- Complete a primary source analysis to identify some of the perceived causes of the Black Death.
- Investigate cures people attempted for the Black Death and link them to the perceived cause.
- Homework task - Write a the first part of the Historical fiction to explain what people believed caused and cured the Black Death.
This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed.
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This is the first lesson in a series covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Britain losing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914.
This series of lessons covers the second depth study: Learning from past mistakes:Canada and the Durham Report, 1837 - 40
The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refers to the textbook "Britain: Losing and gaining and Empire, 1763 - 1914" (Christie, 2016 Pearson) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons.
During the lesson pupils will:
* Suggest reasons why John Lambton, First Earl of Durham was "the man who saved the Empire"
* Consider prior knowledge about Canada
* Briefly investigate the History of Canada since European exploration.
* Investigate the situation in Upper and Lower Canada in terms of MEERPS (Military, economic, environmental, religious, political and social).
* Compare the situation in Canada to that of the American Revolution and discuss if Britain had learnt from its mistakes.
* Investigate the causes and impact of the revolutions of 1837 (worksheet aviliable marcialalonde.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/2/9382401/rebellions_reading.pdf)
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This is the third lesson of a scheme of work investigating life in Medieval Times, the Medieval Church and the Black Death.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and resources needed.
During the lesson pupils will:
- Begin a piece of Historical fiction by creating a character based on learning from previous lessons.
- Investigate an example of Historical fiction introducing the Black Death.
- Watch a short video introducing pupils to the Black Death and its impact.
- Complete a task labelling the key symptoms of the Black Death.
- Homework task - Write a the first part of the Historical fiction to explain the symptoms of the Black Death and its impact on the character created at the start of the lesson.
This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed.
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This is the second lesson of a scheme of work investigating Life in Medieval Times, the Medieval Church and the Black Death.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and resources needed.
During the lesson pupils will:
- A starter activity investigating why people prayed during the middle ages.
- Analysis task looking at the architecture of Bath Abby and how it demonstrates people's beliefs.
- Decision making activity looking at the power of Church
- Investigation and analysis of the purpose and message of doom paintings.
- Homework task to produce and example of a doom painting.
This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed.
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This is the first lesson of a scheme of work investigating Life in Medieval Times, the Medieval Church and the Black Death.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and resources needed.
During the lesson pupils will:
- Identify what they already know about life in Medieval England.
- Complete a true or false activity to test their knowledge about life during the period.
- Complete an image analysis to understand the types of structures that might exist in a medieval village.
- Complete an emotive task to try and understand what it might be like to live in a medieval village.
- Complete a card sort to identify the key aspects of life during the period
- Compare modern homes to medieval huts.
There are quite a few activities in this lesson so it might be best to split it over two lessons.
This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed.
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This is the third lesson of a scheme of work covering Historical Skills and the Roman Empire.
The aim of the lesson is to introduce pupils to the concept of centuries and to investigate the Roman Army.
During the lesson pupils will:
- Complete a skills activity to work out which century different dates belong to
- Identify reasons why the Romans needed a powerful army.
- Evaluate the equipment, tactics and training of the Roman army through a number of different activities.
- Identify and explain reasons why people might have joined the Roman army.
- Complete a homework task to either i) create a recruitment poster to encourage people to join the Roman army or ii) write a letter of application to join the Roman army.
This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed.
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This is the second lesson of a scheme of work covering Historical Skills and the Roman Empire.
The aim of the lesson is to introduce pupils to the types of evidence used by an Historian and the story of Romulus and Remus and the founding of Rome.
During the lesson pupils will:
- Start to consider the nature of sources that Historians use to investigate the past.
- Investigate and analyse the sculpture of the Capitoline Wolf and the story of Romulus and Remus.
- Complete a card sort to create the story of Romulus and Remus.
- Complete activities to start to consider the reliability of stories like Romulus and Remus and the differences between myths and a "true story".
This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2.
This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed.
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This is the first lesson of a scheme of work covering Historical Skills and the Roman Empire.
The aim of the lesson is to introduce pupils to the concept of chronology and introduce them to the Roman Empire.
During the lesson pupils will:
- Learn how to organise years into chronological order
- Identify what they know about Empires and the Roman Empire in particular.
- Create a chronology of some of the key events of the Roman Empire.
This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2.
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This bundle includes 6 lessons covering the Atlantic Slave Trade. The lessons are aimed towards KS3 classes although the sources could be used across all key stages.
These lessons are ready to teach or can be adapted as needed.
All lesson are self contained with resources and worksheets included in the power points. The pack includes the following lessons:
1. Introduction to Slavery
2. Africa before Slavery
3. The Triangular Trade
4. The Middle Passage
5. Life as a Slave
6. The Abolition of Slavery.
Most of the lessons are designed for double lessons (100 minutes) but could easily be broken up.
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This is the fifth and final lesson in a series covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Britain losing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914.
This series of lessons covers the second depth study: The Birth of British Australia 1788 - 1829.
The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refer to the textbook "Britain: Losing and gaining and Empire, 1763 - 1914" (Christie, 2016 Pearson) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons.
During the lesson pupils will:
* Make initial decisions about the success of the Australian Colony.
* Ask questions about the type of information we would need to make a judgement on success.
* Investigate the main reasons for the difficulty in attracting free settlement to Australia and offer potential solutions.
* Investigate the measures taken by Australian Governors to develop the colony (Territorial expansion, Establishing a penal colony in Tasmania/Van Dieman's Land, Economic Development and political development.
* Begin planning for essay/assessment on British Australia unit.
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This lesson in from a series of lessonscovering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Mao's China 1949 - 1976. This lesson investigates the Great Leap Forward as part of Key Topic 2: Agriculture and Industry.
The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refer to the textbook Communist States in the Twentieth Century " (Bunce, 2015 - Hodder) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons.
During the lesson pupils will:
* Identify the advantages and disadvantages of the backyard steel furnaces
* Investigate and analyse posters from the CCP promoting the Great Leap Forward.
* Evaluate Mao's reasons for launching the Great Leap Forward
* Investigate the successes and failures of the Great Leap Forward and their causes.
* Begin to look at the initial opposition from figures such as Peng Dehuai and Mao's response.
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This bundle contains six full lessons of a scheme of work about the Battle of Hastings.
The lessons included in the bundle are:
Lesson 1: Claimant to the Throne
Lesson 2: The Battle of Stamford Bridge
Lesson 3: Battle of Hastings Soldiers
Lesson 4: What happened at Hastings
Lesson 5: Battle of Hastings assessment
Lesson 6: Why did William win the Battle of Hastings.
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This is the sixth and final lesson in a scheme of work about the Battle of Hastings. The lessons are aimed towards year 7 but could easily be adapted for other year levels.
This lesson is ready to go and includes all resources.
During this lesson, pupils will:
- Play a short (online) decision making game based on the Battle of Hastings.
- Investigate the key reasons for William's victory.
- Complete a card sort to identify, cateforise and prioritise the main reasons for Norman victory.
- Write a PEA paragraph to explain why pupils think William won the Battle of Hastings.
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This is the fifth lesson in a scheme of work about the Battle of Hastings. The lessons are aimed towards year 7 but could easily be adapted for other year levels.
This lesson is ready to go and includes all resources.
During this lesson, pupils will:
- Use information and learning from previous lessons to create a newspaper acticle to outline the key events of the Battle of Hastings and suggest why William won.
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This is the fourth lesson in a scheme of work about the Battle of Hastings. The lessons are aimed towards year 7 but could easily be adapted for other year levels.
This lesson is ready to go and includes all resources.
During this lesson, pupils will:
- Complete a thinking activity to decide where Godwinson should place his men on the battlefield.
- Use the Bayuex Tapestry as a primary source to identify the key events of the Battle of Hastings.
- What a video to reinforce the work from the Bayuex Tapestry about the key events of the Battle of Hastings.
- Begin to suggest why William won the Battle of Hastings.
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This is the third lesson in a scheme of work about the Battle of Hastings. The lessons are aimed towards year 7 but could easily be adapted for other year levels.
This lesson is ready to go and includes all resources.
During this lesson, pupils will:
- Investigate the different types of soldiers who fought in the Saxon and Norman armied suring the Battle of Hastings.
- Evalaute the relative strengths and weaknesses of the different soldiers.
- Based on the evidence the have gathered, pupils decide who they think would win.
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