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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.
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This is a full lesson covering change and continuity in crime and punishment between the Anglo-Saxon and Norman period and the Medieval period. This lesson is designed for the Edexcel GCSE History course Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present course.
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During this lesson pupils will:
Evaluate changes in society by the 13th and 14th centuries and the impact on crime and punishment.
Recap some of the key features of crime and punishment in the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods.
Complete a series of activities to evaluate the impact of the Black Death on crime and punishment during the medieval period.
Investigate and evaluate the Statute of Labourers (1351) and its impact on society.
Investigate and evaluate the Laws against Heresy (1382, 1401, 1414) and their impact on society.
Analyse the change and continuity in crime and punishment between the early and late medieval ages.
Complete an exam question to consolidate learning.
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This is the second lesson in a series covering Anglo-Saxon Crime and punishment and an introduction lesson to the Edexcel GCSE History course Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present.
The download for this lesson contains all the resources needed (one powerpoint and one video question sheet) and is ready to teach.
During this lesson pupils will:
Use an ISM of headless bodies found in Walkington Wold to make inferences about Anglo-Saxon punishments
Discuss and identify purposes of punishment in response to crime.
Match common crimes from the Anglo-Saxon period with appropriate punishments
Evaluate weregild as an effective response to murder.
Answer questions from a video covering crime and punishment in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Complete and peer assess a four mark exam question
Complete a homework task to create a wanted poster for an Anglo-Saxon criminal outlining common crimes and their punishments.
This is the first lesson in a series covering Anglo-Saxon Crime and punishment and an introduction lesson to the Edexcel GCSE History course Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present.
The PowerPoint for this lesson contains all the resources needed and is ready to teach.
During this lesson pupils will:
Be introduced to the Crime and Punishment Course
Discuss different categories of crime that will be discussed throughout the course (crimes against person, crimes against property and moral crimes.)
Use information about the social situation in Anglo-Saxon Britain to identify the types of crimes that may have been committed in towns, villages and monasteries.
Complete a card sort looking at the different factors involved in policing during the Anglo-Saxon period.
Complete a 12-mark question to explain the factors involved in Anglo-Saxon policing.
Peer assess and discuss the 12-mark question using the exam mark scheme.
This lesson introduces Germany after the First World War and the problems they were facing during the early 1920s. The lesson is designed as an introduction to the new Edexcel 9 - 1 History unit Wiemar and Nazi Germany 1918 - 1939 but could easily be adapted for other exam boards or key stages.
During the lesson pupils will:
- Analyse and infer from casualty figures for the Central Powers during the First World War.
- Analyse ISM of the cartoon "Clémenceau the Vampire"
- Complete a gallery tour task to gather and record information to identify and describe the problems Germany faced after the war.
- Write a report on the problems and prioritise their seriousness.
- Complete an inference exam question based on the content of the lesson.
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This is a lesson from a scheme of work covering the First World War. During this lesson, pupils will investigate the impact of the First World War and the main points of the Treaty of Versailles.
This lesson was designed for a year 9/KS3 class but could be easily adapted for other classes or levels.
The lesson is ready to teach and the power point contains all the resources required.
During the lesson pupils will complete the following activities:
* Use ISM of American recruitment poster to recall information about the end of the First World War.
* Use a variety of sources to begin to judge the impact of the First World War on the different countries involved and begin to make judgements about what should happen after the war.
* Investigate the Big Three and identify what each of the countries wanted after the First World War.
* Representing one of the countries in the Big Three pupils to debate how they would deal with Germany after the war.
* Match pupil ideas with the actual provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and its impact on Germany.
* Make a judgement about whether the Treaty of Versailles was a good or bad idea.
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This is a full lesson from a scheme of work about the Industrial Revolution. This lesson is aimed towards key stage three but could easily be adapted for other key stages.
The focus of the lesson is to investigate the importance of coal during the Industrial Revolution and evaluate and suggest solutions for the problems facing coal miners.
During the lesson pupils will:
- Try to guess the subject of the lesson based on some clues.
- Investigate how coal was used and evaluate the actions of a steam engine.
- Identify problems facing coal miners and suggest possible solutions that could be implemented.
- Compare pupil generated solutions with real solutions.
- Write and peer assess a PEE paragraph to evaluate learning from the lesson.
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This is the Third lesson in a scheme of work about the First World War.
The lesson focuses on the events leading from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand to the British declaration of war.
The lesson is ready to teach and includes all required resources in the PowerPoint.
During the lesson, Pupils will:
* Identify key features of the military strengths of the major European powers in 1914.
* Investigate the chain reaction of events that occurred after the death of Franz Ferdinand. Complete a decision making task based on these events from a British point of view.
* Complete a timeline/chronology outlining the events leading to the start of the First World War.
* Complete a writing task to identify who was to blame for the start of the First World War and discuss in class.
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This is the Third lesson in a scheme of work about the First World War.
The lesson focuses on nationlistic feeling at the start of the war and the study of propaganda posters to begin to explain why young men joined the army at the start of the First World War.
The lesson is ready to teach and includes all required resources in the PowerPoint.
During the lesson, Pupils will complete the following:
* Recap work from previous lessons and identify how far Gavrilo Princip was responsible for the start of the First World War.
* Source analysis of a picture of a line to get into an Army recruitment office. Pupils begin to suggest reasons why young men joined the army at the start of the First World War.
* Class and individual analysis of the effectiveness of propaganda posters. Pupils to report their findings to the rest of the class.
* Homework task: Pupils create their own propaganda poster.
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This is an introductory lesson on Forces as part of a Physics course. It was originally delivered to a year 9 class but could easily be adapted for other key stages and year levels. This is designed for a 100 minute lesson but could be broken up into smaller parts.
During this lesson, pupils will:
Consider two objects falling with and without air resistance
Differences between energy and forces
Identify different types of forces
Link Newton’s Laws of Motion with forces.
Calculate the resultant force for balanced and unbalanced forces and deduce movement.
Work with force equation to work out mass and acceleration.
This is an introductory lesson on Energy as part of a Physics course. It was originally delivered to a year 9 class but could easily be adapted for other key stages and year levels. This is designed for a 100 minute lesson but could be broken up into smaller parts.
During this lesson, pupils will:
Asses their prior knowledge about energy
Consider changes in velocity and energy in a stone being thrown in the air.
Identify different types of energy from pictures and own knowledge.
Consider energy transfers in electrical appliances such as phones.
Draw Sankey diagrams to show useful and waste energy from different appliances.
Calculate the efficiency of different appliances
This is a series of lessons covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Britain losing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914.
This series of lessons covers the second breadth study: The Changing Nature of the Royal Navy.
The Bundle contains the following lessons:
Lesson 1: Introduction to the Royal Navy and the Age of Sail.
Lesson 2: Development of Technology
Lesson 3: Changing Role of the Navy (Suppression of the Slave Trade)
Lesson 4: Royal Navy and the Suppression of Piracy
Lesson 5: Royal Navy Voyages of Discovery
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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.
This bundle contains four full lessons covering Key Topic Three: Canada and the Durham Report of the new edexcel A-Level History course, Britain loosing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914.
The bundle contains the following lessons:
Lesson 1 - Canada and the Revolutions of 1837
Lesson 2 - Revolts against British Rule
Lesson 3 - Events and results of the Canadian Revolts
Lesson 4 - The impact of the Durham Report
The lessons are ready to teach and include 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.
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This bundle contains five full lessons from a scheme of work investigating Medieval Castles.
These lessons are aimed towards KS3/year 7 but could easily be adapted for other year levels or key stages.
The bundle contains five lessons:
- Lesson One: Introduction to castles
- Lesson Two: The best place to build a castle.
- Lesson Three: Motte and Bailey Castles
- Lesson Four: Development of Castles over time
- Lesson Five: Attacking a Castle
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This bundle contains five full lessons covering Key Topic 4: Social and Cultural Changes, 1949 - 1976 of the new Edexcel A-LEvel History course - Mao’s China 1949 - 1976.
The bundle contains the following lessons:
Lesson One: Women in China
Lesson Two: Changing position of Women in China
Short lesson: The New Marriage Law
Lesson Three: Education in Mao’s China
Lesson Four: Healthcare in China
Lesson Five: Changes in Culture and Religion
All full lessons are based around 100 minute double periods but could easily be broken down into a number of shorter lessons.
The lessons are ready to teach and include the sources and information required. Some activities use the course textbook - Communist States in the Twentieth Century (Bunce, 2015) although other texts could easily be used.
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This bundle contains four full lessons covering Key Topic Five: The Nile Valley 1882 - 98 new Edexcel A-Level History course, Britain loosing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914.
The bundle contains the following lessons:
Lesson 1 - Reasons for British Occupation
Lesson 2 - British Invasion of Egypt
Lesson 3 - British involvement in Sudan
Lesson 4 - Gordon, Kitchener and Sudan
The lessons are ready to teach and include 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.
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This bundle contains four lessons covering the causes of the First World War and reasons men joined the army at the start of the war.
The bundle includes the following lessons:
Lesson 1: Long Term Causes of the First World War.
Lesson 2: Short Term Causes of the First World War
Lesson 3: The Start of the War
Lesson 4: Joining up.
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This is a bundle of 5 full lessons that make up a unit of work on sound. The lessons are aimed towards KS3 Science but could be adapted to other levels.
The bundle includes the following lessons:
L1 - Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
L2 - Sound and Energy Transfers
L3 - Loudness and Pitch
L4 - The Ear and Detecting Sound
L5 - Sound and Echoes
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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.
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This pack contains a series of lessons to cover Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941 - 1991.
The pack includes 15 lessons that are based on the new (first teaching September 2016) Edexcel specification and include practice exam questions based on that paper. Obviously, the lessons could be easily adapted to other exam boards.
Lessons cover the following topics:
1. Communism vs Capitalism
2. Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam conferences
3. Truman Doctrine
4. Berlin Airlift and the creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
5. The Hungarian Uprising
6. The Berlin Wall
7. The Cuban Missile Crisis
8. The Prague Spring
9. Detente and the Invasion of Afghanistan
10. Reagan and Gorbachev/ The Second Cold War
11. The end of the arms race
12. The end of the Cold war.
All lessons are self contained and any sources, worksheets or video links needed are included in the power points. Many lessons refer to a text which could be adapted for any GCSE cold war textbook.