An engaging worksheet that uses short primary sources to get students to think critically about the symptoms, causes, contemporary beliefs around and consequences of the Black Death 1348.
With a key words glossary to support vocabulary and literacy.
Three worksheets that encourage students to critically analyze primary sources in order to reach a firm understanding of the three biggest crises of late medieval England.
A card sort of the key events of WW2.
Recommended for KS3.
Each card summarises a key event of the war with an image and statistics, and can be used to get students to think critically about the significance and scale of each event.
Example use: Students a) put the events in chronological order. b) create two categories: eg. positive/ negative for the Allies. c) place in order of scale of impact on the course of the war. d) Identify the three “most significant” events of the war. - Each time, the students must justify their movement of the cards.
A card sort activity designed to get students to think critically about the causes and consequences of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Suggested use: Students a) group them into the causes, events and consequences of the bombings. b) students order the causes of the bombings from the greatest cause to the smallest cause. c) students put the events of the bombing in chronological order. d) students order the consequences of the bombings from least to most “significant”. - Students must justify all decisions made.
An engaging worksheet designed to get students to think critically about the causes, events and consequences of the Peasant’s Revolt 1381.
With engaging images, primary sources, four critical thinking tasks and a glossary to improve student’s vocabulary.
A work sheet designed to get Y7 students to think critically in order to identify the long and short term causes of the Wars of the Roses.
With six critical thinking tasks and one stretch and challenge task.
An engaging ways to help students understand a complex topic.
This resources is a collection of detailed revision summaries for the OCR B GCSE History Course on Elizabethan England 1580 - 1603. [Formated as Images in a Microsoft Word Doc - for easy Copying/Pasting]
Uses:
Student Revision
Brushing Up On Subject Knoweldge
Lesson Materials
It has detailed one page summaries on each of the following topics:
Society and Poverty
How Elizabethan England Was Actually Governed
Growth in Elizabethan Pastimes
Elizabethan Religious Laws, Priests and Puritanism
The Threat of Mary Queen of Scots to Elizabeth I
The Spanish Armanda 1588 - How England Survived the Greatest Threat
English Exploration and Cash Crop Discoveries Under Elizabeth I
English Colonization and Trade
Summary Diagram - Was the Reign of Elizabeth I a “Golden Age” for England?
Detailed and Engaging Fact Files covering OCR B GCSE History Vikings Exam. [Formatted as a images on a Microsoft Word Doc to allow easy copying and pasting]
Suitable for:
Subject Revision
Brushing Up on Subject Knowledge
Lesson / HW Resourcing
This collection explores:
The Viking Homelands: Scandinavia 650-1050AD - Topography, Cities, Religion and Social Hierarchy
The Volga Vikings
The Vikings Around the World - a detailed map of trading, raiding and settling
Viking Raiding and Settling in England
Viking Raiding and Settling: Scotland, Ireland and France
Viking Settlement: Iceland, Greenland and North America
Viking Kings Who Shaped A Nation - Bluetooth, Forkbeard and Cnut
Detailed Fact Files Covering OCR B GCSE History’s Nazi Germany Coarse 1933-1945. [Formatted as images in a Microsoft Word Doc to allow for easy copying and pasting]
Suitable for:
Revision
Brushing Up on Subject Knowledge
Lesson Planning / Resources
The Fact Files Cover the Following Topics:
How Hitler Consolidated His Power 1933-1934
Hitler’s Police State and Propaganda Machine
How Hitler Controlled and Incentivised Key Groups in Germany
The Impact of WW2 on Germany
The Incremental Persecution of the Jews 1933 - 1945
Resistance to the Nazis: Groups and Individuals Who Stood Up
Life Under Nazi Occupation: Poland, Holland, France and Vichy France
Detailed Factfiles that summarise key knoweldge for OCR B GCSE History Topic: Crime and Punishment in England 1250 - Present.
A four page, engaging knowledge organiser summary that examines crime, law enforcement and punishment across each period below:
The Medieval Period 1250-1500
The Early-Modern Period 1500-1750
The Industrial Period 1750 - 1900
The Modern Day 1900 - Present
Suitable for revision purposes, as a teaching resource or to brush up your subject knoweldge on a subject.
A 16-card card sort activity that gets students to critically assess the causes, types and legal consequences of poverty in Elizabethan England.
Recommended Use: Students to categorize the cards into the group above and then: a) prioritize the causes by biggest to smallest cause of poverty. b) prioritize the types of poor in terms of number and then threat to society. c) assess the consequences of Elizabethan poverty to laws to determine in laws got fairer or harsher on the poor.
Were the Vikings “just land hungry brutes”?
This card sort presents students with 16 pieces of evidence that support and challenge the common belief that the Vikings were “just” blood-thirsty warriors.
Students can use the cards to critically assess this common belief and to formulate arguments to either support or challenge this belief.