Using the booklet the pupils can look at the mystery of the princes. They also have different suspects and have to rank each of them. This can be followed by a court case activity putting the suspects on trial
Pupils have to put themselves the position of the RAF waiting an attack from the Nazis. They have to decide what items to buy to help them and can support their choice by the sources.
They can then present their strategy to the class who can question them and self evaluate their plan highlighting the positives and negatives.
The task allows pupils to take on the role of a slave and plot how they will escape a plantation. They will have to produce a plan and use sources to support them.
Each pair or small group can then do a presentation explaining how they will escape and if it would be successful.
Pupils will look at the different reasons why the peasants revolt failed. They have differentiated sheets to give pupils who are more able to more options.
They can then do this as a piece of written work and have a level sheet to assess their grades.
Looking at German people's mood changed towards the Nazis during WW2. The worksheets have 3 levels of differentiation and sources in the question as well.
Based on the Norman conquest pupils place themselves in the role of the English trying to attack a Norman castle. They can buy equipment to plan and attack the castle with.
They have a piece of writing to do to justify and evaluate their plans. They have some sources to help with their planning.
Source based activity looking at what the most important message MLK spread during the civil rights movement.
There are two sets of sources with questions for differentiation so you can target which pupils to give the questions to. There is also an extension task.
Carousel lesson looking at different groups in America who opposed the war in Vietnam. The task also includes quotes about the influence the media had on swaying popular opinion.
Cross curricular work for English and History.
Looking at how life has changed and researching positive black icons of the 20th century.
Then write an article on if racism can ever be fully eradicated from society looking at recent events.
In pairs on computers, one person researches the causes of the depression and then once the information is gathered they can then do an extended writing task comparing the two depressions.