Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
This resources takes students through all of the question types for their Paper 1, Medicine in Britain and historic environment of the Western Front. The resource provides you and your students with tips about how to structure an answer to each question and gives worked examples along the way. It is a very useful resource to have to go through the expectations and format of the exam.
This pack of revision resources has been specifically designed to help students revise for the Historic Environment of the British Sector of the Western Front. This is the first section in the Paper 1 Medicine in Britain Thematic Study. The pack of resources are all on A4 power point and include the following:
Activity 1: A timeline of the main events activity
Activity 2: Medical progress before the war match up and worksheet
Activity 3: Western Front Medical Pioneers March up with challenge tasks
Activity 4: Western Front Environment Glossary Fill
Activity 5: Western Front Medicine Glossary Fill
Activity 6: Statistic Quiz (Multiple Choice)
Activity 7: Western Front Sources Activity - allowing students to become familiar with the types of sources which can be used or analysed
Activity 8: The ‘Follow Up’ activity - students use the previous sheet to decide which sources they would use to help them answer a series of questions.
Activity 9: ‘Two Features’ practice
Activity 10: Western Front Facts Activity
Activity 11: The Big Western Fron Quiz (2 pages for back to back printing)
Activity 12: Mind Map sheet
Please leave a review of you find these resources useful for revision.
This resource gives students a great overview of the format of the Paper 3 Modern Depth Study exam paper. Students are guided through the main expectations of the paper as well as how to structure each question included in the paper. Example answers and structure tips are provided throughout the presentation.
It is common for teachers to use this resource in the final push towards the exam as a reminder of all the main teaching points or it can be used as part of a ‘Walking, talking mock’ with students.
Please note that all images (clipart/photographs/vectors) used in this presentation, to be best of my knowledge, are copyright free and in the public domain unless otherwise attributed in the links. If you feel any errors have been made please contact me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue. Thank you.
This resource pack includes a wide range of revision activities on A4 which can be used by students in the classroom or at home. The revision pack includes the following activities:
Activity 1: A blank timeline covering all of the main eras in the study which students can add key dates to
Activity 2: Medicine key individuals match up activity
Activity 3: Key Individual significance sheet
Activity 4: Cause, treatment or Prevention sort task
Activity 5: Medieval Glossary fill in sheets (x2)
Activity 6: Early Modern Glossary fill in sheet
Activity 7: 18th and 19th century Glossary fill in sheets (x2)
Activity 8: Modern Medicine Glossary fill in sheets (x2)
Activity 9: Statistics multiple choice quiz
Activity 10: Similarity and Different practice sheet
Activity 11: What’s the Question Activity
Activity 12: ‘Use your brain to explain’ 12 mark practice sheet
Activity 13: Chronology of key developments activity
Activity 14: Medieval Medicine Quiz
Activity 15: Early Modern Medicine Quiz
Activity 16: Industrial Britain Medicine Quiz
Activity 17: Modern Britain Medicine Quiz
Activity 18: When did the development happen tick sheet
Where possible, answers have been provided either in the notes section of each slide or on a duplicated sheet.
This pack of A4 sheets contains a variety of activities students can use to help them remember the subject content for the main Crime and Punishment topic. The revision resources cover the period c.1000 to the present day. The pack contains the following revision activities:
Activity 1: Timeline (fill in the missing events)
Activity 2: Key Individuals match up
Activity 3: Key Groups match up
Activity 4: Key Crime and Punishment individuals activity - based on the names mentioned in the Edexcel specification
Activity 5: Defintions of crime glossary fill
Activity 6: Defintions of law enforcement glossary fill
Activity 7: Definitions of punishments glossary fill
Activity 8: Multiple choice statistics quiz
Activity 9: Similarity & Different worksheet
Activity 10: ‘What’s the Question?’
Activity 11: Key term match up
Activity 12: An explanation practice worksheet
Activity 13: Chronology Activity
Activity 14: Medieval Crime and Punishment Quiz
Activity 15: Early Modern England Quiz
Activity 16: 18th and 19th Century Quiz
Activity 17: Modern Britain Quiz
Activity 18: Key word crossword
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This is a 109 page workbook ideal for either revision, student catch up or for classroom use. It covers the whole Crime and Punishment Paper 1 Unit for the Thematic Study.
The workbook contains:
Useful key term glossary
Useful Crime & Punishment timeline
Fact Sheets for each lesson/topic area
2-3 question sheets for each lesson/topic area
Example Exam Questions throughout
This resource is specifically created for the revision of GCSE History Edexcel Crime and Punishment Paper 1 questions. This includes all the question types you need at hand for Section A (The Historic Environment of Whitechapel) and Section B (Crime and Punishment, c.1000 - Present Day).
All of the past exam questions from 2016 sample papers to 2021 are included along with hints and tips about how to answer each of the questions from both sections.
This should save you a tonne of time!!!
I have put together 19 A4 pages of revision resources to help your students revise their subject knowledge for Paper 2 Superpower Relations and the Cold War exam. The pack includes:
Activity 1: Timeline activity (students to complete the missing words from the timeline)
Activity 2: Cold War Key Individuals Match Up
Activity 3: American President Worksheet
Activity 4: Soviet leader fact file task
Activity 5: Key Event ‘What happened?’ activity (2 pages)
Activity 6: Key Term Glossary Task ( 3 pages)
Activity 7: Snazzy Statistics Quiz
Activity 8: ‘Bang out of Order’ Chronology activity
Activity 9: ‘What’s the Question?’
Activity 10: Key term match up activity (2 quizzes)
Activity 11: ‘Westside’ or ‘Eastside’?
Activity 12: Level 1 Easy Quiz Questions
Activity 13: Level 2 Medium Quiz Questions
Activity 14: Boss Level Quiz Questions
This pack of resources contains 15 different A4 activity sheets designed to help students revise the subject knowledge needed for Weimar and Nazi Germany (Paper 3). The resources are ideal for revision sessions in the run up to the exam.
The resources are:
Weimar & Nazi Germany Timeline - students fill in the key events
Key Individuals and what they did match up
Key Term definition sheet
Key Event description sheet
Events in Weimar Germany Fact Fill
The Munich Putsch Sort Task
Key Term Glossary Fill (Events & Vocabulary)
Key Term Glossary Fill (People & Organisations)
Snazzy Statistics Quiz
Use Your Brain to Explain Activity
Weimar Germany Key Term Crossword
The Rise of the Nazi Party Speech bubble fill
How did Hitler become the Fuhrer Activity
Life in Nazi Germany Quiz Sheet
The Persecution of the Jews and other Minority Groups Worksheet
This presentation has been designed to help students fully understand the expectations, format and question types in the Period Study (Paper 2) exam paper. This particularly focusses on questions from the Superpower Relations and the Cold War topic (two consequences, narrative account and importance).
The presentation includes general exam technique advice, worked model answers, specific question by question exam techniques and a number of example exam questions.
BONUS: You will also recieve a bonus student friendly exam technique sheet which provides sentence starters for each of the question types of the paper (consequence, narrative account and importance).
Please be kind enough to leave a review if you find this resource effective.
This set of revision resources specifically covers the Whitechapel Historic Environment unit which forms the first part of the Paper 1 Crime & Punishment exam. This pack contains the following revision resources which are suitable for all abilities:
Activity 1: A Whitechapel timeline of key events (students fill in the missing words).
Activity 2: Whitechapel Key Individuals Match Up
Activity 3: Whitechapel Key Groups Match Up
Activity 4: A glossary filling in task for key policing terms
Activity 5: A glossary filling in task for key Whitechapel environment terms
Activity 6: A statistics multiple choice quiz
Activity 7: Whitechapel types of Sources/Evidence Match Up
Activity 8: A Practice ‘Follow Up’ worksheet - this is followed by a useful helpsheet with the various types of evidence which can be used in this question.
Activity 8: ‘Two Features’ practice and example questions
Activity 9: Know your Whitechapel facts with additional challenge questions
Activity 10: The Big Whitechapel Quiz Sheet 1
Activity 11: The Big Whitechapel Quiz Sheet 2 (additional challenge)
Activity 12: Mind Map/Revision Diagram outline
Activity 13: Revision crossword
My other set of revision resources for the Crime & Punishment Thematic Study can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12819422
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This is a 44 page word document which includes all of the content needed for the Edexcel Paper 2 ‘Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-91’. The Unit has been divided into 20 main topics along with example exam questions and revision tasks at the end of each topic.
I have included the content page along with the resource so you can view the topic list for yourself, along with an image of a typical page of the revision guide.
This pack of resources contains 16 A4 revision activity sheets suitable for Edexcel GCSE Early Elizabethan England. The resources are suitable for both home and classroom use and for students of all abilities. The pack includes:
Activity 1: Gap fill Key Events of Elizabethan England Timeline
Activity 2: Elizabethan England Key Individuals Match Up
Activity 3: ‘Who are we?’ Quiz
Activity 4: ‘Who am I?’ Quiz
Activity 5: Elizabethan Key Events
Activity 6: Challenges Facing Elizabeth Diagram Fill
Activity 7: Religious Settlement Revision Worksheet
Activity 8: Key Term Glossary Fill Page 1
Activity 9: Key Term Glossary Fill Page 2
Activity 10: Snazzy Statistics Multiple Choice Quiz
Activity 11: Use Your Brain to Explain
Activity 12: Two Features Practice
Activity 13: What’s the Question?
Activity 14: Spanish Armada Crossword
Activity 15: Early Elizabethan Quiz Sheet 1
Activity 16: Early Elizabethan Quiz Sheet 2
In this lesson, students will discover what living conditions were like in Britain’s new industrial towns and specifically examine the increase in illness and disease. Particular attention is paid to the creation of terraced housing, the growth of slum areas, back-to-back housing and the pollution and waste created by such extreme overcrowding in the working class parts of towns.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson learning aims and progress
Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up – Class discussion about how students would describe ‘typical’ housing and accommodation today.
Slide 4: Lesson Warm Up II – Fill in the missing facts about the growth of towns in the Industrial Revolution
Slide 5: Missing terms from the warm-up revealed.
Slide 6: Starter Task: Students view a diagram of typical terraced and back-to-back housing and use this to discuss what housing conditions were like and how this led to ill-health and disease.
Slide 7: Source Analysis – An illustration of slum housing with prompt questions
Slide 8: Source Analysis – Printable GCSE style question sheet
Slide 9: Background Information – The growth of industrial towns
Slide 10: Background Information – Overcrowded terraced housing
Slide 11: Printable fact sheet
Slide 12: Activity 1 – Printable worksheet
Slide 13: Activity 2 – Creative historical writing task with full instructions
Slide 14: Activity 3 – Extended historical writing task with structure ideas
Slide 15: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 16: Learning Review Crossword with answers revealed
Slide 17: Printable version of the learning review crossword
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.
This resource contains a collection of revision resources aimed at helping students revise key knowledge and skills before their exams. The pack includes:
Activity 1: American West Timeline Fill
Activity 2: American West Key Individual Match Up
Activity 3: American West ‘Which Chief am I?’
Activity 4: American West ‘Which group are we’?
Activity 5: Key American West Government Policies
Activity 6: American West Glossary (Thematic). Three Sheets
Activity 7: Snazzy Statistics Multiple Choice Quiz
Activity 8: Consequence and Importance Practice
Activity 9: ‘Bang out of Order’ Narrative Account Chronology Activity.
Activity 10: What’s the Question Quiz
Activity 11: American West Key Term Crossword
Activity 12: 2 x Higher ability quiz sheets
Please note that the answers to most questions (the ones involving simple factual answers) can be found in the notes section of each slide.
Updated for 2022
**This is a set of 6 power point slides which can be printed off and given to students to help them structure their answers to the Edexcel GCSE History exam questions. **
Sheet 1: How to answer questions for Paper 1 (Thematic Study)
Sheet 2: How to answer questions for Paper 1 (Historical Environment)
Sheet 3: How to answer questions for Paper 2 (British Depth Study)
Sheet 4: How to answer questions for Paper 2 (Period Study)
Sheet 5: How to answer questions for Paper 3 (Modern Depth Study)
Sheet 6: How to structure 12 and 16 mark questions.
You can use these to stick into student books or print out for reference or revision.
This bundle includes the following lessons designed for Unit 2:
Lesson 10: The Revolt of the Northern Earls
Lesson 11: The Ridolfi, Throckmorton and Babington Plots
Lesson 12: The role of Francis Walsingham
Lesson 13: Why Mary, Queen of Scots was Executed
Lesson 14 The rivalry with Spain in the Netherlands
Lesson 15 Increasing tension between Spain and England
Lesson 16: Robert Dudley in the Netherlands and the actions of Francis Drake
Lesson 17: Philip’s invasion plans and causes of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 18: The reasons for the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
This resource contains 20 slides which cover the whole Cold War & Superpower Relations topic. Each slide includes all the key information needed in line with the Edexcel GCSE specification.
These fact sheets can be used for revision or as information sheets for the teaching of the unit.
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
A jam packed 4 lesson bundle to allow students to access resources and information for Unit 2 of Edexcel GCSE History Cold War and Superpower Relations.
**Lesson 10: **The Berlin Crisis, Berlin Ultimatum (1958)
**Lesson 11: **The building of the Berlin Wall (1961)
**Lesson 12: **The Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis.
**Lesson 13: **The Prague Spring and Brezhnev Doctrine (1968)
Thank you for viewing my resources. This lesson examines the role of the the Church in Medieval society as well as why the Church and religion were such important parts of people’s lives.
In your purchase you will get:
1 x A4 Information Sheet about Medieval Religion and the Church
1 x A4 Question/activity sheet
1 x A4 Differentiated question/activity sheet for students to write on
1 x A4 Higher ability question sheet based on historical sources and the ‘Normanisation’ of the Church
1 x Power Point presentation which provides the structure of the lesson. As with all of my presentations it includes starter tasks, activities, clear, engaging and animated information and learning recap activities.
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.