Accessible yet thorough 16-minute overview of this fascinating topic, covering: timescale of stellar evolution, mass and fuel. Small stars: size, formation: protons, beta decay, neutron (deuteron), helium. Collapse, red giant, helium flash, the triple-alpha process, white dwarf and planetary nebula. High-mass stars: hotter, brighter, bluer MSSs, fusion up to iron, supernova plus heavier elements. Neutron star or black hole remains. Characteristics of each stage. Find the film on YouTube by searching for “The Life and Death of Stars: White Dwarfs, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes”. 15 questions for the 16-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

Comprehensive, thorough, c. 17-minute documentary, covering: scientific stagnation in Medieval times, the Renaissance as a time of great change, books become widespread and cheaper. Paracelsus’ early life and education, difficult personality; doctor of Basel. Latin vs. vernacular language, his reputation grows after death. Importance of chemistry in medicine, e.g. mercury and arsenic salts: toxicity depends upon dose. Rejection of 4 humours and bloodletting. Analysis of 1632 London Bill of Mortality – a fascinating review of the state of medicine at the time, including deaths by “Planets”, “King’s Evil”, and “Rising of the Lights”. Poor hygiene and infection are major causes of death during the Renaissance. Find the film on YouTube by searching for “Paracelsus and Medicine During the Renaissance”. 15 questions for the c. 17-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

Comprehensive, thorough, 18-minute documentary really drills down into the origins, evidence, and significance of Darwin’s ideas. Clearly and passionately articulated, covering: observations from HMS Beagle, descent with modification, mutation, Fitness, natural selection, fossils. Scientific vs. vernacular meaning of “theory”. Beginnings of palaeontology, the age of the earth, the bible. Lamarck; Darwin on the Galapagos, adaptation in finches. Slow publication of The Origin of Species, AR Wallace. Speciation is only apparently discrete, gaps in fossil record, analogy with artificial selection: dogs, plants. New insights from genetics. Find the film on YouTube by searching for “Charles Darwin’s Idea: Descent With Modification” 15 questions for the 18-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

Comprehensive, thorough, 16-minute overview of this difficult topic, covering: astrophysics vs. cosmology, Big Bang etymology. Tractability to investigation, current limit of resolution. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and quantum fluctuation. The four fundamental forces. Characteristics, chronology, and properties of successive epochs: the Planck epoch, the grand unification epoch, the electroweak epoch, the inflationary epoch, the quark epoch, the hadron epoch, the lepton epoch the photon epoch, Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Expansion and cooling, 3:1 hydrogen to helium. Recombination and photon decoupling. The dark ages. Hydrogen and helium begin to cluster… Find the film on YouTube by searching for “Cosmology: A Big Bang and the Beginning of the Universe ”. 13 questions for the 16-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

Cloze sheet (25 gaps) on The Dawes Act, covering: 1867 reservations, division into allotments, citizenship for 25-year tenants. Intentions of the Act, impacts upon Native Americans. “Surplus” land sold to white settlers. Missing words boxed at the bottom of the sheet; each word used once only. Differentiated four ways, A - least help to D - most help thus: (e.g. missing word is durable) A: gap is __________________ B: gap is d_________________ C: gap is __ __ __ __ __ __ __ D: gap is d __ __ __ __ __ __ (this doesn’t display correctly here, so please see also previews of the bottom corners of the sheets, showing how the differentiation works). Answer sheet, easy to mark. PDF and DOC of everything.

Cloze sheet (25 gaps) on The Homestead Act, covering: land sales before The Act, criteria for uptake, proving up. Difficult conditions, grant increased to 640 acres, conflict with Native Americans, failure of proving up, abuse of scheme by large landowners. Effect on westward migration. Missing words boxed at the bottom of the sheet; each word used once only. Differentiated four ways, A - least help to D - most help thus: (e.g. missing word is durable) A: gap is __________________ B: gap is d_________________ C: gap is __ __ __ __ __ __ __ D: gap is d __ __ __ __ __ __ (this doesn’t display correctly here, so please see also previews of the bottom corners of the sheets, showing how the differentiation works). Answer sheet, easy to mark. PDF and DOC of everything.

A review of enslavement in the USA (and 13 Colonies) covering: the White Lion; tobacco; Africans seized, their prices in West Africa and the New World. The middle passage, the scale of the operation, main sources of slaves. Legalisation of slavery in different states, laws against racial mixing, punishments. Working conditions, armed resistance, 1793, The Fugitive Slave Act, the Underground Railway, escapees, Liberia, Lincoln, 13th Amendment. Find the film on YouTube by searching for History of Slavery In The United States in 15 minutes 14 questions for the 15-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Questions right up to the end, no slack time. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. See also the BBC History episode on slavery: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12615637 Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

The film reviews the status of Irish indentured servants in the Americas: can they be considered as slaves? The question is controversial and this resource should only be used with caution, as just a part of the whole history of the use of enslaved people in the New World. This video offers a balanced assessment, but only considers the question with respect to Irish people. The content covers: the Viking raids, the Hroomarsson Rebellion, Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, king of Meath frees Irish slaves. Normans in Ireland; Henry II and Laudabiliter, Alexander III grants Ireland to Henry II, “The Pale”. Slavery replaced by serfdom. James I and the Order of Banishment. 1612: Irish slaves sold, and taken to Brazil – slaves or indentured servants? Prices of African vs Irish slaves. 1641 Irish Rebellion. Cromwell’s treatment of the Irish. “To Hell or to Connacht”. Various Council of State declarations regarding Irish people in the colonies. Find the film on YouTube by searching for TRUTH about the Irish - First slaves brought to the Americas - Forgotten History 14 questions for the 14-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. See also the BBC History episode on slavery from Africa: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12615637 Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

An outstanding and robust review of the common wisdom that the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused the Japanese surrender. With extensive use of attributed quotations from high-level politicians, warriors, and historians from all sides. This film considers overlooked events and evidence, including the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945. Revisionist versus orthodox views are critically considered in detail (all sources given) and will really encourage your students to carefully weigh up evidence. Included are: a review of the established facts (Nazi surrender, the Potsdam Conference including Stalin’s offer and evidence of Japan’s approaches; successful A-Bomb tests. The Potsdam Proclamation, the atomic strikes against Japan. Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Japanese surrender. A review of the decision to use A-bombs: to avoid a ground invasion, expected to be very costly. Domestic pressure on Truman. Soviet army as “insurance” against ineffective A-bombs. Were they significantly different from conventional bombing? Was Hirohito more concerned about Soviet invasion? Should the US have guaranteed Hirohito’s status? Find the film on YouTube by searching for Did Japan Surrender Because of the Atomic Bomb? 15 questions for the 23-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

An outstanding account of the battle’s context, progress, and cost. Using archive footage and photographs, and interviews from survivors. Covering: significance of Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands. Japanese fortifications, difficult terrain, and Luchuan civilian population. US aerial bombing. Japanese weapons and forces, including armed civilians; US weapons and forces. Progress of the battle including overwhelming kamikaze waves, and the Yamoto. Constant rain a problem for US vehicles. Many civilian suicides. Japanese military suicide charges. Eisenhower dies. Did the death toll influence the use of atomic weapons? Find the film here on YouTube by searching for Okinawa 1945: Japan’s Last Stand. 14 questions for the 19-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

A thorough, engaging account of the battle’s context, progress, and cost, with archive footage and photographs. Covering: the island’s location, size, and strategic importance; staging post for the Philippines. Gen Rupertus predicts a rapid victory. Admiral Halsey skeptical. Initial success: a Japanese trap. Japanese counter-attacks. Coral soil hampers digging in, exacerbates shrapnel. Heat presents difficulties. Japanese exploit mountains and caves. Wildcat aerial bombardment. Japanese resistance. The cost, in terms of lives. Was it worth it? Find the film on YouTube by looking for America’s Deadliest Amphibious Operation in the Pacific | The Battle of Peleliu (WW2). 14 questions for the 14-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

An outstanding account of the context and prelude to the battle, Japanese tactics, US intelligence-gathering and counter-strategy, and the wider consequences of the US victory, and the Japanese defeat. Covering: Yamamoto’s hurry, Japan’s plan: the Aleutian feint, air-attack on Midway, land invasion, sea-battle. Rochefort intercepts plan, Nimitz prepares an aerial strike. A detailed account of the battle, including losses on both sides. The importance of intelligence and tactical planning. Find the film on YouTube by searching for Battle of Midway Tactical Overview – World War II | History 14 questions for the 15-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

A very thorough and engaging 18’57” account the battle. Covering: “Island hopping” to Japan. Geographic and political significance of Iwo Jima. A day-by-day account of the fighting, including tactics, hardware, losses and gains, lessons learned and applied as strategic changes. Weather and terrain. Mopping up against continued resistance. Kuribayashi’s fate is unknown. Victory, and its cost. Reflection as to the value of victory on Iwo Jima. Find the film on YouTube by searching for Terrible Price of Victory - Battle of Iwo Jima (WW2 Documentary) 14 questions for the 18-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

By a country mile the best and most appropriate video for this subject in schools. Comprehensive, thorough, 25-minute documentary really drills down into the context, the cause, events and political legacy, both in the USA and NVN. Covering: stalemate, Westmoreland optimistic, NVN doves vs. hawks, Ho Chi Minh becoming sidelined. Le Duan takes control. Brezhnev backs doves. NVN military preparations from October 1967. Khe Sanh a target, US troops are relocated. Tet holiday. Surprise attack country-wide. US Embassy, radio station and Presidential Palace attacked, unsuccessfully. US and ARVN troops reverse most VC and NVA gains. Detailed account of Battle of Huế, outcomes, casualties. Analysis of why Tet was a kind of victory for VC and NVA, and the political costs to LBJ and the USA. Anti-war feeling grows. McNamara resigns, LBJ initiates negotiations with NVN, LBJ does not apply for a second term. Reflections on the outcomes of the Tet offensive. Find the film on YouTube by searching for “Why the US Lost the Tet Offensive Despite Beating the NVA (Vietnam War Documentary)” or use the TES preview. 16 questions for the 25-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. The final 2 minutes are a promotion for a video platform. You can stop the film straight after the last question has been answered. Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

Comprehensive, thorough, 18-minute documentary really drills down into the context, the cause, events and legacy. Includes contemporary sources and interviews with witnesses. The town today, Floyd B. McKissick’s earl life, 1963 March on Washington, witness to post WW2 reconstruction in Europe. Floyd B. McKissick Jr. Optimism in difficult times. Jane Ball-Groom. Socialism of Black Panther Party and capitalism in Soul City. Proposed facilities inc. Soultech 1. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Support sought from LBJ (resigned) and RFK (assassinated). Nixon supports the idea: Republicans seeking a broad base. McKissick supports Nixon. M$14 federal funding. NC senator Jesse Helms opposes. Site chosen. 1973 energy crisis. Misperception as an all-Black town. Watergate. Senator Helms demands federal audit. Press voices allegations of mismanagement. Audit clears Soul City of any major wrongdoing. 1979, HUD pulls the plug. Foreclosure. See the film on YouTube by searching for “The anti-racist town in the American South, explained”, or follow the TES preview link. 15 questions for the 18-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Similar worksheets: Why the US government murdered Fred Hampton . USA civil rights in the Cold War How The Reconstruction Era Shaped Modern America . Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

Comprehensive, thorough, 17-minute documentary really drills down into the context, the cause, events and legacy. Includes contemporary sources and interviews with witnesses. Covering: the first Polynesians arrive, Hawaiian culture emerges. 1810 a monarchy unites the nation. Missionaries , sugar industry. Religious conversions. Language and culture suppressed, privatized land ownership. 1887 constitution disenfranchising Hawaiians. Queen Lili’uokalani, Committee of Safety coup… 1893 usurpation of government. Hawaiians push back Congress rejects the annexation. 1898 Spanish-American War. Congress illegally annexes Hawai‘i. Pearl Harbor, martial law. 1959, 50th state. Development of resorts and condos. Kaho’olawe a bombing range. Eisenhower’s executive decree. Korean War, Vietnam War. Environmental impact. 1976, ALOHA occupy Kaho‘olawe. Coast Guard interception. Aloha ‘Aina. Further occupations. Mitchell and Helm lost at sea. Class action civil suit against Navy. 1980, consent decree. 1990 Bush ends bombing on the island. The island is returned to Hawai‘i. Environmental regeneration today. Find the film on YouTube by searching for “How Native Hawaiians fought the US Navy, and won”. 15 questions for the 17-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

Comprehensive, thorough, 18-minute documentary really drills down into the context, the cause, events and legacy. Includes contemporary sources and interviews with witnesses. Johnson’s Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow laws end. Persistent inequalities remain. Poverty, poor housing, and unemployment, poor political representation. Police violence, uprisings. Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Confrontations with police. Media coverage. “Ten Point Plan”. Local chapters, “survival programs.” Free breakfast for children. Fred Hampton’s career. Akua Njeri. Chicago. Richard J. Daley. Similar problems amongst diverse groups, the Rainbow Coalition – seen as a threat. FBI takes note. COINTELPRO: illegal tactics. Hampton arrested and released on bond. Police assault on Hampton’s home. Mark Clark killed, Brenda Harris shot, survivors arrested. Police cover-up. Cover-up exposed. FBI involvement. William O’Neal. Fred Hampton’s legacy, Black Panther “radical” policies now mainstream. Watch the film on YouTube before showing. One instance each of “bullshit” and “shit”, but appropriate and justified in the context. Find the film on YouTube by searching for “Why the US government murdered Fred Hampton”; link on TES in video preview. 15 questions for the 18-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Have a look too at USA civil rights in the Cold War https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12846795 and How The Reconstruction Era Shaped Modern America https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12860151

Comprehensive, thorough, 16-minute documentary really drills down into the events. His death, could he have been saved? Burial, mourning. No successor. Beria, Malenkov, and Khrushchev are candidates. Beria releases 1.3 million prisoners. Yugoslavia and East Germany considered. Beria arrested and executed in December. Malenkov and Khrushchev’s approaches contrasted: relaxation of total state control, light industry and consumer goods, reducing tax; the Virgin Lands campaign. Molotov attacks both candidates. Khrushchev elected First Secretary. Krushchev’s investigation against the MGB. Malenkov resigns as head of the Soviet of Ministers. Molotov, Malenkov, and Kaganovich work against Khrushchev. 20th Congress speech. Destalinisation, reactions around Eastern Bloc, and especially Georgia. Molotov, Malenkov Bulganin, and Kaganovich abolish the position of First Secretary of the Communist Party, Khrushchev demoted to Minister of Agriculture. Zhukov and the army loyal to Khrushchev - Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich denounced and had them expelled from Central Committee and Presidium. Zhukov promoted then dismissed. The post-Stalin period: end of mass repressions and terrors; attempts to improve international relations, The Thaw. 14 questions for the 16-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. The video is available on YouTube by searching for “Death of Stalin - The Cold War DOCUMENTARY” Get your Cold War Keyword Bingo here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12566880 And your BBC HistoryFile Cold War series bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12332576 Have a look at the Soviet bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/history-file-the-soviets-all-five-12326786 Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etc.

32 essential terms for text analysis. Each unique card has 16 keywords from: (in no special order) motif, pathetic fallacy, anecdote, connotation, idiom, alliteration, simile, sibilance, incongruent, half rhyme, ambiguity, pun, panning out, metonymy, hamartia, dialogue, hypophora, repetition, euphemism, allegory, oxymoron, anaphora, metaphor, stanza, assonance, dramatic irony, paradox, allusion, onomatopoeia, didactic, antithesis, pathos. 32 unique player cards (see previews to get the idea). Editable caller’s card (change the clues if desired, add examples), full instructions. Colour and low-graphics versions. High-quality FUN learning for the rest of your career! Set a learning homework on this that doesn’t need marking!

This very thorough 16-minute documentary gives a comprehensive account of the context and issues, and consequences: NSC established, post-war reorganization of defence and national security. The Long Telegram and Article X, George Kennan, his analysis of the USSR – party vs. people. Acheson replaces Kennan with Nitze and rejected. A digest of NSC-68, I, II, and III. USSR becomes a nuclear power. Pre-emptive attack considered. Alternatives. The Korean War breaks out, NSC-68 vindicated, PRC joins the Korean War. NSC-68 approved 1951. Who was the better analyst: Nitze or Kennan? Novikov’s 1946 telegram. Mistrust and escalation. Find the film on YouTube by searching for NSC-68: The document that shaped the Cold War. 14 questions for the 16-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Treat yourself to ALL FIVE BBC Cold War reconstructions here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/history-file-cold-war-all-5-videos-question-sheets-12332576 Please check that you can access the video before you download these sheets. All the links work when I upload. If my links no longer work, the videos may still be found elsewhere on YouTube etcetera.

French language cloze sheet (25 gaps) on the impact of Instagram on mental health. Pupils can fill the gaps, and go on to translate the passage for extra challenge if desired. Uses natural language, including unknown but reasonably guessable (within context) vocab, mostly simple present tense. Missing words boxed at the bottom of the sheet; each word used once only. Differentiated four ways, A - least help to D - most help thus: (e.g. missing word is durable) A: gap is __________________ B: gap is d_________________ C: gap is __ __ __ __ __ __ __ D: gap is d __ __ __ __ __ __ (this doesn’t display correctly here, so please see also previews of the bottom corners of the sheets, showing how the differentiation works). “A” version could be given to top-set 16-year-olds and above, “D” version could be completed (gap fill, not translation) by a beginner. All sheets look similar, all levels of differentiation have the same gaps. Answer sheet, easy to mark. I’ve included the Google Translate English translation, to spot whether pupils are getting “extra help”. PDF and DOC of everything. Have a look at the deep fake sheets here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12999749 38 more in the series including wines, regions, sports, music, politics, history, wildlife, food… 12 (4 versions of task, answer sheet, translation, all .doc and .pdf) Spanish cloze worksheets differentiated x4: