This scheme of work consists of six lessons, focusing on how far life changed for key groups in the Nazi era, 1933-45: Introduction and Overview Working Men Women Young People Minority Groups (Jewish life is a focus) Enquiry Outcome and Write Up The lessons and resources include two marking points, with AQA GCSE History skills embedded, including primary source analysis and an explanation of changes in the lives of specific groups of people over time. Progress Trackers for marking are included for these, as well as feedback tasks. This scheme has been taught to Year 9 successfully over the past three years, evidencing how effectively Rosenshine’s Principles for Instruction have been embedded, including retrieval Do Now tasks at the start of each lesson, along with consistent modelling and scaffolding. Also included in this bundle is a bespoke Homework Booklet made from scratch, ensuring students can deepen, broaden and consolidate their learning on this topic, as well as a Knowledge Organiser to support all students. Finally, if you teach AQA GCSE History Weimar and Nazi Germany 1890-1945 ‘Democracy and Dictatorship’, there are resources here which would be highly useful for all students, including SEND and LPA students.

This resource provides an efficient knowledge recall quiz on the AQA A Level unit ‘The Cold War, 1945-1991.’ There are 24 questions on the quiz, with each of the six parts of the course listed. There is one question per bullet point/ topic. At the end, there is a table with likely question focuses. The patterns of what has come up in past exams are also suggested, but this works well as a blank table with students encouraged to use the quiz to make their own connections, notes and predictions. This has been used successfully for several years to prepare students in the lead up to mock exams and final A-Level exams.

This complete set of lessons and resources has been created from scratch and taught successfully to Year 8 students for four years. Each lesson has been designed with Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction in mind and has differentiation at the heart of the slides and resources, with models, part-models and scaffolding throughout. The enquiry title ‘How did Britain become an Empire by 1800?’ enables students to learn through enquiry-based study, utilising primary source material and a range of differentiated resources. The scheme of learning is designed based upon the core premise that Britain’s Empire was built due to the following key, interlinked factors, each of which has one or more lessons dedicated to it: Enquiry Introduction: Big picture of scheme Causes of the Industrial Revolution How did the Industrial Revolution lead to Empire? What was the Transatlantic SLave Trade? How did the Transatlantic SLave Trade lead to Empire? How did Political and Military Strength contribute to Empire? How did Cultural factprs contribute to Empire? Enquiry Outcome: Essay Planning and Write Up of Enquiry Question Included in this package are two marking point Progress Trackers with tailored Pupil Response Tasks, as well as a Knowledge Organiser comprising all key and core knowledge and a Homework Booklet to support retrieval and write ups. Please note that the principles at the heart of this scheme are those of a History department which believes in decolonising the curriculum and shining a light on the negative aspects of empire.

This homework booklet has been used successfully with Year 11 students to help them retrieve, organise and apply their knowledge on The Globe Theatre to the 16 mark essay question on the AQA GCSE HIstory exam. There are six weeks of tasks focused on key knowledge revision, culminating in a paragraph write up to help students prepare for the full essay with a writing frame and mark scheme for peer marking. The weeks/tasks are broken down as follows: 1 Golden Age 2 Rise of the Gentry 3 Theatre: Early Days 4 Theatre: Development 5 The Globe’s Design 6 Playwrights 7 Paragraph Plan This resource pairs well with the Elizabethan England writing frame ‘Desk Mat’ and ‘Deliberate Practice’ pack which I have uploaded on TES separately.

As a Head of History of five years and A Level History Teacher of eight years, I havr found that concise exam models and deliberate practice are the best way to help studentrs prepare in the final weeks before exams. These methods have enabled me to achieve consistently high progress scores at A Level. Here are two resources: A realistic Mock Exam for the Cold War unit, based on what could come up in the 2025 exam A set of slides with a range of topic summaries and exam models and deliberate practice My A Level students are unanimous that exam practice and concise summaries like these have helped them to prepare for their Cold war exam in these final weeks.

As well as a one-stop-shop for all past questions, this pack breaks down for students how each part of the Specification is likely to ask questions in the future. At the end of the pack, there is also guidance on how to answer the different types of exam questions that come up in both Sections A and B. For efficiency, this pack does not include all of the sources but does include all past source questions and guidance on source structure, using the abbreviation ‘PTECA’ as all mark schemes break source evaluation down into Provenance, Tone, Emphasis, Content and Argument.

This template is laid out for History GCSE Revision Sessions but can easily be edited for other subjects and session focuses. It is A4, four to a page and designed on PowerPoint so the editing will be straightforward.

These Revision Worksheets provide a highly differentiated set of tasks for each and every unit of the AQA GCSE HIstory unit 'Elizabethan England, c1568-1603.; Whilst each worksheet is slightly unique, every one of them contains the following tasks: Key Words Match Up Timeline with one modelled date and several blank Sentence Heads and Tails Match Up Some of the worksheets include a Practice Exam Question task, either scaffolded, part-modelled or fully modelled. Ideal for revision on this AQA GCSE History unit, they are also highly adaptable for other Elizabethan England units. As a Head of History of five years and a Teacher of History of nine years, this resource has been refined and is highly useful to students of all levels of prior attainment.

As a History Teacher of nine years and a Head of Department of five years, I have developed a range of strategies for helping students of all levels of prior attainment to be successful in their revision. In my last two years, revision strategies such as these worksheets have enabled my department to achieve high Progress 8 Scores in the last two academic years: +0.15 (2024) and +0.37 (2025). These condensed revision sheets enable students to consolidate their knowledge onto one or two pages per topic. They are based upon students using the AQA Elizabethan England c1568-1603 Revision Guide and helpfully provide page numbers to guide students. Every sheet has the same sections which gives students clear structure for:revision and filling in the sheet to learn and recap key knowledge: Key Words - always part-modelled, ensuring students learn and look out for the key words for each topic Fact Files - based on a key individual, event or historic site Sentence Match Ups - providing students with key facts and analysis which they simply match up: sentence start with sentence end Key factors, causes, events or consequences in the top right corner. These are dual coded with images to help make knowledge memorable Some worksheets have further space for analysis of key concepts in the bottom rights corner, while many have clear exam question models based on Question 1, Question 2 and Question 3 of the Elizabeth unit. These worksheets cover Parts 1-3 of Elizabethan England andhas some focus on Hardwick Hall for the 2025 exam, but does not have a specific Historic Enviroment worksheet. I am happy to answer any questions and to suggest different activities for using these worksheets.

This revision booklet provides detailed summaries of every topic in the GCSE AQA unit Power and the People. It is split into two resources: Booklet 1: Medieval and Early Modern topics Booklet 2: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century topics After each set of paragraphs chunks down and summarises key aspects of a topic, questions are posed which require the students to use the knowledge to demonstrate their understanding. For example: How was the voting system corrupt at the beginning of the 19th Century? How do Rotten Boroughs highlight the corruption of the voting system? How did the Combination Acts make it difficult for the working-class to improve their economic status? This booklet is perfect for setting chunked homework and/or printing together as a revision booklet.

This Deliberate Practice booklet provides sentence starters and broken down guidance on how to apply it for the entire Paper 2 of AQA’s GCSE History Paper 2. The two units modelled are: Power and the People, 1170 to the present day Elizabethan England 1568-1603 Whilst these are precisely modelled, the guidance is also easily adapted and applicable to any of the other Paper 2 units. I have taught AQA GCSE History for nine years and have honed these particular revision resources based on my experience, which includes positive Progress scores and AQA CPD, all in my role as Head of Department.

This AQA GCSE History Exam Technique pack for Paper 1 America 1920-73: Opportunity and Inequality includes a detailed breakdown of the structure, sentence starters and examples of how to structure past and potential exam questions. This is a perfect summary of the structure and potential questions for this unit. The bundle also includes a* list of all past questions* for this unit and a shortened Writing Frame (Desk Mat) for the final stages of revision and exam practice.

This AQA GCSE History Exam Technique pack for Paper 1 Conflict and Tension in the Interwar Years includes a detailed breakdown of the structure, sentence starters and example questions. This is a perfect summary of the structure and potential questions for this unit. The bundle also includes a list of all past questions for this unit and a shortened Writing Frame (Desk Mat) for the final stages of revision and exam practice, which has some examples of Memory Aids for the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations and the Road to War.

This document is a one-stop-shop for all past questions on the Stuart Britain A-Level History unit on the AQA exam board. I have found this very useful in teaching AQA A-Level units because it enables teachers and students to draw out patterns, reduce their cognitive load and have a strong sense of what to expect in the real A-Level exam.

These writing frames or ‘Desk Mats’ provide the following for every exam question type on Paper 1 and Paper 2: Question wording e.g. ‘How useful is Source A to a historian studying…?’ or ‘Write an account of how … led to an international crisis.’ Overall guidance on what is required in the question Sentence starters Timing advice Whilst these Desk Mats are specifically geared towards America 1920-73, Conflict and Tension 1918-39, Elizabethan England 1568-1603 and Power and the People 1170-present day, the above guidance applies to all papers so minimal tweaking will be needed. This resources is perfect for anyone looking to provide stronger exam structure advice to GCSE History students on the AQA exam.

These Primary Source Deliberate Practice Worksheets provide students with scaffolded guidance on how to reach developed analysis of primary source usefulness. They include: Guidance on how to make inferences about usefulness based on content and provenance Clear sentence starters for each paragraph Sentence starters and criteria for a Judgement paragraph for Level 4, Complex judgements In conjunction with my AQA GCSE History Desk Mat for Power and the People, these deliberate practice sheets help students to build an independent framework for their source analysis.