Silver author! Head of History and Head of KS5 Humanities at an outstanding secondary school. I have experience teaching History, Geography, and Philosophy at KS3, and History at GCSE and A Level, with the occasional dabble in Ancient History and Latin. I also have experience teaching EPQ and PSHE. I am a Specialist Leader in Education for Primary History, teacher training mentor, and History subject knowledge tutor.
Silver author! Head of History and Head of KS5 Humanities at an outstanding secondary school. I have experience teaching History, Geography, and Philosophy at KS3, and History at GCSE and A Level, with the occasional dabble in Ancient History and Latin. I also have experience teaching EPQ and PSHE. I am a Specialist Leader in Education for Primary History, teacher training mentor, and History subject knowledge tutor.
For teaching Edexcel 9-1 Medicine Through Time 1250-present.
Modern Medicine: How important was the development of penicillin in modern medicine?
This lesson covers the disovery and impact of Magic Bullets and Penicillin, looking at the roles of Alexander Fleming, Florey & Chain, and factors that enabled it’s development. This includes:
Advancements in treatments in the 1900s
Magic Bullets
Who discovered Penicillin and how?
Alexander Fleming
Florey and Chain
Factors enabling the mass production of Penicillin
Positives and negatives of Penicillin
Also included:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Exam style question - 16 mark ‘how far do you agree’ + AFL sheet and checklist!
Please review if you purchase, and check out my other Medicine Through Time resources!
For teaching Edexcel 9-1 Medicine Through Time 1250-present.
Modern Medicine: What was the impact of the NHS on improving access to medical care?
This lesson looks at the founding and impact of the NHS. This includes:
Why was change needed?
Social reforms of the Liberal Government 1906-1914
Background to the NHS, Beveridge Report, beginning of the NHS
Impact of the NHS
Also included:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Please review if you purchase, and check out my other Medicine Through Time resources!
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Medicine Through Time 1250-Present
5 lesson bundle for 18th-19th Century Medicine;
Edward Jenner and Smallpox
Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
Florence Nightingale
John Snow and Public Health
1800’s surgery
Included in each lesson:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet or worksheet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Exam style questions
Please review if you purchase and check out my other Medicine Through Time lessons and resources!
For teaching Edexcel 9-1 Medicine Through Time 1250-present.
18th-19th Century Medicine: How important was John Snow in fighting cholera in the 19th century?
This lesson covers the work of John Snow and his impact on Public Health. This lesson also covers the governments role in Public Health and Edwin Chadwick. This includes:
Living conditions during the Industrial Revolution - includes source analysis ('King Cholera)
What was cholera
Work of John Snow
Death’s Dispensary source analysis
The Great Stink - source analysis
The Sanitary Movement
Public Health Acts (1848, 1875) and Edwin Chadwick
Also included:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Exam style question - 16 mark ‘how far do you agree’ + AFL sheet
Please review if you purchase, and check out my other Medicine Through Time resources!
For teaching Edexcel 9-1 Medicine Through Time 1250-present.
18th-19th Century Medicine: To what extent did Florence Nightingale improve medical care in the 19th century?
This lesson covers the achievements and impact of Florence Nightingale. This includes:
Scutari hospital
How did care and treatment change?
Who was Florence Nightingale? - Complete a person profile
How different were hospitals by 1900?
Overall summary of Florence Nightingale’s impact (in the style of an exam question!)
Also included:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class! - INCLUDES A COMPLETED BOOKLET!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Please review if you purchase, and check out my other Medicine Through Time resources!
For teaching Edexcel 9-1 Medicine Through Time 1250-present.
18th-19th Century Medicine: Was Germ Theory the most significant breakthrough of the 1800s?
This lesson covers the discovery and impact Germ Theory - looking at the work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. This includes:
Glossary of key terms
The Age of Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution
Understanding cause of disease - the discovery of Germ Theory
Who was Louis Pasteur?
Who was Robert Koch? - Including source analysis!
Impact of Germ Theory
Factors that helped and hindered in understanding cause of disease
Also included:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Exam style 16 mark ‘how far do you agree’ question + AFL sheet!
Please review if you purchase, and check out my other Medicine Through Time resources!
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Medicine Through Time 1250-Present
5 lesson bundle for Renaissance Medicine;
The Great Plague
Vesalius and the Printing Press
William Harvey, Thomas Sydenham and the Royal Society
Renaissance overview (change and continuity)
Curing Charles II
Included in each lesson:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet or worksheet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Exam style questions
Please review if you purchase and check out my other Medicine Through Time lessons and resources!
This whole lesson plus accompanying resources is for teaching Renaissance Medicine (Change and Continuity) for Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Medicine Through Time 1250-Present.
Students will look at:
Treatments
Preventions
Medical Care
Caring for the sick (hospitals)
All of the above is with a focus on CHANGE and CONTINUITY! Includes 20 question quiz with answers, great for revision or a plenary task.
Please note you will need the Pearson Medicine Through Time textbook.
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For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-1991
EVERY LESSON NEEDED TO TEACH THIS UNIT! 11 fully resourced lessons!
Lessons are as follows;
Unit 1: Cold War Origins
Tension after WW2
US-Soviet relations after WW2
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Hungarian Uprising
Unit 2: Cold War Crises
Berlin Crisis and Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Prague Spring
Unit 3: End of the Cold War
Detente
Afghanistan
Collapse of the USSR
Every lessons comes with:
Accompanying work booklets - fully differentiated to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz with answers for each lesson (great revision tool or plenary activity)
Homework questions with AfL sheets
ALSO INCLUDED:
2 revision lessons
Cold War reading list to enhance subject knowledge for you and your students
Cold War Paper 2 survival guide
Cold War Paper 2 exam skills
Revision notes for the Cold War
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-1991
Cold War END OF THE COLD WAR bundle - Key Topic 3.
Unit 3: End of the Cold War
Detente
Afghanistan
Collapse of the USSR
This bundle includes:
3 fully resourced lessons including accompanying work booklets - fully differentiated to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz with answers for each lesson (great revision tool or plenary activity)
Homework questions with AfL sheets
For teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-1991
Cold War CRISES bundle - Key Topic 2.
Unit 2: Cold War Crises
Berlin Crisis and Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Prague Spring
This bundle includes:
3 fully resourced lessons including accompanying work booklets - fully differentiated to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz with answers for each lesson (great revision tool or plenary activity)
Homework questions with AfL sheets
Also included:
Revision timeline lesson!
Why did Soviet control collapse in the East?
Lesson 11 of the GCSE Cold War Scheme of Work!
This lesson looks at the collapse of the USSR and why this led to end of the Cold War.
This lesson includes:
The background to collapse - including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and new USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev’s new thinking
Summits (1985-89)
Fall of the Satellite States
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Included in this lesson:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Exam style narrative account question
Please review if you purchase and check out my other Cold War lessons and resources!
Why didn’t the detente of 1969-79 last? The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Lesson 10 of the GCSE Cold War Scheme of Work!
This lesson looks at the impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on international relations within the Cold War.
This lesson includes:
Why the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
The Soviet-Afghan war
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Moscow Olympics 1980 and the international reaction
Ronald Reagan and the Second Cold War
Policies of Reagan
The SDI (Star Wars)
Consequences of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Also included:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
TWO exam style questions: narrative account and explain the importance of…
Please review if you purchase and check out my other Cold War lessons and resources!
What was détente and why was it important for US-USSR relations?
Lesson 9 of the GCSE Cold War Scheme of Work!
This lesson looks at the impact of detente in reducing tension between international relations within the Cold War.
This lesson includes:
Changes in leadership for the USA and USSR 1969-1979
Reasons for detente
SALT 1
Helsinki Accords 1975
SALT 2
Included:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Exam style narrative account question
Please review if you purchase and check out my other Cold War lessons and resources!
A useful reading list for teaching The Cold War either at A Level or GCSE. Includes title of book, author, date of publication and a brief overview of the book. Perfect for giving to students as a guide or for teachers looking to enhance their own subject knowledge. 7 pages of recommendations!
Separated into;
General Cold War history
Origins and Development of the Cold War to 1955
Background and Development of the Cold War in Asia to 1955
Cold War in Asia 1956-93
The Global Cold War 1956-85
The End of the Cold War
A useful revision resource - a timeline of the Cold War crises which breaks down ‘what happened’ and the ‘consequences’ including;
A divided Berlin - refugee crisis, Khrushchev’s ultimatum, summit meetings and the Berlin Wall
Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis
Prague Spring and Czechoslovakia
ALSO INCLUDED: Answers for the whole sheet!
Best printed double sided A3.
Ideal for teaching Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Superpower Relations and the Cold War.
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Why was the Prague Spring of 1968 significant for the development of the Cold War?
Lesson 8 of the GCSE Cold War Scheme of Work!
This lesson looks at the impact of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia on the Cold War.
This lesson includes:
Background to Czechoslovakia within the USSR
What was the Prague Spring
Soviet reactions and the Brezhnev Doctrine
Consequences
Similarities and differences between the Hungarian Uprising and the Prague Spring
Included:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Exam style narrative account question
Please review if you purchase and check out my other Cold War lessons and resources!
Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis significant for the development of the Cold War?
Lesson 7 of the GCSE Cold War Scheme of Work!
This lesson looks at the impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis on the Cold War. This lesson includes;
The Cuban Revolution
The Bay of Pigs and consequences
Cuban Missile Crisis consequences
Impact on US/USSR relations
Includes a 1 page A3 summary sheet for revision!
Included in this lesson:
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
TWO exam style questions: consequences and explaining importance
Please review if you purchase and check out my other Cold War lessons and resources!
Why was the building of the Berlin Wall significant for the development of the Cold War?
Lesson 6 of the GCSE Cold War Scheme of Work!
This lesson looks at the impact of the Berlin Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall on the Cold War, including:
The problems with Germany and Berlin
The refugee crisis (there is a fun game included with this - instructions on the PPT!)
The Berlin ultimatum
Peace talks (and their consequences)
What was the Berlin Wall
Impact and consequences of the Berlin Wall, including international relations
Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson
Also includes two exam style questions; narrative account homework question AND consequences question!
Please review if you purchase and check out my other Cold War lessons and resources!
