A kinaesthetic activity for students to understand the forms of leisure and entertainment for the rich and poor in the age of Exploration. The 11 sources and supporting information can be printed on card and placed (in any order) around the classroom or the corridor. Students are to move around reading the sources and using a venn diagram to determine whether this would be a pastime for rich, poor or both. The supporting full, differentiated lesson and additional resources are available on my page.

Students to imagine they are one of the Freedom Riders in 1961. Students at each stage of their journey, based on real events, complete a thoughts and feelings diary. Students are to also comment on the reaction of whites to the campaign to integrate the interstate bus stations, and how it makes them feel about the campaign. Can be used as a booklet or students can walk through the journey by displaying in corridor, around classroom.

In our school we teach each unit of the course in both a chronological (train view) and synthesis (helicopter view). 4 time periods are taught over 3-4 lessons with a review lesson at the end of each mini unit. We mainly use textbooks Heinnemann Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992 and Access to History Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992. This lesson is called 'A land of opportunity' and introduces students to the main attitudes towards women 1865-1914 and the key factors that helped or hindered civil rights. Includes picture source analysis, factors worksheet and factor sorting, attitudes of different women using characters.

The new specification does not need lessons devoted to Joseph Smith, rather students to understand the reasons for persecution and the migration to the Great salt lake. Here are two resources to provide students with key information in a nifty and kinaesthetic way! The game board provides a chronological framework and reasons for the unpopularity of Joseph Smith and the Mormons in the east. The card sort enables students to quickly and effectively categorise both Push and pull reasons in the Mormons' migration West.

Revision lessons to highlight the significance of individuals in increased medical knowledge during the Renaissance, despite being a period of such continuity in cause, treatment and prevention of disease, entitled 'Does the Renaissance deserve any credit?' Helps students to tackle the exam questions that ask to evaluate extent of progress during Renaissance period and avoid generalising as a period of just continuity or of just change. could be used for 1or 2 lessons Includes: - printable card sort to establish notion of progress in terms of medical knowledge in comparison to why their was little change from medieval times in treatment and prevention of disease. -role of factors in causing change or continuity during this period, using a puzzle template, with change in top half of each piece. continuity in bottom half. - evaluation of the significance of Sydenham, Vesalius and Harvey in the progress in medical knowledge and short and long term significance. -Apply to demonstrate task where students are to select examples of progress that could be credited during this period in the form of a museum style activity. -picture analogy linked to health jigsaw to review learning. Can be used with any textbook or revision guides.

Revision flashcards on the medical marvels in the period 1700-1900. Includes achievements, short and long-term impact, limitations of their discovery and themes of medicine. Snow, Chadwick, Lister, Simpson, Jenner, Nightingale, Pasteur and Koch. Can be used as a debating tool to evaluate who is the most significant individual in the period, or help in structuring essay questions linked to individuals in this period, or as a simple photocopied revision flashcard. These were created as part of some big picture revision lessons entitled ' Who should enter the Industrial Hall of Fame' which can be found on my page.

Source booklet for students to use alongside the Mid-Tudor crisis unit of work. Sources from all 3 themes of Stability of the Monarchy, Religious changes and Rebellion and unrest. Enables students to work independently on analysis of sources and to use sources every lesson.

Full lesson on the significance of Sir Francis Walsingham in protecting Elizabeth during her reign. Includes video clip, differentiated learning activities, worksheets, a Mr men style task. Tasks refer to information in the Hodder Edexcel Early Elizabethan textbook, but many Elizabeth textbooks will contain information on Walsingham.

2 75 minute lessons called Did Activists, Reformers & Campaigners have any impact on women's rights? Variety of activities to understand the impact of individuals in the fight for women’s rights 1865-1914. Includes role-play from historical documents, pictorial source inference task, thinking skills, videos and speeches, mini- essay writing.

A kinaesthetic learning trail on the significance of Brigham Young in the successful migration and settlement of the Great Salt Lake. Slides can be printed on cards and placed in corridors or around the classroom and student look for evidence to support the following aims of Young in his 'plan for successful migration'. Students will then note-take to then later be able complete activities linked to his importance in the successful settlement of Great Salt lake Resources link to the following aims of Brigham Young: Move thousands of Mormons safely across the Plains and Rocky Mountains Farm an arid landscape and provide fresh water Allocate land to meet the needs of each family Become self-sufficient, free to worship without interference Encourage mass Mormon settlement Keep order with no conflict and tension

A full lesson, initially created as a high paced lesson for 75 mins, but more than enough for 2 lessons. Part of our 'Lost in time' module as students travel through periods of time with the use of characters. This lesson includes group work, diamond 9 thinking skills task, and pictorial source skills. Can be used alongside any resources from a textbook that covers the treatments, prevention strategies and the plague doctor. Includes interactive animations, youtube clip and music to match timings of activities.

An A4 booklet to support students in the study of Religious changes in the Mid Tudor enquiry topic. Intended to support students in study time work, encourage additional reading, extension, reaching supported conclusion about the period and prove useful as a tool to collate revision. It is hoped this will prove of great benefit foe those who will take this topic paper again in year 13. Includes: Series of sources related to topic area. Key questions when answering sources are included from OCR support material and teachers could choose their own questions linked to these sources, or students could simply practice putting sources into historical context in preparation for a module exam. Key content as prescribed by exam board is listed and a visual organiser included for students to add revision notes. Key word glossary to fill in relating to topic, Timeline for students to add relevant, key events to. A summative thinking line where students can add supporting evidence to be able to support, challenge and then reach a conclusion in relation to a key hypothesis on this topic area. A start of topic BIG PICTURE visual challenge linked to the overview included at the start of the chapter in the 2015 OCR A-level Tudors textbook. (HODDER) Here students are challenged to summarise this understanding visually. Fully amendable.

A series of slides that can be printed and enlarged for display. Could also be made into revision cards; whatever you wish really! Made to fit the EDEXCEL Medicine in Britain module, but would fit with other exam boards studying medicine. Includes: 1) Visual revision summaries for Ancient medicine, Medieval medicine, Renaissance medicine, Industrial and Modern medicine. 2) Key features of each period slide 3) Causes of disease slides for each period 4) Treatment of disease for each period 5) Prevention of disease for each period 6) Case study slides for each period Every slide links to factors. Addtionally includes assessment objective, key concepts and key factors slides for display. Finally a number of pictures , key event and date cards which can be used for giant , kinaesthetic timeline activities.

Game to introduce the story of power and democracy through time in the UK from Medieval Times to the present day. Moves on the board show the difficult struggle of men and women to achieve the vote, key chronological developments in this struggle, and the changing power of the monarchy and government. Can be used as a starter, overview, plenary.

For Edexcel 9-1 The American West. A student guide which includes: student friendly mark-schemes, topic outlines, timeline of events, Revision mind-map key questions, examples exam questions, revision techniques. The guide supports the active revision booklet. This chunks revision tasks and also includes: Revision activities for a variety of topics e.g The Cattle, industry, the Homesteaders, the Indian Way of life, the destruction of a way of life, Planning structures for the consequence, importance and narrative account question to encourage students to attempt plans of these questions and activities to focus revision on concepts of importance and consequence.

Full lesson on how people of all classes could entertain themselves in the age of exploration. To match specification for unit 3 of the edexcel exam unit. Includes a game board and chance for students to play a game of Five Men's Morris, A Venn diagram activity to understand the range of pastimes for Elizabethans of differing classes, linked to a Learning trail that can be purchased on my page - or this could be used with information in the chapter in the SHP Hodder Early Elizabethan England textbook, a choice of differentiated activities to demonstrate learning gained and a plenary activity to assess understanding.

Made for double lesson. Use of SHP Elizabethan England textbook for one of the differentiated tasks - yet would fit any textbook that contains information of events leading up to execution of MQS. Includes worksheets printable from slides, analysis of the claims made by Parliament against Mary in 1572, card sort to categorise causes, consequences of Mary's execution and starts with a decision making exercise on whether Elizabeth should execute Mary to identify the reluctance Elizabeth had in signing the death warrant. Comes after a sequence of lessons on the catholic plots and Walsingham and in preparation for a judgement question on which was the most important cause of Mary's execution.

Series of key questions for each of the 3 key topics and subtopics of the specification. Can be used to support students in creating revision mind-maps for revision of the course.

A whole lesson examining the key attitudes to education during the reign of Elizabeth. The students used the Hodder 9-1 edexcel Early Elizabethan Textbook, but textbooks from any of the new specifications will fit the activities. Students identify opportunities for girl and boys of all social classes, then reach a judgement on whether opportunities for education increased during the reign of Elizabeth. an additional sorting grid for knowledge can be printed from the power-point.

A kinaesthetic activity for students to understand the conditions for soldiers in the trenches during World War One. The 7 individual information cards(which include written and visual sources) and supporting information can be printed on card and placed (in any order) around the classroom or the corridor. Students are to move around reading the sources and take notes using a chosen note-taking format. The supporting full, literacy focused lesson and additional resources are available on my page.

Whole lesson to evaluate the significance of Raleigh's attempts to colonise Virginia. Includes a range of activities and printable resources. All activities will fit any of the new specification textbooks. instructions for all activities in comments box in each slide. Includes an activity to build on a very basic internet entry from a children's website using gained knowledge, an evaluation of causes of the two failed attempts, a museum display activity where students have to include any information they consider important to evaluate the significance of these attempts to colonise Virginia despite their initial failure.