The first lesson for the conflict and tension in Asia 1950-75. The lesson that tries to set the background to the Korean War and get students to have a good grasp of key people and countries. The lesson is designed to be teacher led and to question and get students to think about the information that are learning. Questions are in bold to pose to students GCSE question included with sentence starters and challenge tasks to stretch students.

A good activity to get students to recap their topic. Give students 10 minutes per section first 5 they write down everything they can remember, 2 minutes to share with partner and 3 to check their books. They repeat this for all the sections.

A lesson in a SOW for a three year GCSE looking at AQA America Opportunity and America: 1920 -73. This lesson get students to look at how women in America got the vote. Whilst not specifically needed, in a lot of detail for the exam it will give the class a good understanding about the momentum behind the changes to women in the 1920’s. With a broad understanding of the growing independence of women during this period. The lesson includes a GCSE styled question to practice, there are sentence started to help the weaker students in the class as well as challenge tasks to stretch the top end.

A lesson that looks at why there was tension building in Vietnam, students fill in the worksheet (i print onto A3). There is a source question with sentence starters to help and a model paragraph to help. There are challenge tasks and prompt questions throughout.

A lesson that look at the gunpowder plot and gets students to investigate whether the plotters were guilty or there was a conspiracy theory to frame them for the attempted murder of the king. Lesson includes challenge tasks, a GCSE source question with model answer and sentence starters.

A lesson in a SOW intended for a three year GCSE looking at the AQA: America 1920 -1973. Students look at the impact of the car industry on America. The lesson is largely teacher led with information and question to pose to the class, as well as discussion about images and graphs. There is a GCSE question included with sentence starters for the less able and challenge tasks to stretch the top end. There is also a model answer for students to evaluate as a class or on their own.

The lesson gets students to look at a different interpretation of the Norman Conquest. The task of reading parts of the Anglo-Chronicle is difficult and I would recommend that it is differentiated for some students. The aim is to get students to think about how an event can be interpreted differently by different people. Students work in groups reading through the chronicle and create a sketch chronology (picture flow diagram) of the events it discusses, allowing them to compare it with the events of the bayeux tapestry. Students in the next lesson will attempt to answer a GCSE interpretation question.

A lesson that looks at how the power or parliament and the monarchy has changed over time, students make a living graph of the changing powers of both. This can be set as a homework and just print out slide 2 and the dates.

This lesson looks at how castles changed over time. Students work in groups to write a dragons den themed speech trying to persuade others to invest. Chance to build up literacy with practicing writing to persuade. Students then do their pitches whilst people complete the sheet. Then are there a GCSE styled question with sentence starters. There are challenge tasks to stretch the higher end of the group.

A pointless inspired themed plenary, it is interactive so the answer if correct will reveal a unique score which in teams they can keep track of, for each round. Press the small circle to reveal score. If the answer is wrong click the large purple circle to reveal an X and students score 100.

After struggling to find lots of sources for exam practice here is a selection of Public Health sources. Ideas: Students have to try and place them into time period. Get students to work out the message and purpose of each source. Print them out and link them with each other or with key words.

This task works well for a recap activity. The images can be swapped if wanted. Students annotate the images with notes on what they can remember about the topic. Students can then try and make links between the different images.

This lesson forms part of a SOW for AQA America 1920- 73 Opportunity and inequality. This lesson focuses on the TVA and gets students to investigate its impact on America. Students use the information to create their own fireside chat, with sentence starters for those that need it. This task also has a literacy focus of making the writing more persuasive. The lesson includes some challenge tasks and a GCSE practice question, with a model answer to analyse on their own or as a class.

A Year 7 lesson that recaps what has been learnt so far about the Romans. There is a focus on literacy in this lesson. The lesson culminates in a GCSE styled question with a writing frame for those that needs support. This lesson also gives you a chance to get students to reflect on their work using the Book Review sheet.

This task is designed around recapping the Topic, students have 10 minutes to complete each sections, 5 minutes without their book, 3 with their book, 2 with their partner. This helped just before their assessment as they have produced one A3 page of revision

This lesson forms part of a SOW for AQA Health and the People. This lesson is used as a recap of Medieval Medicine. There are built in times for discussion and class debate. Students use their prior knowledge to complete a choice of two tasks about factors in medical progress. There is a differentiated sheet for students who may need it. There is a GCSE styled question with sentence starters. The lesson has challenge tasks through out to stretch and challenge the top end of classes.

This activity is designed to aid student writing and build up literacy. Students roll a pair of dice and find the emoji that corresponds to this, they then have to use the emoji in their first sentence e.g. If they landed on the crown it could be “The King’s barons stormed into the village collecting men for his army.” They then repeat to find out their next topic to include. This works well as a way of building literacy into a lesson or I usually print these out and set this as a homework task. Setting a maximum and minimum amount of rolls, and setting a competition to create the most creative story.

This lesson looks at the reasons why the war ended and how the peace talks were carried out and what was agreed. This lesson is very teacher led but with some activities for students to carry out. There is a work sheet for them to fill in as the PowerPoint is gone through (only if needed, I gave it to students who struggle with presentation and need some sentence starters). There are challenge tasks to stretch students.

Created for a revision task where students roll dice to decide upon an emoji and must then link it in someway to something we have learnt about the topic e.g House = Model villages such as Bournville and Port Sunlight or fire = cauterization. It worked well with by lower ability students having something to visualize we then began explaining and describing in more detail. Students take it in turns rolling the dice if they land on the someone as someone else they need to think of a different connection. I have also used this in lesson in conjunction with some of my other revision board games

A great activity to get students to recap and revise a topic in history. Print the emoji grids off onto paper or sticker paper. Printing 9 slides to a page works perfectly. Students stick the emoji review sheet into their books and annotate the images linking them to the topic they have been studying. Students have to think about what they have learnt. Students can then be challenged to make links between the different points they make. For example for a topic on the USA, the Beer would link to Prohibition and students would then describe prohibition. For medicine through time the slot machine may represent the factor of luck and students would then explain how luck impacted medicine. It had been made to allow for a wide scope of topics but you can easily switch and change some of the emojis to make it more relevant.