This lesson looks at the 1932 Presidential Lesson and why Herbert Hoover lost and Roosevelt was victorious. The lesson gives students two options for the main task. The lesson includes challenge tasks throughout to stretch and challenge students. This lesson forms a scheme of work for AQA America 1920 - 1973 Opportunity and Inequality.

This lesson forms a SOW on the English Civil War, there are two lessons on why the Civil war happened and then the other lessons look at the impact. This lesson includes starters with answers, a worksheet with tasks and time lines to build chronological understanding. This lesson looks at the Levellers, Ranters and Diggers.

A lesson aimed at students learning about the main long term causes of the First World War, looking at Militarism, Alliance, Imperialism and Nationalism. Students build up their knowledge and then practice a GCSE describe question about each. There are sentence starters and key words for each question for the lower ability and challenge tasks for each activity to stretch your top end.

A lesson that looks at how Hitler consolidated his power from chancellor to dictator. It is aimed at a high ability year 8, the lesson includes a GCSE styled question, with key words and sentence starters to scaffold. There are challenge tasks to stretch and extend learning.

A murder mystery lesson. This is aimed at getting students to work out facts and use evidence to work out the truth. The lesson was super engaging for both my top and bottom sets. Can be taught two ways either place the information around the rooms and students walk around and try and find it/ or place all the evidence into a pack (brown envelope, can place stickers on the envelope, students loved the little touches made it feel like a real CSI investigation). Students then work as a group trying to find out the story, this allows a competition element. The lesson ends with a write up of an account a writing frame is provided.

A lesson that looks that the impact and failures of prohibition, the St Valentine’s Day massacre is used as a focal point for the investigation. This forms part of a 3 year GCSE scheme of work for AQA America 1920 -1972 Opportunity and Inequality. The lesson includes an GCSE style exam question with sentence starters to help those who need it and challenge tasks throughout to stretch and challenge the top end.

A lesson for GCSE AQA Health and the people SOW. The lesson gives an overview for medieval medicine. Students look at beliefs and treatments for diseases in the middle ages, as well as medical practitioners and how they observed medicine. Students complete a main task, recap activities, and an essay question. Lesson includes challenge tasks to stretch and challenge high ability and a writing frame for essay questions.

A lesson which forms part of a SOW for a 3 year GCSE for AQA America 1920-73 opportunity and inequality. This lesson looks at the features of the 1920’s red scare. There is a source activity where they can do some solo or paired work, then come back together as a class. There are challenge tasks to stretch the top end as well.

This lesson forms part of a SOW on the Industrial revolution. This lesson looks at surgery at the beginning of this period. Students look at the problems that exist and the following lesson looks at how this changed. There is a reading and a source task, there is scaffolding and opportunities to model the task for students.

This lesson is aimed at looking at how the monarchy’s power changed under King John. Students look at the reputation of King John and whether his legacy is justified they then look at the Baron’s reaction and the Magna carter and how this challenged the power of the crown. There is a GCSE styled question with sentence starters for the less able. There are challenge tasks to stretch the top end. There is also a literacy focus as well, where students need to correct literacy mistakes.

This lesson looks at the aftermath of the Terror, and how the Thermidorian Reaction, White terror and uprisings impacted France. Students compare how far France changed. The lesson includes an A-Level practice question with some sentence starters to help students plan their answers. This lesson forms part of a SOW for A Level AQA France in Revolution 1774- 1815

A set of 4 knowledge organisers for AQA USA 1920 - 71 Opportunity and inequality. They include key dates, statistics, example questions and key word and people they should learn for the topic. Students can self quiz themselves using this Highlight the ones they feel confident on Have these in front of them when practicing questions.