A source based enquiry lesson on the Holocaust. Students analyse a range of sources to help collect information about the conditions and experiences of Holocaust survivors. They use their data to create a diary account using evidence and examples to help explain what life was like in Auschwitz.

Students identify some of the reasons why William built castles. They label a motte and bailey castle and analyse how castles changed during medieval times. Some students will identify and explain the impact that castles had on the Saxons.

Students attempt to sequence the events of the Battle of Hastings and complete a comic strip activity. Following this they need to consider William’s problems and identify the main problems and offer some advice on how to approach these.

Easy to follow lesson. Card sort activity (students group the cards and decide on most important factors). Main task is a newspaper article explaining why it occurred and what could have been done to avoid the event. Differentiated material provided as well as literacy support.

A performance resource (KS3)

KS3 Melody writing and composition activity

students work through a decision making activity which introduces students to 4 key factors why the Mary Rose sank. They need to sort through evidence cards and match them to the correct explanations and then chose their most significant pieces of evidence before writing up a report which explains their theory about the Mary Rose and they end with a peer assessment plenary. As always there are clear step by step instructions.

5 lessons introducing students to using OS Maps (symbols, 4 and 6 figure grid refs (battleships, contour lines and creating their own OS map section in an assessment). The grid references on the PowerPoint will need adapting depending upon the OS Map that is being used.

The first 6 lessons for the unit USA 1919-1945. Lesson one is an introduction to the course where students are introduced to the main themes/ characters that they will study in the course. Lesson 2 requires the students to imagine what USA was like in 1920 before annotating/ analysing sources from the period and then revisiting their initial view and then explaining how their view has changed. Lesson 3 looks at the reasons for the economic boom. Lesson 4 explores the groups of people who either benefited/ did not benefit from the boom. Lesson 5 looks at the Jazz movement. All lessons contain detailed resources, literacy support, differentiated materials and key word/ literacy materials.

Easy to follow lesson. Students have to organise information about the changes onto a graph before writing up speech bubbles for different types of women to explain how much their life changed and why it did/ did not change. Exam style question to finish.

Source analysis activity where by students analyse each source in order to gain insight into how car production fueled the economic boom. The students record their findings in a table (source description and an explanation as to how each source suggests that the car industry influenced the boom). Following this they have to produce a diagram to help explain the importance of the car industry. An exam style question concludes the lesson.

Card sort and decision making activity. Main task involves students making a poster/ map to help explain why there was an economic boom in the 1920s. The students need to decide what they believe were the most important factors.

Students are introduced to the groups who did or did not benefit during the economic boom years. Once they have identified each group they complete a table activity to explain how/ why groups did or did not benefit. The main activity introduces the students to post cards from the boom years (which show Americans living a lavish lifestyle etc). The pupils have to create their own annotated postcard that accurately illustrates how the economic boom years should be represented (positive and negative images). There is a GCSE question to complete at the end of the lesson. I usually teach this over 2 lessons.

I use this lesson as an introduction to history with all KS3 classes. Students are invited to pull objects from a bag and analyse the evidence before writing up their findings. This would also work well as a tutor time activity.

A very useful resource to demonstrate literacy progress to SLT. I get the students to fix these document to the inside cover of their book and complete each term. They are useful when completing any written piece of work as students can check off each target when writing up.

Literacy display for classroom walls.

Literacy resource (connectives) for classroom walls. Very useful to help pupils structure paragraphs and respond to questions orally.

Easy to follow lessons. These lessons have been taught to both year 7 & 8.

Easy to follow lessons and activities on impressionism.

Useful documents for students to stick in their books. Provides examples of questions and advice on responding to different types of questions.