This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 4th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on Imperialism and encourages students to think about why a country may want an empire. The lesson involves looking at the relationships between the main powers within Europe at that time. The lesson includes group work, source analysis, a 4 mark inference question and a peer marking activity.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is lesson 5-6 looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on understanding the reasons why Germany wanted an empire and how this developed into a naval race between Britain and Germany. Activities in this lesson include studying data and answering questions, a video for visual learners, source analysis and a 12 mark exam practice question (Edexcel 9-1).

Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 16th lesson of Chapter 1 on ‘How did women get the vote?’. This lesson focuses on the role of Women during WW1 and looks at how women’s lives changed during the First World War and the impact war work had on women’s aspirations for their future lives.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 7-8th lesson looking at Chapter 1 and the role of women in Victorian Society. This lesson focuses on the lives of middle-class Victorian women and the different Victorian attitudes to women. Activities include source analysis and analyzing a case study.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 5th-6th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘How democratic was Britain in the 19th Century?’. This lesson focuses on the problems in society and with democracy and elections and how people wanted change. The lesson focuses on the demands of the Chartists.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 9th lesson looking of Chapter which focuses on Victorian Fashion and how it changed during the 1800’s. The lesson includes source analysis activities and extended writing.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the first lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on the causes of the Franco-Prussian War and the significance of its outcome. The lesson also questions students to think about how and why wars begin.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 18th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘What was the First World War like?’. This lesson focuses on the negative outcomes of the war but also that, for some people, the war created new opportunities. This lesson also looks at war poetry and the lives that were lost during the war.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the …… lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘What was the First World War like?’. This lesson focuses on the end of the war and how soldiers were left feeling at the end of WW1.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the …… lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘What was the First World War like?’. This lesson focuses on factors leading to the end of WW1 and the specific factors that caused the German surrender.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 11th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on the timeline and build up to the war, the lesson also looks at the Schlieffen Plan and who do they think was to blame for the war.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 12th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on why so many men volunteered to join the war at the beginning and later why conscription had to be introduced.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 13th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on what daily life was like in the trenches and what the soldiers faced on a daily basis. Activities include labelling a trench and source analysis.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 14-15 lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘What was the First World War like?’. This lesson focuses on understanding what life was like for soldiers living in the trenches and how these conditions affected the soldiers. The lesson includes a video, an information hunt activity and an extended writing/letter activity which involves peer marking.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 17th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘What was the First World War like?’. This lesson focuses on source analysis and a extended writing assessment style question.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 9th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The resource provides 2 options of either using the newspaper activity (Higher and lower ability) or a story board exercise plus additional information is included.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 10th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 and how the murders led to the First World War. The lesson attempts to link with previous lessons and tackle the misconceptions that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the only factor that led to the start of the First World War. The assassination was one of many factors that led to war in 1914 and should be seen within the context of a conflicted Europe.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 16th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘What was the First World War like?’. This lesson focuses on why the Battle of the Somme was a disaster. Activities included are watching a video, source analysis, groupwork and a class debate.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the assessment lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’ and ‘What was the First World War like?’. This is an end of topic assessment and Mark Scheme.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the first lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on how and why the alliance system was formed and why Europe had become a dangerous place by 1914.

This resource is designed for Year 9 based on the Pearson Edexcel KS3 Scheme of Work. These lessons are designed to specifically prepare students to start studying Edexcel History (9-1). This is the 8th lesson looking at the Chapter on ‘Why did the First World War start in 1914?’. This lesson focuses on the significance of the Balkans in increasing tension in Europe and to understand how Europe had become a dangerous place by 1914. Some of the activities that the lesson includes is a starter wordsearch and a source analysis activity which helps students to think about what questions they should be asking when answering inference exam questions (Edexcel 9-11).