Spaced Learning activity, self quiz and core notes. Cartoon activities as extension. SL activity and quiz will take about 1 hour

Simulation to help students understand the issues of overspeculation and overproduction that led to WSC.

Cartoon and questions based British cartoon from 27th January 1905

Collaborative quiz activity for Y10/11 students

Plenary games for these three topics. instructions provided (after the game cards)

(hopefully) pupil friendly breakdowns of exam question markschemes for OCR Modern World History B, with some model answers included

Designed to encourage students to make appropriate links between ideas, this exercise provides the key points of the Ghost Dance narrative together with a list of connectives. Students draw arrows from one idea/event to the next, writing along the arrow the appropriate connective word. When complete, the diagram should answer the question ‘What happened after the Battle of Little Bighorn?’. Differentiated resource - higher ability exercise has one stage of the story missing and an extended list of connectives

This is a differentiated literacy-focused plenary for the activity ‘Why did Henry agree to be whipped’ on ThinkingHistory.com. Students are required to link the segments of the story together with arrows and write appropriate connectives on the arrows to create a coherent explanation.

This is a logic problem that can be used as a unit starter for the Indian Wars.

DOESNT PROVIDE GRADES OR NATIONAL CURRICULUM LEVEL DESCRIPTORS AS IT IS AN AFL SHEET. OF COURSE TEACHERS CAN RECORD ANY MARKS THEY LIKE IN THEIR MARKBOOKS, THIS IS FOR STUDENTS, TO ENGAGE THEM IN A DIALOGUE ABOUT THEIR WORK. EASY TO MODIFY

General introduction to doodling and learning, with 'strategic' doodle showing the structure of the League of Nations (explained)

easy to include strategies for teachers to help children develop particular behaviours, broadly based on Costa's Habits of Mind. So far, strategies posted for Metacognition, Managing Impulsivity, taking a Responsible Risk and Persistence (including thinking flexibly) jan 2012 - communication added april 2012 - curiosity added

I've re-written this SOW Sept 2017. Attached new lesson plans. Plenary lesson still be to added I left the bbc maps from 2011 just in case, though I haven't directly used this in the SOW

Written for my higher ability GCSE group instead of a textbook. Covers causes (in some depth owing to a discussion the students were having about 'what was missing&' from the textbook accounts), course and armistice. Includes OCR spec overview and key questions from past papers. Useful for revision and also for teachers teaching this topic for the first time.

Activities and notes for teaching Wolsey (written as part of the English Reformation unit but could be used more widely). Teacher notes included.

Guide for students to help them work out what is being asked in a history exam question and recognise the basic structure of the answer required. [to help them write the answer, see 'how to help students write essays' on TES]

4th half termly unit in Y8 scheme of work, looking at variety of different protests. Designed to prompt students to see effective protest as context specific. assessment is drawing of political cartoon and writing the accompanying interpretation - GCSE style

as it says on the tin - timeline for the core notes

There is quite a lot here for a half term’s work so teachers need to pick and choose. Theme for Year 7 is ‘lives of ordinary people’.

This is mostly historical information. Its mainly taken from Gordon Craig, Germany 1866-1945, Chapter 2. Discussed is the German government under Bismark, including the Constitution of 1871. These notes are the basis for a discussion on the nature, streng