Kate Humble joins a team of geologists on a journey right to the heart of one of the most active volcanoes in the world. On the island of Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago lies Yasur - a volcano that erupts constantly, firing out red-hot lava bombs and showering the island in thick black ash. To discover whether another devastating eruption might happen, the team needs to collect a lava bomb the minute it is hurled from the crater. As they prepare for their death-defying mission, Kate explores the island and discovers how the volcano shapes the lives, traditions and beliefs of everyone who lives in its shadow. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3, the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

Empire of the Seas - Worksheets to support the BBC Dan Snow Documentary Ep.2,3 & 4. Written to support the Edexcel A level: Gaining and Losing an Empire -1763-1914 Ep.1 is free to download Ep2. - The Golden Ocean: In The Golden Ocean, Snow charts the period from 1690 to 1759 and reveals how England - soon to be Britain - and her Navy rose from the depths of military and economic disaster to achieve global supremacy. Ep.3 - High Tide: In the third programme in this epic four-part series on how the Navy has shaped modern Britain, Dan Snow sheds light on the evolution of Nelson’s Navy in the late 18th century. It was the most powerful maritime fighting force in the world, with highly trained crews and ambitious officers. He explores the national enterprise which supported it, and explains how the empire it helped create put Britain on the path to war with France. Ep4. - Sea Change: In the last of this four-part series, historian Dan Snow explores the ups and downs of a climactic century in naval and British history. Rapacious and ruthless, the 19th-century Navy used ‘gunboat diplomacy’ to push British interests further afield than ever before. It was control of the sea rather than her land empire that was the key to Britain’s growing wealth.

EDEXCEL 9-1GCSE - Topic 3: 1750-1900 SUMMARY 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ consolidation, revision, resource This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for MEDIEVAL MEDICINE MEDICINE Paper 1 Medicine Through Time and the Environmental Study on the Trenches Unit. It fully covers the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to: a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning. c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change. d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable. The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students. Please see placemat at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-1-edexcel-history-learning-topic-placemats-for-the-medicine-through-time-course-topic-3-11755274

BBC Teach - Class Clips History GCSE / National 5: How Britain reacted to the outbreak of war in 1914 How did Britain enter World War One? Jeremy Paxman explores the optimistic national mood at the declaration of war in 1914 after Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, invaded Belgium. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing A one page resource

A contextual slide for a quick overview of the Topic 1 content used at the start of each lesson in the unit of work

A lesson introducing the twentieth Century through art. Each decade is represented by an image which can be interpreted through comprehension and inference to improve an understanding of the century and to contextualise its principal events. Students are encouraged to see links and continuity between decades, as well as speculate as to which images typify the 21st Century.

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary The Russian Revolution of 1917 is one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. Three men - Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin - emerged from obscurity to forge an entirely new political system. In the space of six months, they turned the largest country on earth into the first Communist state. Was this a triumph of people power or a political coup d’etat that led to blood-soaked totalitarianism? A hundred years later, the Revolution still sparks ferocious debate. This film dramatizes the 245 days that brought these men to supreme power. As the history unfolds, a stellar cast of writers and historians, including Martin Amis, Orlando Figes, Helen Rappaport, Simon Sebag-Montefiore and China Mieville, battle over the meaning of the Russian Revolution and explore how it shaped the world we live in today. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the document can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

BBC American Voices - Ep3. Hard Times - Supporting Worksheet Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning. The episode looks at the testimony of people who lived through Depression hit America Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, the document can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing. Other episodes in the series are available from my shop

Andrew Marr - The Making of Modern Britain - Britannia at Bay - Supporting Worksheet Written in Publisher, formatted to A3, but can be edited and saved as a PDF to print as A4 The worksheet deals with the evacuation of Dunkirk and the use of the ‘Little Ships’ to facilitate the rescue of Allied troops leading to the Dunkirk myth. It was written to serve as a starter activity. The material covers the first 9 mins of the episode.

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain - Health and Hygiene- Supporting Worksheet for the Ian Mortimer book of the same name. Written as an extension/reading/ independent learning activity for able GCSE 9-1 students studying the history of medicine looking at the Renaissance / Tudor period and changing medical understanding in Britain. The resource is written as a WORD document for easy access to Google Classroom

Introductory/Revision Booklet based around the Pearson Christie & Christie textbook. The PDF version includes scans of existing free resources available from my shop and the Edexcel overview grid published on their website as supporting course materials.

Worksheet to support the BBC TV Dan Snow Documentary on London. Students to watch and work through the tasks or set as an independent / flipped learning task. Written to support the GCSE 9-1 Medicine Though Time GCSE Paper 1 - Thematic study and historic environment Written in Publisher and formatted to A3printing the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing

BBC History File - Nazi Germany - Supporting Worksheets Worksheets to support the BBC Documentary History File Episodes: Ep.1. The Rise of Hitler Ep.2. Life in Hitler's Germany Ep.4. Youth in Hitler's Germany Ep.5. Opposition to Hitler Please find a copy of Ep.3. The Master race on this channel Suitable for the new 9-1 History GCSE as lesson support, revision or flipped learning. Also appropriate for the legacy GCSE

Worksheet to support the BBC TV programme hosted by Nick Knowles. Students will follow the story and evidence to determine whether or not Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators were victims of a conspiracy or failed terrorists. Written in publisher and formatted to A3 it can be edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing

Scream: A History of Anaesthetics - Worksheet to support the documentary presented by Phill Hammond for the GCSE History Edexcel 9-1 specification. The worksheet supports the content of the programme from the beginning up to c. 38 minutes covering the development of pain relief, from Nitrous Oxide, ether and Chlorform to the evolution of local anaesthetics and Curare

Gaining and Losing an Empire: 1763-1914 Nearly loosing an Empire - The British in India, 1829-1858 Overview/Revision Booklet. Introductory/Revision Booklet based around the Pearson Christie & Christie textbook. This resource deals with content and knowledge and does not contain any assessment

Cold War (TV Series) Ep.24 - Conclusion - Supporting Worksheet for the BBC / CNN co-production, narrated by Kenneth Brannagh - Written as a extension and enrichment task for GCSE, it would also be appropriate for A Level studies. Gorbachev and Bush meet at Malta in December 1989 to consider the recent dramatic events. Only the previous week the Communist government resigned in Czechoslovakia; and shortly Nicolae Ceaușescu would be deposed and executed in the bloody Romanian Revolution. Gorbachev permits German reunification and removes Soviet troops from Europe, but fails to secure financial support from the West. As the Soviet economy collapses, Gorbachev faces opposition from both reformers and hardliners. Sharing their abhorence of Soviet disintegration, Gorbachev brings in hardliners to his government and cracks down on the Lithuanian independence movement. However they later turn on Gorbachev and stage a coup. Boris Yeltsin is instrumental in rallying the public and military to defeat the coup. Sidelining Gorbachev, Yeltsin sets the course for Russia to leave the Soviet Union by establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Soviet Union ends on 25 December 1991, and in his Christmas Day address Bush announces the Cold War is over. The cost of the Cold War is considered in retrospect. Interviewees include Mircea Dinescu, Alexander Rutskoy and Condoleezza Rice. The pre-credits scene features Bush and Gorbachev explaining how uncertain the world had suddenly become.

Worksheet to support the BBC TV Documentary on Joseph Bazelgette from the serties: Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Students to watch and work through the tasks or set as an independent / flipped learning task. Written to support the GCSE 9-11 Medicine Though Time GCSE Paper 1 - Thematic study and historic environment

Richard Hammond -Wild Weather - Ep2 - Water: The Shape Shifter - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary ‘Richard Hammond investigates the crucial role water plays. Without water there would be almost no weather: no rain, no snow, no hail, no clouds. So Richard goes in pursuit of water in all its forms. He tries to weigh a cloud, finds out how rain could crush a car, and gets involved in starting an avalanche’