AQA GCSE History: British Depth Studies: Elizabethan England, c1568–c1603 - Historic Environment, 2024 - The Americas and Drake’s Circumnavigation, 1577-1580. The resources are suitable for Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons and assessment support: 01 - An English Renaissance 02 - The Elizabethan ‘Golden Age’ 03 - The Golden Age of Elizabethan Exploration 04 - The Reasons for the Anglo-Spanish Conflict, 1580 05 - Sir Francis Drake - Slave Trader 06 - Drake’s Plan 07 - Sir Francis Drake’s Circumnavigation, 1577-1580 08 - Consequences of Drake’s Voyage 09 - The Impact of Voyages and Trade 10 - Sir Francis Drake’s Significance 11 - The Historic Environment The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes to sustain outstanding results over a period of time: 2022 P8: +0.88 and +0.81 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My GCSE History classes have also consistently attained the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. In addition, this specific component’s outcomes - Elizabethan England, c1568–c1603: Historic Environment - are consistently well-above the national average according to AQA Enhanced Results Analysis. I have worked for the examination boards for over 10 years and considering the recent developments within education, my resources are constantly amended and updated for students studying GCSE History. I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and have used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons to ensure that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud that I am a ‘Gold’ TES Author, and this is recognised by the fact that my resources have been downloaded over half a million times by educators throughout the world. Copyright Protection ©

Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894–1918 - The First World War: Stalemate. The resources are suitable for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC GCSE History and iGCSE History. • The Schlieffen Plan: the reasons for the plan, its failure, including the Battle of Marne and its contribution to the stalemate. • The Western Front: military tactics and technology, including trench warfare; the war of attrition; key battles, including Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele, the reasons for, the events and significance of these battles. • The wider war: the war on other fronts; Gallipoli and its failure; the events and significance of the war at sea, including Jutland, the U-Boat campaign and convoys. Please note that due to the number of resources, this is one half of the unit. You can purchase the other half of this unit and other sections separately. Included within this bundle are the following complete lessons: 01 - Verdun 02 - The Somme 03 - Passchendaele 04 - Lions Led by Donkeys - Interpretations of Field Marshal Douglas Haig 05 - The Gallipoli Campaign 06 - The War on Germany’s Eastern Front 07 - War in the Wider World during the First World War 08 - The War at Sea 09 - The Battle of Jutland 10 - The U-Boat Campaign 11 - The War in the Air 12 - The Impact of War on the Home Fronts 13 - The Reasons for Germany’s Defeat in the First World War 14 - The End of the First World War 15 - Remembering World War One The resources that I have created have helped my GCSE History classes to sustain outstanding results over a period of time: 2022 P8: +0.88 and +0.81 2021 P8: +1.42 2020 P8: +0.47 2019 P8: +0.57 My GCSE History classes have also consistently attained the most Grade 9s in any subject and/or class at my current school of over 1300 students. I have worked for the examination boards for over 10 years and considering the recent developments within education, my resources are constantly amended and updated for students studying GCSE History. I have utilised feedback from students, fellow professionals, experienced colleagues and have used my own professional judgement to ensure that each resource will help you to teach quality history lessons to ensure that each student achieves their personal best. I am proud that I am a ‘Gold’ TES Author, and this is recognised by the fact that my resources have been downloaded over half a million times by educators throughout the world. Copyright Protection ©

World War I UNIT OF LESSONS: Extremely detailed and easy to follow - perfect for UKS3 (or could be used as pre GCSE prep / WW1 catch-up for KS4). A unit of well differentiated lessons on complete with new 9-1 level GCSE challenge questions, one full lesson on Remembrance Day (covering both WWs) and a Remembrance Day, WWI Quiz and 4x homeworks. 1. Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and european context (2 HOURS) 2. World War I: conscription, conscientious objectors and propaganda 3. World War I: homefront and defence of the realm 4. World War I: causes, alliances, rivalry and colonialism. 5, Life in the trenches. 6. Remembrance Day Lesson 7. Remembrance Day and WWI Quiz 8. 4x WWI homeworks 9. Battle of the Somme 10. Impact of WWI (general) 11. Impact of WWI (civilians) Each lesson is designed to last one hour - the last task can be set as homework or done as plenary, depending on time. Includes clip question and differentiated questions, starter sheets, LO check sheet with key terms and reasons cards all included with 1 hour Powerpoint. Please see our other resources in our TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/History_Geeks

9 HOURS - A mini unit of 9 x 1 hour lessons on the Cold War. Includes: An introduction to the Cold War Stalin and his leadership The Atomic Bomb The Berlin Blockade Soviet expansion, tactics and consequences The Vietnam War The Cuban Missile Crisis The My Lai Massacre Chairman Mao and his leadership Each lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, source analysis, GCSE-style question practice, clip questions and differentiated activities, starter sheets and much more. Created by an experienced HoD in a UK secondary school. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.