A series of display posters that define different skills and key words/phrases in History. Includes: Cause, Consequence, Change & continuity, Chronology, Evidence, Inference, Interpretation

A comprehensive and award winning package helping GCSE / IGCSE students answer the Paper 2 OCR / CIE History examination paper. This goes into great depth about how to answer source questions, so although it is geared around the Cambridge exam board, it can be tailored to any other exam board. Lots of examples to use, with many different activities for students and teachers. Especially helpful for non-specialists and NQTs / teachers new to the exam board.

Understanding what is being asked of you is an important skill. The average person is not expected to crack complex codes but we are meant to understand instructions and work independently in order to complete a task. Most things have a coded element, or at least an understanding of a pattern, whether its language or maths, geography or music. Code breaking forces us to see patterns and fully understand something. Too often people make mistakes or get work wrong because they do not fully understand something; they rush into a task. It is often useful to try and work with others on similar task to see if everyone’s task might be completed more efficiently. Activity Aims: 1. To develop individual and group problem solving skills 2. To encourage the students to see patterns in their work 3. To encourage the students to think differently. 4. To develop interpersonal skills

These 24 GCSE History Study Skills task cards are perfect for your history lesson plans and topic. They are suitable for GCSE History Students. They feature different activities including knowledge retrieval practice, Multiple Choice and Spot the historical mistakes amongst other history related activities. Contents of GCSE History Knowledge Retrieval Topic Task Card bundle 1 x Set of 24 Different topic Task Cards with a range of activities and styles in editable and PDF versions 1 x Teacher Answer Sheet - All answers covered 2 x Student Fill in Activity Sheets that can be used with the cards (Optional) Each Topic Task card is matched to the theme of the set and includes numbering and answers. Can be printed in Colour or Black and White. Why use Knowledge Retrieval Topic Task Cards? Set of retrieval activities Motivating for students Bitesize tasks Fun way to revise a topic Allow for differentiation If you copy, cut and laminate – use over and over again year after year Versatile and can be used in many different ways How can you use this set of 24 Topic Task Cards? Use in Pairs or Table Groups Use As A whole Class activity Used for Homework Fact hunt – treasure hunt scavenger task Market shop or Student White board feedback Q and A Revision on a topic Use as quick extension or AFL activities Use as a fun way to start a lesson or plenary Use as part of a board game – get the students to create a game they can be used with Used as part of a classroom display If you leave a nice review do email us at thecre8tiveresources@gmail.com for a History treat for your students Product code C8/TS/05 You may want to check out some of our other great HISTORY resources History Christmas Escape Quiz The Black Death Weimar and Nazi Germany Exploring Tudor England GCSE History - Medicine Through Time The Great War Escape room Weimar Germany Revision Cards Elizabethan England GCSE History Study Skills World War Two - End of Unit Escape Room

Students are asked to decide which statements are true or false and give reasons for their choice. Each statement relates to the analysis of historical sources by historians. This activity is perfect as an introduction to higher level source analysis at KS4 and KS5. Once students have completed in pairs (60 mins), you can then peer assess and discuss as a whole class.

Ofsted describes an inadequate lesson as one where the students are over dependent on the teacher and produce only passive responses. The same lesson often has a one size fits all approach that limits the students’ own responses and ability to produce their own work. All of these points would produce a truly terrible lesson within the sixth form where there is expected to be even more independence. The students need to be encouraged to think for themselves and solve their own problems. This does not only mean making sure they bring a spare pen to the lesson but also how to go about completing their own work, how it is to be presented and finding the correct answer or solution. Activity Aims: 1. To demonstrate to the students the different ways of looking at problems 2. For the students to look at the process of coming to a solution

The world created in the classroom is often a simple one in that everything fits with everything else. When talking about a rebellion breaking out in Norwich and a King who quickly quashes it, there is often the simplicity of a Television drama. We know of the rebellion and we know the King responds but the context to make it real is often lost. For example do the students know where Norwich is? If not then it is difficult to get them to fully understand the full implication of the rebellion. Students today live in an instant world. They upload their work to a ‘cloud’ and receive information instantly. This is not the world they have to understand for their ‘A’ levels. While most students appreciate this point to an extent they still struggle with how slow the world was before the internet and the iPhone.

These are six pyramids which can sit on top of each other on students’ desks. The break down and offer stretch and challenge for each key skill in History; Similarities & Differences, Change & Continuity, Cause & Consequence, Interpretations, Significance & Source Skills. They can be used throughout key stage 3,4 & 5 for students to really understand what each skill means. It also has stretch and challenge questions for those more able in that particular skill. It uses the differentiated symbols of firm footing (what the skill is), jump forward (stretch and challenge), step back, (support) and literacy (sentence starters for that particular skill).

A skills mat which can be used for K3/4 - different types of evidence - key words and connectives - structured sentence openers to support source analysis -

This great graphic organiser is designed to help develop students thinking and source analysis skills. Simply paste a copy of the source in the middle of the graphic organise and get your students to complete analyse the source by answering the questions in the squares. As students work their way from the inside out, they will identify what they can learn from the source and consider key issues such as origin, nature and purpose, which have been carefully structured and sequenced to reflect the increasing levels of difficult. Kind Regards Roy

Sometimes students need a simpler way to explain a difficult event in history. Diagrams are good but so is the logical approach of mathematics. Students are used to being told to show their working out when doing maths but do not always transfer the same principle to other subjects, such as history. It could be argued that showing the working out in history is more important as there is rarely one correct answer. Therefore this lesson aims to get the students to show their working out and appreciate the benefits and process. Examiners want the student not only to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding but also demonstrate the difficult skills of analysis and evaluation. Showing their working, or expressing their process will enable students to achieve these skills.

To behave deviantly is to behave differently from the norm. It is not just about breaking the rules or behaving criminally. This task is about deviance in terms of norms and expectations; Behaving and thinking differently. The students have been conditioned to behave in a certain way for most of their school life. Students are often encouraged to conform and behave passively but within higher education and business this often hinders success. Ofsted claim that an outstanding lesson should be one in which students ‘learn intuitively, encouraging each other to explore, inquire, seek clarity, take risks and think critically and imaginatively’. Having an element of deviance in your students encourages all of these skills. Activity Aims: 1. To get the students to think differently and see the merit of deviant behaviour when solving problems 2. For the students to challenge their own preconceived ideas and processes

This is a must have resource pack for A level Students (and some higher GCSE Groups). Regardless of the subjects being studied all students need to learn and develop core educational skills in order to help them maximise their potential. There are ten lessons included in this pack, all fully resourced (stationary aside). This includes plans, PowerPoints, and handouts. The topics covered are: Problem Solving Time and how to manage it Money- how it works as a motivator and how students could view its importance. Code Breaking- we all write and talk in code, learning about codes helps us ask the right questions Deviance- doing something the wrong way can sometimes bring benefits. Graffiti- Thinking creatively Perspective- how we need to alter our perspective to see things differently Fight the Power- Why do we organise and make notes in just one way? Think about doing it differently Design a school- thinking about how we learn can make us better learners A letter to yourself- how you would explain your own strengths and weaknesses. The titles may be cryptic but that is because they best describe the activity and they get the students thinking.

This Source-based activity designed to get students thinking about SIX items found from WW1. Specifics: - Highly scaffolded worksheet - Enough work for 1-2 x 40 minute lesson/s - Offers the ability for students to work individually or in a group. - FOUR activities are included in this resource which build on the previous activities. The second activity is an extension activity of the first which provides students with the opportunity to easily construct a paragraph based on the sources with evidence gathered from the previous activity. The third activity asks a question focused on the usefulness of the sources to a specific example. The fourth activity offers an extension activity of a creative nature. - An example is provided for students for activity 1. - Answer are provided for the teacher for the whole of activity 1 which is specific information about the sources provided. - Advice to teachers would be to print in colour if possible to help students see the items more clearly so they engage in the activity more. - Very suited to a mixed ability year 9 class as there are varying levels of sources to discover (some are easier to identify than others). - Can also be used for the HSC course as a quick activity to get students thinking and identifying the usefulness of sources... etc

This is a brilliant resource pack full of creative ways for getting your students to revise independently, differently and most importantly, successfully. Ten lessons are included and that means PowerPoints and handouts as well. Trial and error has gone into creating lots of resources that really get the students thinking about their revision. No two students are the same so adopting just one method of revision is limiting. Vary the methods and increase the outcomes. Topics included: Image is everything- revising using images Reverse the process- based on reverse engineering to see how a good answer is made Elementary- using Sherlock Holmes to help thinking Help Lights camera action Maps- a look at how mapping can help revision News Report- how putting a news report help focus revision Postcards- writing revision postcards Revision Game Thinking- different ways of thinking The title are varied because so are the methods, however, they are creative approaches to getting the most out of your students.

Various documents to help teaching paper two source skills to students. igcse and gcse accessible paper two ocr 0470/22 thanks 31 resources in total

This Source-based activity designed to get students thinking about SIX items found from WW1. Specifics: - Highly scaffolded worksheet - Enough work for 1-2 x 40 minute lesson/s - Offers the ability for students to work individually or in a group. - FOUR activities are included in this resource which build on the previous activities. The second activity is an extension activity of the first which provides students with the opportunity to easily construct a paragraph based on the sources with evidence gathered from the previous activity. The third activity asks a question focused on the usefulness of the sources to a specific example. The fourth activity offers an extension activity of a creative nature. - An example is provided for students for activity 1. - Answers are provided for the teacher for the whole of activity 1 which is specific information about the sources provided. - Advice to teachers would be to print in colour if possible to help students see the items more clearly so they engage in the activity more. - Very suited to a mixed ability year 9 class as there are varying levels of sources to discover (some are easier to identify than others). - Can also be used for the HSC course as a quick activity to get students thinking and identifying the usefulness of sources... etc

RESEARCH IT (1) - SKILLS & THE WORLD is a 30 page workbooklet with 45 practical every day tasks, ideas, research skills to use. It is all about how we find out information and then what we do with it! Every day there is new information around us that we hear for the first time, we link to what we know or it adds to our knowledge. There are different ways we can find out information like talking to people, interviewing experts, listening to coaches, reading information, watching videos etc. Key topics include: research skills, current and social events, the wider world, presentations skills and 3+ research projects. This workbooklet is filled with active, visual and practical tasks for primary or lower secondary and special education students and offers staff flexibility about who delivers the workbooklet and how many tasks are completed. See also PRESENT IT (2) - SKILLS & SPECIAL PROJECTS and LITERACY (3) - SKILLS MAKING SENSE workbooklets. With an easy-to-follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self-direct their learning. This workbooklet also includes a Student Learning Checklist and Assessment for Learning Feedback sheets.

This great resource is designed to help students analyse historical interpretations and can be used to help students at both GCSE and A Level. I have successfully used this type of resource with my students and when its completed it provides them with an excellent writing frame or scaffold for producing high quality answers. Used overtime, this type of resource will help to embed good practice and help students develop the important thinking and analysis skills they will need to tackle interpretation questions. As you can see in the preview, this is a single sheet resource with several squares. It is an evolution of the thinking skills reliability squares organiser that some of you may have come across before. The first square gets students to comment on the message of the source. The second square gets them to back this up with quotes, evidence and examples from the source. The third box gets students to analyse / explain the interpretation using outside knowledge, which would move them up to the next level, whilst the forth square gets them to analyse / explain the reliability of the interpretation with reference to the origin, nature, purpose, audience, access to information and its intended impact, which would take them up to the higher levels. Finally, the last box is designed to get them to link their analysis and come to a judgement to any other source being studied at the same time to help secure that A*. Underpinning the graphic organiser is the use of both PEEL and CCCJ as potential scaffold: P = Point C = Comment E = Example C= Content E = Explain C= Context (Source & Knowledge) L = Link J = Judgement Back in the days when examiners could provide training and feedback, these acronyms underpinned many of the level descriptors. If you would like a great resource which for further explaining these to your students then check out my PP on 'How to use a source successfully at GCSE.' This can also be printed off and laminated to make some great eye catching wall displays. If you like this resource, then check out my TES shop: The History Academy or check out or follow my Twitter, You Tube, Google Plus and Facebook pages, with the same name for further updates and discussions on how to use these resources successfully. My aim to provide low cost resources for the price of a cup of coffee or a happy meal :-) Kind Regards Roy