Source based enquiry

A thematic History of London

An entire unit, 48 lessons, based on the new Edexcel 9-1 GCSE History textbook and covering from 1000- present. Differentiated outcomes and activities. Ready to be used in the classroom!!

2 lessons on Jack the Ripper, including simplified resources

A full 10 lesson unit on the Whitechapel element of the Crime and Punishment exam paper. The unit links to the Edexcel 9-1 textbook with some additional information and is very much source based. Enjoy

A map based activity about Europe and the Middle East pre-Crusade. Sheet 1 is best if blown up to A3 and in colour. Sheet two should be printed on coloured card. Involves some literacy elements too.

Full 10 lesson learning scheme based on the Crusades for KS3. Includes the rise of Islam, comparisons with the West, why people wanted to go on the Crusades, the Third and Fourth Crusades and comparisons between Richard and Saladin.

A lesson to introduce the Nazis, including their origins and ideologies.

An entire unit, 26 lessons, based on the new Edexcel 9-1 GCSE History textbook. Differentiated outcomes and activities. Ready to be used in the classroom!!

Lesson 3 in my 9-1 Germany scheme looking at the structure of the Weimar Republic and its constitution in more detail. Quite a visual lesson.

A full 10 lesson learning scheme on the rise and fall of the British Empire including lessons on Shaun Tan's the Rabbits and interpreting the book.

A full 13 lesson learning scheme covering the causes personalities and events of the French Revolution

A full 12 lesson unit of work covering the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations up to and including the Abyssinian Crisis

A complete Unit of 27 lesson, all activities and page numbers are linked to the Pearsons Edexcel textbook

To coincide with the move to 9-1 in GCSE History I have created three extended learning projects based on the Edexcel syllabus. The three projects are: medicine through time; warfare through time and crime and punishment through time. Each project is based on one of the studies over time with the idea being that they can be used as self taught units or extended learning built upon classroom learning. The purpose of these three projects is to prepare students for the course by developing the necessary source evaluation skills and familiarising them with the rigours of the new syllabus. All of the units could be delivered within one year or spread across the three years of Key Stage 3.

I developed a multimodal scheme of learning to try and look at some key concepts within History in a different way. The scheme uses Shaun Tan's The Arrival to introduce empathy, identity, prejudice and persecution and is a great precursor to The Holocaust. It is deliberately open ended with no titles and shared LOs at the start to encourage discussion and to allow the lessons to flow in the direction the learners lead it. I have thoroughly enjoyed both creating and delivering this scheme. I have attached the learning scheme to explain how I have used the lessons, although of course this is open to interpretation and personalisation to suit you and your learners.

A double lesson about hyperinflation, while the first is knowledge and skills based the latter asks students to work in groups and try to carry out their weekly shop as the crisis gets worse. Good fun.

A full 12 lesson learning scheme covering the origins of the Great Depression, the presidential elections of 1932 and 1936 and the New Deal, as well as a lesson on Steinbeck. All page references refer t AQA International Relations: Conflict and Peace in the 20th Century.

A 6 lesson learning scheme based on discussion and propaganda. A really good introduction to any protest unit.

To coincide with the move to 9-1 in GCSE History I have created three extended learning projects based on the Edexcel syllabus. The three projects are: medicine through time; warfare through time and crime and punishment through time. Each project is based on one of the studies over time with the idea being that they can be used as self taught units or extended learning built upon classroom learning. The purpose of these three projects is to prepare students for the course by developing the necessary source evaluation skills and familiarising them with the rigours of the new syllabus. All of the units could be delivered within one year or spread across the three years of Key Stage 3.

A lesson looking at culture and the arts under Weimar using sources and examples as well as 6 major issues that the government tackled. Evaluation is based around a ripple diagram.