Your Medieval uncle has left you £500 to build a medieval castle. Use the price list to spend your money wisely, as in 30 minutes a troop of invaders will be attacking! My year 7s loved it. They draw and label a castle on A3 paper, LA students can use the template to help them.

Checklists for AQA 9-1 GCSE Elizabeth WW1 Germany Medicine & Health Taken from the Spec. A great starter for revision

Students use 4 sources to find out about the Peterloo massacre. They say different things so students have to come to a decision about which source(s) they trust the most. Requires a clip from timelines tv which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMOo52H05E

8 Mark questions on Kenilworth castle AQA 9-1 Historical Environment for 2021 exam. Put these two together and write a 16 mark question in preparation

Great fun- helps if you get the cards printed in sets of different colours You may need to point the students in the direction of the banquet and explain beforehand how the church works and who an Archbishop is.

A 1 hour long summary. To be used on its own as an overview, or with the Chapter from the Orange Oxford Thematic book for extra detail. Past paper questions and pupil friendly mark schemes to practise.

A lesson and resource for use with GCSE students. A range of activities that help to explain the problems Elizabeth faced. An optional final 16 mark style question.

A carousel lesson on why the Us entered WW1. You could then plan a 16 mark question based on this and do it over two lessons. I used a PPT from TES for the first few slides and then AQA’d it.

A groupwork murder mystery on 'Hans Schmitt' ...turns out he collapses and dies from malnutrition as a result of the Bruening government's spending cuts...but will your students work it out (you might have to be quite heavy with the hints!) One year I made the mistake of telling them it was something I made up... now I just tell them it was a true story!

Talk through interpretations. Then Students work in pairs and have 2 mins then 1.45 then 1.30 then 1.15 and so on to look at 16 different souces/interpretations of the Somme and passing them round the class (I took them from an old White SHP book on the Great War, you’d have to get your own.) They then write their own interpretation in the form of a newspaper article.

8 AQA Health and the People GCSE homeworks with pupil friendly markschemes. and some sample answers. Can be used for peer marking etc.

Students work in pairs to research a topic. Then do a carousel where one stays and the moves round the classroom finding out about the other topics. They can then fill in the conclusion on the sheet or write an extended piece in their books.

Could be used in conjunction with watching Roots and looking at a selection of text books on the subject

Students create a memorable cartoon of how Hitler became Chancellor. There are three levels of challenge.