Looks at life in towns and different townsfolk. Students compare towns to the work done by different townsfolk in order to choose the best town for them to live and work in.

The lesson focuses on the impact of the Black Death upon England and Europe. Designed to support KS3 students in building context and developing planning for assessment on change and continuity. Youtube video supports the task of building a spider diagram to a higher level for extended writing.

Starter lesson focusing on reasons for highway robbery. The lesson looks at factors that encouraged and discouraged highwaymen.

A fun lesson to introduce ks3 to the idea of why there was a Witch hunt in the 17th Century. Characters are fictional although their circumstances very real. Designed to be adapted to teachers learning style. Used regularly on taster days and during 17th century topics with year 7.

Wonderful lesson and resource that focus on differentiated learning. Content focuses on why the Germans were able to beat France and Britain in 1940. Homework sheet can also be used in lesson and the students pick a certain amount of challenge tasks to achieve.

Ks3 lesson but good for ks4. Focus is on the less known reasons for why men joined the army in 1914, in particular personal reasons. Introduces the concept of recruitment and propaganda and uses the authors uncle as a case study, please feel free to change to another case study, but if not please respect my Great Uncle!

Lesson that looks step by step at various sources on life for children in the mines.

Lesson focuses on geography of Persia, by comparing the Persian world today to its origin before Cyrus the Great. Focus on how to use Herodotus and building knowledge of his characteristics as a historian.

Lesson focuses on the early conquest of Cyrus the Great, his birth and the description of events by Herodotus. The lesson aims to test chronological awareness, the use of Herodotus as a historian and how Cyrus and Persia dominated the Medes under king Astyages.

Lesson and resources that investigate the consequences of enclosure, focus is mainly the negative effects and there is a source analysis task.

Whole lesson devoted to developing written responses and building up source analysis skills.

Lesson aimed at introducing the concept of siege warfare, comparison of various weapons and improving written responses.

Project based lesson, designed to run over a few lessons. The first part focuses on theories behind the defeat, the second focuses on watching the film ‘Zulu Dawn’ so that students can build up more own knowledge to explain reasons for defeat of British. Third part focuses on comparing Isandlwana to Rorkes drift. The main focus is to look at causes and consequences and builds this in as an assessment. with tips on improving writing skills and gaining a higher level of answer. A really fun set of lessons, but you will need access to the two famous films (Zulu Dawn and Zulu) I use this resource with Year 8 over 3 or 4 lessons to build in literacy, independence and causation. They love it. Hope you do.

Two lessons potentially investigating primary evidence of the Persian King Cambyses II in Egypt and if it supports Herodotus

Overview lesson of problems facing early Weimar republic, variation of activities and tasks to build knowledge of the events and individuals.

Lesson that looks at what triangular trade was, why it was profitable and include numeracy challenge! Also focuses on differentiated learning. You will need a blank map of the Atlantic for the map task.

Resources and lesson on factors that enabled the RAF to win the Battle of Britain.

Lesson and resources investigate Babylon and Cyrus’ take over. Students look at a comparison between the Babylonian king and Cyrus and why Cyrus was able to take the city so easily. Again Herodotus is at the heart of the tasks, but this also introduces the Nabonidus Chronicle and the important Cyrus Cylinder.

Lesson looks at Cyrus’ conquest of Lydia and the tale of king Croesus.

Lesson and resources look at the death of Cyrus and then assess subject content in A01 style answers. this resource is aimed at the OCR Ancient History topics 9-1.

Assessment questions and feedback broken down to help students with the Medicine through time course. The presentation is focusing upon doing the key questions (which have been broken down and have key terminology to assist) and then breaks down how to answer them.