A question sheet to gather knowledge and understanding of the Vietnam War. This sheet goes with the documentary 20th Century Battlefields: Vietnam with John Snow, but can be adapted to be used with other sources of information.
Second lesson on whether the Vietcong or USA troops were more effective with sentence starters on the powerpoint for students to write up as a PEEL paragraph.
Point, evidence, explanation, link to the question.
Scaffolding for lower ability.
Comparing three modern interpretations of the Black Death to sources so that students can judge which interpretation is most accurate and create their own theory about which disease the Black Death really was.
First lesson in a sequence on the significance of the Black Death.
Lower ability introduction lesson to the Cold War to address understanding of key words e.g. communism, capitalism.
Understanding needs to be reinforced regularly throughout the unit as concepts are tricky for lower ability.