Prepare your GCSE history class ahead of this year’s exam with this selection of ready-to-use revision resources, all of which are aligned to the new specification. From presentations and practice questions to in-class activities, there’s something to engage every student.
A mock paper with question guidance for the second half of Paper 2 for Edexcel - covering Wolsey and Early Cromwell
This Medicine in Britain GCSE exam paper/sample assessment material is suitable for use by both students and teachers. This is exam paper ONE (1) in the series.
If you are a student you can use this exam paper to prepare effectively for tests and exams. It will help you become familiar with the layout of the paper and the style of questions you will be asked to complete. It will enable you to practise tricky things like getting your timing right for each type of question – managing your time effectively in the exam is crucial to your overall success. Furthermore you will be able to complete practise papers and hand them to your teacher for feedback about how to improve.
If you are a teacher this assessment material can be broken down into end of topic practise questions, set as end of unit tests, or as a mock exam at the end of Year 10 or in Year 11 when your school holds its official mock period.
The question stems and layout are in the style of the Pearson Edexcel exam board.
This assessment material will support your delivery of the Edexcel GCSE History specification. I find this exam board the best to work with at GCSE and have been using them for the last 13 years. Having said this, if you are a teacher or student, please do your due diligence in terms of reading the sample assessment material provided by Pearson Edexcel. I feel sure you will find these sample exam papers in line with their published material and guidance.
If you are happy with this resource please consider saving yourself some money by purchasing bundles – they really do offer a huge discount on buying items individually.
For lots of free material and GCSE history support, go to
I wish you the best of luck with your GCSE history exams x
Edexcel 9-1 GCSE
British Medicine 1250-present
New 2016 Specification
Revision guide covering the complete 4 topics from British Medicine topic
Contains detailed top level (Grade 9)l knowledge on all aspects of the course, covering the specification from Edexcel
Focus on: ideas on cause of disease, treatment, surgery, prevention, public health, care, hospitals and depth studies (Black Death, Great Plague, Cholera & Lung Cancer) with overview for each topic on ‘how much progress’ and factors for/against progres
Includes a wide range of exam questions (Comparison, Explain, Judgement) with ‘how to’ guide for each question with model answers throughout.
Visually laid out revision guide with images aiding information, 51 pages in total.
Can be used for revision, homework, interleaving, within class teaching and as a basis for a workbook.
Cheap to print for students (£1 a copy) which is cheaper than purchasing multiple revision guides which can lack detailed content for higher ability students.
Does NOT include the Western Front Medicine Environment Study section, I do this separately as a workbook.
Content could also be for AQA, OCR and WJEC, whilst also for HA KS3 pupils
Please see my other lessons and resources
Feedback welcome
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In a bid to get my Year 11’s revising and focusing on knowledge, I devised these 78 flashcards to use in a recent revision session. They proved a great success and also gave them something to take home and revise.
They need cutting down the middle and folding; the students then tested themselves and each other, removing the ones they recognised and retaining those they didn’t.
I have included a PDF and Powerpoint version if you wish to adapt them.
This 33 page revision guide covers AQA Power and the People, c.1170 to the present day.
The Guide is broken down into four sections: challenging authority and feudalism, challenging royal authority, reform and reformers and equality and rights. The Guide starts by explaining the 4 questions types asked in the exam and gives suggestions and tips on the easiest way to tackle these.
The Revision Guide gives over 20 typical exam questions asked on each topic (from significance, to how useful, to similarities and differences to factors) and how to put these questions into practice with model answers.
This Guide has been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow and can be adapted and changed to suit with PDF and word formats supplied.
This Guide can be used for revision, interleaving, within the classroom as well for homework purposes.
Any reviews on this resource would be much appreciated. Please review and receive a free copy of the AQA Power and the People flashcards I have made worth £4 which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-gcse-history-9-1-power-and-the-people-c-1170-to-present-revision-flashcards-11894381
If you like this guide, please check out my others for AQA History on Germany 1890-1945, Conflict and Tension 1918-39 and Elizabeth.
The booklet contains 21 pages of exercises to help students revise the content from the AQA America: Expansion & Consolidation (1840-1895) unit. The whole course is covered and the booklet is designed to help students revise small chunks often over a longer period of time. I set two pages per week for KS4. If you find this resource useful you may wish to download the Conflict and Tension: 1918-1939 booklet that’s been made in the same style.
Topics covered:
What is Manifest Destiny?
Why is the Mexican American War important?
Who were the early settlers?
Why was the Gold Rush important?
Who were the Mormons?
Why did the Mormons travel west?
How successful were the Mormons in Salt Lake City?
What was the Mountain Meadow Massacre?
Who were the Native Americans?
How did settlement affect the Native Americas?
Why was there conflict on the Plains?
Where did slavery exist in the USA?
What were the causes of the American Civil War?
What were the effects of the American Civil War?
How was American reconstructed after the war?
Who were the homesteaders?
How did the Homesteaders survive?
How was the ‘Indian problem’ solved?
The Battle of Little Big Horn
How did the Native Americans finally lose?
How was the West finally won?
UPDATED - A 62 page revision booklet with detailed information, practice exam questions and model answers designed to help Edexcel 9-1 GCSE students achieve the highest grades on Paper 3 Weimar and Nazi Germany 1919-1939.
Cheat sheets are an effective means of preparing students for their Edexcel 9-1 history exams. These easy to use sheets can provide students with a framework for planning answers to potential exam questions as part of their revision.
Teachers can issue these templates to students alongside a list of potential questions for both sections of Paper 2. This is an effective means of revision, and can be used by teachers to specifically direct students in their revision - something which is not always easy to do.
For those of you teaching American West, I have already produced such supplementary sheets which are also available on TES.
This is a very useful resource to help students structure their revision for an end of unit assessment or their final exam in June. It has been organised Chronologically but also thematically. My students have found this useful as an alternative way to revise. Students can have the option of colour coding each theme for revision. I would suggest enlarging to A3 if possible.
Please note that this is a single sheet resource, but due to the time it took to produce this, I hope this reflects the asking price for it. Hopefully it can last you many years.
9-1 Edexcel History Learning/Topic Placemats for - Topic 2 The Bolsheviks in Power
Written in PowerPoint
(The reverse side of the placemat remains the same throughout this study unit).
These interactive learning placemats were designed to meet the challenges of the new 9-1 GCSE. They build upon the successful Medicine Through Time Placemats that I previously designed (and which received 5* reviews by all who have purchased them up to the time of launching these new materials – see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-1-edexcel-gcse-history-of-medicine-place-mat-question-structure-11627611 ). The new placemats have been identified as best practice during a ‘Challenge Partners’ review as well as being identified as best practice by other History teachers on the Olevi ‘Outstanding Teacher Programme’.
The new design learning placemats support both teachers and students in addressing the:
a) dramatic increase in the curriculum content needed for the different units
b) support the need for increased literacy demands
c) help students become familiar and more confident in recognising the correct response needed for the unprecedented number of different question styles
The placemats are designed to be double sided. One side focuses on the CONTENT: providing an overview of key knowledge and understanding needed (this will change for each topic area within this GCSE unit).
Every placemat across the GCSE range is designed to encourage greater understanding of:
Historical Context - through timelines, picture prompts and key words
Awareness of the ‘big picture’ so students can see how individual lessons fit into the unit and make clearer links between prior and future learning – through ‘Big Picture’ questions.
Better Literacy – through selected ‘language for learning’ vocab box.
Memory prompts to support revision – through the use of carefully selected images.
Increased awareness of metacognition – through PME (Progress, Monitor and Evaluation Time) questions to encourage students to deconstruct their learning and identify key factors (eg. Social, economic, political) or key individuals and make links between features. A pictorial metacognition man with 5 question prompts will support student reflection.
The reverse side contains guidance on EXAM TECHNIQUE through:
Identifying the nature of the question styles for each GCSE Unit and the allocated marks available
Examiners levelled mark schemes
Support writing frames with generic sentence starters
