Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience.
Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.
This is the full collection of all of my lessons about the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I specifically aimed at KS3 and fully adaptable for KS2.
Please read the list of lessons below carefully so you are fully aware of the resources you are buying.
Lesson 1: The strengths and weaknesses of Elizabeth I.
Lesson 2: Princess Elizabeth’s early life and education.
Lesson 3: the challenges faced by Elizabeth I in 1558.
Lesson 4: The importance of portraits to Queen Elizabeth I
Lesson 5: Queen Elizabeth I’s Religious Settlement.
Lesson 6: Queen Elizabeth’s execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Lesson 7: The causes of the invasion of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 8: The events of the invasion of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 9: Explaining the defeat of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 10: Causes of the Elizabethan ‘Age of Exploration’.
This 10 lesson bundle contains the first 10 lessons needed to teach Edexcel (or other) Cold War and Superpower Relations for the 2016 1-9 specification.
Bundle includes:
Introduction lesson
Grand Alliance
Atomic Bomb and Telegrams
Satellite states and Iron Curtain Speech
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Cominform and Comecon
Berlin Crisis, Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift
Nato and Warsaw Pact
The Arms Race
The Hungarian Uprising
Every lesson includes a fact sheet which can be used in place of the GCSE text books. No other resources needed to teach this unit.
This great lesson allows students to fully explain the various causes of Britain’s Industrial Revolution c.1750 to c.1900. Students are given a number of activities and tasks to help them define what the Industrial Revolution was. They will then use a clearly organised fact sheet to read about the main factors which led to the Industrial Revolution before thinking about how the factors linked to each other and argue which factor they believe to be the most important.
The 19 slide lesson contains a variety of discussion tasks, warm up start activities, printable resources, and learning reviews as well as engaging background information and challenge questions for higher ability students. There is a choice of printable resources to suit different ages and abilities. The lesson is mainly aimed at KS3 students between the ages of 11-14 but can easily be adapted for younger or older students.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, images have been attributed where appropriate and are, to the best of my knowledge, all in the public domain. Images created by myself using Power Point tools have also been noted as creations of RAResources. Please contact me in person if you see any errors.
This is the final lesson for the unit. It cover the events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the following consequences. It will also ask the students to explain the importance of the fall of the Berlin Wall for the end of the Soviet Union by 1991.
RECAP 1: A 10 question multiple choice quiz about why the Berlin Wall was built to help recap prior knowledge from an earlier lesson. Answers revealed on the following slide (see image).
RECAP 2: Students are presented with 5 images which they must use to identify the actions that Mikhail Gorbachev had taken from the previous lesson to bring about the end of the Cold War (Brezhnev Doctrine, Afghanistan, Perestroika, Glasnost, INF Treaty). Students prompted into discussion and explanation to recap his actions.
STARTER: Students given two sources (written and visual) and have to infer what each tells them about the immediate impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall on the citizens of East Berlin.
BACKGROUND SLIDES: Gives a stage by stage overview of the events which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
TASK SHEET: Students prompted through a series of tasks which lead to explaining the main consequences and the importance of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Extension tasks given.
EXAM QUESTIONS: Three types of exam questions given for this topic.
FACT SHEETS: A fact sheet has been included for this lesson but also the previous lessons about the erection of the Berlin Wall for any students who may need this catch up.
PLENARY/EXTENSION: From all of Gorbachev’s actions, students score or shade on a graph, which had the biggest impact on bringing about the end of the Cold War and the collapse of Communism.
UPDATED RESOURCE 2023
This resource has been specifically designed to support students in their answers to the three main source based questions given in the Edexcel GCSE History exam paper. The one page print out can be used as a book insert while studying a unit, a table top guide as well as a useful revision resource to prepare for exams. Particular attention is given to the ‘How useful’ question which appears in two exam papers.
The three questions covered in the guide are:
Inference - used in Paper 3
Follow Up - used in Paper 1
Source Usefulness - used in both Paper 1 & 3
This resource would also be ideal for the use with students in KS3 as a way to make them familiar with core GCSE History skills.
In this lesson, students will be able to explain the impact and consequences of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. They will also identify which groups benefitted from the closure of the monasteries and which groups lost out. The lesson is suited for or could easily be adapted for students aged 12-16
This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.
The downloaded lesson includes the following:
1x A4 printout worksheet of Task 1
1x A4 printout worksheet of Tasks 2 & 3
1x main Power Point:
Slide 1: Title slide – The Impact of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Slide 2: Main Lesson Aims
Slide 3: As You Enter Warm Up 1: What is happening in the illustration showing the dissolution of the monasteries?
Slide 4: As You Enter Warm Up 2: What can you learn from this photograph (the ruins of an abbey in North Yorkshire)
Slide 5-7: Recap Activity: What were the reasons for Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries. Includes a higher and lower ability version with answers given.
Slide 8-9: Starter Task: Winner or Losers? Students have to guess which groups/individuals would benefit or not from the dissolution. Answers given.
Slide 10: Starter Task 2: Source analysis from a speech made by Robert Aske about the value of the monasteries.
Slide 11: Task 1: Students use the A4 worksheet included in the resource to identify which groups benefitted and which groups lost out after the dissolution of the monasteries.
Slide 12: Task 2: Students place each group on a scale of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. This is also available as an A4 printable sheet.
Slide 13: Task 3: Using a table provided, students outline how society was impacted by the closure of the monasteries.
Slide 14: Follow Up Challenge Questions.
Slide 15: Example exam questions.
Slide 16: Learning Review Activity
Slide 27: Lesson Fact Sheet
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will be able to describe the various features of Queen Elizabeth’s Religious Settlement and explain why and how Elizabeth I attempted to seek a ‘Middle Way’ between the Catholic and Protestant Churches at the start of her reign in 1558. Students will learn about the changes introduced by the Religious Settlement and why they were so important at the time.
The lesson contains plenty of activities, printable resources, starter and plenary tasks, engaging background information and discussion points for both high and lower ability students.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.
In this lesson, students will examine the main events of the ‘Glorious Revolution’ in the years 1688-9. They will learn all about the background to the revolution and be able to fully explain why Parliament were concerned about the rule of King James II. Students will have an opportunity to create their own storyboard of the events as well as then explain the significance of the Glorious Revolution. Students will also be able to use this information to explain the significance of the Bill of Rights and the equal rule of William III and Mary II.
The lesson contains a variety of discussion tasks, warm up start activities, printable resources, and learning reviews as well as engaging background information and challenge questions for higher ability students. There is a choice of printable resources to suit different ages and abilities. The lesson is mainly aimed at KS3 students between the ages of 11-14 but can easily be adapted for younger or older students.
Please be kind enough to leave a review of this lesson if you have found it effective. Thank you.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.
This bundle contains all of the resources you will need to teach the first Unit covering Crime and Punishment in Medieval England.
Lesson 1: An introduction to Crime and Punishment
Lesson 2: Anglo-Saxon Crimes
Lesson 3: Anglo-Saxon Law Enforcement
Lesson 4: Anglo-Saxon Punishments
Lesson 5: Norman Crimes
Lesson 6: Norman Law Enforcement and Punishments
Lesson 7: Later Medieval Crime and Punishment
Lesson 8: Case Study: The role of the Church
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, all photographic and illustrative images have been attributed where appropriate and/or are all in the public domain. Clipart/vector images are all creativecommons.publicdomain.zero.1.0 which do not have to be attributed. If you have any issues regarding copyright please email me in the first instance.
In this lesson, students will discover what living conditions were like in Britain’s new industrial towns and specifically examine the increase in illness and disease. Particular attention is paid to the creation of terraced housing, the growth of slum areas, back-to-back housing and the pollution and waste created by such extreme overcrowding in the working class parts of towns.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson learning aims and progress
Slide 3: Lesson Warm Up – Class discussion about how students would describe ‘typical’ housing and accommodation today.
Slide 4: Lesson Warm Up II – Fill in the missing facts about the growth of towns in the Industrial Revolution
Slide 5: Missing terms from the warm-up revealed.
Slide 6: Starter Task: Students view a diagram of typical terraced and back-to-back housing and use this to discuss what housing conditions were like and how this led to ill-health and disease.
Slide 7: Source Analysis – An illustration of slum housing with prompt questions
Slide 8: Source Analysis – Printable GCSE style question sheet
Slide 9: Background Information – The growth of industrial towns
Slide 10: Background Information – Overcrowded terraced housing
Slide 11: Printable fact sheet
Slide 12: Activity 1 – Printable worksheet
Slide 13: Activity 2 – Creative historical writing task with full instructions
Slide 14: Activity 3 – Extended historical writing task with structure ideas
Slide 15: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 16: Learning Review Crossword with answers revealed
Slide 17: Printable version of the learning review crossword
I would be grateful if you could leave a review for the lesson if you feel the lesson is effective for you. Many thanks if you spend some of your valuable time doing this as feedback is highly valued.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.
This bundle covers the lessons needed to teach the final unit about Crime and Punishment in Modern Britain
Lesson 22: The changing definitions of crime after 1900.
Lesson 23: The changing methods of crime after 1900.
Lesson 24: The development of the modern police in Britain
Lesson 25: The abolition of the death penalty
Lesson 26: The case of Derek Bentley
Lesson 27: The development of prisons in modern Britain
Lesson 28: The treatment of Conscientious Objectors
In this lesson, students have the opportunity to use a range of historical sources and the views of historians to decide how far Queen Mary I of England deserved the nickname ‘Bloody Mary’.
The lesson includes:
A range of starter and learning review tasks
Engaging background information about the reign of Mary I
A link to a great ‘Bloody Britain’ documentary about Mary I with a worksheet for students to complete while they watch
A Source sheet gives a variety of written and visual opinions about Mary I
An opportunity for students to complete their own summary about their view
UPDATE 2023: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
This lesson provides an overview of the key breakthroughs and individuals of the 18th and 19th century.
The lesson includes:
Clear learning aims and achievements
Recap task: What was medicine like before 1700?
Starter activity: Match the key individual to the breakthrough
Differentiated Starter: A simplified match up.
Task Sheet 1: Students to investigate each individual and their breakthrough using a table to record their findings.
Extension/Challenge: A group of questions for students to analyse and evaluate the impact of the individuals and their breakthroughs.
Exam focus: A series of exam questions relating to the lesson.
Plenary: Key Term Quiz - Match the key term to the individual.
FACT SHEET: Every lesson comes with a fact sheet which can be given to the students as a replacement for a text book. This means you will not need any other resources for the lesson unless you feel you would like to offer more…
DIFFERENTIATED FACT SHEET - On one A4 page.
Please be kind enough to leave a review if you have found this resource effective.
2023 UPDATE INFO: To take into account copyright, photographic and cartoon images have been attributed where appropriate and are, to the best of my knowledge, all in the public domain. Images created by myself using Power Point tools have also been noted as creations of RAResources. Please contact me in person if you see any errors.
This bundle is for the final unit of Paper 3 USA: Home & Abroad. The bundle contains all the lessons and resources you will need to teach the unit without the need for any other resources.
The bundle contains:
Lesson 26: Why was there opposition to the Vietnam War?
Lesson 27: Why was there support for the Vietnam War?
Lesson 28: The Paris Peace Accords (1973) and the Fall of Saigon (1975)
Lesson 29: The Impact of the Vietnam War on America
Lesson 30: The Strengths of the Vietcong/North Vietnam and the Weakness of the US/South Vietnamese (ARVN)
This bundle includes the following lessons. I have numbered them as their order in the whole topic:
Lesson 11. The submission of the earls after Hastings
Lesson 12. William’s use of rewards, the borderlands and Marcher Earldoms
Lesson 13. The features and reasons for castle building.
Lesson 14. Anglo-Saxon resistance (Edwin and Morcar)
Lesson 15. Anglo-Saxon resistance (York and Durham)
Lesson 16. Anglo-Saxon resistance Hereward the Wake Ely
Lesson 17. The Harrying of the North
Lesson 18. Norman Landownership
Lesson 19. Revolt of the Norman Earls
Lesson 20. William’s Royal Control