Activity about Hereward's rebellion, which followed the conquest. Story told as a memory game ('I went to market').

Core text and some resources for teaching the children section of the British Depth Study (1939-1975) for OCR GCSE.

Spaced Learning activity, self quiz and core notes. Cartoon activities as extension. SL activity and quiz will take about 1 hour

simulation to help students understand the issues of overspeculation and overproduction that led to WSC

Plenary games for these three topics. instructions provided (after the game cards)

(hopefully) pupil friendly breakdowns of exam question markschemes for OCR Modern World History B, with some model answers included

Designed to encourage students to make appropriate links between ideas, this exercise provides the key points of the Ghost Dance narrative together with a list of connectives. Students draw arrows from one idea/event to the next, writing along the arrow the appropriate connective word. When complete, the diagram should answer the question ‘What happened after the Battle of Little Bighorn?’. Differentiated resource - higher ability exercise has one stage of the story missing and an extended list of connectives

This is a differentiated literacy-focused plenary for the activity ‘Why did Henry agree to be whipped’ on ThinkingHistory.com. Students are required to link the segments of the story together with arrows and write appropriate connectives on the arrows to create a coherent explanation.

this is a logic problem that can be used as a unit starter for the Indian Wars. it is essential that the students do not know the names, dates or outcomes of the battles before they begin, as this will undermine the logical thinking skills. i have used this activity with very mixed ability classes and have had some astounding results from all abilities. Its tricky to explain, but well worth it. I usually put it up on the board and go through the process of one clue with them - only one though!

From a SOW I'm currently writing about Henry II and Becket. This board game is about the medieval church. A priest, a noble and a peasant have to get to heaven. Journey by way of church courts and indulgences, to set the scene for the specific church privilege which caused conflict between Henry II and Becket and also the indulgences issue which is a long-term link to a planned future unit on the reformation.

General introduction to doodling and learning, with 'strategic' doodle showing the structure of the League of Nations (explained)

I've re-written this SOW Sept 2017. Attached new lesson plans. Plenary lesson still be to added I left the bbc maps from 2011 just in case, though I haven't directly used this in the SOW

Guide for students to help them work out what is being asked in a history exam question and recognise the basic structure of the answer required. [to help them write the answer, see 'how to help students write essays' on TES]

4th half termly unit in Y8 scheme of work, looking at variety of different protests. Designed to prompt students to see effective protest as context specific. assessment is drawing of political cartoon and writing the accompanying interpretation - GCSE style

as it says on the tin - timeline for the core notes

There is quite a lot here for a half term’s work so teachers need to pick and choose. Theme for Year 7 is ‘lives of ordinary people’.

This is just an outline of the constitution, with some appropriate historiographical quotes included. Its mainly taken from Gordon Craig Germany 1866-1945 Chapter 2. As background prep we did an exercise on the state of germany in 1871 after unification, then had a discussion of what type of constitution would be necessary, thinking about key areas of policy such as the economy, control of the military, social measures (education/health), etc and deciding whether these should be under national or regional control. we also discussed whether we would have a parliament with representation or whether it would be run autocratically as the individual states had been previously. Students basically came up with all this anyway, so these notes were consolidation and the basis for a discussion on the nature, strengths and weaknesses of the constitution. also attached sets of notes for students; synthesised from various books

Set of student notes covering main aspects of this period for AS course 7 sets of notes: Background to the Reformation Kings great matter break and royal supremacy dissolution of monasteries other religious reforms opposition to the reformation how far was england protestant by 1547

Framework of notes for A2 students on ELizabethan Foreign Policy and on the religious settlement. Activity on the religious settlement notes - students are provided with key arguments and have to substantiate, explain and analyse as appropriate, using pages 1-13 of the handout.

there are a number of ways of using this resource. a) you can give it to the class as a chain card exercise for a plenary - students read out the first part of their card and then someone else has to provide the answer. You can do this in reverse to be even more challenging? You will notice when you download this resource that the answers dont match the questions (answers have been shuffled down one space and the last answer brought to the top). this is for this exercise b) the correct version of the q&a starts on page 6. these can be used as a memory game. students cut out the strips and fold/stick them backwards so the answer is on one side of a small card and the question on the other. this can be used as a memory game in class, or can simply be given to students as a revision aid c) the questions can be cut up and put in a pot in class on the teachers desk and a few qéa quiz questions done as a starter activity there are separate quizzes on Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations and the causes of WW2 The exercises are easy to add to/amend to suit. It’s just a way of keeping the factual framework in student’s minds to help lessons to focus on skills development rather than factual recall.