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Teacher of 28 years, History AST, HoD and Hums. HoF. Please visit my website to see my current curriculum provision www.historynetwork.co.uk
9-1 Edexcel History Learning/Topic Placemats for Superpower Relations and The Cold War - Topic 1
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9-1 Edexcel History Learning/Topic Placemats for Superpower Relations and The Cold War - Topic 1 -Origins of the Cold War 1945-58 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: 1. Historical Context - through timelines, picture prompts and key words 2. 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. 3. Better Literacy – through selected ‘language for learning’ vocab box. 4. Memory prompts to support revision – through the use of carefully selected images. 5. 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. 6. A confidence thermometer is also included as a prompt to identify student confidence in the topic. The reverse side contains guidance on EXAM TECHNIQUE through: 1. Identifying the nature of the question styles for each GCSE Unit and the allocated marks available 2. Examiners levelled mark schemes 3. Support writing frames with generic sentence starter
EDEXCEL 9-1GCSE - Topic 1: COLD WAR SUMMARY 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ consolidation, revision, resource
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EDEXCEL 9-1GCSE - Topic 1: COLD WAR SUMMARY 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ consolidation, revision, resource

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This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for topic 1 of the Cold War Unit - Origins of the Cold War 1945-58. It fully covers the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to: a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning. c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the CONSEQUENCE and NARRATIVE analysis questions - the CONSEQUENCE question boxes encourage planned examples to include in an exam response and the CASE STUDY events etc - provide helpful chronological support for the NARRATIVE ANALYSIS question. (Students have also commented that revising each case study from topic 2 within a chronological order from beginning to end is much easier to revise than studying the case studies in fragmented parts, as set out in the syllabus outline. d) the question squares can be cut up into cards to form an interactive timeline activity or KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable. The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a stand alone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. Please see placemat at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-1-edexcel-history-learning-topic-placemats-for-superpower-relations-and-the-cold-war-topic-1-11755234
9-1 Edexcel History Learning/Topic Placemats for Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-41- Topic 2
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9-1 Edexcel History Learning/Topic Placemats for Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-41- Topic 2

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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
BBC Teach - How Britain declared war in 1914 - Britain's Great War
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BBC Teach - How Britain declared war in 1914 - Britain's Great War

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BBC Teach - Class Clips History GCSE / National 5: How Britain reacted to the outbreak of war in 1914 How did Britain enter World War One? Jeremy Paxman explores the optimistic national mood at the declaration of war in 1914 after Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, invaded Belgium. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing A one page resource
Henry VIII - Inside the Mind of a Tyrant - Ep4. Tyrant - Supporting Worksheet
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Henry VIII - Inside the Mind of a Tyrant - Ep4. Tyrant - Supporting Worksheet

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Henry VIII - Inside the Mind of a Tyrant - Ep4. Tyrant - Supporting Worksheet Written to support the David Starkey documentary as enrichment for able GCSE 9-1 students or A level teaching support. Comprehension and extension questions are provided to follow the programme and support information collection. The resource provides a summary of the documentary and its contents. Written in Publisher to A3 formatting, but can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 printing The final programme in the series examines how Henry, having inherited a chronically weak English crown, forged it into an instrument of unprecedented power, and then wielded it to change forever the nature of England and the English. The courtiers who had helped Cromwell dispatch Anne Boleyn hoped that the schism with Rome would now be reversed. They were soon disappointed. The destruction of the monasteries proceeded apace, with the loot flowing into Henry's coffers. But such unprecedented actions caused isolation abroad and rebellion at home. Henry's response showed him at his most duplicitous and ruthless. He lured the rebels' leader to London with the promise of talks and then had him hung, drawn and quartered. Meanwhile, Henry's private life was hardly less turbulent. The death of Jane Seymour robbed him of someone he was genuinely fond of, and who had given him the male heir he craved. His marriage to Katherine Howard briefly rekindled the flames of desire, but her adultery (real, this time) made her another victim of court intrigue. David Starkey's archival research has revealed the full story behind her tragic fate. But as Henry grew older, more ill and more dangerous to all around him, he was busy forging a fiercely independent England, where coastal fortifications and an expanding Tudor navy gave tangible expression to a new sense of national destiny.
BBC Teach - Why did Britain need a better road network?
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BBC Teach - Why did Britain need a better road network?

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BBC Teach Class Clips - Why did Britain need a better road network? - Worksheet to support the BBC video In the early 1700s Britain’s road networks were simply not up to the task of moving the goods around the country which needed to be moved. Most of the roads were ancient, potholed and too small for modern business to be carried out. As Britain began to industrialise, this lack of transport made it very difficult to transport raw materials like coal or cotton. It was especially difficult for a businessman like Josiah Wedgwood, who reckoned that he sometimes lost one third of his shipments of pottery on Britain’s terrible roads. In 1706 Parliament passed the Turnpike Act which allowed private road builders to build new roads and charge tolls for using them. It was a first, important step towards the road transport network we know in Britain today. This short film is from the BBC series, Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing A one page resource
1066: A Year to Conquer England Ep1 - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary with Dan Snow
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1066: A Year to Conquer England Ep1 - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary with Dan Snow

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1066: A Year to Conquer England Ep1 - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary with Dan Snow Written for enrichment/independent/flipped activities, the sheet contains a variety of data collection activities based upon the TV programme In this three-part drama documentary series, Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to war and the Battle of Hastings. When King Edward the Confessor dies without an heir, it triggers a bitter race to succeed him as King of England. Earl Harold is on the spot and takes the crown. But in Normandy, Duke William believes the throne has been promised to him and decides to invade. Meanwhile, in Norway, the Viking king Harald Hardrada also fancies himself as King of England, and he too puts together an invasion force. Very soon, England will be under attack. Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the sheet can be saved as a PDF to A4
9-1 Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39 'TOPIC 3 ON A PAGE’ consolidation, revision, resource
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9-1 Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39 'TOPIC 3 ON A PAGE’ consolidation, revision, resource

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This resource provides students with a 'TOPIC ON A PAGE’ summary for the component unit Key Topic 3 Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933–39 for Paper 3 of the Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39. They fully cover the syllabus content for each topic and can be used by students and teachers to: a) consolidate knowledge and understanding to encourage student mastery (embedding academic language and concepts)after students have completed a topic in class or as a homework task, helping them identify areas of strengths and weaknesses b) as a quick starter activity to review prior learning or weeks/months later as a spaced retrieval practice task. I regularly take sections from the placemats and use them to support spiralled learning. c) to encourage relevant exam responses - specifically targeting the themes of explaining the cause of illness, methods of prevention, treatments, care of the sick, public health, important individuals and factors effecting change. d) the question squares can be completed and then cut up into cards to form KAGAN Quiz/Quiz Trade Question and Answer Cards e) as a useful revision aid before the final exam. (Many of my Year 11 students rely on these sheets in the final weeks and days of revision and have commented that they have helped make factual recall of the huge volume of the syllabus content more achievable. The resource includes prompt pictures to appeal to visual learners and can be used as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the Edexcel Pearson Revision Guide, where all of the answers can be found. This resource can also be used in conjunction with the topic placemats that I have produced to support students in lessons. The first box contains the same summary picture for the whole topic. In particular, I have successfully used the TOPIC ON A PAGE summaries with the ‘EXAM TECHNIQUE’ side of the placemats so when students are given exam questions, they can quickly find relevant supporting knowledge to use in a response. I have used this resource successfully with students targeted Levels 4 - 9. It could be easily adapted for students working on or below L3. The ‘fill in the gaps’ prompts can be removed for higher ability students. Please see placemats at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-1-edexcel-history-learning-topic-placemats-for-weimar-and-nazi-germany-11755285 My Germany SoL is viewable at: http://www.historynetwork.co.uk/gcse/
'Empire of the Seas' - Worksheet to support the BBC Dan Snow Documentary Ep.1
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'Empire of the Seas' - Worksheet to support the BBC Dan Snow Documentary Ep.1

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Empire of the Seas - Worksheet to support the BBC Dan Snow Documentary Ep.1 Heart of Oak. Written to support the Edexcel A level: Gaining and Losing an Empire -1763-1914 Heart of Oak opens with a dramatic retelling of 16th and 17th-century history. Victory over the Armada proved a turning point in the nation's story as tiny, impoverished England was transformed into a seafaring nation, one whose future wealth and power lay on the oceans. The ruthless exploits of Elizabethan seafaring heroes like Francis Drake created a potent new sense of national identity that combined patriotism and Protestantism with private profiteering. At sea and on land, Snow shows how the Navy became an indispensable tool of state, weaving the stories of characters like Drake, God's Republican warrior at sea Robert Blake, and Samuel Pepys, administrator par excellence, who laid the foundations for Britain's modern civil service. With access to the modern Navy and reconstructed ships of the time, Snow recounts the Navy's metamorphosis from a rabble of West Country freebooters to possibly the most complex industrial enterprise on earth
BBC Teach -The Barbados Slave Code
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BBC Teach -The Barbados Slave Code

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BBC Teach Class Clips-History KS3 / KS4: The Barbados Slave Code - Worksheet to support the Olusoga extract Historian David Olusoga investigates the spread of the Barbados Slave Code across British colonies during the eighteenth century and its social and economic impact. He begins his narrative with the English settlement of Barbados in 1627 which resulted decades later in a lucrative sugar cane industry covering 40% of the island and cultivated by enslaved Africans. The clip emphasises the harsh and racist provisions of the code and its role in creating a slave society and economy controlled by the use of severe violence. British records quote Africans as being referred to as ‘heathenish’ and ‘brutal’. This is from the series: Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners This resource is written in Publisher and formatted to A3 but can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing
BBC Learning Zone - The Atomic Bomb
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BBC Learning Zone - The Atomic Bomb

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BBC Teach - Class Clips - History KS3 / GCSE: The Atomic bomb. Worksheet to support the BBC website Worksheet to support the excerpt from Andrew Marrs’ History of The World Andrew Marr explores the development and deployment of the first atomic bomb. He describes the moral dilemma faced by the scientists of the Manhattan Project, and the fallout from the detonation of the bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing This is a one page resource
Gaining & Losing an Empire - The Opium Wars
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Gaining & Losing an Empire - The Opium Wars

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Worksheet written to support the Extra History You Tube channel video on the Oipum War Pt 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgQahGsYokU The Publisher doc is formatted for A3, but can be amended and saved as a PDF for A4 publishing
Jeremy Paxman: Empire - Ep.4 - Playing the Game - Kitchener and the conquest of Sudan
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Jeremy Paxman: Empire - Ep.4 - Playing the Game - Kitchener and the conquest of Sudan

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A worksheet to support the BBC Documentary 'Empire' -Jeremy Paxman - Ep4 - Playing the Game - Kitchener. This sheet only supports the section from 29:00 on Kitchener's role in the conquest of Sudan and Omdurman Paxman traces the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero - adventurer, gentleman, amateur, sportsman and decent chap and the British obsession with sport.
BBC - Empire - Learning Zone - What legacy has the British Empire left behind?
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BBC - Empire - Learning Zone - What legacy has the British Empire left behind?

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What legacy has the British Empire left behind? Worksheet to support the Paxman, Empire Documentary extract The Empire brought blood and suffering to millions, but it also brought railways, roads and education. For good or ill, much of the world is the way it is today because of the Empire, from the way it looks, to the sports people play, from the religion we practise, to the language we speak: BBC - Empire - Learning Zone - What legacy has the British Empire left behind? Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the resource can be saved as a PDF for A4 printing A one page resource
Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley - Ep1 - Reinventing Russia - Empire of the Tsars
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Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley - Ep1 - Reinventing Russia - Empire of the Tsars

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Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley - Ep1 - Reinventing Russia - Empire of the Tsars -Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary Written to provided extension/ enrichment / independent learning options at KS5 & 4 Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be fully edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries. It’s an epic tale that includes giant figures such as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, the devastating struggle against Napoleon in 1812, and the political murders of Nicholas II and his family in 1918 which brought the dynasty to a brutal end. In this first episode, Lucy investigates the beginning of the Romanovs’ 300-year reign in Russia. In 1613, when Russia was leaderless, 16-year-old Mikhail Romanov was plucked from obscurity and offered the crown of Russia. Mikhail was granted absolute power and began the reign of the Romanovs as the most influential dynasty in modern European history. Lucy also charts the story of Peter the Great, the ruthless and ambitious tsar who was determined to modernise Russia at the end of the 17th century. Lucy traces Peter’s accession to the throne as a nine-year-old, when he witnessed a revolt led by royal guards and the slaughter of his uncles and close advisors. Sixteen years later, Peter would vengefully execute a thousand rebellious guards. Throughout his reign, Peter would demonstrate an unwavering commitment to establishing Russia as a naval power - Lucy explores the lengths to which Peter would go to ensure this became a reality, including the creation of a new maritime capital, St Petersburg. Lucy shows how the Romanovs embraced and sponsored the arts on an astonishing scale - from building spectacular palaces to commissioning grand artworks - that all still dazzle today. As well as studying this unique royal family, Lucy also considers the impact the Romanovs had on the lives of ordinary Russians, who were often little better than slaves to the elite.