Group lesson, pupils work in groups to analyse sources which help them decide who was to blame for the disaster - they annotate each source before moving onto the next. At the end of the lesson pupils are asked to evaluate who was most to blame, this task is levelled with different tasks for each attainment level.

WALT: Explain why the Axis forces were defeated at D-Day.Level 3: Identify hidden messages in US propaganda. Level 4: Describe the key events of the D-Day invasion. Level 5: Explain why Allied tactics lead to success. Level 6: Compare the Allies and German tactics to explain why the Allies won. Pupils analyse a source, follow a carousel to create the battle plan shown as the cover image, then read a source to compare British and German weaponry before creating a newspaper article about the invasion.

WALT Analyse sources to explain how gas was used during WW1. Recall key features of the main battles of WW1. Identify key features of the first use of mustard gas. Describe the three types of gas used in WW1 in detail. Explain how they harmed a soldier. Apply: Analyse sources to evaluate their utility. The first task recaps the main features of battles in WW1. the main body of the lesson revises key knowledge of gas attacks, before focusing keenly on source skills using the IS-SAYS-KNOW structure and modelling the answer to the first source as a group.

Pupils explore the concept of chronology and how it supports historical learning, they are also introduced to the concept of a turning point and identify turning points in their own lives/across history. Includes a chronological order game of significant events from history. WALT: define chronological order and apply this skill to historic events. L3: Define what the term chronological means. L4: create a timeline of events from history in chronological order. L5: Explain what a turning point is. L6: Apply skills to a timeline of my own life and evaluate the biggest turning point in my life so far.

Timeline with sections for pupils to create - worksheet to support. Fully differentiated lesson to go alongside the timeline. Starter: structure of Paper three task one: overview video Task two: timeline - defining key words, describing key events and extension task Whiteboard AFL Task Three source work - why vote for hitler? challenge: making links to key events on the timeline Task designed as an introductory lesson to paper three to give pupils an overview of the topic so assumes no prior knowledge but could also be used as a revision task.

This lesson covers: The Battle for Berlin Hitler’s suicide Yalta Conference Pupils will: WALT: Explain why the Nazi’s surrendered to the Allies and the importance of Yalta. Level 3: Identify what position Germany was in by 1945. Level 4: Describe the key events of the Battle for Berlin. Level 5: Explain how the Battle for Berlin lead to Germany surrendering to the allies. Level 6: Compare sources to analyse what the Big Three wanted at Yalta and how this would affect Germany.

Pupils explore the problems soldiers, nurses and doctors faced as well as analysing the advances in medicine that helped soldiers overcome problems like trench fever, shell shock and shrapnel wounds. Pupils analyse sources before completing a carousel and then making a leaflet advising a soldier about how best to protect themselves on the western front.

two age document with key words for the unit on it - in line with Edexcel 9-1. I went through the Pearson textbook and included all of the key words from front to back of the textbook.

Three page document of key words for the Weimar and Nazi Germany unit. I used the Hodder textbook and went through cover to cover to produce a document of all key words to support pupils with the content prior to examination.

Part of a three lesson SOW about the CRM in America. WALT: Evaluate methods used to fight for equality in 1960s America. Level 3: Identify the meaning of the phrase Civil Rights Level 4: Describe the Jim Crow Laws and examples of how they linked to life in the 1960s Level 5: Explain methods in which Civil Rights leaders fought for equality. Level 6: Analyse the methods you think would be most successful and explain why. Starter: what does Civil Rights Movement mean? using Frayer model task one: video task Task two define and describe the Jim Crow Laws using images Task three: describe and explain methods of protest task four: analytical discussion and annotation of President Kennedy’s Civil Right’s Address. Plenary: 3 - 2 -1 plenary task

Full lesson with differentiated activities Pupils will: WALT: Explain the causes and consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbour.Level 3: Identify what Pearl Harbour was and who was involved. Level 4: Describe the causes of tension between America and Japan. Level 5: Explain what happened at Pearl Harbour and how America joining the war might affect the outcome of WW2. Level 6: Analyse a source to explain why it is useful and limited to a historian.

Bunting that includes command words for the new specification: identify, describe, explain, define, recall, evaluate, infer, compare, evaluate

This skills lesson is aimed to encouraged independent extended writing - pupils examine the causes of the armada before reading and annotating a WAGOLL that demonstrates how to reach level 7 at KS3. They then create their own piece analysing the reasons Philip launched the Armada. WALT: Explain why Phillip launched the Armada Level 3: identify more than one cause of the Spanish Armada. Level 4: describe each cause in detail. Level 5: Explain why each cause upset Phillip enough for him to launch his Armada. Level 6-7: Evaluate the importance of causes to reach a judgement.

This is a lesson aimed at KS3, it provides an overview of crime and punishment in Tudor times. Pupils complete a carousel around the room in order to analyse the punishments that people received for certain crimes. They then decide which punishments the criminals deserve (Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell included) before comparing whether the Tudor justice system is fair with today’s justice system.

American West thinking quilt designed to provide pupils with the opportunity to make links between different events and consider their impact on the development of the American West. I have checked through both the Pearson textbook and revision guide to ensure that all key content is included in this A3 thinking quilt. Pupils first read the boxes and add a sentence to any that they are not sure of with the support of peers, revision guides or the teacher. They then colour code them based on catagories they could fit into such as ‘law and order’ and ‘conflict with Plains Indians’. You can find the lesson that this thinking quilt is a part of here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revision-key-features-of-the-american-west-edexcel-9-1-11884964

The concept of a revision clock is that pupils spend five minutes completing each section - thus meaning they revise a large amount of a single topic in an hour. this resource includes two revision clocks, i plan to provide my pupils with it printed double sided, they will complete one side in class and one side for homework. I have based these clocks largely on the Pearson purple revision guides, the clock follows the pages from front to back. Another technique is to ask pupils to fill out what they know in one colour, and then use a second colour to revise using a revision guide or textbook, giving them a colour coded guide to what they need to focus their revision on.

The concept of a revision clock is that pupils spend five minutes completing each section - thus meaning they revise a large amount of a single topic in an hour. this resource includes two revision clocks, i plan to provide my pupils with it printed double sided, they will complete one side in class and one side for homework. Another technique is to ask pupils to fill out what they know in one colour, and then use a second colour to revise using a revision guide or textbook, giving them a colour coded guide to what they need to focus their revision on.

Full mock hitting as many themes as possible from throughout the course content.