This is a taster lesson for Year 11 students to prepare them for A Level History. It could also be useful during the A Level itself when exploring Gandhi, either as an introduction or for revision.

A complete exam practice pack for the AS Edexcel Unit on Britain and India. Has a wide selection of practice exam questions, including source questions. Easy to adapt to add in your own source questions as well.

This is a lesson where students have to problem solve the problems of Weimar Germany and how they would be solved. Students start with the hyperinflation starter to recap their prior knowledge. This leads onto a detailed analysis of Streseman's problems and solutions which will work with any GCSE textbook.

This is a revision task for students studying Medicine Through Time. Students complete the worksheet on the 'Great Individuals' they study through the course. There is a help sheet to assist weaker students and a starter which forces students to identify the differences between some of the key individuals.

This is a lesson for mixed ability Year 7 students on the power of medieval kings. Students work out the why Henry II was being whipped, using a series of clues that can be placed in envelopes around the room. All the information they need is in the clues. This ends with a structured writing task around why the king is being whipped.

This is a 1 to 1.5 hour lesson for Year 9 students on the early British Empire in Australia. The lesson uses the BBC 'In Our Time' series to understand the first encounters between the British and Aborigines. The questions are structured so that even weaker students are able to access the difficult language of this audio clip. This is followed by differentiated worksheets.

This is a double lesson (1.5hrs) for Year 10. The first activity was using sources from the US National Archives- students have to answer the questions in groups. The links for the clip (which is on BBC Learning Zone) is in the notes section of the powerpoint. The final part of the lesson, asks students to evaluate the significance of the bus boycott. I scaffold this by giving them all statements (cut up the statements of significance and then give them to students) and get them to move around the room.

An A Level Revision Lesson for students on this topic, focussing on turning points.

An introduction lesson for the Edexcel A Level Unit 'Britain and India'

This is a lesson for a mixed ability Year 9 group focused on appeasement. I used two videos from BBC Learning Zone for stimulus - the links are saved in the notes section of the powerpoint. The first video should be used to answer the first task on the worksheet. The second is for the 2nd page of the worksheet (LO2).

This is a background lesson before students started the controlled coursework task on the Impact of WWI on civilians in Britain. For the activity I spread the information slides (at the last part of the PPT) around the room. They then filled the worksheet in using these. For the plenary you can print off a 'brain shape' for the 'fill your brain' activity. The clips for the activities are in the notes section of the powerpoint.

Students start by watching a video (link is in the notes for the powerpoint) - although it is designed for younger students my Year 9 class liked it. Students then create an advert for Cadbury's Dairy Milk using as many key words as they can. There is additional information for Level 6/7+ on the second page of the task sheet.

This is a lesson where students investigate current issues in Syria and then discuss and form their opinions about it. It was developed for a short lesson with a lower ability Year 10 group so would need extending for higher ability students. The link for the video clip is in the notes section of the powerpoint.

This is for a short (40 minute) lesson with students on what caused the recession. It could be extended with some more discussion or a relevant news article. The links for the two videos are in the notes for the powerpoint.

NB The links for videos are in the notes for the powerpoint. This is an activity on legal rights. The starter is from a worksheet from the Citizenship Foundation. We then looked at current events that are going on to evaluate whether the law really protects our human rights. For more able students you can delete some of the questions and frameworks to allow them to work more independently.

Looking at the different influences of propaganda and conscription students examine why people joined up to fight. The oral testimonies are all from the BBC website. I also used a clip from BBC Learning Zone of one of the last veterans. I attached the EAL sheet just in case anybody else needed it.

Would voter turnout increase if 16 year olds got the vote? For the starter I showed them a graph of voter turnout and we discussed reasons turnout has gone down (I have a worksheet but I can't find it!). After doing the activities on the powerpoint, I used a video clip from the BBC's '16- Too Young to Vote' to get them thinking. Then I gave them all a speech bubble and we had a class discussion about whether 16 was too young to vote. The plenary I used for all students in one group, some found it a bit challenging. Plenary 2 could be used for SEN students instead.

Students evaluate different types of punishment to decide how effective prison and community sentencing are. All the examples are either from direct.gov.uk or restorativejustice.org.uk

I used the X factor to explain why people have different opinions and interpretations of History, because the students always understand why different mentors support their own acts, even if they are terrible acts and can't sing. You can update it each year with the latest acts.

I used the a clip from the Pianist (the part when they move to and then settle into the Warsaw ghetto) as a stimulus.