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I have been a teacher for 8 years and am currently working in Dubai as a History teacher and Head of Year.
I put a lot of effort into creating my premium resources and will not upload them until I am confident the lesson will be graded at least a good if not outstanding.
Please contact me if you have any queries, questions or concerns about my resources.
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Assembly complete with embedded videos and music.
focus upon the impact of fighting and linking to case studies of ‘One Punch Deaths’ to discourage fighting and encourage solving problems with words.
Second part of the assembly is linked with ‘guilty by association’ how students who witness bullying or fights are just as guilty as the protagonist for encouraging bullying / fights and not trying to stop it.
Finishes with a prayer.
**The purpose of this lesson is for students to develop their understanding regarding the importance of trade for the growth of the Empire. **
**Lesson Plan: **
Hook / starter - Embedded video of all the countries which have been part of the British Empire - students to enter and remember as many as they can.
Lesson introduction (optional) goods of the Empire such as bananas, spices, tea, coffee, sugar etc. are placed into bags / big bags - students circulate the room and feel feel / smell the bags content to guess what the good may be.
This leads into the watching of a BBC video where students are challenged to remember more goods that the Empire traded in.
Students complete the ‘Empire Map Worksheet’ with the locations of goods and trade routes.
Students are then issued with an advertisement of one of the goods sold back in Britain. students engage in a MIX-PAIR-SHARE activity to discuss key questions linked to the advertisements
Students then return to write up their work in the books linked to a GCSE style question (Exam skill advice and structure included for differentiation).
**Plenary: **Blockbusters linked to empire good!
**Lots of of interactive activities to engage students with songs included and moving gifs! **
This was graded an ‘outstanding’ lesson.
Hook Starter to be handed to students as they enter class.
Lesson Intention and differentiated outcomes.
Video links are included within the presentation.
This lesson could be used without the need for exercise books as it is a learning stations based lesson for the most part. Diary extracts / time line are included within this pack (other stations could include text books, laptops EG: On the Anne Frank Website an interactive tour of the Annex. I also included a ‘bigger picture’ station which showed an overview of The Holocaust though pictures etc as a whole.
(All images and videos / sheets from Google / BBC Bitesize).
Lesson plan included.
A colour coded wall display to help students engage with / understand the complexities and Geography of the Vietnam War.
**Included: A3 Map to print off.
16 significant events of the Vietnam War.
Each are colour coded:
Short term causes
Long term causes
events of the war
Tactics
End of the Vietnam War. **
Fantastic for understand GCSE but also KS3 to simplify for younger students. You may require string to link up some of the events to locations. I have included a map but you may wish to purchase your own.
Handy structure strips that cover the different types of questions for IGCSE papers 1 / 2 in History They are very useful when preparing students for exam preparation, assessments and writing up questions in lessons. The students also use these to make their own structure strips for revision.
Included in this bundle are a series of resources / form group activities / assembly / email / prayers / sample English lesson and letter templates all which combined can be used to initiate and run a week long Random Act of Kindness week. Perfect for middle leaders / Head of Year / Senior Leaders to initiate and oversee.
There is an assembly included with all sounds / videos embedded to begin the week.
A letter encouraging parents to become involved outside of school.
Prayers about kindness for each day of the week.
Email temples for form tutors and whole staff to make them aware of the weeks activities.
A series of resources form form tutors to work through over the week during form time.
A whole English lesson based upon students writing letters of appreciation to members of staff.
Templates and Assembly will need slightly adapting for your school e.g. Staff names / changing of school branding but after this you will be ready to roll out RAK week in your school!
A bundle of lessons all linked to the IGCSE History course.
All lessons come with differentiated outcomes, most videos and songs are embedded into the P. P. Presentations with a wide ranging selection of activities and resources which will appeal to pupils of all abilities.
A fantastic opportunity to help you develop your own SOW on this course.
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Hook starter: As pupils enter the room the presentation will display an autonomously moving spot light to reveal a picture clue of the D-Day landings.
Learning Intention and differentiated outcomes (SMSC).
Pupils will work their way through several activities to achieve the lessons outcomes.
1. What was D-day? Pupils watch a short video (embedded) to introduce them to the topic.
2. Planning the invasion: Pupils work in teams to answer a series of questions in the fastest time to learn about the strategy of the day.
3. Pupils will study and listen to Eisenhower’s inspirational speech before creating their own. (Prize for best speech).
4. Pupils visit stations around the classroom to learn about one soldiers personal experience of the invasion through a study of his diary entries.
5. Pupils watch the opening scene from ‘Saving Private Ryan’ (Link provided if you do not have the DVD) As pupils watch they will complete a worksheet.
Pupil’s then consolidate their judgment through watching a short video clip explaining the significance of D-day before answering a structured 8 mark exam style question to judge if overall D-day was a success or a failure.
Peep Sheet provided to assist the less able pupils.
Instructions and advice on how they lesson is to run can be found in the description of the presentation.
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To link with my previous lesson ('An introduction to Slavery), this lesson starts with an autonomously moving spotlight over a picture (of raw cotton) to hook pupils into the lesson and link to one of the causes of slavery.
Pupils begin the lesson through listening to a description of the middle passage to help introduce the lessons theme. Pupils then write an inquiry question they would like answered by the end of the lesson.
Main Task: Depending on your class the main task for this lesson could take many forms, some suggestions are:
Pupils could work in teams and study evidence (12 pieces of evidence included) around the room to create a fact file on the experience of the middle passage on A1 paper (Prize for best one).
Or pupils could work independently recording what they have learnt from the evidence in their books.
A video clip from the show ‘Roots’ can then be shown (embedded) to help consolidate the tasks learning.
Pupils will then have the knowledge they will need to answer their enquiry question and an exam style question at the end of the lesson which the teacher can then use to assess progress.
Higher and Middle / lower ability version of sources included, with a peep sheet to prompt less able and a challenge sheet for more able.
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Opposition and Reactions to the Vietnam War. (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
The purpose of this lesson is to educate students on the reasons for opposition to the Vietnam War. the lesson focuses upon Measuring public opinion, the students movement and the draft to then apply this knowledge to a utility question.
Students will work record all acquired knowledge on a fully resources knowledge builder work sheet.
Although not necessarily required any school textbook could be used to support student learning and progress.
All sources of evidence are included along with videos which are embedded and links provided.
Included: A lesson about Roman Crime and Punishment (there is a lower and a high ability adapted version of the lesson)
Starter sheet
Main task sheets (differentiated for more and less able)
presentation
Thorough lesson plan
I have included literacy, numeracy and SMSC links
Many Thanks
Colour coded A3 / A4 knowledge organiser / Revision mat / book marks - for the entire Pearson Edexcel Medicine though time course. (Paper 1)
Focusing on change and continuity during the 4 main periods:
Medieval
Renaissance
19th Century
20th Century
Significant Individuals / Government acts / Discoveries / Inventions / Dates
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Attendance assembly complete with hook song as students enter for Assembly / Form Time.
the assembly is chocked full of statistics and encourages student reflection on the following:
Minutes late to lesson / School over time.
Attendance over time linked to achievement at GCSE.
Attendance and success linked to ‘The Bigger Picture’ with up to date average salary compared to attainment for (2018).
Reflection of Good / Bad reasons to be off school.
Encouraging a lot of student reflection and responses with a double sided card to take away to keep in blazer pocket / planner complete with poster for Form / Classrooms.
The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to explain how and why appeasement was failing though an escape room / chronology style activity.
Hook: Students to enter and will have some knowledge recall questions and extension source to complete straight away so there is no wasted learning time. Students receive this as they enter the class from another student or the teacher. Teacher takes feedback and introduces the lessons intentions and aims.
Main task: Students work as a class or in 2 teams if a large class to locate the hidden time-line of events starting with appeasement and finishing with the German occupation of the Sudeten Land. Students will have 15 minutes (timer and dramatic music included in the PP!) to locate all the hidden events and arrange the time-line into chronological order outside of the classroom. Initiates collaboration / communication and element of competition. if students beat the clock they can be rewarded.
The correct order can then be gone though on the PP with 2 embedded videos to show throughout to help visualize and consolidate the story. students can then receive a ready made time-line.
students use this knowledge to help them evaluate sources of evidence linked with the Munich Agreement and appeasement. Sources to be printed out and stick on A1 paper with varying levels of challenge questions linked to GCSE. suggestions in the PP. students can circulate the room evaluating the sources before teacher takes feedback.
Source evaluation Instagram plenary to consolidate.
This is more than likely to consist of 2 lessons worth of material / activities.
All music and videos are embedded into the PP (Links provided)
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This is a fully resourced session comprising of a combined 32 slide PowerPoint which could be used during an Assembly / lesson / form time or even a whole year group work shop to fully prepare all ability students KS3 -KS5 for assessments or exams.
Approximately taking 1 hour to complete.
The workshop / lesson includes:
Hook videos
How to videos.
Warm up exercise
Effective preparation techniques
Revision techniques appealing to all learning styles
Useful websites and platforms for students to use
Do’s and dont’s of revision.
Opportunities to discuss / practice techniques
Worksheet for students to complete and take away
All videos are embedded and further advice can be found in the description of the presentation. Just delete the school header at the top to replace with your own.
The purpose of this lesson is to inform students not only about the Great Exhibition but also it’s importance to the British Empire.
**Lesson Plan: **
Lesson starts Embedded song plays as students enter with a literacy hook to immediately begin work to define an exhibition to then challenge students to think of any modern day ones.
Starter: Students watch a short intro video (embedded) to then define ‘The Great Exhibition’.
The teacher than has the option to watch a more in depth video (embedded) which students have a series of questions to answer linked with it’s inception - what was on display and what countries exhibited products and goods. Answers provided then for students and teacher to go though.
Main Task: students engage in a literacy relay task and work in teams competing against each other to build their knowledge upon the Exhibition. there could be a prize for the winning team.
Teacher then embedded knowledge using the answers and student feedback - students can mix-[air-share the answers between each other.
**Plenary: **Acquired knowledge can then be demonstrated though the answering of an exam style question (differentiated though scaffold / mark scheme and sentence starters / key words).
***Lots of visuals / moving images and music embedded within the presentation. ***
The focus of this lesson is to build upon the failure of the LON and fits into the bigger picture of ‘To What Extent Was The League of Nations a Success’? The lesson’s purpose is to introduce the league’s failures as a result of the 1929 Depression and to judge the most significant problem posed through a series of student led and source evaluation (less teacher talk) tasks.
**Hook: **students are handed hook sheet as they enter to instantly complete focusing around recalling 5 key facts about the the LON. Teacher introduces the lessons intention.
**Starter: ** After watching an introduction video about the depression to re-call / introduce knowledge ( 2 video options embedded into the PP) Students then engage in a quiz-quiz-trade activity to reinforce and build up their knowledge surround the depression.
Main task 1: Student engage in a ‘6 monkeys’ variety task to learn about the initial impact of the depression on the L.O.N:
Monkey 1 – Read (or teacher reads)
The first monkey is to read a piece of text that relates to the concept, idea or process. This stage allows differentiation to take place, as students of different abilities could be given texts with Monkey 2 – Drawing
Monkey 2: Draw!
it’s time for some drawing! Students have to draw a diagram/ cartoon/ flow chart to describe what they have understood from reading the text.h different degrees of detail, complex vocabulary or even on different topics.
Monkey 3: Key words
Lead reader reads out the highlighted words students add these to their pictures.
Monkey 4: Students explain the story to their partner.
Monkey 5: one students is selected to read out to the class – whilst students follow along with the actual story on the board. _ if they do it mostly accurately they can get a prize.
ALL STUDENTS THEN WRITE UP IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
Main task 2: Students to apply their acquired knowledge to complete the reverse of their sheet where they shall begin the judge the most significant problem this posed to the L.O.N.
Plenary: Students break into small groups / individually to assess the message of some source of evidence linked with the Depression (focusing on exam skill) students then stick responses on the whiteboard as an exit pass.
The purpose of this lesson is to develops students’ knowledge upon the Greensboro sit-in movement and its significance to the civil rights Movement.
Pupils will enter the room and handed an information recording sheet - various news articles will be stuck around the room pupils will be in 'the pit' - and will have to work out what has happened - who - when - where and why before drawing a scene based upon the information they have collected.
Pupils will be introduced to the Sit-in movement though slides and a video (embedded). there are lots of discussion questions included here to prompt discussion.
Pupils will then inquire into the significance of the sit-tin movement through a card sort - an activity is embedded into the lesson plan here however, this can be changed to suit your class.
Pupils will then answer an exam style question to explain the significance of the sit-in movement. Success criteria and literacy scaffold is included here to support.
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The purpose of this lesson is to encourage pupils to reflect upon the progress made by the Civil Rights Movement by 1965 through concentrating upon the March on Selma which led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act 1965.
There are a variety of hook / starter activities to choose form dependent upon your class e.g. Geography map skills starter to chart the distance between Selma and Montgomery.
Pupils are introduced to the March though watching the trailer and answering questions on the film 'Selma' leading to a source based activity then a card sort / time line activity to chart the events of the march. Pupils will select the most significant turning point they believe in these events which led to the Voting Rights Act 1965.
I have included videos to prompt discussion (embedded) and links provided, homework and an exam preparation skill based source task. Further advice can be found in the description of the presentation itself.
Included in this pack is a series of lessons linked with the Edexcel GCSE ‘The American West’, covering essential topics pupils will need to know for the first half of paper two.
All lesson outcomes are linked with Assessment Objectives 1 &2.
All tasks and activities have been designed around developing pupil knowledge and understanding of the American West to then apply this to exam technique / exam style questions.
All videos are embedded (links provided) I have included WAGOLS / Success criteria’s /Homework to further pupils understanding of Paper 2 Section 1.
A fantastic opportunity to develop your own Scheme of work on this topic. Save over 60% On these lessons combined.
You will need the Edexcel American West Textbook for parts of these lessons.
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