This is the 6th lesson of the Romans unit. This lesson teaches the class how to take notes using the Cornell Note taking method. Using Cornell, the class will take one page of notes on Roman Entertainment and use the notes to create a leaflet for the Roman tourist board promoting the potential 'recreational activities' of Ancient Rome. There is a lesson plan attached.

This is the 5th lesson of the Roman unit. In this lesson students research and take notes on Roman foods and dining etiquette. There is a research task for the entire class involved where the class research a recipe each and it all goes into a collective folder to become a 'Roman Cookbook' Not included in this lesson, but something I like to do is cook a Roman dish and serve it to the class after. There is a lesson plan attached.

This is the 7th Lesson of the Roman Unit. In this lesson the class use the case study of the Roman fortress of Isca (Caerleon in Wales), as a basis of investigating Roman town planning. The formative assessment here is to complete a archaeology report on the Roman town of Isca. For those living nearby, I recommend a field trip to complete the report in person. There is a lesson plan attached.

This is the 8th Lesson as part of a Roman Unit. In this lesson the class should focus on completing a worksheet on Roman housing, The second part of the lesson involves the class forming into groups and completing a display of a typical Roman House. There is a lesson plan attached.

This the third lesson of the Romans unit. In this lesson students research a list of nouns in Latin, French, Spanish and other Romanance languages to see the connection between Latin and its modern counterparts. The students also learn Roman numerals and play Roman Numeral Bingo. This lesson contains a lesson plan

This is the 9th lesson in the Roman Unit. This lesson is based on the TV Show American Inventor. In this lesson, the class receive some notes about some Roman Engineering, afterwards the class split into pairs and each pair must research a Roman invention and make a 'pitch' in the format of the show American Inventor. Each group must produce a power point and a cardboard model of the invention and attempt to sell it to the judges. Some face masks are included to represent the judges from the show. I usually give some chocolate to the class who make the best pitch. This lesson primarily aims to give students an opportunity to make and present an argument. A lesson plan is included.

This is a investigative lesson where students conduct research on census records from the 1901 Irish census. This is ideal as a local history project or as part of a unit on the Industrial Revolution. I use it for both. As most of the Irish census records were destroyed in the Irish Civil War, we are limited to the 1901 or 1911 census records available at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/ This resource can easily take up an entire double class. Students need a print out of the booklet in this resource. A laptop or device for accessing the internet. The lesson has a short video on 1901 in Belfast to introduce the topic. There are four tasks in this booklet, Students use clues to identify individuals in the census records around Northern Ireland. Students answer questions about specific areas or households in the census records. There is a short task aimed at identifying a famous person in the 1901 census. Finally there is a task which uses one street in Belfast as a case study and students must investigate it to examine the social conditions in Belfast in 1901. Finally as a plenary task students write a short paragraph discussing the social conditions in Belfast in 1901, they must use examples from the census to discuss the idea. This resource also includes: A teacher’s booklet with answers to some of the questions. There is also a simple explanation of how to search the census records.

This is a second lesson in a series on Ulster Heritage where students use sources to formulate their own understanding of events in History. This resource is a pdf that should be printed and stapled into a booklet. The lesson involves analysising a series of sources on a real individual “Hugh William Quinn” of Loughinisland, County Down and investigate throught different schools of historical interpretation as to why he gave up his life in Loughinisland and headed to Belfast. Tasks are embedded in the resource: Part 1: Note taking on each source. Part 2: Using sources, identify Hugh’s cousins, list all of the jobs that he has occupied throughout his life and draw a diagram of his house using evidence from the 1911 census household return. Additionally a search on the Irish Civil Records Archives for Hugh’s birth register. Part 3: An extended writing task where students must write three paragraphs which each individually explains why Hugh went to Belfast but each time from a different school of historical thoughts, (Intentionalists, Structuralists and Annales). An assessment rubric is present in the resource. I use this resource as part of a bigger resources which teaches Geneology. This source will also be useful as part of a Unit on Ulster Heritage.

This is a two part lesson on the Sovietisation of East Germany followed by a look at the policies that were put in place in East Germany. This lesson is designed for IBDP History Higher Level Paper 3 - Post War Central and Eastern Europe 1945 - 2000

This is a scheme of work and lesson materials for the first 6 lessons in my Cambridge IGCSE class. Lesson 1: Causes of the 1848 Revolutions. Lesson 2: Leaders of the 1848 Revolutions. Lesson 3: Why did the Revolutions fail? Lesson 4: The Aftermath of 1848. Lesson 5: The unification of Italy. Lesson 6: The unification of Germany. The worksheet is available in both Word format and PDF with lesson plans for each lesson. They are colourful, I don’t print them but hand them out using Microsoft One Note where the students work on them using their laptops… For this reason I haven’t made them ‘printer friendly’.

Second lesson as part of the Roman Unit This unit requires students to research and complete a map of the growth of the Roman Empire. There is a Plenary and Homework task assigned.