This unit goes alongside the AQA spec B, unit one text book. It is the entire unit of lessons on the origins of the cold war.

This is an entire Year 9, Scheme of Work on 1960s Britain. It looks at topics such as women, drugs, music, counter & sub-culture etc.

This resources provides students with a secret mission. They have been appointed as William the Conqueror's head advisor and they must work out the best ways to help him gain total power over England. This is an independent learning task. They are provided with everything they need to succeed without too much teacher support. This lesson is excellent for getting pupils to understand what problems William faced when he first invaded England and the decisions he made to overcome them. Pages 11-20 are the work booklet that must be printed off and given to students.

This activity enables students to understand the concept of a dictatorship, by planning how they would control people in their own dictatorship. It allows students to grasp the importance of factors such as fear, threats, secret police, informing etc.

All images labelled for reuse from google images. This is a five lesson KS3 unit looking at how William the Conqueror kept control of the English for 21 years including the scheme of work. Students will complete a number of engaging activities including acting as William's advisor, engaging in change and continuity continuum's, designing their own Domesday surveys and more. This unit of work focusses mainly on knowledge and understanding and explanation and analysis. It addresses many of the key skills such as inferring from sources and interpretations, evaluating significance and explaining change and continuity. All of the lessons have differentiated activities for lower and higher ability ability students. It also includes a number of writing scaffolds to help all students, particularly lower ability students work on extended writing.

This is a mini four lesson scheme of work the Rwandan Genocide. The first powerpoint containing lessons 1-2 focusses particularly on the UN eight stages of genocide and the impact of propaganda through an analysis of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, Kangura and the Hutu Ten Commandments. Lesson 3-4 considers the significance of the genocide by asking students to consider why the Rwandan Genocide was so personal. Students will look at news footage from 1994 and read a variety of survivor stories of both Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

This is an entire scheme of work on the Vietnam War,

This is a practice exam paper for Edexcel History GCSE 9-1 to help students prepare for exam paper 2 on Crime & Punishment and Whitechapel. It has practice questions and tips on how to successfully answer each type of question. It also includes a revision guide which covers all the knowledge needed for this paper.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain This powerpoint, takes students on a step-by-step tour of the the 'Road to War. It is meant as a revision powerpoint, so is better for students who have already studied this unit, and need to help with their revision. It looks in detail at each of the causes and events of the outbreak of WWII, and allows students to take notes, and watch GCSE Bitesize videos to enhance their knowledge. This was designed specifically for students studying AQA Spec, B: Hitler's Foreign Policies (it details all of the subject knowledge they need for their exam. It would be good for any students studying origins of WWII as well.

Goes alongside AQA Spec' B Unit Two Textbook: This booklet introduces students to the three main subject areas in the AQA Race Relations unit. It guides students through the subject knowledge and encourages them to evaluate and link factors as they go through. It also includes writing scaffolds and templates for the 12 mark answers and is particularly useful for supporting C/D border students. I have used this with my own students in the last few months and have found this method has increased students' grades significantly on this type of question.

All images 'labelled for reuse' from Google Images. Students are introduced to the Domesday Book in this lesson. They will look at contemporary examples of record keeping and consider why governments choose to keep detailed records on people. They will use this knowledge to help them understand the significance of the Domesday Book. Students then create their own 'Domesday' surveys and will finally go on to be supported in writing an extended answer about why the ' Domesday Book' was so significant in helping William control the English.

This resource is a booklet for KS4 history students which guides them through each source and interpretation question on paper three. It is made up of completely new questions, sources and interpretations that aren’t taken from past or sample papers. The resource could also be used to create new exams if all past papers and sample papers have already been used. It includes a varitety of tips, activities, structures and exam pratice as well as simplified mark schemes.

This overview focuses on the following modules: Paper 1 - Crime & Punishment & Whitechapel, Paper 2 - The Cold War & Elizabeth I, Paper 3 - The USA & Vietnam. Although it focuses on these modules, it is generic and could easily be modified for your own units. It shows the question stem for each type of question and the amount of time the students should be spending on each question.

This is an entire scheme of work on the Industrial Revolution including the scheme of work word document. The enquiry for the SOW is 'How did the poor make Britain rich?' Students are taken through a variety of lessons entitled: 'who were the white slaves?, 'Did Oliver Twist really exist?' and 'What was black gold?'. Throughout these lessons students will look at contemporary sources and interpretations to allow them to reach an conclusion to the enquiry question. Students will consider, discuss and debate a range of moral issues as they go through this unit. Students undertake a wide range of independent learning strategies throughout this unit.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain NB: You need AQA Spec B textbook to go alongside this lesson. It takes roughly 4-5 lessons to cover all the activities in the powerpoint. This lesson was developed to aid students' understanding of the Manchurian Crisis and the Abyssinian Crisis, as well as developing their 10 mark question skills (AQA Spec B paper one). I had found that many of my students really struggled with the details of both the Manchurian and Abyssinian Crises as such a range of new concepts are introduced. I developed this lesson as a response to that, and they have been achieving much higher grades on these topics since I have been teaching it this way. This lesson also includes a breakdown on answering ten mark questions.

EQ: Did Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI deserve to die? This lesson begins by asking students to consider the way that Louis & Marie-Antoinette were portrayed in the 2006 film 'Marie-Antoinette'. It asks them to make inferences and question reliability. Students then go on to draw on previous knowledge about the causes of the French Revolution and will vote on the significance of each cause. For the main activity the students play the role of the jury who have to decide whether Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI deserved to die. This lesson has a lot of focus on independent learning. Students will work their way through each exhibit in order to help them make their final conclusion as to whether the kind and queen were responsible for their own demise. This lesson includes a variety of AFL techniques and independent learning strategies.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain This is a lesson created for a year eight scheme of work, which is all about the expansion of Islam and how it influenced the Western World. This lessons helps students to understand concepts such as empire, expansion and influence. It enables students to understand and consider this through the comparison between the Islamic empire and the Roman empire.

All images sourced from Google images ‘labelled for reuse’ and licensed under Public Domain. Text attract attributed to 'Heinemann History Scheme 'Life in Medieval Times.' This lesson is an introduction to the feudal system. It allows students to consider 'hierarchy' through a comparison of medieval and modern power structures in the UK. Students will also question the morailty of our current ruling system and will be able to draw parallels between today's poor and medieval peasants. It also encourages students to think about 'divine right of kings' and dictatorship and to question how far that still exists today. It is part of a unit which looks at how William kept control of England for 21 years. Students will consider what the feudal system was and why it was so significant to William in allowing him to control the English. Students are required to use their numeracy skills to turn data into Pi charts. It also has a strong literacy focus as students analyse text in order to allow them to discover more about how the feudal system worked.

These three power points are designed to support students with answering all questions in part A of paper 2 (Edexcel - Options 26-27). Although they were designed with Option 26/27 in mind, they are the same question stems for all the options so could easily be adapted if you are doing a different module. The resoruces aim to support students in their knowledge, but primarily in their ability to successfully answer the questions. Mark schemes and structures are included. The powerpoint looks at: 1) Explain Two Consequences of.. (8 marks). 2) Write a Narrative Account.. (8 marks) 3) Explain Two of the Following.. (16 marks) The power points take the students through the new style question and explains the mark schemes to them in laymans' terms. It is useful, although not essential to have a copy of the Edexcel (9-1) Superpowers textbook.

This booklet was designed to support students in their preparation for paper one (Edexcel) on Crime and Punishment. The booklet contains specimen questions that students can practice, which are different from the specimen paper on the Edexcel website. It also contains detailed ideas on how students can successfully answer all of the questions on this paper. There is also a powerpoint slide containing the two sources they need for these specimen questions.