Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as “Bloody Mary” by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, Henry VIII. Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions.
We study this as part of the Tudors - Does she deserve to be called Bloody Mary or was this just a fabrication to vilify the Catholic faith?
This documentary is an excellent starting point and the question sheet allows for various discussion points throughout.
This is one of the best documentaries on the Cold War.
Lasting 55 minutes the resource is a series of questions and filling in the blanks as the documenatry is playing. Deals with the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences and the Iron Curtain Speech. Deals with the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and the subsequent formation of the Eastern and Western Bloc’s. Ends with the Korean War and the death of Stalin.
This worksheet deals with the growth of opposition to the Nazi Party. It utiliese the BBC History File Episode 5 which lasts around 25 minutes.
Role of groups and individuals.
Army
Church
Youth
Individuals
Role of Gestapo and SS
How the Nazi’s stamped out opposition.
Why the Nazi Party was successful in eliminating opposition within Germany.
Tony Robinson - The Industrial Revolution - Worksheet
20 Question worksheet to go with the following video -
Private Life Of the Industrial Revolution: Social Change – Tony Robinson
Last around 30 mins and deals with the themes of
Poverty
Migration
Child Labour
Treatment of workers
Factory conditions
30 questions to go with this 50 min documentary. Excellent resource dealing with recruitment in WW1. A quarter of a million boy soldiers, some as young as 14, enlisted in World War One by lying about their age. Around 120000 of them were killed or injured. Britain’s teenage boys volunteered en masse to fight for their King and country. Such was their will to fight that a number of enthusiastic boys joined-up not knowing the horrors that awaited them.
Great Stink Bazeljette London Sewers Video Questions
This video looks at the development of the London sewers during the Great Stink. Deals with issues such as the industrial revolution and the cholera epidemic. Excellent documentray.
Filling in the blanks task. Easy to use. Lasts one period around 50 minutes.
A FULL UNIT OF WORK COVERING THE ISSUES OF
POVERTY * PUNISHMENTS * PRISONS * POLICE * PEOPLE
DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
FULL WORKBOOK AND POWERPOINT PRESENTATION INCLUDED
LINKS TO INTERACTIVE LESSONS TO KEEP STUDENTS FULLY ENGAGED
The Wars of Independence is a 60 page resource pack specifically designed for secondary school pupils. Literacy and Numeracy tasks throughout. Role-play and PPT lessons, group-work tasks to encourage Confident Individuals & Health and Well Being. ICT lessons and final exam. We guarantee you will not be disappointed.
LESSONS INCLUDE
Wallace & Bruce Role -Play
Bannockburn Numeracy Task
Wallace Trial Group Task
Literacy & Numeracy in all lessons.
NEW LESSONS INCLUDE
Bruce’s body Numeracy task.
Burns Literacy Lesson
Newspaper/ Bias lesson
A full unit of work with lots of interesting lessons to keep the students busy.
Topics include
Settlement
The Culture of the Plains Indians
The importance of the Buffalo
The Slaughter of the Buffalo
Manifest Destiny
The Cowboys
The New Towns
The Indian Wars
The Titanic - Passengers Research Task
Students are given a list of names and a fact-file
Students are expected to fill in the table using information from the website.
There are also some questions based on the events surrounding the disaster.
**Richard III - The King in the Car Park Documentary Worksheet **
Worksheet to accompany the 1hour and 15 minute Video.
Explores the key figures who conducted the excavation. The scientists, archaeologists and others who meticulously gathered evidence and identified the skeleton and the cause of Richards death.
The worksheet also asks students to work on several key areas of contention related to Richard III, his life and his death.
Booklet dealing with the following headings
Medieval Towns
The Black Death
The Variants of the Plague
The Spread of the Disease
Symptoms of the Plague
Impact of the Disease
What happened to the Jews?
Fantastic Cures
Examines the changes that the Nazi Party made in Germany on coming to power and how this impacted on ordinary Germans. 21 questions to go with the BBC Documentary.
Propaganda
Work Progammes and the unempolyed
Family
Brownshirts and the Police State
Night of the Long Knives
Foreign Policy and Expansionism
This is a 30 question worksheet to acompany the documentary Britains Boy Soldiers.
A quarter of a million boy soldiers, some as young as 14, enlisted in World War One by lying about their age. Around 120000 of them were killed or injured.
Britain’s teenage boys volunteered en masse to fight for their King and country. Such was their will to fight that a number of enthusiastic boys joined-up not knowing the horrors that awaited them.
This booklet deals with the causes, events and aftermanth of the Cold War. It is also designed to expand on the skills of source analysis.
It deals with the key issuses of Capitalism & Communism, aims of the powers at the end of the Second World War, Pre - War Resentment. Events in the aftermath of the War such as Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, the Iron Curtain Speech, the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe, the Marshall Plan, the Formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Blockade and Airflift.
The booklet deals with issues such as the Nuclear Arms Race, Propaganda, the Space Race, the Star Wars initiative, Life inside the USSR and the Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR.
The last part deals with Cold War 2 - Vladimir Putin and the Totalitarian state.
Full unit of work 50 pages of resources
Deals with the Reform Acts and the Represetation of the People Acts
Lots of Activities
Source analysis tasks
Cartoon tasks
Historiography of the First World War - 3 Page Summary
A short summary of the changing interpretations of the Causes of World War One.
Deals with the allied view (article 231) through to the revisionists such as Sydney Bradshaw Fay (who came up with the argument that all history teachers use today - MAIN) and also Fritz Fischer - who blames Germany.
Nice summary and overview for students who want that little bit extra to go into an essay or argument.
This is a 5 page workbook with a series of comprehension questions.
It examines the the beginings of the wars such as Henry VI’s (the mad king) weakness as a ruler, through to the defeat of Richard III in 1483.
I have divided it into sections to aid with the knowledge retention and also used images from the White Queen to give it a sort of modern day take.
The students should use it to create a class time-line of people events and other imagery to assist.