Welcome to History Links, your go to shop for high quality KS3 and GCSE History, RE and Citizenship lessons and revision materials. Designed to support both teachers, our resources include:
- Differentiated lessons with model answers and instant feedback
- Extended writing tasks for comprehensive understanding
- Comprehensive bundles with assessments and clear, easy-to-follow mark schemes
- Free sample resources to get you started
History, RE and Citizenship lessons, linked for you.
Welcome to History Links, your go to shop for high quality KS3 and GCSE History, RE and Citizenship lessons and revision materials. Designed to support both teachers, our resources include:
- Differentiated lessons with model answers and instant feedback
- Extended writing tasks for comprehensive understanding
- Comprehensive bundles with assessments and clear, easy-to-follow mark schemes
- Free sample resources to get you started
History, RE and Citizenship lessons, linked for you.
Explore life in Elizabethan England with this fully resourced GCSE OCR B History bundle (1580–1603). These four enquiry-led lessons support Part 3: Daily Lives, focusing on social class, family life, poverty, and government responses.
Each lesson includes:
Editable PowerPoints with objectives and enquiry questions
Printable worksheets and exam-style tasks
Frayer model activities for key concepts like hierarchy and patriarchy
Instant feedback slides and model answers for self-assessment
Retrieval starters, interpretation tasks, and extended writing scaffolds
Differentiated resources and visual prompts
Perfect for mixed ability GCSE groups, these lessons support skills for AO1 (knowledge) and AO2 (analysis).
Lesson Titles:
L1 – Rich or Poor: What Was Life Really Like?
L2 – Inside the Elizabethan Family
L3 – Poverty Problems: What Went Wrong?
L4 – Fixing Poverty: Did Their Ideas Work?
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Last updated: April 2025 – now includes instant feedback, Frayer models, and updated model answers.
L2 – Inside the Elizabethan Family
Elizabethan Family Life – OCR B GCSE Daily Lives Lesson
Students examine patriarchal family structures, marriage, children’s roles, and kinship networks. This lesson uses case studies, quote analysis, and mind maps to explore social values.
Includes:
Enquiry: How typical was Elizabethan family life?
Quote analysis and social values task
Mind map on marriage, kinship, and discipline
Frayer model-style breakdown for ‘patriarchy’
GCSE Q7 interpretation comparison with model answer
Instant feedback and retrieval plenary
This lesson is part of the four-lesson bundle: “Daily Life in Elizabethan England (OCR B GCSE)”.
L4 – Fixing Poverty: Did Their Ideas Work?
OCR B Elizabethans: 1601 Poor Law & Government Response
Students evaluate Elizabethan responses to poverty, including the 1601 Poor Law, local approaches, and attitudes to the ‘deserving’ vs ‘undeserving’ poor. Builds source and interpretation skills.
Includes:
Enquiry: Were their responses effective or harsh?
Judgement table and Poor Law breakdown
Q6a interpretation task with model answer
Q6b ‘line of enquiry’ with sentence scaffold
Instant feedback slides and visual annotation
This lesson is part of the four-lesson bundle: “Daily Life in Elizabethan England (OCR B GCSE)”.
L3 – Poverty Problems: What Went Wrong?
GCSE History – Causes of Poverty in Elizabethan England
This lesson explores the economic and social causes of poverty including population growth, war, enclosure, inflation, and the cloth trade collapse. Students develop thematic understanding and writing skills.
Includes:
Source tasks on vagrants and attitudes to poverty
Ranking activity on short- and long-term causes
Key word explanations with optional Frayer-style tasks
12-mark question: How far do you agree? with model answer
Instant feedback and peer-assessment tools
This lesson is part of the bundle: “Daily Life in Elizabethan England (OCR B GCSE)”.
L1 – Rich or Poor: What Was Life Really Like?
GCSE OCR B Elizabethans – Social Class & Daily Life Lesson
This lesson investigates how gentry, middling sort, and labourers lived in Elizabethan England. Students explore differences in education, housing, diet, and work through interpretation tasks and visual comparisons.
Includes:
Enquiry: What mattered to the Elizabethans?
Visual comparison of Elizabethan homes and jobs
Frayer model for ‘hierarchy’ to deepen understanding
Interpretation exam question with model answer and sentence starters
Instant feedback slides for peer/self-assessment
Printable worksheets and challenge questions
This lesson is part of the bundle: “Daily Life in Elizabethan England (OCR B GCSE).
Explore the innovations of Ambroise Paré and how they challenged painful and dangerous surgical traditions. Pupils examine Paré’s methods, his role in spreading knowledge, and his impact on surgery in Renaissance England.
Engaging narrative starter and visual hook
Illustrated source-based activities
Differentiated comprehension questions
Exit ticket review with key recall facts
Perfect for KS4 students building knowledge for AQA GCSE Health and the People.
Explore how the Renaissance marked a rebirth of ideas, encouraging observation, evidence, and questioning of old beliefs. Understand how developments in art, religion, printing, and exploration helped change medicine.
• Source-based activities comparing medieval and Renaissance knowledge
• Clear glossary building to support key terminology
• Table task linking Renaissance changes to medicine
• Structured written task with sentence starters for explanation and judgement
Explore how Andreas Vesalius used dissection to question Galen’s ideas and revolutionise anatomical knowledge. Understand the impact of The Fabric of the Human Body and how Vesalius helped shift medicine towards observation and evidence.
• Instant feedback on source-based and comprehension tasks.
• Model answers for key written responses.
• Differentiated, chunked activities to support all learners.
• GCSE-style exam question with structured support.
This comprehensive, fully resourced Year KS3 RE bundle is designed to support high-quality teaching and learning, integrating recall strategies, instant feedback, extended writing, and scaffolded tasks. Covering the Big Bang Theory, Evolution, Christian Creation beliefs, and the Argument from Design, this scheme of work ensures students develop a deep and critical understanding of the relationship between science and religion.
Each lesson follows a clear pedagogical structure, beginning with a Do Now recap to activate prior knowledge, followed by differentiated tasks, structured discussions, and assessments to build confidence and mastery. Frayer Models, sentence starters, and scaffolded writing tasks support all learners, making content accessible yet challenging.
Whats Included?
Fully planned six-lesson unit aligned with KS3 RE curriculum
Do Now recaps to strengthen retrieval practice
Frayer Models (L2, L3) for conceptual understanding and vocabulary development
Extended writing tasks with sentence starters for differentiation
Instant feedback strategies, teacher modelling, peer/self-assessment
Summative and formative assessments with detailed mark schemes
Engaging plenaries to consolidate learning and challenge students
Revision resources, homework tasks, and structured assessments
This final lesson includes a summative assessment to evaluate students’ understanding of science and religion, creation beliefs, and evolution. The assessment consists of a mix of multiple-choice questions, short-answer tasks, and an extended writing question, allowing students to demonstrate knowledge recall, critical thinking, and evaluative skills. A detailed mark scheme is provided to ensure accurate feedback and structured improvement.
Explores the story of Adam and Eve, discussing free will, sin, and human nature. Includes a structured debate, scaffolded extended writing, and an end-of-unit assessment with a mark scheme to consolidate learning.
Breaks down Genesis 1 & 2, exploring symbolic vs. literal interpretations. Features a visual sequencing activity, extended writing task with sentence stems, and peer/self-marking using a structured mark scheme.
Compares Literal and Liberal Christian beliefs on creation, evaluating how these views interact with science and theology. Includes scaffolded writing tasks, instant feedback strategies, and a formative assessment.
Investigates Darwin’s theory of evolution, natural selection, and religious responses. Features Frayer Models for key concepts, an extended writing task with differentiation, and structured peer feedback to improve reasoning.
Examines the Big Bang Theory and its relationship with religious beliefs. Includes Frayer Models to develop vocabulary, sentence starters for extended writing, and peer/self-assessment to refine arguments.
Explores the Argument from Design, including William Paley’s watch analogy, and challenges from science and evolution. Features structured discussion, extended writing with scaffolding, and instant feedback to develop evaluative skills.
This lesson helps KS3 students evaluate Napoleon’s leadership through structured tasks, Frayer models, and an extended writing activity. Includes differentiated resources to support all learners, encouraging debate, analysis, and evidence-based arguments to assess whether Napoleon was a hero or dictator. Perfect for developing critical thinking and historical enquiry skills.
Unlock the French Revolution with this fully resourced KS3 bundle, covering causes, key events, and Napoleon’s legacy. Includes Frayer models for vocabulary, engaging worksheets, and extended writing tasks to develop historical skills. Perfect for interactive lessons, source analysis, and student-led enquiry. Ideal for KS3 history teachers looking for ready-to-use, high-quality resources!
Lessons included:
L1 – French Society and the Three Estates System
L2 – The French Monarchy
L3 – Long and Short Term Causes of the French Revolution
L4 – From Estates General to Tennis Court Oath
L5 – The Storming of the Bastille and Fall of the Monarchy
L6 – The Reign of Terror
L7 – Napoleon: Reformer or Tyrant? (Free Lesson!)
L8 – The Legacy of the French Revolution
A comprehensive lesson on how the revolution shaped modern history. Includes engaging worksheets, Frayer models for key concepts, and an extended writing task on the impact of revolutionary ideals on democracy, rights, and governance.
Explore the radical phase of the French Revolution with this KS3 lesson on Robespierre’s rule. Includes Frayer models, scaffolded worksheets, and an extended writing task on the impact of the Reign of Terror. Perfect for developing critical thinking and historical enquiry skills.
