Hello, and welcome to my resource shop.
I aim to create original resources for KS3, GCSE and AS/A2.
I also aim to provide resources on the less obvious, mainstream topics and bring in elements of the LNF.
I have 20 years experience as a History teacher, and 15 years as HoD.
Have a look around and grab a bargain! 😄
Please leave an honest rating on any resources you may buy. ðŸ‘
Hello, and welcome to my resource shop.
I aim to create original resources for KS3, GCSE and AS/A2.
I also aim to provide resources on the less obvious, mainstream topics and bring in elements of the LNF.
I have 20 years experience as a History teacher, and 15 years as HoD.
Have a look around and grab a bargain! 😄
Please leave an honest rating on any resources you may buy. ðŸ‘
Introducing Year 7 pupils to the concept of interpretations.
This simple resource gets pupils to look at two differing interpretations of William the Conqueror and select evidence that could back up both opinions.
Extended tasks gets pupils to consider how background influences and purpose can also impact on interpretations.
Task is designed to assist pupils in attaining L5/L6 in interpretations of history (follow the ppt slide with the two colums and copy/complete tasks.
Enjoy.
A stylish Takeaway Homework Menu for (almost) all subjects!
QR code sheet will take you direct to specific worksheets to enable pupils to produce quality Starters, Mains and Deserts (help with their organisation and communication and IT skills)
Starters include:
Tweet Your Knowledge
Word Search
Mains include:
What’s In A Word?
Factor Wheel
Deserts include:
What’s in his/her Head?
Fakebook (IT and handwritten version)
Biography Poster Report and
Cootie Catcher
These have proven really successful and popular with my pupils. Colleagues have also used these ideas and value them as they provide pupils with different homework tasks.
Adaptable word doc to change the name of the menu etc. I have inserted ??? to highlight where subject specific words/topics are that need replacing to make the menu more relevant to your department.
Remember, it’s not just the menu you purchase here, but also access to printable online/downloadable resources (via QR codes).
Enjoy!
A series of A level resources looking at:
1. Origins of WWI - militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism and Social Darwinism
2. The Paris Peace Conference
3. Post-War rivalry and reconciliation, 1918-1929
4. League of Nations
5. Origins of WWII - including the foreign policies of the dictators and appeasement.
A number of resources aimed at A level students that cover:
1. The causes, course and consequences of the 1905 Revolution.
2. The post revolution years, 1906-1914
3. The causes, course and consequences of the 1917 February Revolution.
4. The post-February months, 1917
5. The causes, course and consequences of the 1917 October Revolution.
6. The Bolshevik consolidation of power, 1917-1924.
7. Why Stalin won the power struggle?
8. Stalin's economic policy - collectivisation and FYPs
9. Stalin's Great Purges
10. Stalin's social policy
All of the above have specific revision/possible exam question tasks.
A simple, yet effective resource looking at the factors behind Stalin's eventual victory in the power struggle following Lenin's death.
Revision tasks included.
A stylish Takeaway Homework Menu from the Jolly Friar!
QR code sheet will take you direct to specific worksheets to enable pupils to produce quality Starters, Mains and Deserts (help with their organisation and communication and IT skills)
Starters include:
Tweet Your Knowledge
Word Search
Mains include:
What’s In A Word?
Factor Wheel
Deserts include:
Historical Heads
Fakebook (IT and handwritten version)
Biography Poster Report and
Cootie Catcher
These have proven really successful and popular with my pupils. Colleagues have also used these ideas and value them as they provide pupils with different homework tasks.
Adaptable word doc to change the name of the menu etc. Remember, it’s not just the menu you purchase here, but also access to printable online/downloadable resources (via QR codes).
Enjoy!
A chronological awareness task on the causes and consequences of Tudor Royal Marriages:
1. Card sorting activity on the wives of HVIII: cards include marriages, children, fate of marriages and other consequences.
2. Photostory on Tudor Royal Marriages: who did the Tudor monarchs marry (or not), and why? What were the consequences of these marriages (or non-marriages?)
A follow up to my resource looking at the causes of the Glyndwr rebellion. This resource looks at the famous Glyndwr victory over Edmund Mortimer at the Battle of Bryn Glas (Pilleth) on June 22nd, 1402.
The resources encourage pupils to categorise factors, and then use their knowledge to do some extended writing (PEEL task) on the key question. The PEEL sheet will aid pupils to attain L5, whilst follow up tasks can help them to access L6+.
There is also an extended numeracy task for higher ability pupils.
Enjoy.
(The clip that accompanied this resource is no longer listed on youtube - Battlefield Britain "Battle for Wales") - sorry.
A small bundle of resources I have created focussing on Henry VII. Topics covered are:
1. Why did Henry Tudor win the Battle of Bosworth?
2. What problems did Henry VII face, and how did he attempt to solve them?
3. Does Henry VII deserve a statue in the Marble Hall of Welsh heroes?
A follow up to another of my resources (Why did Wales and England do to war in 1276 and 1282?)
A detailed resource to develop pupil skill in using evidence (focusing on utility and reliability). Pupils sift through 7 sources (primary, contemporary and secondary) to work out what really happened to Llywelyn on the day he died.
Pupils then use their findings to write an account of what they think happened, and then refer to how reliable the sources they had were for the enquiry.
A popular resource with my classes.
A number of resources covering aspects of the Year 7 N.C. involving Wales, e.g.
1. Why the Normans failed to conquer Wales.
2. The reign of Gruffydd ap Cynan.
3. The reign of Owain Gwynedd
4. Giraldus Cambrensis
5. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth
6. Why did Wales and England go to war in 1276 and 1282?
7. How was Llywelyn the Last killed?
8. Owain Glyndwr
As the highest ranking officer to die at the Battle of Waterloo, Picton was considered a hero within the British Army. In 1916, a statue was erected in his honour in Cardiff’s Marble Hall for Welsh heroes, but many consider his inclusion an insult.
This task asks pupils to assess the life and achievements of Thomas Picton, and consider whether or not his statue should be amongst such notable individuals as Hywel Dda, Giraldus Cambrensis and Owain Glyndwr.
A resource looking at the problem of poverty, and why there was greater social awareness during the early C20th. The resource looks at:
*traditional attitudes towards poverty
*the problems facing the poor
*the work of Charles Booth
*the work of Seebohm Rowntree
*the impact of the Boer War
*why there appeared to be more sympathy towards the poor by 1906
*why the Liberals won the 1906 election
*how the Liberals helped to reduce the impact of poverty on children, workers, unemployed and the elderly
*criticisms of the reforms
Possible exam questions and revision tasks included.
A simple resource looking at the positive relationship between the USA and Iraq in the 1970s, the invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War and the aftermath up to 1998.
Possible exam and revision activities included.
A simple resource looking at the US relationship with Iran between 1950s and 1981, with reference to: relationship with the Shah, the Iranian Revolution, attitude of the Ayatollah towards the USA, the events at the Embassy in Tehran, the 444 day hostage crisis, Iran-Iraq War and consequences.
Possible exam questions included.
A two/three lesson resource looking at they battles of the Civil War. Pupils create a living graph (from the perspective of a Royalist or Parliamentarian) to map out the course of the war from their point of view (using the key found on the battle map).
Card sorting activity to help them categorise the factors that made the Royalists weaker and the Parliamentarians stronger as the war progressed.
An extended writing (PEEL) activity at the end to allow pupils to show their knowledge and understanding of the key question.
Enjoy!
Two simple Cuban resources:
1. US-Cuban relations in the period 1959 to 1961: reference to Batista, the Cuban revolution, Castro's economic actions and the Bay of Pigs.
2. Cuban Missile Crisis: reference to U2s, options available to JFK, ultimate decision, options available to Khrushchev, outcome of the crisis, and eventual consequences (hotline, Turkish missiles etc.)
Possible exam question looking at why Cuba was a turning point in US foreign policy included.
Three simple Vietnam War resources:
1. Why did the USA get involved in Vietnam?: reference to domino theory, providing aid, events in the Gulf of Tonkin, the Tonkin Resolution and its consequences.
2. The War: reference to the Vietcong and US tactics.
3. Why did the USA lose?: reference to Vietnamisation, impact of war on US soldiers and society, protests etc.
Possible exam questions included.