The aim of this lesson is to for students to understand the causes of events and their consequences.
This will help them gain valuable skills in historical understanding and enquiry. Furthermore, this lesson will help students distinguish between short-term and long-term causes, while identifying trigger points - the immediate events that sparked historical change.
Students begin by identifying causes of events. A categorising activity will enable them to organise causes into short-term (immediate events or developments and long-term (deep-rooted social, political, economic, or cultural factors).
Students will also explore consequences in a similar categorisation exercise. They will be encouraged to analyse the immediate outcomes as well as longer-term implications, both intended and unintended.
There are also some differentiated independent tasks to examine where students can make connections and judgements on both the causes and consequences of events – these are not all related to history to help consolidate learning.
The lesson will support students in evaluating the relative significance of different causes and consequences, developing their analytical thinking and argumentation skills.
The resource is differentiated and gives suggested teaching strategies. It comes in PowerPoint format which can be amended and changed to suit.
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These thirteen lessons are designed to meet the needs of the Key Stage 3 National Curriculum and cover the development of the Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509; the Norman Conquest. All the lessons are differentiated and come with suggested teaching and learning strategies and link to the latest interpretations of the conquest from the BBC and other sources. This bundle addresses key historical skills from the outset, from a baseline test to track the students’ starting points, questioning what is history, understanding cause and consequence, significance and how to use historical sources. Furthermore key questions are asked in this period; Who was Alfred the Great? What did the Romans leave in Britain? Why was England a good place to invade in 1066? What were the causes and consequences of Edward the Confessor dying? What were the similarities and differences in the claims of contenders to the throne, from Harald Hardrada, William the Conqueror, Harold Godwinson and Edgar the Atheling? What was significant about the Battle of Stamford Bridge and how was William the Conqueror able to win the Battle of Hastings with his feigned retreat from the Anglo-Saxon shield wall on Senlac Hill? These skills are addressed in each of the lessons and allow students to be able to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends and be able to create their own structured accounts and written narratives. The lessons are broken down into the following L1 Baseline Assessment Test L2 What is History L3 Understanding historical sources L4 Cause and Consequence L5 Historical Significance L6 Roman Britain L7 Alfred the Great L8 The Anglo-Saxons (free resource) L9 Contenders to the throne L10 The Anglo-Saxon and Norman armies L11 The Battle of Stamford Bridge (free resource) L12 The Battle of Hastings L13 Why did William win the Battle of Hastings? ( + Key Word History Display) All the resources come in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to edit and change.
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