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This is the second lesson in a series covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Britain losing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914. This series of lessons covers the second depth study: The Birth of British Australia 1788 - 1829. The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refer to the textbook "Britain: Losing and gaining and Empire, 1763 - 1914" (Christie, 2016 Pearson) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons. During the lesson pupils will: * Follow up on previous lesson by evaluating the successes and limitations of Phillips leadership * Identify and evaluate the political instability caused by the Rum Rebellion and the conflict between William Bligh and the New South Wales Corp * Investigate the measures taken by Governor Maquarie and evaluate his leadership. * Compare and contrast the leadership of Phillips and Maquarie and decide which one was more significant to the development of the Australian colony. Go to my shop to see more History resource. (Click on my username above) If you buy, please review.

This is the fifth and final lesson in a series covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Britain losing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914. This series of lessons covers the second depth study: The Birth of British Australia 1788 - 1829. The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refer to the textbook "Britain: Losing and gaining and Empire, 1763 - 1914" (Christie, 2016 Pearson) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons. During the lesson pupils will: * Make initial decisions about the success of the Australian Colony. * Ask questions about the type of information we would need to make a judgement on success. * Investigate the main reasons for the difficulty in attracting free settlement to Australia and offer potential solutions. * Investigate the measures taken by Australian Governors to develop the colony (Territorial expansion, Establishing a penal colony in Tasmania/Van Dieman's Land, Economic Development and political development. * Begin planning for essay/assessment on British Australia unit. If you are looking for more resources, please go to my shop. (Click on my username above) If you buy this resource, please leave a review.

This is the third lesson of a scheme of work covering Historical Skills and the Roman Empire. The aim of the lesson is to introduce pupils to the concept of centuries and to investigate the Roman Army. During the lesson pupils will: - Complete a skills activity to work out which century different dates belong to - Identify reasons why the Romans needed a powerful army. - Evaluate the equipment, tactics and training of the Roman army through a number of different activities. - Identify and explain reasons why people might have joined the Roman army. - Complete a homework task to either i) create a recruitment poster to encourage people to join the Roman army or ii) write a letter of application to join the Roman army. This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2. This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed. if you buy this lesson, please leave a review to tell me what you think.

This is the fourth lesson in a scheme of work about the Atlantic Slave Trade. This lesson in particular focuses on the middle passage and conditions for slaves on the ships. This lesson includes - * Discussion of the conditions for slaves on the slave ships. * Source analysis activity for pupils to gather information about the conditions on the slave ships. * Source activity looking at the usefulness and reliability of sources explaining aspects of the middle passage. The whole scheme of work (7 lessons) is available to buy for £5. Click on my username to see the rest of my resources.

This is the fourth lesson in a series of six covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Mao's China 1949 - 1976. This series of lessons covers Key Topic One: Establishing Communist Rule 1949 - 1957. The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refer to the textbook "Communist States in the Twentieth Century " (Bunce, 2015 - Hodder) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons. During the lesson pupils will: * Revise the problems Mao faced in 1949 * Use a source to evaluate Mao's attitude towards politics and violence. * Complete a card sort to identify the new political structure put in place by Mao after 1949. * Evalute the new political structure in light of the common program for China (studied during previous lesson in series.) * Identify the roles of different groups within the new power structure. The first lesson in this scheme of work is available for free and all 6 lessons in the scheme of work are available for £5 in my shop. (Click on my username above) If you buy, please review. Thanks

This is the second lesson of a scheme of work investigating Life in Medieval Times, the Medieval Church and the Black Death. This lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and resources needed. During the lesson pupils will: - A starter activity investigating why people prayed during the middle ages. - Analysis task looking at the architecture of Bath Abby and how it demonstrates people's beliefs. - Decision making activity looking at the power of Church - Investigation and analysis of the purpose and message of doom paintings. - Homework task to produce and example of a doom painting. This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2. This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed. If you buy this lesson, please leave a review to tell me what you think.

This is the first lesson of a scheme of work investigating Life in Medieval Times, the Medieval Church and the Black Death. This lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and resources needed. During the lesson pupils will: - Identify what they already know about life in Medieval England. - Complete a true or false activity to test their knowledge about life during the period. - Complete an image analysis to understand the types of structures that might exist in a medieval village. - Complete an emotive task to try and understand what it might be like to live in a medieval village. - Complete a card sort to identify the key aspects of life during the period - Compare modern homes to medieval huts. There are quite a few activities in this lesson so it might be best to split it over two lessons. This lesson is aimed towards year seven but could be easily adapted for key stage 1 or 2. This lesson is ready to teach and includes all the resources needed. if you buy this lesson, please leave a review to tell me what you think.

This is the sixth lesson in a series covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Mao's China 1949 - 1976. This series of lessons covers Key Topic four: Social and Cultural Changes 1949 - 1976. The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refer to the textbook "Communist States in the Twentieth Century " (Bunce, 2015 - Hodder) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons. During the lesson pupils will: * Pupils will investigate the changes in culture and the 8 allowed performances in China under the communists. * Use the text to investigate the role of Jiang Qing in culture during this period. * Discuss communist attitudes towards religion. * Investigate the proposals towards religion in the Common Program for China and discuss in terms of communist attitudes towards religion. * Use the information from the text to create short presentations about how different religions were treated by the communists during this period. * Discuss if the CPC dealt "effectively" with religion in China. This lesson is based on a double lesson (100 minutes) but could easily be broken up into a number of smaller lessons. Please go to my shop (click on my username above) for more free and premium History lessons. If you buy this resource, please leave a review.

This is the fifth lesson in a series covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Mao's China 1949 - 1976. This series of lessons covers Key Topic four: Social and Cultural Changes 1949 - 1976. The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refer to the textbook "Communist States in the Twentieth Century " (Bunce, 2015 - Hodder) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons. During the lesson pupils will: * Interpret statistics to develop a picture of health care in China between 1950 and 2000 * Investigate the health care situation in China before 1949. * Use statistics to compare the effectiveness of Chinese health care before 1949 with other countries. * Identify the things Mao might need to do to solve China's health problems. * Identify the changes made after 1949 and judge their impact. * Investigate the barefoot doctor initiative using the text, sources and a video. This lesson is based on a double lesson (100 minutes) but could easily be broken up into a number of smaller lessons. Please go to my shop (click on my username above) for more free and premium History lessons. If you buy this resource, please leave a review.

This is the fourth lesson in a series covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Mao's China 1949 - 1976. This series of lessons covers Key Topic four: Social and Cultural Changes 1949 - 1976. The lesson is ready to teach and includes all worksheets and sources. The lessons refer to the textbook "Communist States in the Twentieth Century " (Bunce, 2015 - Hodder) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons. During the lesson pupils will: * Discuss the general purpose and benefits of education for the individual and state. * Interpret quotations and sources from Mao to infer his attitude towards education. * Complete a card sort activity to identify the key features of education in China before 1949. * Use CPC propaganda to identify the educational priorities after 1949. * Write a speech from Mao outlining the key educational priorities of the Communists. * Use information from the text about educational reforms made by the Communists in China in the 1950s. * Debate the successes and failures of educational reforms and the impact of the Great Leap Forward. This lesson is based on a double lesson (100 minutes) but could easily be broken up into a number of smaller lessons. Please go to my shop (click on my username above) for more free and premium History lessons. If you buy this resource, please leave a review.

This is the Fourth lesson in a series covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Britain losing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914. This series of lessons covers the second breadth study: The Changing Nature of the Royal Navy The lesson is ready to teach and includes all resources in the power point. The lessons refer to the textbook "Britain: Losing and gaining and Empire, 1763 - 1914" (Christie, 2016 Pearson) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons. During the lesson pupils will: * Complete a starter focusing on world capitals and linking Freetown, Sierra Leone with the suppression of the Slave trade from the previous lesson. * Investigate a letter of Marque (issued by the US congress in 1776) to identify the creation of privateers and discuss what it suggests about the nature of Navies in the 18th and 19th centuries. * Discuss how the expansion of the British Empire and the Royal Navy may have contributed to the rise of the "Golden age" of Piracy. * Investigate some prominent pirates and the Pirate laws created by Captain Bart Roberts to identify and infer features of piracy during this period. * What two videos covering pirate tactics and the development of Piracy. * Use the text to investigate methods used by the English and Dutch to suppress the piracy and why this was a priority for them. * Complete an investigation of the Barbary Pirates looking at depictions of them in Europe, their raids on European towns (such as the Sack of Baltimore) their growing power and subsequent suppression by the Royal Navy and others. * Discuss the statement - The suppression of Piracy and the attack on Algiers in 1816 proves that the Royal Navy’s role had developed to a force for global peace. Check out my shop (Click on my username above) for more free and premium resources including more lessons from this unit

This is the second lesson in a series covering the new Edexcel A-Level History unit: Britain losing and gaining an Empire 1763 - 1914. This series of lessons covers the second breadth study: The Changing Nature of the Royal Navy… The lesson is ready to teach and includes all resources in the power point. The lessons refer to the textbook “Britain: Losing and gaining and Empire, 1763 - 1914” (Christie, 2016 Pearson) although other textbooks could be used with the lessons. During the lesson pupils will: * Use images of different ship designs between the 16th century and 1906 to make inferences about the development of the Navy over time. * Identify and discuss the key roles and importance of the Royal Navy to Britain * Investigate naval tactics during the age of sail through a brief study of the Battle of Trafalgar. * Evaluate the different ships in the Royal Navy from ships of the line to sixth-rate ships and the roles they undertook. * Evaluate the effectiveness of the Royal navy during the age of sail. Check out my shop (Click on my username above) for more free and premium resources including more lessons from this unit. If you buy this resource, please leave a review.

This pack contains a series of lessons to cover Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941 - 1991. The pack includes 15 lessons that are based on the new (first teaching September 2016) Edexcel specification and include practice exam questions based on that paper. Obviously, the lessons could be easily adapted to other exam boards. Lessons cover the following topics: 1. Communism vs Capitalism 2. Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam conferences 3. Truman Doctrine 4. Berlin Airlift and the creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact 5. The Hungarian Uprising 6. The Berlin Wall 7. The Cuban Missile Crisis 8. The Prague Spring 9. Detente and the Invasion of Afghanistan 10. Reagan and Gorbachev/ The Second Cold War 11. The end of the arms race 12. The end of the Cold war. All lessons are self contained and any sources, worksheets or video links needed are included in the power points. Many lessons refer to a text which could be adapted for any GCSE cold war textbook.

This lesson introduces Germany after the First World War and the problems they were facing during the early 1920s. The lesson is designed as an introduction to the new Edexcel 9 - 1 History unit Wiemar and Nazi Germany 1918 - 1939 but could easily be adapted for other exam boards or key stages. During the lesson pupils will: - Analyse and infer from casualty figures for the Central Powers during the First World War. - Analyse ISM of the cartoon "Clémenceau the Vampire" - Complete a gallery tour task to gather and record information to identify and describe the problems Germany faced after the war. - Write a report on the problems and prioritise their seriousness. - Complete an inference exam question based on the content of the lesson. This lesson is ready to teach and contains all the resources needed. Check out my shop (click on my username above) for other free and premium History resources. If you buy this lesson, please leave a review. Thanks

This is a full lesson covering the key revolutionary battles of Saratoga and Yorktown and the end of the American Revolution. The Lesson was part of a series of A-Level History lessons for the new Edexcel unit - Britain Losing and Gaining an Empire: The loss of the American colonies. (2015 specification) The lesson is ready to go and includes all resources. The lesson refers to the Pearson textbook produced for the unit. I have also posted all 7 lessons in a pack for sale at £5. (click on my username to find the other resources) If you buy this resource, please leave a review. Thanks

This is a big board quiz covering the key aspects of the development of the Cold War. Pupils work in teams to select questions of varying difficulties based on the point values. If you like this resources, please check out my shop (click on my username above) for other free and premium History resources for KS3, 4 and 5.

KS3 lesson to introduce evidence and how Historians use evidence to learn about the past. Could be used as part of a unit of Historical skills and before work on primary and secondary sources. You will need to bring a bag of "stuff" to use as evidence.

This lesson introduces pupils to the spying aspect of the Cold War with a particular emphasis on the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the lesson, pupils work in groups to evaluate different scenarios and present courses of action that America could take. In their groups pupils will: * Give suggestions of the best way to use the U2 spy plane against the USSR * Analyse spy plane photos of Soviet Missile Sites in Cuba * Consider different courses of action and advise JFK on what he should do about the missiles. *Hot-seat a briefing for JFK and what decision he should take. All resources needed for the lesson are on the power point and I have included brief notes on the slide to advice as to the best way to use them. I have used this lesson for many years (including during an outstanding observation) with great success. I have uploaded all 17 lessons from this Cold War scheme of work and they are available to purchase for £5. (Click on my user name to see all of my resources.)