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Welcome to the History Help TES shop. My resources are of high quality and will save teachers valuable time. I have a variety of resources for both KS3 and KS4 History as well as PSHE. I’m a full time History teacher with over 8 years teaching experience. All my materials have been made by myself with the aim of being engaging and accessible to students. Please feel free to have a look around and leave feedback.

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Welcome to the History Help TES shop. My resources are of high quality and will save teachers valuable time. I have a variety of resources for both KS3 and KS4 History as well as PSHE. I’m a full time History teacher with over 8 years teaching experience. All my materials have been made by myself with the aim of being engaging and accessible to students. Please feel free to have a look around and leave feedback.
Rise of Hitler
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Rise of Hitler

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Intro lesson about Adolf Hitler’s early life pupils can design a facebook page based on his early life and rise to power to gain a brief insight into Hitler. The lesson also then covers the factors that enabled the Nazi party to secure more votes and Hitler to rise to power with worksheets to support Ideal for KS3 students
Pompeii
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Pompeii

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Lesson that looks at Pompeii used alongside the BBC Pompeii last day drama. Good lesson to illustrate the importance of Pompeii as it allowed Historians to find out lots about everyday Roman Life. Resource includes information about what happened in Pompeii and a news broadcast task. (The Pompeii last day drama is available on You Tube)
Henry VIII
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Henry VIII

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Intro lesson on Henry VIII which goes though his personality with a memory exercise Worksheets includes one with sources to explore what type of man Henry was with source analysis exercises and questions. Second one is a worksheet and a paired task to explore an overview of Henry VIII life and consider why he is famous Third worksheet is getting students to explore Henry's problems in his early reign and be an agony aunt- this will lead in to a lesson on Henry VIII great matter.
Conditions in the Trenches
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Conditions in the Trenches

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This lesson is a 2 lessons based around conditions in the trenches and contains a presentation detailing conditions in the trenches. A starter activity using a primary source from a soldier in WW1 and a marketplace discovery activity for students to explore conditions in the trenches. This task is used to help students prepare a creative writing task in the form of a trench diary and includes resources to support the planning of a trench diary
Roman Gladiators
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Roman Gladiators

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Powerpoint that explains a popular form of Roman entertainment. Includes a gladiator labelling and sport broadcasting tasks
Factory conditions
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Factory conditions

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A lesson to explore factory conditions includes a Powerpoint with various activities including a debate task and written report. In addition also includes primary sources of conditions in the factories for source analysis and evaluation. An additional lesson also includes an assessment with planning table grid and model PEA paragraph to support. for students on selecting the best representation of conditions in the factories using GCSE source analysis skills
Textile inventions
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Textile inventions

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This lesson as a dragons den style group task, pupils worked in groups of 5 and each analysed one of the five inventions during the Industrial revolution, they then choose one of the best inventions to invest their money in but being able to explain why. This is a good lesson to explore the start of the factory system. The lesson plan is based on the delegation task from a Teacher's toolkit lesson
Romulus and Remus
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Romulus and Remus

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Romulus and Remus lesson includes a powerpoint with the story and a worksheet with the story alongside a storyboard task with scaffolding on the powerpoint. Also includes a wordsearch activity
WW1 weapons
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WW1 weapons

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A lesson based on the development of weaponry in WW1. The lesson includes a powerpoint with starter and activity instructions and extension work as well as a GCSE exam style question with scaffolding. The worksheets and table sheet are to be used as a group task lesson to allow students to explore the various weapons used in WW1. The lesson could be adapted to suit other ideas but it based on a group exploring task.
Henry VIII
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Henry VIII

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A series of lessons focusing on Henry VIII life, his 6 wives and also the breaking away from the Catholic church. This series of lessons also includes an assessment on Why Henry created the CofE? extra lesson on Tudor life
Industrial Revolution
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Industrial Revolution

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A number of lessons based on the social aspect history aspect of the Industrial Revolution. first lesson on the changes from 1750-1900, the second lesson is based on the key inventions that led to the factory system. The other lessons are based on the social conditions of the workers and their living conditions
Atomic Bomb- Hiroshima
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Atomic Bomb- Hiroshima

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Lesson on the dropping of the Atomic bomb- the powerpoint includes why, what happened and the impact. Activity sheet focuses on the effects using a card sort. The other worksheet contains primary source accounts of the effects of the bomb worksheet.
Olympic Games (ancient to modern)
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Olympic Games (ancient to modern)

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An introduction to the ancient olympics and modern olympics, this lesson covers the history of the olympic games and will be useful for student to learn about the Olympics before the Brazil 2016 Olympic games this summer
Causes of the English Civil War
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Causes of the English Civil War

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three lessons on the Causes of the Civil War Lesson one- all about Charles I and his personality, using sources to explore the type of man he was includes a worksheet and powerpoint as well as source anaylsis task Lesson two and three- covers the long term and trigger causes of the Civil War- includes worksheet and card sort and a board game task on the long term and trigger causes
Olympics games- ancient to modern
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Olympics games- ancient to modern

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An introduction to the ancient olympics and modern olympics, this lesson covers the history of the olympic games It also has a countries research task for students to do There is also a long term project for students to design their own olympic games as a host nation These resources are useful for student to learn about the Olympics before the Brazil 2016 Olympic games this summer.
STI's
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STI's

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Powerpoint about STI's. Contains information about causes, symptoms along with graphic images. (I showed the images on the Powerpoint after pupils had completed a group presentation task on one STI using NHS leaflets or the NHS online PDF This powerpoint was used to consolodate knowledge on STIs and is useful for a non specialist teaching PHSE
James Stuart I
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James Stuart I

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James I lesson that uses sources to allow pupils to understand what kind of man James I was using sources to make inferences. Using sources students have to then analyse what they can learn from the sources and then draw a sketch of James using the detail from the sources Fun task for lower ability students
The New Deal
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The New Deal

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Used for KS5 FDR and the New Deal Powerpoint Handout goes through the second New Deal agencies