The aim of this lesson is for students to understand historical significance and develop critical thinking skills.
To make the lesson more relevant today, I have called it the historical x factor. By the end of the lesson, students will move away from simply from knowing what happened to understanding why events and people matter.
The lesson also encourages students to question why some events, people or developments are remembered, whilst others, as with some acts in the music industry, are forgotten.
The lesson begins by questioning what is historical significance. Students can come up with their own criteria which they can then apply to key people.
The main task is to examine 6 influential male and female individuals in history. Students will judge their historical significance using the following criteria: changes they caused, importance at the time, lasting impact over time, their widespread effect on society and their relevance today.
This task is differentiated and will help students link to the criteria if needed. They can also work in groups and present to the class to judge the most influentially significant person.
The lesson will encourage debate and discussion by connecting the past to the present. It will also teach students how historians think and work, which is vital for taking their studies forward to GCSE History.
The plenary is some more critical thinking of the learning from the lesson with questions in the style of those used in the popular tv programme, The 1% Club.
The resource is differentiated and gives suggested teaching strategies. It comes in PowerPoint format which can be edited and changed to suit.
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These lessons are designed to enable students to think like real historians! They build up mastery in the essential historical skills of inference, the use of sources and inference, chronology cause and consequence, interpretation and significance. Baseline Assessment Test: This can be used to assess what students know and which historical skills have they acquired from primary school. What is History: This is an ideal lesson to introduce the subject by focusing on the skills required by historians to investigate the past, including chronology and time. Inference: Students will learn how to ‘read between the lines’ of evidence and developing the critical skills of drawing conclusions from clues in both written and visual sources. This lesson will also build their analytical thinking, essential for understanding past perspectives and motivations. Cause and Consequence: Students examine how and why events occurred and the impact they had. This will encourage deeper thinking about the causes and effects of decisions and actions throughout history. Interpretation: Through guided tasks, learners examine different views about the past and develop their own, supporting them with evidence. This will help them build evaluative skills and support extended argument writing. Significance: Students are challenged to assess what makes an event, individual or development important, helping them in their future studies to make value judgments supported by historical criteria. Historical investigations: The Anglos-Saxons. This lesson investigates why the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain and allows students to develop their reasoning and justify their conclusions. The Princes in the Tower lesson will encourage students to evaluate conflicting sources, question reliability and come up with their own evidence-based conclusions about this unsolved historical mystery. These skills are not only vital for exam success, but are also transferable across subjects and essential for developing critical and reflective thinkers. These lessons are perfect for KS3 and can be used as standalone skills lessons, revision tools or embedded into wider schemes of work. The lessons are broken down into the following: L1 Baseline Assessment Test L2 What is History? L3 Historical Sources L4 Cause and consequence L5 Historical significance (X Factor) L6 Historical Inferences L7 Historical interpretations L8 Historical Investigation - Anglo-Saxons (Free resource) L9 Historical investigation – Princes in the Tower The resources all come in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to edit and change. Any reviews would be gratefully received.
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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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