Lesson testining the fate of those captured and sold as gladiators. Students explore the experience of gladiators and must role-play as if they were a gladiator, writing letters about their various experiences.
Lesson examining the role of the Medieval Church in people's lives compared to its role today including the duties of priests, and examining doom paintings.
Lesson examining medieval life in England using market stall/walk about talk about activity (kinaesthetic learning) and encouraging students to engage in peer teaching.
Lesson examining economic disaster and hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic encouraging pupils to examine source evidence to explain the impact of hyperinflation on German society.
Lesson examining the Battle of Stalingrad and what we can learn from source evidence (photographs) about how the battle was fought. Includes caption competition.
Lesson examining what life was like for women and children in Nazi Germany including education in schools, curriculum etc and the expectations for women.
Lesson examining Operation Barbarossa asking to pupils to 'flesh out' the reasons why Hitler invaded Russia and the implications of his mistakes. Plenary as caption competition for cartoons depicting operation barbarossa.
Lesson examining life in Nazi Germany for young people examining both boys and girls and the types of activities they would complete. students can be challenged to hyptothesise about what this might mean in the future e.g. what age would these people be b
Lesson examining the original 13 colonies and the road to revolution including the Boston Tea Party (delivered as part of an American History SOW designed to give pupils an overview of American History).
Lesson examining Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland asking pupils to use textbooks to gather information and then apply to exam style question interpreting cartoon (Goose Step) with indiciative content/model answer for pupils to examine.