I am an experienced History teacher, currently teaching Y7-13 and producing a range of lessons/resources for this age group.
I am constantly adding new resources so please keep checking my shop.
I have also been an Edexcel examiner for the 9-1 GCSE.
I am an experienced History teacher, currently teaching Y7-13 and producing a range of lessons/resources for this age group.
I am constantly adding new resources so please keep checking my shop.
I have also been an Edexcel examiner for the 9-1 GCSE.
Here is a set of engaging lessons with a variety of activities for the start of the 9-1 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England topic.
It includes 6 full lessons with the resources required to teach them (Pearson textbooks will also be needed).
Each lesson contains success criteria to help guide the pupils on how to complete each task well and most include modelling (for example, tables with the first row completed).
I have also included a bonus resource which is a planning template for the 16 mark ‘How far do you agree…?’ essay questions which you can also adapt for other topics like Crime/Medicine etc.
With this bundle you are saving nearly a 1/3!
Please feel free to ask if you have any questions :)
This lesson is aimed at Y7 students but could be adapted. It is based on the Invasion, Plague and Murder Oxford textbooks and contains a range of activities including source analysis. This lesson, thought, could be done without the textbooks.
It also has success criteria and modelling to help guide the students and there are challenges available for differentiation (red=easiest, green=hardest)
This lesson comes with differentiated sources and a table for the students to complete.
Please feel free to ask if you have any questions :)
This lessons provides background context on Hippocrates and Galen. Although ancient medicine is not a major feature of the new 9-1 course, it does teach the students about the Four Humours theory and allows them to notice continuity and change between time periods.
It also indludes an idea for a homework. This could be used as a GCSE taster lesson.
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson is based on the Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation KS3 textbooks and the Historyonics documentary on the Gunpowder Plot (available on YouTube-please check it is still there before purchasing!)
The lesson includes a range of activities involving source analysis and using this to form a written judgement as well as making notes in a directed way from the documentary. The PPT also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging).
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This PPT is based on the Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation KS3 textbooks. It contains enough content for 2-3 lessons.
The lessons include a range of activities including developing their explanation skills, writing a letter and a group research/presentation task.
The PPT also contains success criteria and modelling to help guide the students as well as differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging).
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson is based on the Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation KS3 textbooks.
The lesson includes a range of activities including creating a letter and making a written judgement on how justified the execution of Charles I was. The PPT also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging).
A worksheet is included containing statements for and against Charles deserving to be executed which can be categorised.
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson is aimed at Y7 students but could be adapted. It is based on the Invasion, Plague and Murder Oxford textbooks and contains a range of activities including creating a information booklet for Y6 students (could be done over a series of lessons).
It also has success criteria and help to guide the students and there are challenges available for differentiation.
Please feel free to ask if you have any questions :)
This lesson is based on the Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation KS3 textbooks.
This is a simple lesson which goes with the activities in the textbook which has success criteria to help guide the students and challenges designed to encourage higher level thinking.
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson is based on the Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation KS3 textbooks.
The lesson includes a range of activities including an engaging starter and creating an artist’s impression. The PPT also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging).
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson does NOT require the use of any accompanying textbooks. All of the resources needed are included.
The lesson encourages the students to investigate how justified the execution of Mary Queen of Scots was and is aimed at developing their source analysis skills.
The lesson includes a range of activities including an engaging starter and source analysis. There is differentiation by colour (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging) and modelling to help guide the students.
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson is based on the Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation KS3 textbooks.
The lesson includes a range of activities including help with the textbook activities and leading up to a written judgement. The PPT also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging).
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson is based on the Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation KS3 textbooks.
The lesson includes a range of activities including making a personal timeline and creating a factory report (there may be enough content for more than one lesson). The PPT also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging).
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson does NOT require the use of any accompanying textbooks. All of the resources needed are included (some are from the Holocaust Educational Trust).
The lesson encourages the students to investigate the the beginning of persecution against the Jews.
The lesson includes a range of activities including comparing and contrasting laws against the Jews as well as analysing testimonies from survivors. Differentiation by colour is used (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging).
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson does NOT require the use of any accompanying textbooks. All of the resources needed are included.
The lesson encourages the students to investigate what prohibition was and why it failed.
The lesson includes a range of activities including a link to a short video clip (not produced by myself) and categorising reasons. There is an engaging starter, clear success criteria and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging).
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson is based on the Technology, War and Independence KS3 textbooks.
The lesson includes a range of activities involving source analysis and writing a witness statement. The PPT also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging).
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
Here is a 2nd set of engaging lessons with a variety of activities for the start of the 9-1 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England topic.
It includes 6 full lessons with the resources required to teach them (Pearson textbooks will also be needed).
I have also included a revision game resource as a bonus.
Save about a third!
Here is a table designed to encourage students to assess the advantages and disadvantages of a range of sources in preparation for the Historic Environment part of the Edexcel 9-1 exam.
The modelling has been directed at the medicine through time course but it can easily be adapted and used for any of the topics. It is particularly useful for helping with the 4-mark ‘follow-up’ questions.
This PPT is based on Pearson Medicine Through Time 9-1 GCSE textbook. There is enough content for two lessons.
The lessons include a range of activities including completing a table, a layers of inference grid and an exam question. The PPT also contains success criteria to help guide the students and modelling.
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This planning template is really useful for introucing your GCSE students to the 16-mark ‘How far do you agree…?’ exam questions with Edexcel. This one has modelling for the Anglo-Saxon/Norman topic but it the template is the same structure as the 16 mark questions in many other topics and so can be easily adapted.
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
This lesson uses the Pearson 9-1 Anglo-Saxon and Norman GCSE textbooks.
It contains an extended writing task and clear success criteria to help guide students and make the lesson engaging.
Please feel free to ask any questions :)
