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Here you will find low cost teaching & learning resources that will engage, challenge and make history accessible to all.
I have taught History & RE in secondary schools for the last 20 years.
CPD presenter, author & GCSE examiner. Former Head of History, GnT, Literacy & Study Support Co-ordinator.
Thank you for visiting my store.
Here you will find low cost teaching & learning resources that will engage, challenge and make history accessible to all.
I have taught History & RE in secondary schools for the last 20 years.
CPD presenter, author & GCSE examiner. Former Head of History, GnT, Literacy & Study Support Co-ordinator.
NEW for 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist
Student friendly Course Content lists, Revision lists, Course organiser for students
Save 25% on a bundle:
• Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present
• Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88
• The American West, c1835–c1895
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Topics included
• Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present
• Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88
• The American West, c1835–c1895
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
NEW for 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist
Student friendly Course Content lists, Revision lists, Course organiser for students
Save 25% on a bundle:
• Warfare and British society, c1250–present
• Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88
• The American West, c1835–c1895
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Topics included
• Warfare and British society, c1250–present
• Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88
• The American West, c1835–c1895
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Mao’s China, 1945–76
Help students organise their folders with a course checklist for NEW 2016 Edexcel GCSE History Checklist: Mao’s China, 1945–76
Use for a course overview and revision checklist.
Editable word document to personalise to your department.
Save time creating documents for your history department. Download this work related learning links document for your department folder.
The value of history, linking history with the world of work
History Department Audit of Teaching and Learning
Save time creating a teaching and learning audit for your history department.
Designed for your department members to complete.
Save time as a Head of Department and use this useful document for your History Department folder with this History Department SMSC links
SPIRITUAL, MORAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Great Revision Game for the whole class to enjoy on the topic of Germany 1918-1945
Warn your colleagues this game can get LOUD from the engagement involved
Divide the class into two teams
Place two chairs in front of the IWB
Each team decides on a Team Captain
Decide who will be your Team Captain
Team Captain will sit in front of the IWB with their back to it
Team 1 or 2- a slide will appear – and the TEAM must describe the word, person, event to your team captain - shout out clues to help the Team Captain guess
No saying the word, person or event. No rhyming. No sounds like.
Team Captain must guess the word, event or person in under 20 seconds.
You will have only have 20 seconds to give them clues.
Use your knowledge and skills to describe the word, person or event
Teacher times the 20 seconds
For each word you only get 20 seconds to help the Team Captain Guess
Words appear on the PowerPoint slide
10 points per correctly guessed word
Bonus 20 points if the Team Captain can share a knowledge gem about the word after guessing
You can move from slide to slide or you can use the spin slide for random slides appearing.
Spin - view PPT as normal then press s for stop or start and esc to end the PPT will spin the slides.
Perfect revision game for new specifications covering Germany 1918-1945 to help prepare student knowledge for the linear exams.
THE PLACE OF HISTORY IN THE CURRICULUM
Save time as a Head of Department and use this useful document for your History Department folder on the place of History in the Curriculum
Headings covered
1. Aesthetic/Creative
2. Ethical/Moral
3. Spiritual
4. Language
5. Mathematical/Scientific
6. Political/Social
Objectives in History teaching
Historical Skills Cross Curricular
Save time as a Head of Department and use this useful document for your History Department folder with this History Department vision and aims policy.
Objectives in History
Teaching and Learning Strategies
General approach
Teaching methods
Foundation strand
Why the teaching of Thinking Skills is important...
Need a Key Stage 3 History Overview for your department?
Look no further -
This includes National Curriculum overview for History inline with the current National Curriculum requirements (since 2014). Designed for a three year key stage 3.
Use this document as your mid term planning to focus units of work.
Includes a History department vision for the department.
Enquiry questions for topic focuses. Second order concepts mapped out in key concepts and processes. Curriculum opportunites covered. Assessment opportunities.
Assessment focuses on Thinking Historically, Exploring Interpretations and Historical Enquiry.
Former Head of Department with 12 years HoD experience.
Editable for your own use - Crime and Punishment learning grid for students
Useful for revision, self review, checking learning, focusing thinking,
Differentiated by task and linked to GCSE grades.
Useful for a planner for students to follow the course.
Useful for a homework checker of knowledge gained through course.
I used to get students to keep this at the front of their folders and check the learning as they progressed through the course.
Supports GCSE Crime and Punishment for all boards for new GCSE on the topic of Crime and Punishment in Anglo Saxon England
Editable for your own use - Crime and Punishment learning grid for students
Useful for revision, self review, checking learning, focusing thinking,
Differentiated by task and linked to GCSE grades.
Useful for a planner for students to follow the course.
Useful for a homework checker of knowledge gained through course.
I used to get students to keep this at the front of their folders and check the learning as they progressed through the course.
Supports GCSE Crime and Punishment for all boards for new GCSE on the topic of Crime and Punishment in Twentieth Century