Resources to teach the Cold War in 6 weeks or less (depending on how fast you go)! This is for the edexcel 9-1 History specification and is based on 3 50 minute lessons a week. The whole specification is taught and most lessons do not use textbooks at all, utilising handouts to considerably speed up teaching. Any Cold War textbooks can be used, old or new specification to accompany the few lessons that require the use of a textbook. All lessons include differentiated learning objectives linked to the 9-1 grade criteria and an exam question. Includes fully resourced lessons, peer/self marking sheets for all exam questions, a personalised learning checklist for students to self assess themselves against the specification content and a bluffers guide to help with structuring exam questions.

A unit of work for KS3, giving students an overview of the Vietnam War. Included is a thorough SOW and accompanying resources. The unit builds students to GCSE level knowledge and understanding using GCSE grades as learning objectives but is designed for KS3 students as a transitionary or bridging unit between KS3 and KS4. Included is a one A4 page knowledge organiser and knowledge organiser tests. Lessons include: Causes of the Vietnam War VC tactics - booby traps VC tactics - underground tunnels US tactics - Operatiion Rolling Thunder, chemical weapons and seach and destroy The My Lai massacre The Tet Offensive Opposition in the USA The end of the war

A unit of work for KS3, giving students an overview of the Cold War. Included is a thorough SOW and accompanying resources. The unit builds students to GCSE level knowledge and understanding focusing on importance for international relations (Edexcel GCSE History in particular). The unit uses GCSE grades as learning objectives but is designed for KS3 students as a transitionary or bridging unit between KS3 and KS4. Included is a one A4 page knowledge organiser and knowledge organiser tests. Each lesson assesses the tension rating between the USA and USSR with students filling in a bar chart of rising and falling tension across the Cold War. Lessons include: Capitalism v. communism The end of WW2 The atomic bomb The Berlin Wall The Cuban Missile Crisis Detente The space race Reagan and SDI (star wars) The fall of the Berlin Wall

A Crime and Punishment (including Whitechapel) bunting display ready to print double sided. Includes 29 key events from the Medieval, Early Modern, 18th and 19th Centuries and the Modern period as well as late 19th Century Whitechapel. The display is developed for the Edexcel GCSE History 9-1 specification specifically. Simply print double sided, laminate, trim, hole punch and thread through string to create bunting for your own classroom.

A set of lessons designed to be taught ‘live’ by the teacher online (Microsoft Teams/Zoom etc.) to fully teach the Feminism non core ideology section of paper 2 A Level Politics. The lessons are fully resourced and do not require student or teacher access to textbooks. The lessons include: Defining Feminism key terms A short history of feminism The beliefs of socialist, liberal, radical and post-modern feminists Key thinkers Exam skills.

A set of lessons designed to be taught ‘live’ by the teacher online (Microsoft Teams/Zoom etc.) to fully teach the first section of paper 3 (USA) A Level Politics on the US Constitution and Federalism. The lessons accompany the Edexcel/Pearson new specification textbook but could be easily adapted to suit other available textbooks.

Full lesson resources, an assessment, peer marking sheets, key terms and a PLC (personalised learning checklist) for the the US Constitution and federalism section of paper 3 Edexcel A Level Politics (comparitive politics) reformed A Level specification. Examples of US Politics are up to date as of October 2018. Covers all aspects of the US constitution and federalism section of the specification. Lessons use the Pearson textbook but could be adapted to suit other resources/textbooks. Also now included are online lessons created during lockdown with more up to date examples.

Updated for 2022! A full set of lesson resources fully addressing the President Reagan section of the Edexcel A Level History paper 1F specification (can also be used for teaching AS History). Included are cheat sheets giving students a 1 A4 page balanced summary for each section of the specification: his economic policies, the extent to which big government was reduced, the extent of social change and the extent of the revitalisation of politics. These have really helped my students focus their revision. In addition a peer marking sheet for Reagan exam questions, as well as a bluffers guide to help students structure their Reagan essays are included. Also included is a personalised learning checklist for students to self assess their progress against the specification bullet points for the entirety of paper 1F. No textbook is needed for these lessons.