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year 8 resources

 

 

 

Key skills | Georgian Britain | Industrial Revolution | Slave Trade | WWI | WWII

 

 

Key skills & resources

 

Curious facts - Mill drill activity

Key words - activity sheet

Introduction - study skills, presentation

Introduction II - historical skills, presentation

Historical skills - evidence table

 

Georgian Britain

 

How 'Great' was Georgian England? - presentation

Georgian England - reading activity

Georgians - G&T Booklet

 

 

Industrial Revolution

 

Industrial Revolution - background

Victorians - G&T Booklet

What was the 'Industrial Revolution'? - presentation

Industrial Revolution - reading activity

What did the Victorians do for us? - presentation

What did the Victorians do for us? - video task sheet

What did the Victorians do for us? - card sort

Victorian Britain - webquest

 

Social conditions

How healthy were Victorian towns? - presentation

Public health - sources ...... table

Health inspector's report - template

How bad were the factories? - presentation

Factory inspectors - role play cards

Children of the Revolution - video task sheet

Vile Victorian jobs - presentation

Vile Victorian jobs - role play cards

Were workhouses really so bad? - presentation

Workhouses - role cards for debate

Victorian school - presentation

Victorian schools - school log example

Victorian Law & Order - presentation

 

Entrepreneurs

Age of Entrepreneurs - presentation

James Whatman - reading activity

Age of Entrepreneurs - task sheet

Age of Entrepreneurs - name cards

Age of entrepreneurs - presentation

Age of Entrepreneurs - assessment grid

Age of Entrepreneurs - obituary task sheet

 

Essay & revision tasks

How to plan a successful essay on Victorian Britain - presentation

Examples of student writing to peer assess

How vile was life in Victorian Britain - essay task sheet

How vile was life in Victorian Britain - assessment grid

Revising factual knowledge - Industrial Revolution ... Victorians

How vile was Victorian Britain - revision & skills presentation

How vile was Victorian Britain - card sort

 

Slave Trade
World War One

 

WWI - G&T Booklet

Outbreak of war

Introduction to WWI - video task sheet

WWI - keywords

How did 2 bullets cause 2 million deaths - presentation

Did alliances cause WWI? - fact sheet & evidence table

Recruitment & conscription - presentation

Examples of recruitment posters

 

Life in the trenches

Life in the trenches - webquest

Life in the trenches - presentation

Life in the trenches - sources

Haig, Butcher of the Somme - presentation

Haig - biography & sources

Haig - biography

War in the air - video question sheet

Christmas Truce - reading activity

 

Role of women

Women at War - presentation

Women at war - factoids

 

Armistice & end or war

End of the War - presentation

End of War - video question sheet

End of war - sources

Treaty of Versailles - presentation

Aims of leaders & decisions - evidence table

Problem task sheet

 

Writing task - My Story

My Story - task sheet

My Story - assessment grid

 

The Second World War

 

Great dictators

Great Dictators - presentation & tasks

Dictators fact sheets ....... Mussolini ........ Hitler ....... Stalin

Dictators evidence table

Dictators card sort activity

Great dictators - template for Facebook entry

 

Outbreak of war

Outbreak of war & Appeasment - presentation

Timeline web quest

 

Turning points

Dunkirk - success or disaster?

Dunkirk webquest

How did the RAF win the Battle of Britain?

Battle of Britain - video questions

Interview with an RAF pilot - role play task

Why was the Battle of the Atlantic the only thing that frightened Churchill?

Relive the Battle of the Atlantic - task sheet

Merchant sailor's letter home - task sheet

Why was D-Day such a success?

D-Day problem solving task

 

Home Front

Preparations for war & evacuees - presentation

Luggage labels for evacuees task - sheet one ... sheet two .... sheet three

The Home Guard - presentation

The Home Guard - cartoons

How did the War change life in Britain?

Ration book food tasting questions

Keep Mum! - Censorship & propaganda

What part did ordinary civilians play in the War?

Fact sheets on the parts played by civilians

 

End of WWII

Was the dropping of atomic bombs justified? - presentation

Was the dropping of atomic bombs justified? - evidence table

Holocaust - presentation

Holocaust - Star of David template

Holocaust - Dora Volkel source

 

Essay - Turning points

Turning points of WWII - task sheet

Turning points of WWII - assessment grid

 

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