Outstanding Lessons and Free Samples at KS4

Hoover’s rubbish: Roosevelt moves in

Students predict what pieces of departing Hoover's rubbish policies Roosevelt might be throwing out

This lesson on a fairly familiar theme approaches GCSE cartoon analysis in a different way. Instead of showing the students the cartoon they are to interpret, they are simply given an outline, without the detail and certainly without the text. Using their contextual knowledge students...

Vesalius’ claim to fame. Using the B.A.D formula to prepare for a BBC interview

The BBC is making a documentary on Renaissance medicine in which they have devoted two minutes to the work of Vesalius. Unfortunately, their Vesalius expert is ill and they thought it would be a neat idea to ask two well-informed students to stand in. Their...

Prehistoric Medicine: Getting your GCSE course off to a great start

This lesson was taught by Mike Herrity when Head of History at Wildern School, Hedge End, near Southampton. On an OFSTED inspection the lead inspector pronounced the lesson quite outstanding and was so convinced of the quality that she saw no more history lessons after...

Why was this World War One painting censored?

Students studying Britain during World War One, whether it be for AQA, OCR or Edexcel, need to know about censorship. This deceptively simple lesson asks penetrating questions which both engage and challenge. Students analyse one of Nevinson’s famous paintings, Paths of Glory, perhaps surprised that...

How have cartoonists portrayed the Liberals Old Age Pensions reforms?

This lesson takes a familiar cartoon but gives it an original twist. Instead of seeing the cartoon all at once, students see it in four separate parts, which in pairs they have to draw in turns. This helps them to focus on the details and...

Outstanding Lessons

Hoover’s rubbish: Roosevelt moves in

Vesalius’ claim to fame. Using the B.A.D formula to prepare for a BBC interview

Prehistoric Medicine: Getting your GCSE course off to a great start

Why was this World War One painting censored?

How have cartoonists portrayed the Liberals Old Age Pensions reforms?

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