KS3 SCHEME OF WORK
1.
KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES
Evidence
Chronology
Time
Interpretations
of history
(introduction)
Asking questions &
communication
Class discussion +
Group work - compile poster types of sources and or history
as detective work.
- chronology worksheets
- own time line
school & or local
history investigation
Text Books
(See List)
+ What Is History? - J.
Nichol
STUDY UNIT 1
MEDIAEVAL REALMS:
BRITAIN 1 1066-1500
(1) THE NORMAN CONQUEST
- What was England like in 1066?
How do we know?
- The development of the English
Mediaeval Monarchy
 Death of Edward the Confessor
& the Question of the Succession
 1066 - Year of Crisis
 The Battle of Hastings Why did William win?
(2) CONQUEST & CONTROL
- Changes in Government - Feudal
System + Castle Building +
Domesday Survey etc.
Analyse
Characteristic
features of the
period.
 Source Analysis +
Discussion - Pair/Group
Work On Merits Of
Claimants Critical Analysis
Of Long Term/Short Term
Causes Of The Conquest +
Battle Of Hastings
 Map Work & Source
Analysis
 J.T. Exercise on
Battle of Hastings
 Worksheets - Castles +
Model Making + Computer
Programmes
Text Books
- Past into Present +
C&C
Documents
(3) Relations - Church
Barons/People/
Monarch
Culture +
Society +
Power
Discuss relationship between
Church and State +
Importance of Religion
Video +
Texts
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
INTRODUCTION: WHAT
IS HISTORY?
- Recap. KS2 + discover extent
of knowledge & understanding
of the work of historians &
archaeologists.
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Cause/
Consequence
Interpretations
Develop historical
terminology e.g.
Kingship/
State
Power
Feudalism
Historical Enquiry
Change
Evidence
Communication
A.T.
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
Poster
Work
In
Primary
School
LEVELS
L3/4
Own Time-Line
Chronology
+ Worksheets
+
Art
Exercises
L3/4
Pictures/
Domesday
Book Extracts
Video
Worksheets
- Castles
Med. Realms
Computer
Programmes
- Exercise - P into P
page 48-53 on claimants
to the throne I.T.
analysis of sources
C & C - critical analysis of
conflicting accounts of the
Battle of Hastings
Newspaper Account
Harold’s Death I.T. Exercise
- Sequencing Chronology Game
L3/4
+ Castle Making
- Exercises on Religious
Beliefs
Art
I.T.
Geog.
Dept.
(Mold)
R.E.
2.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
(3) Cont.
(a) Becket v Henry II
(b) King John & The MagnaCarta
Why did the Barons revolt?
Was King John a good or bad?
What was/is the significance of
the Magna Carta
(c) Why & How did Parliament
Develop?’
(d) The development of the
Judicial System.
Could you get justice?
(e) THE PEASANTS REVOLT
What were the causes?
The Revolt (include Black
Death)
Was anything achieved?
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KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
Historical
Terminology
- Prejudice
Interpretations
& Communication
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
- Role Play
- Discussion - Different
Interpretations of Murder
RESOURCES
Sources + Stories
Timeline
- Presentation (Teacher)
- Group Work/ Pair Work
to investigate King John
Good or bad? (Contrast to
“poplar” image of Richard +
reality)
- Document analysis
+ Stress Interpretations
of History.
Change
- Causation
- Rights
Investigation
+ Communication
Change/
continuity
- Enquiry into Causation
(Role of war/revolt)
- Discussion on Present
System (Brief!)
Textbooks
Worksheets
Videos - Parliament
Personal Research
+ source analysis
Textbooks
Library
- Study different types of
causes - assess importance.
Analysis of different versions
of the Revolt. Role Play?
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
Script production
(News Report)
- Newspaper Account
- Source Analysis
R.E.
LEVELS
Autocracy
Taxation
Power
Cause/Consequence
Change
+ Significance of
individual
+ Historical enquiry
Revolt
Taxation
Causation
A.T.
L3/4
Text Books
L3/4
Exercises C & C
p.136-135
(King John)
Pictures
Exercise C & C
p.134-137
(Magna Carta)
Worksheets
Variety of sources
of the Revolt
Video
L3/4
Exercises on
Developments
(Worksheets)
Written account
of different types of
law & order +
Q. Summaries pg.123
C&C
L3/4
Citizenship
Questions p.143
C&C
Equal
Opportunities
Health
Education
(Black Death)
3.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
4. (b) Monasticism
(Re-cap - Church/beliefs)
Study all aspects of life
in a Monastery or Priory etc.
+ Disease
+ Toleration
5. Relationships - England Scotland - Wales - Ireland
Why did England try to
conquer Scotland & Wales?
Relations with other
countries - show continuity
+ change throughout period
RESOURCES
- Use sources to investigate
the changing features of
village & town life - for
all peoples
- make use of local evidence
(Domesday Book entries)
construct wall displays groups studying different
aspects of life. How would
people have felt about their
lives.
Role Play - Market Day
Change &
Continuity
Similarity
&
Difference
Monastic
Pilgrimage
Death
Toleration
Independence
Chronology
+ Organisation
&
Communication
A.T.
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
L3/4
Test on whole unit
I.T.
L3/4
Wall display different aspects of
life.
Economic
Awareness
LEVELS
- Group Discussion
+ Newspaper Articles
3. Cont. Peasants Revolt.
Re-cap - changing power
relationship - King/Church/
Barons + People
4. Mediaeval Life
(a) Village Life/Town Life
What changed + what
stayed the same?
How did people live &
work (men/women/rich/poor)
+ Trade & Travel
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
Videos
Village/
Town
Textbooks
Equal
opportunities
Pictures
Worksheets
Worksheet Role of Women
‘Careers’
- Visit Norton Priory
- Investigation into the
life. work/buildings
etc. (Work of
Archaeologists)
- Discuss - How Tolerant were
people
Site
Investigation
Pictures
Worksheets
Video
- Compare the two
‘stories’ + study the roles
of individuals
Maps
+ Text-books
+ Sources
L4
L4
ENGLISH
- Chancer/
Canterbury
Tales
R.E.
Health Ed.
Contrast &
Connections
Pages 144-147
Exercises
Map-work exercises
(construct a Timeline - showing change (+ continuity) during the Middle Ages)
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- Investigation/
Report + Display
on
NORTON PRIORY
VISIT.
Geography
Test/Exam
4.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
THE MAKING OF THE U.K.
1500-1750
1. (a) Link-Med.Realms
(Power of the Monarchy/
Relationship - Parliament &
the people)
+ Timeline
(b) Religious change
(Background - Reformation
- How & why did Religion
change
+ Nature of Religious
Diversity
(c) The Political Unification
of Britain - 1600
(link to Med. Realms)
2. Charles I & The Civil War
Why did Civil War occur?
Why did Charles lost?
What was life like during and
after the Civil War?
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KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES
Kingship
Power
Change
Causation
Chronology
Investigation
Chronology
- Recap - work on Tudors
- Junior School)
+ Personal Investigation
- a Tudor Monarch power + limitation
- talks to class
TUDOR + STEWART
TIMELINE
Library, Source Books
- Tudors
Text
Societies in change
Religion
Toleration
Prejudice
Continuity &
Change
- Discussion - causes
- Grid - Tudors & Religion
- Study the Gunpowder
Plot.
- Activity - Investigation
Video - Luther
In search
of History
- Aylett
Unification
Conflict
Power
- Mapwork
- Timeline
Map
Text
Timeline
Construct
Timeline - 1600
showing steps towards
union. Map - Disunity
Cause/
Consequence
Continuity/
Change, Power,
Rights, Religion
Investigation &
Communication
- use sources/worksheets
to study the complex
long term & short term
causes (Group
consideration)
- study the war
- case studies - life during
the war.
Textbooks
sources
I.T. Data Base
“St Andrews”
Summary exercise
Pg.49
A.T.
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
- Project on 1 Tudor
Monarch assessing
Power
Timeline
English Drama
LEVELS
L3
L4
Grid
- Investigation of
Gun Powder
Plot Pg. 37-39
Societies in Change
R.E.
Citizenship
Citizenship
I.T. - DATA analysis
on “St. Andrews”
Activity - pg.54
I.T. work
5.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES
2. Cont.
Trial & Execution of
Charles I
Justice
Cause/consequence
- Discussion - Was
Charles a good/bad King?
Role Play - Trial
- Source analysis Execution
- Re-writing History?
Textbooks
Interpretations
3. Cromwell &
The Commonwealth
and reason for return of Charles II
4. The Glorious Revolution
Causes?
- The Changed Relationship
King and Parliament
5. How United was the U.K.?
(recap. - earlier work +
timeline)
(a) What happened 1600 -1745
(b) The Jacobite Rebellion
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Similarity/
Difference
Puritanism
Essay Writing
- Study of Life in
Cromwellian England
- Analysis of Cromwell - Essay
Work
- Discussion - the power of
Charles II
Cause
Change
Similarity/
Difference
- Source analysis - causation
- Group work on changing
relationship
Unification
Rights etc.
- Complete Timeline 1745
Group work - Role Play - The Story of Bonnie Prince
Charlie - Why is he such a
popular romantic figure?
- Analysis of the Rebellion
A.T.
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
LEVELS
Accounts of
Trial/Execution
Worksheets
Textbooks
Documents
+ Prompt sheets for
extended writing
Document work
- Execution
L4
Citizenship
Was Charles a
Martyr or Traitor?
P.62-63
L4/5
The World Turned
upside down
- worksheet - letter
+ Activity pg.69
Societies in Change
* Essay writingCornwall
Citizenship
Equal Opp.
I.T.
Textbooks
L4/5
Activity pg. 71 S in C
Citizenship
L4/5
This is Your Life
- Bonnie Prince
Charlie script
(English)
Worksheet
(Timeline)
Sources
- Songs
6.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
6. Change in Society
(a) Rich and Poor
- How did life change for the
rich during this period?
KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES
Class
- Personal research
into change in society
Text books
Worksheets
- especially role of women
Library
Poverty
- were the poor really poor?
Change
What attempts were
made to ‘deal’ with the poor?
Investigation &
Communication
(b) What was family life like?
Culture
(c) How did London change?
A.T.
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
Project - Change
in Society
Equal
Opps.
LEVELS
L4/5
Economic
Awareness
Source Work
- source analysis
- change in London
Textbooks
Maps
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES
End of Unit Test
Health
&
Awareness
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
Regional Diversity
What was life like in the North?
7..
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
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KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
A.T.
LEVELS
STUDY UNIT 5 - TURNING
POINT.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
& NAPOLEONIC ERA
(1a) What were the causes of
the French Revolution?
(Link - Common Causes of
Revolt - studied so far)
LONG TERM Life Before the Revolution
(all aspects)
+ Changes e.g. New Ideas
Economic & Social Change
SHORT TERM - E.G. Economic
Slump, Calling of Estates, General
(Nobles Revolt).
Cause/
Consequence
Nature of
Society
& Culture
Economy
Rights
Taxation
Interpretation
- Study in depth of a variety
of sources on causes of
Revolution
- Nature of life in France
Textbooks
Sources
Past into Present
Book 3
pg. 24-35
Discussion & Recap
- Common causes of
Revolt
L4/5
“
Key figures
- Study - how the Revolution
changed France
- Louis Story - Cartoon Strip
- Role Play - In Groups
- A Revolutionary Committee
at work
Decision making exercises
(c) Why did the Revolutionary
Wars Occur? Effects?
- The Rise to power of Napoleon
Fraternity
Liberty
Equality
- Timeline/Discussion
+ Map-work
- Source Analysis
“
8.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
(b) The Revolution
- Main Events
- Why was the King
executed?
- Liberty - Terror
Was the Terror necessary
- Robespierre - hero or villain?
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Change
Chronology &
Communication
Causation
Critical Source
Analysis
L4/5
Was Louis a bad
man or bad King?
French
- Worksheet Long Term causes
(Activity pg.112
S in C)
Citizenship
Essay - causes
of French Revolution
Economic
Awareness
Newspaper Cartoon Strip Louis - story
I.T.
English
Statistical analysis
- The terror
(pg.34 - Past into
Present)
RESOURCES
Maths
Q.3, pg.147 (S in C)
& Q1,2,3,4 pg.148
A.T.
LEVELS
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
2 (a) Napoleonic Conquest of
Europe
(b) The Legacy of Revolution
and Napoleon
STUDY UNIT 6
BLACK PEOPLES OF THE
AMERICAS - 16 - 20
FOCUS
- Slavery/emancipation
- New identities & cultures
Change
Cause/
Consequence
Nationalism
Impact of an
Individual or
Events
- Consider (a) Scope of his
Conquests (b) Good and
bad effects
Continuity
“Ism’s”
e.g. Nationalism
- Emphasis on the
way the Revolution has been
interpreted
- Importance of ideas
- Development of Nationalism/
Liberalism etc.
Textbook
L5
Questions 4 pg .155 (S in C)
L5
Pages 168 & 169
Q.1 + Activity
& Maps
& Timeline
Add
depth
to work
undertaken
in
French
“
+ Pg.35
Past into Present
Slavery/
Emancipation
Major Investigation
Major
Investigation
Communication
-Study of Society
& Culture
(- Introductory lessons + videos)
Then - Major Historical Enquiry
+ Exercise in Communication
- Pupils to decide topic
+ Plan investigation - collect
& record - analyse, evaluate,
organise and present material
(Linked to STUDY UNIT 3)
Visit to Maritime Museum
Video
Field Visit
- Maritime Museum
KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES
L5/6
- Major Investigation
+ Communication written/visual/display
(& drama?)
“Resource Pack”
Libraries
Text Book
Citizenship
(Multiculture
Ed.)
I.T.
Geography
- Link to
work on
twentieth
century in
R.E.
9.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
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A.T.
LEVELS
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
STUDY UNIT 3
EXPANSION TRADE &
INDUSTRY - BRITAIN 17501900
1(a) Link - Pre Industrial Society
Change
(b) Industrial Revolution
- Domestic System
- Reasons for Change
- Factories
- Industrial Development
e.g. Textiles/Iron/Coal Steam
Cause &
Consequence
(Power)
Continuity &
Change
- Brief explanation of
Agricultural
Revolution & its effects
- Investigation into
causes of industrial Revolution
Decision making Map Exercises
L5/6
(c) Impact on families
(Women & Children/
Communities etc.)
- Working & Living Conditions
Population Change
Society &
Culture
Cause &
Consequence
10.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
Empire
Trade
Local study - Liverpool
Role - Development of Trade
2. BRITAIN’S WORLD-WIDE
EXPANSION
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Past into
Present - Bk.3
- Documentary analysis
- Employment - Women &
Children
Study in Change - Urbanisation
Graph Work
Documents
(SATS)
Statistics
RESOURCES
A.T.
- Siting a Factory
Activity pg.10
(Careers
Ed.)
Environmental
Awareness
- Critical analysis
e.g. Past into Present
- pages 13-16
e.g. Pg. 6 & 7
KS3 - Test - Towns
Health
Ed.
Equal
Opps.
Maths
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
Research project
Economic
Awareness
LEVELS
Maps,
- Expansion of Empire
- Impact on economy +
way of life of British people.
(Transport Revolution)
- Patterns of trade (Liverpool’s
Part in process)
(Link-to multi-Cultural
20 Britain).
3. POLITICAL
DEVELOPMENT
(Recap - Development of
of Parliament.)
- Link - Impact of French
Revolution etc.
Demand for Reform to changes already studied
- Why did political parties develop
- Popular protest
- Extensions of the Franchise
1832/67 Reform Acts present day
11.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
STUDY UNIT 4
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
WORLD
(a) CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
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Culture
Investigation &
Communication
Power/
Rights/
Democracy
Chronology
Franchise
KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
with the Empire
- Patterns of Trade (Mapwork
e.g. Triangular Trade)
(Link to work on Black Peoples
of America)
Study in depth W. Hesketh & Port Sunlight
- Discuss Civil Rights/
Woman’s Rights
Study - Political
Development in Great Britain
- Present Development of Democracy
Rights etc. - contrast
eighteenth century-twentieth
century.
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
- Investigation into causes of
War/State of Nations at the
beginning of twentieth century
Texts
L5-7
- Liverpool &
Port Sunlight
&
MultiCultural
Awareness
(Study in Depth)
Visit to
Port Sunlight
Geography
(Local
Study
Re-cap)
Videos Parliament
Doc. Suffragettes
L5-8
RESOURCES
A.T.
- Suffragettes
Project - Doc.
analysis &
organisation &
communication
of findings
KS3 test
Citizenship
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
LEVELS
Past into
Present 3.
L6/7
Doc. exercises on
outbreak of war and
Equal
Opps.
P.S.E.
- Long Term and short term
- Why did the murder of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand lead to World
War.
(b) ATTITUDES TO WAR
Cause &
Consequence
Interpretations
- Video work and timeline &
essay and doc. work
Patriotism
Propaganda
- Source Analysis, including
pictures, posters, personal
accounts etc. (conscription)
&
Peace & War
& videos
essay.
Detailed source
analysis (adapted
GCSE questions)
R.E.
Morality
- including cultural consequences
- Read War Poetry.literature
MAJOR STUDY
(c) THE NATURE OF
WARFARE - TRENCH
WARFARE ON
THE WESTERN FRONT
(d) The Economic/Political
& Sound Effects of War
- Rationing/Govt. Intervention
- Changes in social attitudes
- Development of new technology
- Recap. Developments already
mentioned.
- Trench Warfare Study in Depth War on W. Front - Weapons/
methods etc.
Cause &
Effect
(e) The Legacy of W.W.I.
- Study the effects of submarine
warfare (Rationing/Govt.)
intervention etc. - Discussion
& Independent Analysis (construction of table/grid).
Poetry
Diagrams
- Personal
Accounts/
Pictures
- Reading - War Poetry
L6/7
Video Stalemate
Hindsight
Articles
- Group Exercise - report back
- conclusion board
Video - snips
Propaganda Poster
- Detailed investigation
& project on nature
of war on W. Front
English
- War
Poetry
+ Doc. questions on
women’s role & war
(link to work on
Suffragettes)
Economics
& political
awareness
Health Ed.
2. The Inter War Years
Causes of W.W.II
Democracy
v dictatorship
Hitler & Nazi Germany
- Was life better or worse?
- Documents
L6-8
Doc. Questions
+ Essay
R.E.
Civics
12.
STUDY UNITS
CONTENT AND MAIN FOCUS
KEY ELEMENTS
& CONCEPTS
TEACHING & LEARNING
METHODS/ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES
A.T.
ASSESSMENTS
LINKS
2. (cont)
- Major Study of Anti-Semitism
in Nazi Germany + The
- Prejudice/
Morality
Power
- Study of documents/
contradictory interpretations
- video material
Documentary
analysis
Morality
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LEVELS
Video
Documents
L 6-8
Holocaust
3. W.W.II Overview of the War Scope & effects
+ Nature of Warfare
- Cause/consequence
- Society/culture
- Interpretations
of History
Morality
- The Atomic Bomb
- Why were they dropped?
- Effects?
4. THE LEGACY OF THE
SECOND WORLD WAR
- Redrawing of national
frontiers in Europe
- U.N. & Human Rights
- Cold War.
What about the World today?
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Consequences
Balance of Power
International
Co-operation
Interpretation of
History
- major investigation
&
analysis of all attitudes
towards the issues - Pair +
group work
Text Books
- A survivor of the Holocaust
remembers.
Source analysis - The Atomic
Bomb - effects etc.
- Discussion in groups pg.89
Past into Present
Videos
Variety of sources
on Jews Diary of Anne Frank
etc.
Past into Present 3.
- Personal
- Investigation Hitler
L8
R.E.
- GCSE questions
Examination
R.E.
Environment
Awareness
- Map work - The New Europe
Investigation - U.N.
Video & worksheets
Group discussion legacy of W.W.II for G.B. and the world.
Texts
and map books
Current
Affairs
Self Assessment
- Year 9 work and
skills acquired