Planning
The are various awarding bodies at Key Stage 4 and it is advisable for teachers to take a long and careful look through the specifications. There are topics that are familiar to the History teacher. All the new specifications cover 3 eras: Medieval, Early Modern and Modern. They are divided into 3 timescales: Read more
General
- New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
- Inclusive approaches to teaching Elizabeth I at GCSE
- Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode
- Here ends the lesson: shaping lesson conclusions
- Move Me On 166: getting the right pitch for GCSE teaching
- History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool
Thematic
- Using individuals’ stories to help GCSE students to explain change and causation
- Film: Choosing the migration unit for GCSE
- Move Me On 173: teaching the GCSE thematic study
- Dealing with the consequences
- Significance
- Podcast Series: The Women's Movement
Period Study
- Using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study
- Polychronicon 166: The ‘new’ historiography of the Cold War
- Podcast Series: The Vikings
- The United States
- The Cold War - Period Study
- International relations
Depth Study
- Cunning Plan 183: Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714
- Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons
- Active remembrance
- The Aztecs & Spanish Conquest for GCSE
- Henry VIII and Ministers
- The Crusades: links
Historic Environment
- ‘Man, people in the past were indeed stupid’
- Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons
- Triumphs Show 169: Using 360 VR Technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study
- Using sites for insights
- Active remembrance
- Teaching the Historic Environment