Helps Year 9 students to bridge the skills gap between KS3 and GCSE
Designed specifically to help Year 9 students get a head start with the core skills they'll need at the beginning of their GCSE course, using Key Stage 3-appropriate content and activities.
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Gives superb support for the new EBacc certificate by engaging a broader range of KS3 history students with GCSE skills at an earlier stage.
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Supports both the Modern World History and Schools History Project GCSE specifications.
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Following extensive research with teachers, targets development of the skills students typically find difficult when moving from KS3 to GCSE, such as source analysis.
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Engages Year 9 students with 20th-century content and a range of interactive visual and written sources.
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Prepares students for controlled assessment, taking them through two enquiries and helping them to understand how to work with representations.
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Comprehensive teacher support includes customisable lesson plans and worksheets, plus video and interactive activities to interest all your students. Includes background information to help non-specialists understand the concepts.
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Builds on the proven success of our market-leading Edexcel GCSE 2009 resources to help make the transition equally as successful.
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Offers you full flexibility with different pathways, to use in different ways and at different times in Year 9.
Contents Listing
1 Thinking about history
1.1 Causation: Why the rush to join up, in 1914?
1.2 Consequence: What effect did the First World War have on the Votes for Women campaign?
1.3 Making a judgement: Home front propaganda in the Second World War
1.4 Significance: The National Health Service
1.5 Change: How getting the news about war has changed
1.6 Continuity: Targeting civilians
1.7 Impact: The impact of television on daily life
1.8 Making a judgement: Are we healthier now than in 1900?
2 Source skills
2.1 Source comprehension/inference: Conscientious objectors
2.2 Message and purpose: Government reactions to the suffragettes
2.3 Cross referencing: Propaganda during the Second World War
2.4 Source utility: Reactions to the National Health Service
2.5 Testing a hypothesis: Civilians in the firing line: the Blitz
3 Representations: The trenches and trench warfare
4 Enquiry skills
4.1 Enquiry skills: The Cuban Missiles Crisis
4.2 Writing up an enquiry: The Cuban Missiles Crisis
4.2 Enquiry skills: The Holocaust
4.3 Writing up an enquiry: The Holocaust
5 Glossary
Redkite Order Code: T178-T
