SHP History: Year 7 Teacher's Book

Summary:
SHP History is a major new book-per-year course for Key Stage 3 History. It takes the best of the old and the best of the new to create a dynamic and coherent course for a new generation of history pupils.

This is the first book in the series and provides a course for Y7 beginning the big stories of Empire, Movement and Settlement, Conflict, Power, Ordinary Life and Ideas and Beliefs that will run throughout the course, and providing in depth enquiries on key aspects of medieval England.

This is the teacher's book to support the Y7 Pupil's Book providing:
a) advice on implementing the new curriculum including advice on assessment
b) lesson plans for all topics
c) worksheets to support all main tasks
Lesson plans and worksheets are also available on the CD included with the book

• A teacher's book to support this major new course for National Curriculum history written by the leading body for history curriculum development
• Guidance on course planning around the Big Stories and themes for the revised National Curriculum coming into force in 2008.
• 24 lesson sequence plans - to cover the whole year - but flexibly designed for you to take more or less time over any topic
• Worksheets to support all the major tasks in the associated Pupil's Book.
• Includes a CD which provides all the planning documents and worksheets as PDFs.
• Time saving suggestions so that you can cover complex topics more quickly and effectively through group activities, and memorable overviews
• Provides alternative strategies for further varying learning styles - in particular how to use active learning techniques to promote kinaesthetic learning.
• Advice on the use of ICT to support the course including advice on how to incorporatate use of the Dynamic Learning CD ROM.
• Links to Ian Dawson's highly praised and free Active Learning website ThinkingHistory.co.uk.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
Overview of this course
Ten reasons to use this course
Key features of the revised National Curriculum
How 'SHP History' covers the revised National Curriculum
Using this material in the classroom - Lesson planning issues
Assessment
LESSON SEQUENCE PLANS
Section 1 - Overview
1. The mystery of the skeletons
2. A quick history of Britain before 1066
3. The Big Story: Movement and Settlement Part One
4. The Roman Empire
Section 2 - Overview
5. Medieval starters
6. The Norman Conquest stage one
7. The Norman Conquest stage two
8. A quick history of castles, weapons and armour
9. What should everyone know about the Crusades?
10. The Big Story: Conflict part one
Section 3 - overview
11. Could a kind do whatever he liked?
12. Why did the barons rebel against King John?
13. The Big Story: Power part one
Section 4 - Overview
14. The history theme park challenge!
15. The wonders of Baghdad - what stories will you bring back?
Section 5
16. Ordinary Life: How did the Black Death and the peasants' revolt change people's lives?
Section 6
17. Ideas and beliefs: medieval or modern?
Conclusion
18. What have you learned this year...?
ACTIVITY SHEETS

About the Author(s):
Ian Dawson is Publications Director of the Schools History Project and creator of www.thinkinghistory.co.uk

Readership:
Teachers in Key Stage 3