History Year 8

2019 Week 37

Classroom-based assessment

2019 Week 36

Assessment Week

2019 Week 35

With the aid of Historyskill.com, learners were tasked to research and complete a worksheet about the different turning points in the French Revolution.

2019 Week 34

Learners analysed the roles of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in worsening the situations in France just before the revolution in 1789.

2019 Week 33

Learners learned about the Declaration of Independence in America. They analysed George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviours and suggest reasons how this rules have helped him to be a successful soldier and president of the United States of America.

2019 Week 32

Learners identified the causes of the American Revolution. They were also asked to write an essay about the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

2019 Week 31

Learners learned more about the thirteen original colonies. They were asked to complete a table that shows key points of each.

2019 Week 30

Learners learned about the thirteen original colonies through a map activity.

2019 Week 29

Learners described the medieval-view of the world, and discussed how this changed overtime with the help of science. Learners researched about the contribution of few scientists in the field of astronomy, medicine and chemistry.

2019

Week 28.

• Individual case studies of Hitler or Stalin as examples of Dictatorship.
• Students present their case studies.

2019

Week 27

• Dictatorship-Fascism and Communism.
• What enabled the rise of Fascism and Communism in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
• How did this produce two different societies culturally and what was the impact of people living in this regime.

2019

Week 25 - 26

Independence in the Empire

• When and how did the British Empire achieve Independence, the impact of this on local colonies and how did the colonial countries achieve independence. The government, trade and culture of the colonies.

2019

Week 25 - 26

Independence in the Empire

• When and how did the British Empire achieve Independence, the impact of this on local colonies and how did the colonial countries achieve independence. The government, trade and culture of the colonies.

2019

Week 22 - 24

1. Teacher exposes Women's suffrage to students. Students read passages on 'Vote for Women' and answer questions. Students also look at Women Suffrage in other parts of the World. When and how did women gain the right to vote? How women won the vote in the UK.
2. How has this impacted on the development of Global Politics-famous female War leaders.

• 2019
• Week 21
• Students undertake research projects to explain the changing nature of political power in Britain from the 15th to 17th Centuries; Feudalism/ Wars of the roses, Cromwell, Restoration.

• 2019
• Week 19 - 20
• Learners listen to Teacher's presentation on the changing nature of political power in Britain from the 15th to 17th Centuries; Feudalism/ Wars of the roses, Cromwell, Restoration.

• 2019
• Week 17 - 18
• Learners presented their research on the three main Governmental forms in groups.

• 2019
• Week 15 - 16
• Learner give definitions of the three main Governmental forms - a timeline and map exercise of where these can be found at different times from Ancient Greece to North Korea; Monarchy, Democracy, and Dictatorship.
• Learners conducted research projects.

• 2018
• Week 14
• Learners talked about the reasons for the decline of the British Empire.

• 2018
• Week 12-13
• Learners create a 10 minute presentation about the legacy of the British Empire in Malaysia. Each group chose a key element to talk about; economic, political, education, and culture.

• 2018
• Week 11
• Learners identified the different reasons for the abolition of the Slave Trade, and learned about the people behind it.

• 2018
• Week 10
• Students investigated the social and economic impact of the rise and fall of the slave trade in the Empire.

• 2018
• Week 9
• Students will continue to work on the Transatlantic slave trade.
• Objective 1 is to demonstrate an understanding of the origins of the slave trade through the Slave 'Triangle' .
• Objective 2 will be to evaluate why slavery was important to the British Empire through source analysis and the story of the Slave Ship 'Zong'.

• 2018
• Week 8
• Students will work on the Transatlantic slave trade.
• Objective 1 is to demonstrate an understanding of the origins of the slave trade through the Slave 'Triangle' .
• Objective 2 will be to evaluate why slavery was important to the British Empire through source analysis and the story of the Slave Ship 'Zong'.

• 2018
• Week 7
• Students will begin work on the development of the British Empire 1750-1900.
• Objective 1 is to demonstrate an understanding of thee concept of Empire by mapping the Empire at this time and creating a timeline of how the empire expanded.
• Objective 2 will be to evaluate why the empire was so important to the development of Britain at this tie and what were the impacts of empire on its subjects.

• 2018
• Week 6
• Students will complete a source evaluation exercise about working conditions for children in factories during the Industrial Revolution.
• They will describe the source content (5C), Explain its relevance (5B) and Evaluate the evidence for bias and reliability (5A)

• 2018
• Week 5
• Students will peer-assess a two lesson project where their aim was to research and evaluate the most significant developments in the Industrial revolution. The National curriculum levels available for this project range fro 5C (Describe significant events) to 6C (Evaluate the impact of these events using primary source evidence)

• 2018
• Week 4
• Students will complete a two lesson project where their aim is to research and evaluate the most significant developments in their area of research and evaluate which were the most important ones. This will form part of the mid-term assessment.

• 2018
• Week 3
• Students completed an evaluation of the main causes of the Industrial Revolution, developing their own perspective using evidence and reasoning skills.
• They began a two lesson project where their aim was to research and evaluate the most significant developments in their area of research and evaluate which were the most important ones. This will form part of the mid-term assessment.

• 2018
• Week 2
• Students have identified the main causes of Britain emerging as an Industrial nation. The learning objective is to evaluate the impact of developments in Population, Technology, Transport and Agriculture.
• This will been completed as a group research project which will form the basis of the mid term assessment.
• Students have been set a home task to research one of these developments in detail and find primary source evidence-this is due in the first lesson of week 3