GCSE resources

GCSE Resources.............

Resources for teachers and students ................................

Exam revision documents	File type

GCSE subject guide	Word

Tips on answering source-based questions in paper 1	Word

Tips on answering source-based questions in paper 2	Word

Top tips on writing structured essays	Word

Example questions & marks scheme, paper 2	PowerPoint

AQA Mark scheme, June 2003 paper 2	Pdf

AQA Mark scheme, June 2004 paper 2	Pdf

AQA marks scheme, June 2005, paper 1	Pdf

Approximate grade boundaries for History GCSE	Word

How to interpret cartoons	PowerPoint

Example questions - cartoons	Word

Revision guide, Russia, 1914-41	Word

Revision guide, Cold War	Word

Cold War, summary & revision plan	Word

Explain questions - mark schemes, sample answers	Word

Usefulness questions - mark schemes, sample answers	Word

Interpretations questions - mark schemes, sample answers	Word

Causation questions, mark schemes, sample answers	Word

Russia/USSR, 1914-41	File type
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Russia & USSR, keywords & timeline	Word

Russia, overview	PowerPoint

Why was Russia difficult to govern?	PowerPoint

What was the Tsar like?	Word

Opposition groups - soundbites, matching task	Word

Causes of 1905 Revolution - card sort	Word

Did life get better after 1905?	Power Point

Rasputin - presentation	PowerPoint

Rasputin - source activity	Word

Rasputin - source activity, table	Word

Ra, Ra, Rasputin - lyrics	Word

Account of Rasputin's death	Word

Why was there a revolution in Russia in February 1917?	PowerPoint

Causes of February 1917 Revolution - card sort	Word

Causes of the February Revolution - writing frame	Word

Was the Provisional Government doomed from the start?	PowerPoint

Why was there a second revolution in October 1917	PowerPoint

How did the Bolsheviks seize power?	PowerPoint

Report on October Revolution - task sheet	Word

How did the Bolsheviks consolidate power? - reading activity	Word

How did the Reds win the Civil War?	Word

Civil War & War Communism - presentation	PowerPoint

Civil War - card sort	Word

Civil War - role play	Word

What role did Trotsky play in the Civil War	PowerPoint

What role did Trotsky play in the Civil War - sources	Word

Civil war - writing frame	Word

What happened to the Tsar - presentation	PowerPoint

What happened to the Tsar - source analysis	Word

What happened to the Tsar - source analysis table	Word

War Communism -reading task	Word

War Communism - sources	Word

War Communism - presentation	PowerPoint

NEP	PowerPoint

Was Lenin a great leader?	PowerPoint

Lenin - fact file	Word

Lenin - card sort	Word

Lenin - sources	Word

How did Stalin come to power?	PowerPoint

Five Year Plans & Collectivisation	PowerPoint

Collectivisation - sources	Word

Magnitogorsk - sources	Word

Magnitogorsk - data collection sheet & task	Word

Germany, 1919-1939	File type

Introduction to life in Germany in 1918	PowerPoint

Weimar Republic, 1918-23 - video task sheet	Word

What sort of man was the Kaiser?	Word

The effects of WWI on Germany	PowerPoint

Treaty of Versailles	PowerPoint

Treaty of Versailles - speech template	Word

The Weimar Constitution	PowerPoint

Challenges to Weimar - Spartacists & Kapp	Word

1923 - Crisis Year, data retreival chart	Word

1923 - Crisis Year	PowerPoint

Life like during hyperinflation - sources activity	Word

Recovery under Stresemann	PowerPoint

Weimar Republic, 1923-29 - video task sheet	Word

Recovery under Stresemann - task sheet	Word

My Story - account of Hitler's rise to power, task sheet	Word

My Story - research questions	PowerPoint

My story - role cards	Word

Hitler's rise to power - video task sheet	Word

How did Hitler become Chancellor?	PowerPoint

The Reichstag fire	PowerPoint

Reichstag fire - data retrieval chart	Word

Reichstag fire - sources	Word

Night of the Long Knives - sources	Word

The Police State	PowerPoint

The Police State - task sheet	Word

The Police State - sources	Word

Effects of Nazi Rule	Word

Effects of Nazi rule	PowerPoint

Education	PowerPoint

Hitler Youth - starter presentation	PowerPoint

Nazi policy towards the Jewish community	PowerPoint

Did the Nazis manage the German economy well?	PowerPoint

Suffragettes	File type

What rights did Victorian women have?	Word

Why did women get the vote - presentation	PowerPoint

Suffragettes - research, task sheet	Word

Emily Davison - presentation	PowerPoint

Emily Davision - source investigation	Word

Cold War	File type
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Origins of Cold War - reading list	Word

Cold War Crises (1949-63)	Word

What is a Cold War?	PowerPoint

Ideological differences - card sort	Word

Yalta & Potsdam Conferences	PowerPoint

Yalta & Potsdam - table of differences	Word

Communist expansion into Central & Eastern Europe - presentation	PowerPoint

Communist expansion into Central & Eastern Europe - reading task	Word

Churchill's Iron Curtain speech	Word

Stalin's reaction to Churchill's speech	Word

Truman doctrine	PowerPoint

Truman's speech on Greece	Word

Marshall Plan	PowerPoint

Cold War, 1945-9 - treasureless treasure hunt	Word

Berlin Blockade & Airlift	PowerPoint

Berlin Blockade - source activity	Word

Berlin Blockade - cartoon activity	Word

Arms Race	PowerPoint

Korean War	PowerPoint

Korean War - key events maps	Word

Korean War - consequences, card sort	Word

The Thaw - presentation	PowerPoint

The Thaw - cloze passage	Word

Cold War in Europe - project task sheet	Word

Hungarian Uprising	PowerPoint

Hungarian Uprising - task sheet	Word

Berlin Wall	PowerPoint

Berlin Wall - source activity	Word

Cuban Missile Crisis - research activities	Word

Cuban Missile Crisis	PowerPoint

Cuban Missile Crisis - sources	Word

Cuban Missile Crisis - timeline, card sort	Word

Prague Spring	PowerPoint

Prague Spring - sources	Word

Prague spring - example answer	Word

Hungarian Uprising v. Prague Spring - comparative task	Word

The reasons for Detente - presentation	PowerPoint

Detente - success or failure?	PowerPoint

Detente Taboo - keywords game	Word

Solidarity - presentation	PowerPoint

Afghanistan - presentation	PowerPoint

Gorbachev - source activity	Word

Gorbachev & end of Cold War - presentation	PowerPoint

End of Cold War - bingo!	PowerPoint

Vietnam	File type
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Vietnam coursework - mark scheme & questions	Word

Vietnam - background & causes	PowerPoint

Vietnam - reactions	Word

Vietnam - victims	Windows Media File

Vietnam research questions - question 1	Word

Vietnam research quesions - question 2	Word

The language of Vietnam	Word

Vietnam - true/false activity	Word

Vietnam - slip test	Word

Britain and the Second World War	File type
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Blitzkrieg	PowerPoint
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Dunkirk	PowerPoint

Dunkirk - webquest	Word

Battle of Britain - video task sheet	Wordt

Battle of Britain - presentation	PowerPoint

Battle of the Atlantic - presentation	PowerPoint

Battle of the Atlantic - activity sheet	Word

Battle of the Atlantic - writing frame	Word

Bombing of Dresden	PowerPoint

Bombing of Dresden - card sort	Word
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Home Front - brochure task	Word
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Home Front - virtual gallery	Word

Home Front - virtual gallery, peer assessment sheet	Word

Home Front - presentation	PowerPoint

D-Day - problem solving task	PowerPoint

D-Day - problem solving task sheet	Word

Propaganda & censorhsip	PowerPoint

Ration book recipes - questionnaire	Word