Deliver engaging, enquiry-driven lessons and help pupils gain a coherent chronological understanding of and across periods studied with this complete offering for Key Stage 3 History. Designed for the 2014 National Curriculum this supportive learning package makes history fun and inspiring to learn.

Making Sense of History consists of four Pupil's Books with accompanying Dynamic Learning Teaching and Learning resources. Structured around big picture overviews and in-depth enquiries on different topics, the course develops pupils understanding of history and their ability to ask and explore valid historical questions about the past.

- Help pupils come to a sound chronological understanding of the past and identify the most significant events, connections and patterns of change and continuity with specifically tailored big pictures of the period and of the topics within it.

- Develop pupils' enquiry skills and help them become motivated and curious to learn about the past with purposeful and engaging enquiries and a focus on individuals' lives.

- Ensure pupils' progress in their historical thinking through clear and balanced targeted coverage of the main second order concepts in history.

- Support and stretch your pupils with differentiated material, including writing frames to support literacy and ideas for more challenge provided in the Dynamic Learning Teaching and Learning Resources.

- Make assessment become a meaningful and manageable process through bespoke mark schemes for individual pieces of work.

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 152 pages in this book. This is a study guide book. This book was published 2014 by Hodder Education .

John D Clare is Deputy Headteacher at Greenfields Comprehensive School, Newton Aycliffe and a well-known author of educational textbooks.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Investigating 1509-1745
• 2: Did Henry VIII live up to his public image?
• 3: Did life get better, 1509-1745?
• 4: How did people react to the religious roller-coaster of the English Reformation?
• 5: What can Lucy Hay tell us about life during the English Civil War?
• 6: Did executing Charles I put an end to Royal Power?
• 7: Were the Mughals more civilised than the Tudors and the Stuarts?
• 8: How united was the United Kingdom in 1745?
• 9: Did Britannia rule the waves in 1745?
• 10: The Big Picture of 1509-1745