Develop your students' understanding and skills step by step with Schools History Project's carefully planned approach to Key Stage 3. Part of the dynamic and coherent book-per-year course, this textbook combines expertise in course planning with features that reflect the possibilities and requirements of the National Curriculum. It has everything you would expect from the Schools History Project, including intriguing content, in-depth historical investigation, meaningful tasks and a wealth of source material. This second book in the series - a course for Year 8 - both continues the big stories of empire, movement and settlement, conflict, power and everyday life and provides in-depth enquiries on the key aspects of early modern England, industrialisation, popular protest, the Spanish Empires in the New World, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. - Help students develop their skills and improve their own performance with 'How to...' activities and the 'Doing History' feature. - Suit all abilities and interests with stimulating and worthwhile activities which cater to a wide range of learning styles. - Build the big pictures across Key Stage 3 with overviews and big stories which link the course together and develop students' conceptual frameworks. This Student's Book is supported by a Teacher's Resource Book and a Dynamic Learning resource which offers dozens of activities, presentations, ICT-based lesson sequences and hundreds of audio clips.

 

This book is part of a book series called Schools History Project .

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 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Hodder Education .

Maggie Wilson is lead teacher for Teaching and Learning at Wyke Manor School, Bradford. Dale Banham is a Deputy Head teacher in Ipswich having previously been Humanities Adviser in Suffolk. He has been a long term adviser and author for the Schools History Project. Ian Luff is Deputy Head at Kesgrave High School in Suffolk.

This book has the following chapters: 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 Assessment LESSON SEQUENCE PLANS Introduction - overview 1 What can the Olympics tell us? Section 1 - overview 2 Winners or losers? Why do people argue about who gained and who lost from the British Empire? 3 The end of Empire: why did British rule end in India, Kenya and Hong Kong? Section 2 - overview 4 Why did soldiers carry on fighting in the trenches? 5 When and why did the Second World War turn against Hitler and his allies? 6 Why did civilians in the Second World War find themselves at greater risk of death than ever before? 7 Why was the US army forced to withdraw from Vietnam? Section 3 - overview 8 Comparing dictatorships: how similar were Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler? 9 What can the story of Frank Bright and his classmates tell us about the Holocaust? Section 4 - overview 10 How did women in Britain campaign for the right to vote? 11 How did black Americans campaign for equal civil rights? 12 Nelson Mandela: how did a prisoner become leader of his country? Section 5 - overview 13 When did life really improve for ordinary people? Section 6 - overview 14 Migration Myths: how should the story of migration to Britain really be told? 15 Why is it difficult to summarise the experiences of people who have moved to Britain? Conclusion - overview 16 How have ideas and beliefs changed since 1900? ACTIVITY SHEETS