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

Richard McFahn is an advisor in East Sussex and creator of www. historyresourcecupboard. co. uk Neil Bates is a subject and advanced skills teacher in Hampshire Ian Dawson is Publications Director of the Schools History Project and creator of www. thinkinghistory. co. uk.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Investigating the Middle Ages
• 2: Was the Norman Conquest really so significant?
• 3: Why did people in the Middle Ages build glorious cathedrals and live in such simple houses?
• 4: Could medieval kings always do whatever they wanted?
• 5: Did rats and rebels change people's lives completely?
• 6: Are medieval wars worth remembering? 92
• 7: Was there a World Wide Web in the Middle Ages?
• 8: What can Anne Herbert tell us about life during the Wars of the Roses?
• 9: The Big Picture of the Middle Ages