• Gives superb support for the new EBacc certificate by engaging a broader range of KS3 history students with GCSE skills at an earlier stage.
• Supports both the Modern World History and Schools History Project GCSE specifications.
• Following extensive research with teachers, targets development of the skills students typically find difficult when moving from KS3 to GCSE, such as source analysis.
• Engages Year 9 students with 20th-century content and a range of interactive visual and written sources.
• Prepares students for controlled assessment, taking them through two enquiries and helping them to understand how to work with representations.
• Comprehensive teacher support includes customisable lesson plans and worksheets, plus video and interactive activities to interest all your students. Includes background information to help non-specialists understand the concepts.
• Builds on the proven success of our market-leading Edexcel GCSE 2009 resources to help make the transition equally as successful.
• Offers you full flexibility with different pathways, to use in different ways and at different times in Year 9.

This book is part of a book series called History .

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.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Pearson Education Limited .

Steve Waugh is an experienced author of GCSE textbooks for a major awarding body. Jane Shuter was a primary school teacher for many years before becoming a full-time writer of children's non fiction. Her fascination with ancient Egypt began at the age of eight, when she saw her first mummy. She has written many books on the subject.