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.

There are 164 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. Chris Culpin is former Director of the Schools History Project and an experienced teacher and author.

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 The book with no name Section 1 - overview 2 Ordinary lives 1500-1750 3 What did the Industrial Revolution do for us? 1750-1850 4 A better time for all? Ordinary life 1850-1900 Section 2 - overview 5 The Spanish Empire 6 The British Empire and the slave trade 7 The British Empire Section 3 - overview 8 Movement and settlement into the unknown: were all emigrants brave and adventurous? Section 4 - overview 9 Invasion attempts 10 Which wars? A quick history of war and peace Section 5 - overview 11 Would you have signed Charles I's death warrant? 12 The Royal Rollercoaster 13 Hero or villain? Why do reputations change over time? Section 6 - overview 14 How can you change things for the better? 15 Winning the vote in nineteenth-century Britain 16 How did the Chartists try to win the vote? Conclusion - overview 17 What have you learned this year? Progression in key concepts from Year 7 to Year 8 ACTIVITY SHEETS