Starting at the end with a teacher read, engaging story from Ian Kershaw’s The End, can your students work out what happened over this fascinating 50 years of history? They will look at images and match them to captions to get an overview.
How much was Kaiser Wilhelm II’s ability to rule shaped by his early life? Here we bring the personal story to life. Kaiser Wilhelm was a deeply flawed and complex personality. He was charming, capricious, intelligent yet lacking an eye for detail, cruel… and so much more. To really understand[…]
Can your students work through a decision making activity? They face the same problems as the Kaiser, but must try and make the best decisions possible. This is a fun way to cover the new AQA GCSE content 1890-1914.
Was there anything new about 20th century crimes? This enquiry acts as good revision crime across time. It also gives a really quick over-view of technological change in the 20th century before asking your students to get stuck into the enquiry question. The class will look at some so called[…]
How much did the police-force change after 1900? This enquiry uses the case of Colin Pitchfork to help your students work out how much policing changed in the 20th century. After re-capping what policing was like by 1900, your students will read about the Pitchfork case. This was the first[…]
Did the 20th century see the biggest change in the punishment of offenders? Starting with sad case of Derek Bentley (pictured), the class acts as jury to decide whether they would find Bentley innocent or guilty? We are sure they will be shocked when they find out the real verdict. This[…]
Using evidence from the scene your students come to their own conclusions as to why Davison died? This engaging approach takes your students thinking to the higher level.
How do we get our students to understand how and why things changed over time? Focusing on the Suffragette campaign this active enquiry shows exactly how.
When was the safest time to steal? This enquiry acts as a revision overview to your entire crime and punishment course. When was the safest time for a criminal to steal and get away with it? You ask your students to remember as much as they can about crime prevention[…]
This enquiry helps students to understand the longer-term causes of the First World War. It uses two satirical maps (drawn in 1914) to make links between the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the war of 1914-18. Students spend some time picking apart the maps. They try to work out what[…]
Can your students use their knowledge to critique a mistake-ridden news broadcast and use their skills to create a better version?
This enquiry is a great way of developing students’ understanding of what it was really like for ordinary soldiers in the trenches of World War One. It challenges some of the common misconceptions that seem to have become widespread about trench warfare. At the centre of the enquiry is the[…]
Why would a gifted scientist take her own life? Can your pupils solve the mystery and critique a short film? The personal story reveals something very sinister.
Why was a history teacher once asked to leave the Imperial War Museum? Was he right to criticise WW1 display photographs?
This enquiry focuses on the colourful life of Margaretha MacLeod who was otherwise known as Mata Hari. Mata Hari was the Dutch exotic dancer who was executed in 1917 for her supposed espionage activities during the First World War. Students are challenged to work out why Margaretha was executed. […]
Here students use a set of criteria to evaluate the significance of WWI. Can they apply their understanding by evaluating the coverage of WWI in a school textbook.
This free download is used alongside the archive material from West Sussex’s Great War Project. Can your students solve this sad mystery?
This enquiry offers a great way of broadening the lens of study for the First World War. It introduces students to the global war – and to the long-lasting impacts of that war across Africa. First, the lesson disrupts students’ understanding about where the war took place, by asking them[…]
This enquiry takes as its focus the panoramic World War One painting the Panthéon de la Guerre, painted towards the end of the war. The enquiry uses the painting as a way of exploring the idea of commemoration. Students consider the ways in which the painting might have served to[…]
This fascinating enquiry overviews the ‘reign’ of Lenin and unpicks whether the history dept should spend school money on Soviet memorabilia.
This extended Russian Revolution enquiry focuses on Oralando Fige’s recent Amazon review scandal. Can also spice up GCSE Modern World Russia unit.
Download our 11 enquiry 1920s package. It has been planned and taught in real classrooms and has been proven to inspire and challenge.
This engaging enquiry aims deals with causation brilliantly, and also thereasons for the economic boom in America in the 1920s.
This lesson offers an overview of wealth, poverty and prejudice in 1920’s America by introducing students to a series of historical characters.
A cracking enquiry looking at the significance of carmaker Henry Ford, great use of video and other easy to use resources. A must for any USA course worth its salt!
This enquiry allows your students to look at moral issues in 1920’s Hollywood by analysing film clips. Fab!
Using the fictional character from The Great Gatsby, can your students use evidence about real women to answer the big question?
Using a Woody Guthrie song about the two anarchists as a hook, can your students decide for themselves if the two men were guilty?
From “Your horse has diabetes” to Al Capone and police corruption, the reasons for the failure of Prohibition are many and varied. The lesson develops and practices key history skills.
Can your students find out what happened to Rosewood village and why? This shocking event is handled with expertise.
