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ActiveHistory provides interactive simulations, self-marking quizzes, lesson plans, worksheets and multimedia activities designed by full-time history teacher Russel Tarr.
Build and deliver complete history courses with resources for classroom teaching, remote learning and independent study - from multimedia lectures to interactive games and historical simulations.
World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
These study units can be used to support the following GCSE British History thematic study unit:
- Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000-present and Whitechapel, c1870-c1900: crime, policing and the inner city (EDEXCEL)
The Norman Conquest (inc. Hereward the Wake / Murder of William Rufus)
Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages
The Reformation of Henry VIII, including the Pilgrimage of Grace
The causes and consequences of the English Civil War, inc. the trial and execution of King Charles I
The Trial and Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
Crime and Punishment in the Industrial Revolution
Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders
Political Concepts (inc. Authority, Legitimacy, Human Rights, Citizenship)
Miscellaneous Worksheets
Defining Crime:
(a) What are the different types of crime?
(b) How and why do different periods define crime in different ways?
(c) How are laws made?
(d) Nature of Crime - Practice Questions
Determining Guilt:
How do we decide if someone is guilty?
Deciding on Punishment:
How has the range of punishments changed over time?
Nature of Punishment - Practice Questions
Magna Carta
Development of Parliament
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