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GCSE revision games

GCSE lessons

The July Bomb Plot - a roleplay This is a structured roleplay a la Dawson and Culpin of SHP fame involving students putting themselves in the position of Hitler and Stauffenberg and working their way through the events of July 20th 1944

GCSE Worksheets

These are a selection of worksheets on the History of Medicine, Germany c1918-1945 and South Africa that are available to be downloaded either in Word, PDF or Powerpoint (ppt).

Jerry Springer v Hippocrates (pdf) A worksheet to summarise the work of Hippocrates but in the style of the Jerry Springer show

19C Surgery sources (word) A source activity using four sources about surgery and asking students to compare and contrast

Anaesthetics and Antiseptics (ppt) A revision powerpoint summarising the key points of this topic

Surgery 'call my bluff ' starter (pdf) A starter based on the radio show - three definitions only one is correct

"Oops there goes his testicles!" A historical play about surgery (pdf) A role play / extended writing activity where students have to finish the play based on characters such as Dr Robert Liston and Nurse Seacole with appearances from key figures in the history of surgery

John Snow (pdf) A series of worksheets looking at the discovery of John Snow linking Cholera to dirty water, with GCSE source questions from paper 2

The Royal Society (word) An information sheet with comprehension style activities

William Harvey (word) A paper two style exam using six sources about William Harvey with a markscheme

Medicine top trumps (word) A revision activity with the 12 key figures from the Medicine course

Medicine top trumps instructions (word)

Medicine Living Timeline (pdf) All the cards that you need for the key dates and factors in the History of Medicine to create a Living Timeline - you may need some string to show how some factors stretched over a long period of time

Medicine - 12 key people (pdf) This is a series of revision cards that can be cut and pasted into a revision poster based on the key events in the Medicine course

Germany 1918-45 - 12 key events (word) This is a series of revision cards that can be cut and pasted into a revision poster based on the key events in the Germany course

Hyperinflation (pdf) A worksheet showing examples of how prices rose.

Nazi bingo (word) Does exactly what it says on the tin

Treaty of Versailles Blockbusters (Activstudio blb) A series of questions about the Treaty of Versailles based on the Blockbusters format for the Activstudio Interactive Whiteboard

A good overview website about South African history

South Africa Introduction (pdf) A matching exercise giving key terms and their definitions

South Africa in the 1930s (word) A series of worksheets covering the land, housing and job situation in South Africa in the 1930s

South Africa in the 1940s (pdf) A series of worksheets looking at the impact of WW2 in South Africa as well as the Atlantic Charter and 'African Claims', also includes differentiated sheets for lower ability students

1930s and 1940s living timeline (pdf) This is an activity that gives pupils an overview of life in South Africa in the 1930s and 1940s. The students first have to lay the card (either a description - whites believed that blacks were more suited to 'natural conditions' and should live in the countryside - or a law / attitude eg Urban Areas Act) in the correct chronological place. Then they have to decide if the card was positive (above the line) or negative (below the line). Then introduce some linking themes - White supremacy and Legal discrimination in the 1930s and Impact of WW2 and civil rights in the 1940s and ask them to group cards together under those themes.

Small scale living timeline (pdf) A miniature version of the above that pupils can use on their desks to help them fill in the planning grids below

Planning grid (pdf) Students can use this grid to plan an essay about life in the 1930s and 1940s

The Grand Apartheid Laws (word) An information sheet

Bantustans cards (pdf) A set of cards showing the 9 tribes in South Africa and the Bantustans that they were 'given'. Students should start off all standing together and then be dispersed around the classroom

The Bantustans (word) A series of worksheets that explain how the Bantustans were set up and the impact of the government's low level of funding (differentiated)

Bantustan sources (pdf) A series of quotes from Steve Biko and Oliver Tambo about the bantustans with comprehension questions

Images of apartheid (ppt) A few pictures to give an impression of life in the Soweto and Alexandra townships

The Defiance Campaign (pdf) An activity that involves students planning and evaluating a campaign of non violent action

The PAC (pdf) A summary of the ideas of the PAC and the events at Sharpeville with comprehension questions

Sharpeville GCSE source questions and markscheme (word) This is a GCSE coursework that was approved by Edexcel and includes a wide range of sources and source questions about the Sharpeville massacre

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