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.
Was Emily Davison a Martyr for the Suffragette cause?
Lessons
How and why did the Suffragettes become more extreme?
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 in history to steal?
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[…]
How much can a German satirical map tell us about the causes of WW1?
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[…]
Preparing a news bulletin about the start of World War One
Can your students use their knowledge to critique a mistake-ridden news broadcast and use their skills to create a better version?
How can we use Charlie Byrne’s diary to challenge misconceptions about the Western Front?
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 did Clara Haber kill herself in May 1915?
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.
How can we check if photographs from World War One are faked?
Why was a history teacher once asked to leave the Imperial War Museum? Was he right to criticise WW1 display photographs?
Why was Margaretha MacLeod executed in 1917?
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. […]
Why was World War One described as ‘Great’?
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.
Sarah Barnes’ World War One Memorial Campaign
This free download is used alongside the archive material from West Sussex’s Great War Project. Can your students solve this sad mystery?
Could you create a more fitting memorial for those who died in the global war?
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[…]
What did the artists of the Panthéon de la Guerre want to tell us about the First World War?
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[…]
Should your history department spend money on Lenin artefacts?
This fascinating enquiry overviews the ‘reign’ of Lenin and unpicks whether the history dept should spend school money on Soviet memorabilia.
What really happened in Petrograd in October 1917?
This extended Russian Revolution enquiry focuses on Oralando Fige’s recent Amazon review scandal. Can also spice up GCSE Modern World Russia unit.
The USA in the 1920s – 11 enquiry saver package
Download our 11 enquiry 1920s package. It has been planned and taught in real classrooms and has been proven to inspire and challenge.
Why was there an economic boom in the 1920s?
This engaging enquiry aims deals with causation brilliantly, and also thereasons for the economic boom in America in the 1920s.
Who shared in the US economic boom of 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.
How should we remember carmaker Henry Ford?
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!
Hollywood scandals: Can you predict the contents of the Hays Code?
This enquiry allows your students to look at moral issues in 1920’s Hollywood by analysing film clips. Fab!
Is Daisy Buchanan representative of American women in the 1920s?
Using the fictional character from The Great Gatsby, can your students use evidence about real women to answer the big question?
Were Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti innocent?
Using a Woody Guthrie song about the two anarchists as a hook, can your students decide for themselves if the two men were guilty?
Why did Prohibition fail in America in the 1920s?
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.
Why did the village of Rosewood disappear?
Can your students find out what happened to Rosewood village and why? This shocking event is handled with expertise.
What was America’s Monkey Trial all about?
Can your students find out what this famous trial was all about by using visual sources? Simple.
Does Al Capone embody the American Dream?
This quirky lessons looks at the career of Capone and considers whether it shows us what the American dream really was.
What can a cartoon tell us about the causes of the Great Depression?
This enquiry looks at the causes for the economic crash of 1929 and depression that followed.
The Cinderella Man: a metaphor for 1920s America?
Put a human face on the Depression with boxing and music. The engaging tale of boxer James Braddock asks students to consider Braddock as a metaphor of America 1919-41.
What should go on the cover of a book about USA 1919-41?
A clever summative lesson which helps your students to re-cap their knowledge of the period and consider the purpose / audience of different book covers. Simple. Effective.
What was life like in Britain during the 1930s?
Starting with a personal story – your class will then discover just how complex life was for different groups in the 30s. Can they decide which historians’ book title gives the best view?
