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 activity puts your students in the role of decision makers for the League of Nations in the 1920s and 30s. It helps them to understand the tough decisions they were confronted with.
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.
Can your students find out what this famous trial was all about by using visual sources? Simple.
This quirky lessons looks at the career of Capone and considers whether it shows us what the American dream really was.
This enquiry looks at the causes for the economic crash of 1929 and depression that followed.
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.
