National Curriculum Key Stage 3 History Units

1 Introductory unit

2 Medieval monarchs

3 Medieval people

4 Medieval church

5 Elizabeth I

6 Islamic civilisations 600-1600

7 Images of an age 1500-1750

8 The civil wars

9 From Glorious Revolution to the '45

10 France 1789-94

11 Industrial changes

12 Middle-class life in 1900

13 Mughal India and the coming of the British, 1526-1857

14 The British Empire

15 Black peoples of America

16 The franchise

17 Divided Ireland

18 Twentieth-century conflicts (more)

19 The Holocaust

20 Twentieth-century medicine

21 Scientific discoveries

22 The role of the individual

    

Haringey Local History (joint KS2/3 project with Bruce Castle museum)

Unit 2 - Two Yr 7 Medieval Realms exercises about causation; each activity consists of a story and a student task; Battle of Hastings (story, task), Development of English parliament (story, task)

Unit 5 - How Elizabeth I used symbols of power to strengthen her image, also limitations of portraits as accurate sources (Task 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Unit 18 - Censorship in the First World War; students write a letter hom from the WW1 trenches, then use 'Strike Through' to censor their letters; the final task is for students to write a letter that would get through the government censors (Task 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)