History KS3
Here are some pages based on the requirements of the new curriculum taught from September 2016. Many more can be found through the Worksheet Finder.
Pupils in Key Stage 3 will enjoy studying Medieval Monasteries, discovering facts about Parliament and even learning about the ancient Kingdom of Benin.
These pages cover the entire syllabus for Key Stage 3 history, arranged in the order the subjects were taught pre-2014. They include teaching suggestions, outlines of the topics and activities. Some directly cover the topics; others give a broader perspective on the period or topic, which helps pupils put their knowledge into context.
Unit 1. Introductory unit what's it all about?
In key stage 3, pupils will learn:
- to recall knowledge from previous history lessons
- to place events and people in chronological order
- to listen to and work with others
- to make judgements about what makes an individual important and to provide reasons
- that different historical sources can supply different sorts of information
- that several different types of source are useful for finding out things in history
- that history helps explain the present
- to ask questions to gain clarification or further information
- to use appropriate vocabulary
- that historians need to use more than one source to find out about a person or event in the past
Unit 2
Unit 3 How hard was life for Medieval people in town and country?
Unit 4 How did the Medieval Church affect people's lives?
Unit 5 Elizabeth I - how successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign?
Unit 6 What were the achievements of the Islamic states 600-1600?
Unit 7 Images of an age. What can we learn from portraits 1500-1750?
Unit 8 The Civil Wars - was England 'turned upside down' in the 17th century?
Unit 9 From Glorious Revolution to '45 - how united was the kingdom?
Unit 10 France 1798 - 1794 - why was there a revolution?
Unit 11 Industrial changes - action and reaction
Unit 13 Mughal India and the coming of the British
Unit 14 The British Empire - how was it, by 1900, Britian controlled nearly a quarter of the world?
Unit 15 Black peoples of America: from slavery to equality?
Unit 16 The franchise: why did it take so much longer for British women to get the vote?
Unit 17 Divided Ireland; why has it been so hard to achieve peace in Ireland?
Unit 18 Hot War, Cold War: why did the 20th century conflicts affect so many people?
Unit 19 How and why did the Holocaust happen?
Unit 20 Twentieth century medicine - how has it changed the lives of people?
Unit 21 From Aristotle to the atom: scientific discoveries that changed the world
Unit 22 The role of the individual: for good or for ill?
Our current pages are based on the National Curriculum for England.