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History at key stage 3


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Useful organisations and resources

Useful organisations

BBC Education Information
BBC White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS
www.bbc.co.uk/education

BECTa
Millburn Hill Road
Science Park
Coventry CV4 7JJ
www.becta.org.uk/becta_home.cfm

British Museum Education Department
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/

Channel 4 Schools
PO Box 100
Warwick CV34 6TZ
www.channel4.com/schools

Commission for Racial Equality
Elliott House
10-12 Allington Street
London SW1E 5EH
www.cre.gov.uk/

Commonwealth Institute
Kensington High Street
London W8 6NQ
www.commonwealth.org.uk/

English Heritage Education Service
429 Oxford Street
London WC1R 2HD
www.english-heritage.org.uk/

Historical Association
59A Kennington Park Road
London SE11 4JH
www.history.org.uk/

Holocaust Educational Trust
BCM Box 7892
London WC1N 3XX
www.het.org.uk

Imperial War Museum Education Office
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
www.iwm.org.uk/

National Army Museum
Royal Hospital Road
Chelsea
London SW3 4HT
www.national-army-museum.ac.uk

National Museum of Photography, Film & Television Education Department
Bradford BD1 1NQ
www.nmpft.org.uk/home.asp

National Portrait Gallery Education Department
St Martin's Place
London WC2H 0HE
www.npg.org.uk/

National Railway Museum Education Unit Office
Leeman Road
York YO26 4XJ
www.nmsi.ac.uk/nrm/html/home_pb/menu.htm

The National Trust
36 Queen Anne's Gate
London SW1H 9AS
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/

National Waterways Museum Education Service
Llanthony Warehouse
Gloucester Docks
Gloucester GL1 2EH
www.nwm.org.uk/

Royal Armouries Museum
Armouries Drive
Leeds LS10 1LT
www.armouries.org.uk/

Victoria and Albert Museum
South Kensington
London SW7 2RL
www.vam.ac.uk/


Useful resources

Exemplification of standards: history, (SCAA, 1996, order code: Hi/96/471)

Use of language - key stage 3 history, (SCAA, 1996, order code: COM/96/656)

Optional tests and tasks (key stage 3) in history, (SCAA, 1996)
Unit 1
  1. Oliver Cromwell
  2. The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 (order code: KS3/96/545)
Unit 2
  1. Nineteenth-century industrial towns
  2. Popular protest movements c.1810-1850 The Luddites (order code: KS3/96/546)
Unit 3
  1. The fall of the Bastille (introductory enquiry)
  2. The French Revolution (further enquiry) (order code: KS3/96/547)
Unit 4
  1. Dunkirk
  2. The changing nature of warfare
  3. The role of women
  4. Europe in the inter-war period (order code: KS3/96/548)

Extended writing in key stage 3 history, (SCAA discussion paper no.8, 1997, order code: COM/97/637)

Teaching History, published quarterly by the Historical Association

There are many useful websites for work in history. Below are examples of useful 'gateway' sites.


Units

Unit 1. Introductory unit what's it all about?
Unit 2. How did medieval monarchs keep control?
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 seventeenth century?
Unit 9. From Glorious Revolution to the '45 how united was the kingdom?
Unit 10. France 1789-94 why was there a revolution?
Unit 11. Industrial changes action and reaction
Unit 12. Snapshot 1900 what was British middle-class life like?
Unit 13. Mughal India and the coming of the British, 1526-1857 how did the Mughal Empire rise and fall?
Unit 14. The British Empire how was it that, by 1900, Britain 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 major twentieth-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 ill?