Product Description
Knowing History - Twentieth Century British and World History 1900-2020 (2nd edition)
Authors: Robert Peal, Robert Selth and Laura Aitken-Burt
Format: Physical Hardcopy
Deliver an ambitious, knowledge-rich and global KS3 History curriculum to develop pupils’ knowledge of the past, build their skills and equip them to progress through to GCSE 9-1 History.
Provide a coherent chronological KS3 history curriculum with 50 knowledge-rich lessons on twentieth century world history. Spark pupils’ curiosity, develop their understanding of the past and equip them to investigate the past as a historian.
Features:
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Ignite an interest in twentieth century history through memorable and compelling narratives, rich contextual detail and extraordinary people
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Help all students to think critically about the past by focusing on the knowledge they need and then checking their understanding
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Build secure positive identities and cultural capital with culturally and geographically diverse coverage including five new global history units for the 2nd edition
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Support pupils’ long-term learning with knowledge organisers on key vocabulary, people, places, and dates
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Put knowledge into context with a full timeline covering the broad geographical scope of the period studied
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Easy to implement in your school with the 10 unit/ 5 chapter structure and overarching enquiry question per unit
Contents:
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Unit 1: The First World War
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Unit 2: The USSR
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Unit 3: Germany and the Nazis
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Unit 4: The Second World War
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Unit 5: Wartime Britain
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Unit 6: Modern China
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Unit 7: The Cold War
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Unit 8: Civil Rights in the USA
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Unit 9: Decolonisation
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Unit 10: Postwar Britain
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