Overview
An innovative series focusing on the essential content and skills needed for exam success in SHP GCSE History. Ideal for mixed-ability teaching. Student’s Books focus on the content that forms the basis of the most popular examination questions and provide engaging tasks that build students’ confidence and understanding. The varied learning styles make the resources suitable for all abilities.
Teacher’s Resource Books offer practical advice on using the Student’s Books, provide help with lesson planning, and include differentiated worksheets for the main tasks.
Chapter 1 The Plains Indians
1.1 The Great American Desert?
1.2 Culture shock! Meeting the Plains Indians
1.3 How to survive on the Plains
Chapter 2 The settlement of the West
2.1 What was America’s ‘Manifest Destiny’?
2.2 Passing through: why did the early settlers cross the Plains?
2.3 The Mormons: who made the biggest contribution – Joseph Smith or Brigham Young?
2.4 Staying there: why did homesteaders settle on the Plains?
2.5 The cattlemen and the cowboys
2.6 Who had the most impact on the Plains Indians?
Chapter 3 Law and order
3.1 Crime wave! Could the vigilantes solve the problem?
3.2 Would you pardon Billy the Kid?
3.3 The Johnson County War
Chapter 4 Conflict on the Plains
4.1 Why did war break out on the Plains?
4.2 Case study: the Battle of the Little Big Horn
4.3 Why did the Indians lose control of the Plains?
4.4 The overall picture: what have you learned?
Provide engaging tasks that build students’ confidence and understanding
Varied learning styles make the resources suitable for all abilities
Include Exam Busters (each tackling one area of the content and one aspect of the exam) that help build effective exam preparation into everyday teaching throughout the course