eHandbook: History

Bernard Barker, Elizabeth Pyne, Carl Smith and Mel Vlaeminke

£PricingPages128FormatPDF resourceISBN978 1 84070 890 5
  • Invaluable support at KS3
  • Key preparation for GCSE
  • Ideal for class and home
  • View onscreen or print on demand

An excellent course companion

The eHandbook: History:

  • helps students develop their historical skills and understanding
  • enables students to link key elements and skills to the main periods and topics encountered at school
  • explains the structure and purpose of history at KS3 and GCSE for students, parents and new teachers.

The eHandbook is divided into six chapters. These each address a specific skill or group of skills and aid understanding of historical topics and periods by:

  • explaining relevant concepts and terminology
  • helping students plan answers using appropriate historical skills
  • providing model responses at different National Curriculum levels
  • guiding students through a period/topic overview and timeline
  • enabling students to test their skills on further evidence-based problems.

Convenient digital format

Specifically designed for student use, the eHandbook: History is provided in PDF format, which means that it can be shared across your school network and printed out as required, or given to students to use on their own computers and other devices. Priced at less than £1 per student, it also makes an extremely cost-effective addition to your department’s resources.

Note that this product is also available as part of the Digital Library for History KS3.

Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1 Chronology: Medieval Realms
  • Practice question
  • Additional questions
  • Timeline 1066-1500
    • 2 Knowledge and understanding: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples
  • Practice question
  • Additional questions
  • Timeline 1500-1750
    • 3 Interpretations of history: Britain 1750 to circa 1900
  • Practice question
  • Additional questions
  • Timeline 1750-c1900
    • 4 Historical enquiry: Two World Wars
  • Practice question
  • Additional questions
  • Timeline 1914-1918
  • Timeline 1910-1950
    • 5 Organisation and communication: The Twentieth-Century World
  • Practice question
  • Additional questions
  • Timeline 1900-1945
    • 6 Sourcework skills at GCSE
  • Practice question
    • Skills Progress Chart
    • Notes

About the authors

Carl Smith is Deputy Head of Casterton Community College and was one of the UK's first Advanced Skills Teachers when the scheme started in September 1998. He read History and Politics at Warwick University and received a distinction for his MA at Leicester University in 1992. He has taught in a wide variety of state schools from one of the most successful in the country to one of the most challenging.

Elizabeth Pyne is currently Head of History at an outstanding school in Coventry. She has held numerous other roles including Literacy Co-ordinator, CPD Co-ordinator, Director of Research and Development and now Whole School Advisor for Teacher and Learning. She also leads a Student Learning Ambassador scheme which involves student research into effective learning, and is a trained provider of Outstanding and Improving Teaching Programmes.

Price details

  • £50 for 50 licences.
  • Additional licences 75p each.

Get in touch

For more information, please call 01223 350555 or email info@pearson.co.uk.