This complete set of lessons and resources has been created from scratch and taught successfully to Year 8 students for four years. Each lesson has been designed with Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction in mind and has differentiation at the heart of the slides and resources, with models, part-models and scaffolding throughout.

The enquiry title ‘How did Britain become an Empire by 1800?’ enables students to learn through enquiry-based study, utilising primary source material and a range of differentiated resources.

The scheme of learning is designed based upon the core premise that Britain’s Empire was built due to the following key, interlinked factors, each of which has one or more lessons dedicated to it:

1. Enquiry Introduction: Big picture of scheme
2. Causes of the Industrial Revolution
3. How did the Industrial Revolution lead to Empire?
4. What was the Transatlantic SLave Trade?
5. How did the Transatlantic SLave Trade lead to Empire?
6. How did Political and Military Strength contribute to Empire?
7. How did Cultural factprs contribute to Empire?
8. Enquiry Outcome: Essay Planning and Write Up of Enquiry Question

Included in this package are two marking point Progress Trackers with tailored Pupil Response Tasks, as well as a Knowledge Organiser comprising all key and core knowledge and a Homework Booklet to support retrieval and write ups.

Please note that the principles at the heart of this scheme are those of a History department which believes in decolonising the curriculum and shining a light on the negative aspects of empire.