SCHEME OF WORK

Subject

History GCSE

Year Group

Year 11

Group
names

Scheme of Work Topic

Liberal Reforms 1906-1914: Source

Length
6 lessons
work
covered
Context : Aspect of the National Curriculum or Exam Board Specification that is covered: OCR British Depth Study 1890 1918 - Liberal Reforms 1906-1914
Lesson
No.

Lesson Aim

Lesson Objectives

Why did the Liberal

Government (1906-12)
decide to fight poverty?

To describe what the conditions were like for

the poor in 1890.

Key
Terms/Concepts

Labour Party
Socialism

To explain the reasons why the Liberals

decided to fight poverty
To evaluate which of these reasons were the
most important

Self-Help
Slums

Ideas for Activities/Resources

Source activity: Evidence for

working conditions
Pictures of Slums
Rowntree & Booth
Reports
Descriptions of living
conditions

Starter &
Plenary

Starter: Review of
knowledge class knows
Can make suggestions
what the sources will
show?
Plenary: Six Mark source
question

Table, Mind Map, list, pupil choice

showing all of these
Source Activity: Look at sources
showing threat of Labour and
Socialism to the Liberals
Analyse how to answer an 8/9
mark question. Structure etc

How did the Liberals

make the changes they
wanted?

To describe how the Liberals enacted their

reforms

N/A

To compare the different ways these

changes were made
Who opposed the
Liberal Reforms?

To describe who opposed the Liberal

Reforms

TBC

3
To explain why there was opposition to the
Liberal Reforms

Source work: Use sources to

collect list of different ways
Liberals made their reforms

Starter: Revision of
different acts - quiz

Practice question comparing

different sources
Source Activity: Annotate
selection of sources that show
opposition. Group sources by
what reforms they are opposing.

Plenary: Feedback from

practice question
Starter: Knowledge Quiz
Plenary: Revision Video

Ask pupils to group sources into

groups of why they were opposed
to Reforms (social reasons,
economic ones, political ones)
How important were the

To state the importance of the Liberal

TBC

Source Activity: Compare and

Starter: Recap and class

Liberal Reforms?
4

Assessment Lesson

Reforms
To explain what the impact of the Liberal
Reforms was

contrast primary and secondary

sources Grid of sources which
are pro and which are con.

To evaluate how important the Liberal

Reforms were

Written activity on practice exam

question 16 Mark one make a
start finish for homework.
Past exam paper all questions
to be answered. Sources also
need to be given.

N/A

N/A

Feedback Lesson

N/A

Revision Class

Revision Class prior to 11th December 2014

N/A

What was the social

and legal position of
women in the 1890s?

Working-Class
Middle-Class
Upper-Class

TBC

Plenary: Revision video on

importance

Go through assessment question

by question and make
suggestions for improvement.
Also ask them to try and improve
on their answer with another
question.
Mix of exam skills and knowledge
based activities.
Source activity based around
sources on textbook pgs 22-25
Compare and contrast grid of
working class and middle class
women.

What were the

arguments for and
against votes for
women?

vote on importance

How do sources show the

contrasting lives these women
had.
Source activity those sources that
are pro votes for women and
those that are not.
Analyse one source as a class
together on a worksheet.
Six sources stationed round the
room and pupils have to go
between each one and make up
an argument of both for and
against votes for women.

N/A

Starter Knowledge
refresher/update, list of
questions

Plenary Think, Pair,

Share how would this
impact on votes for women

Starter: Knowledge
refresher/update, list of
questions on arguments
for/against votes for
women
Plenary: Discuss this
question as a class

Sources from textbook 26-33

Then can link this to a 12 mark
question in the exam, e.g. all
sources which support a point of
view.