1. What are your learning objectives?

2. KS3 History is all about levels Everyone is working at their own level – everyone will be different

3. But there is one thing that is the same about us We are all working towards the next level – so everyone has a target and is trying to make progress

4. Step 1 – Which Skill? Try to work out which skill you are using You can do this by looking at the key question on the board. Then try to match this up with what the skills mean. Can you find which skill you are using?

5. Today’s Key question is… ___________________________________________________ What was the past like and how did it become like it is today? Chronology, sense of period and change over time How was life different in the past for different groups of people? Diversity How can I find out what happened in the past from sources? Evidence Why did things happen the way they did? Causation What events and people are the most important and why? Significance How do people try to show what the past was like? Interpretation

6. Step 2 – How can you progress in this history skill? Look at the skills levels grid and find out what the different levels are

7. What was the past like and how did it become like it is today? Chronology, sense of period and change over time

8. How was life different in the past for different groups of people? Diversity

9. How can I find out what happened in the past from sources? Evidence

10. Why did things happen the way they did? Causation

11. What events and people are the most important and why? Significance

12. How do people try to show what the past was like? Interpretation

13. Step 3 – What are your learning objectives to make sure you progress? Now write the targets from the skills grids or mark schemes onto the Learning objectives sheet or on the board Your teacher may want you to make a note of these in your exercise books

14. Step 4 – Are you meeting your objectives? Try to check back during the lesson to see if and how you are meeting the learning objectives by completing the tasks and activities in the lesson. Which are you meeting? How did you meet them? What did you find hard? What strategies did others use to meet them that you could use next time?

15. Step 5 – Did you meet your learning objectives? When? How? Can you prove it? You must now be able to go back to the learning objectives YOU ALL WROTE and decide if you did or did not meet them, how and why. If you didn’t who did and how did they do it? Ask them. Now you need to remember the skills you have learnt and use them again next time you need to use this history skill