Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)
Level: GCSE (9-1)
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018
An OCR endorsed textbook
Let SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series, combining best practice teaching methods and worthwhile tasks to develop students' historical knowledge and skills.
> Tackle unfamiliar topics with confidence: The engaging, accessible text covers the content you need for teacher-led lessons and independent study
> Ease the transition to GCSE: Step-by-step enquiries inspired by best practice in KS3 help to simplify lesson planning and ensure continuous progression within and across units
> Build the knowledge and understanding that students need to succeed: The scaffolded three-part task structure enables students to record, reflect on and review their learning
> Boost student performance: Suitably challenging tasks encourage high achievers to excel at GCSE while clear explanations make key concepts accessible to all
> Rediscover your enthusiasm for source work: A range of purposeful, intriguing visual and written source material is embedded at the heart of each investigation to enhance understanding
> Develop students' sense of period: Memorable case studies, diagrams, infographics and contemporary photos bring fascinating events and people to life
This is Book 3 in the OCR SHP GCSE Series. See all OCR SHP GCSE books here.
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Michael Riley is Senior Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University College. Jamie Byrom is History Adviser in Devon. Both are popular history trainers for the Schools History Project and the Historical Association, and co-authors of Think Through History.
Christopher Culpin is Director of the Schools History Project and Series Editor of the
More about Michael RileyMichael Riley is Director of the Schools History Project.
He has taught in schools in Tanzania, Yorkshire and Somerset, and has worked as Humanities Adviser in Somerset and as Course Leader for the History PGCE at Bath Spa University, a consultant for the QCA, the States of Guernsey, the Council of Europe and UNESCO.
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