New GCSE history content

New GCSE history content

1. 3 eras

   • Medieval (500-1500)
   • Early Modern (1450-1750)
   • Modern (1700-present day)

2. 3 time scales

   • short (depth study)
     • social, economic, political, religious, technological and military factors
   • medium (period study)
     • At least 50 years
   • long (thematic study)
     • Change and continuity over long period including culture, economics, politics, religion, science, technology and war.

3. 3 geographical contexts

   • locality
     • examine the relationship between a place and historical events and developments. May range in scale from e.g. a particular building or part of a building to a city or rural landscape/ setting
   • British
   • European or wider world

4. LEARNING OBJECTIVES

   • Develop knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the periods studied: the chronology, individuals, events, developments and issues
     • Develop understanding and appropriate use in context of historical terms including first order historical concepts such as ‘constitution’, ‘nation’, ‘revolution’, ‘society’
       • Develop the ability to create students' own structured accounts, selecting organising and communicating their knowledge and understanding in written narratives, descriptions and analyses, reaching substantiated conclusions
         • understand of the key features and characteristics of the periods studied in relation to second order historical concepts of continuity, change, cause, consequence, significance and similarity and difference within situations
           • understand the relationships between different aspects within the periods studied, making connections, drawing contrasts and analysing trends.
             • understand of how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, discern how and why different interpretations of the past have been constructed