Collins Key Stage 3 History is an exciting, accessible new series focussed on ensuring that all pupils make clear, measurable progression at Key Stage 3 - whether it is a 2 or a 3 year course. Collins KS3 History is a brand new series, ideal for building key historical and functional skills. Featuring differentiated pupil books with ready-made APP opportunities this flexible package will get your students excited about history. Grab pupils' attention with engaging content that builds key historical skills and helps students to understand the links between events, time periods and locations Save time with resources to support your teaching of a 2 or 3 year course, fully matched to the 2008 Key Stage 3 Programme of Study Cover each assessment Focus in a meaningful and accessible way - using this flexible package as a series of one off lessons ot as a longer programme Ready made APP opportunities are included to help you gather and review evidence of pupils' progress in each Assessment Focus. Track progress and improve performance with 'check your progress' summaries and end of chapter 'level boosters' to help pupils see the level they are working at and visualise what they need to do to progress

This book: covers the essential content in the new specifications in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material helps develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities provides assessment support for A level with sample answers, sources, practice questions and guidance to help you tackle the new-style exam questions. It also comes with three years' access to an ActiveBook, an online, digital version of your textbook to help you personalise your learning as you go through the course - perfect for revision.

For the 2008 specifications, this book includes coverage from the causes of the American Revolutionary War to the end of the First World War. With historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and visuals to support learning available online. Contents: Study and examination skills 1 The United States 1740-1919: A synoptic overview 2 The Struggle for Independence c1740-1783 3 Westward Expansion in the 19th Century 4 The Causes and Course of the Civil War, 1840-1865 5 The Gilded Age' to the First World War, 1865-1919 6 Civil Rights 1865-1919 Index

A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Britain 1815-1918. Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation. Study and examination skills 1 William Pitt the Younger 1783-1801 2 Britain 1783 -1918: a synoptic assessment 3 The Tory Party 1815-1830 4 British Foreign Policy, 1815-1846 5 The Great Reform Act of 1832 6 The Whigs, 1833-1841 7 Sir Robert Peel and the Tory/Conservative Party, 1830-1846 8 Chartism 9 Economic change 1815-1846: the growth of railways 10 British domestic politics, 1846-1868 11 British foreign policy in the Age of Palmerston, 1846-1868 12 A mid-Victorian boom? Economic and Social history 1846-1868 13 Gladstone and the Liberal Party 14 The Conservative Party of Disraeli and Salisbury, 1868-1895 15 Foreign and imperial policy, 1868-1895 16 Social and economic change, 1868-1896 17 The era of Conservative domination and the rise of Labour, 1895-1906 18 Joseph Chamberlain and the Empire, 1895-1905 19 Britain and Ireland 1798-1921 20 Ireland and British politics, 1895-1922 21 The Liberals in power, 1905-1915 22 Britain and the origins of the First World War, 1898-1914 23 British economy and society, 1896-1914: challenged and transformed? 24 Public health and welfare 1834-1918 25 The political, social and economic impact of the First World War 1914-1918 Further Reading Index