New KS3 History Programme of Study: Irish possibilities

New KS3 History Programme of Study

Irish possibilities

Catalogue of IiS study units & other resources for Key Stage 3 history

Most of the following pages of resources are divided into three sections:

A. Single lessons

B. Study units

C. Other resources

0. General & overviews

1. Ireland & the Normans

2. Ireland & the Tudors

3. Ireland & the Stuarts & Cromwell

4. Ireland under the Union: Famine & emigration

5. Ireland under the Union: 1916 & First World War

6. Ireland under the Union: Constitutional nationalism

7. Ireland & the Second World War: Evacuees & refugees

8. Northern Ireland

9. Interpretation

Pages 0-8 are divided into two columns.

In the left hand column is the title of the lesson, study unit or resource.

The right hand column contains a description of the lesson, study unit or resource, with the appropriate url.

The last entries in the Other resources section usually relate to interpretation - notes on how different historians interpret the Irish past.

The description of the lessons and study units lists the titles of lesson, and, in many

instances, the activities set for students.

Click here for pdf version of this catalogue of IiS resources for Key Stage 3 History.

Note on the scope for Ireland in the new Programme of Study

The new programme of study offers considerable scope for drawing on Ireland in History

at Key Stage 3 - and for using the IiS teaching and learning materials noted above.

Key concepts

As the mere list of resources shows, the lively, lengthy and controversial history of Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations addresses the key concepts underpinning the programme:

1.1 Chronological understanding

Tangled Anglo-Irish relationship

1.2 Cultural, ethnic and religious diversity

Catholics & Protestants, 'Saxons & Gaels'

Experience of Irish immigrants in Britain

1.3 Change and continuity

Survival of Irish customs & allegiances in

face of attempts at Anglicization

1.4 Cause and consequence

Norman intervention in Ireland

Potato, population growth & Famine
1.5 Significance

Events dates and events such as 1641,

1649, 1688, 1689, 1690

1.6 Interpretation

Revisionism in Irish history - Tudor

conquest, Cromwell, Famine, 1916

British history

Most obviously, the list of resources also shows how Ireland and IiS resources can help teachers help teacher to meet the British history requirements:

d. the development of political power from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, including changes in the relationship between rulers and ruled over time, the changing relationship between the crown and parliament, and the development of democracy

e. the different histories and changing relationships through time of the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales

f. the impact through time of the movement and settlement of diverse peoples to, from and within the British Isles.

Addressing the whole Programme of Study

IiS materials help in the teaching of study of history through a combination of overview
thematic and depth studies, particularly by providing a range teaching and learning material which offer opportunities for both quick studies and deeper studies.

They can be used as they are or adapted to meet the demands of particular teaching schemes, as the following examples demonstrate.

Handling evidence

Single lesson (visual source)

1.9. An Irish view of the Norman intervention in Ireland Pp

Depth study (evaluating historical novels)

5.2. Fighting for whom? 1916 in Ireland & on the Western Front

Development of political power

England & the 'Celtic fringe'

Ireland & the Tudors

Single lesson

2.1. Propaganda in the 16th century

Depth study

2.4. Who should control Ireland: Tudor monarchs or Irish lords?

Interpretation

2.9. Why was Steven Ellis's Ireland in the age of the Tudors attacked by other historians of Ireland?
http://iisresource.org/documents/KS3_Tudor_Ireland_Interpretation.pdf

Cromwell in Ireland

Depth study

3.3. Reputations. Sources: Cromwell at Drogheda

Resource

3.10. 1641 Rising: Protestant Propaganda

Interpretation

3.13. Cromwell in Ireland: an honourable enemy?
http://iisresource.org/Documents/KS3_Cromwell_Ireland_Interpretation.pdf

Movement & settlement

Ulster plantation

Single lesson

3.1. What changes did the Plantation of Ulster bring?

Depth studies

Irish immigration to Britain

4.11. What was it like to be an Irish immigrant in 19th century Britain?

Interpretation

4.29. How far, if at all, can British responses to Irish immigrants in Victorian Britain be called racist?
http://iisresource.org/Documents/KS3_Racism_Interpretation.pdf

Kindertransport

7.2. Children as refugees in the Second World War - from Vienna to Northern Ireland

Resource

7.4.1. Millisle Refugee Camp, Co. Down, Northern Ireland

Nature & motives of protest

Irish nationalism

Single lesson

5.1. Why was World War I unlike previous wars? Ireland & World War I - opposing views

Depth study

6.2. What were the aims and methods of the different nationalist movements during the period 1848-1890?

Interpretation
6.9. Interpretations of home rule
http://iisresource.org/documents/KS3_Home_Rule_Interpretations.pdf

6.10. Why are the so many interpretations of Parnell?