This title has been updated for the ´strengthened´ GCSE specification for first exam 2015.

Help your students learn more effectively with SHP´s active learning approach to GCSE History.

SHP Smarter History is a comprehensive series of books covering all the Schools History Project GCSE specifications.

They combine:
- complete coverage of the specification content
- step-by-step coaching in exam skills
all tackled through SHP´s active learning, enquiry-based approach, which makes lesson planning easy, and helps ensure varied pace throughout the course - essential to keep your students motivated over a long period.

These books put the fun back into teaching and learning at GCSE but without any compromise - they still help students achieve the highest grades.

At every relevant stage through the book the ´Exam Buster´ features help blend exam preparation with historical learning so that by the end of the course students understand not only the period and its issues but also how they will be expected to think and write about this for the examination.

This is the best of both worlds from the experts who know what good teaching is about and also know what the SHP specifications are all about.

Edexcel Medicine and Health
This title is a course book for students taking the Edexcel Medicine Development Study. It covers all the relevant requirements of the Edexcel specification - both the Unit 1 Development Study and the Unit 3 Source Enquiry into the Transformation of Surgery.

Updated for the revised specfication
The current printing has been updated to meet the requirements of the revised ´strengthened´ GCSE specification for first exam in 2015. All the Exam Busters features for both Unit 1 and Unit 3 have been brought in line with the new question styles, and marking schemes of the new examination requirements.

The series: SHP Smarter History is the new approach to GCSE from the Schools History Project. It offers interesting lessons and comprehensive content plus step by step coaching in exam skills - using SHP's Exam Buster approach. This is the best of both worlds from the experts who know what good teaching is about and also know what the SHP specifications are all about.

SHP Edexcel Medicine and Health, is a new course book for students taking the Edexcel Medicine development study. It covers all the relevant requirements of the Edexcel specification - both the Unit 1 development study and the Unit 3 Surgery Source Enquiry - but delivers them in the context of a motivating, enquiry led approach to ensure that your courses are interesting and motivating to teach yet still deliver good results for your students.

Exam Busters
At every relevant stage through the book there are 'ExamBuster' features ('Meet the Examiner' and 'Smarter Revision') that help blend exam preparation with historical learning so that by the end of the course students understand not only the period and its issues but also how they will be expected to think and write about this for the examination.

Key features



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All the required specification content - we haven't skipped bits!
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Meet the Examiner spreads show students how to tackle the specific types of questions in the awarding body's examinations. Edexcel examiners and markers have been involved from the outset in planning and checking this course.
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Smarter Revision units, built up from the beginning of the book, enable students to build their learning from the outset, using a range of techniques such as Memory Maps (recording key features of each period), Living Graphs (recording the development of themes across time), Role of Individual Charts, Concept maps (for charting the inter-play of factors), Road maps, Digital Camera revision activities etc.
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A strong sense of overview using Medical Moments in Time spreads showing key medical features of 200AD, 1348, 1665, 1848 and 1935.
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A strong visual design, increasing the accessibility of the material.Why choose Smarter History?
Because:
- it offers varied pace and style of learning which is essential to keep your students motivated over a long period.
- it provides engaging exam preparation techniques that have been thoroughly trialled in real schools with real pupils
- it is written by experienced teachers rather than remote examiners who know how to keep pupils motivated
- it is backed by the leading curriculum development body for history - the Schools History Project - who are the architects of the SHP approach and the SHP specifications
- SHP's provide a training programme - a national conference plus regional inset - to support you as you introduce this course in your school.


Dynamic Learning

This course is supported by a series of Dynamic Learning CD-ROMs which provide digital activities for the whiteboard or computer network:
CD 1 (People and Periods - ISBN 9780340946718) and
CD 2 (Review and revise ISBN 9780340946725) are already available.
CD 3 (Exam Busters IBN 9780340991411) will be coming in 2010.

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