Course Outline
| Date | Topic | Why are we studying this topic? | Assessment |
| August | How do we know about the past? | Every day you will have to make decisions based on evidence, so it is important that you know how to make judgements about different types of historical evidence. | |
| September | Skara Brae | Did you know that a stone age village lay buried beneath the sand dunes on Orkney for nearly 5,000 years? What can this village tell us about the people who lived in Scotland during the Stone Age? | |
| October | Mummies | The Ancient Egyptians are one of the world’s most fascinating civilisations. Why did they mummify their dead? How did they do it? All will be revealed. | |
| October/November | Tutankhamun | No study of History Mysteries would be complete without a look at the tomb of King Tut. Why did it lay undiscovered for so long and was it really cursed? | December
Tutankhamun’s tomb newspaper report. |
| November/December | Tollund Man | What do you know about bog bodies? They are unique and fascinating and tell us so much about the customs and beliefs of the people of the Iron Age. | December
Class Test on topics 1-5. |
| December | Pompeii | Eerily frozen in time by volcanic ash and rock that, the city of Pompeii has left us so much evidence about the ancient Roman way of life. | |
| January | The Enigma Code | Do you know who Alan Turing was and how his brilliance helped win WW2 for the Allies AND create one of the first ever computers? In this topic you will find out. |
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| February/March | JFK | Who shot JFK is one of the great unanswered questions of History. Was it one person, or more? What is the Book Depository and the Grassy knoll? Who would want to kill such a popular President? Will we ever really know?? A real History Mystery. | |
| April | Investigation | This is your chance to pick a ‘History Mystery’ of your own to investigate, now that you have honed your evidence-handling skills. What will you choose? | Presentations peer-assessed. |
