Lesson overview
GROW · Humanities · Teesside History Studio · Week 5 of 8

How Big a Deal?

AQA UAS ‘History around us’ · GROW tier

🎯 Learning objective: I can judge significance using explicit criteria, perspective/scale and timescale, then qualify the judgement with ‘depends’.
✅ Success criteria
  • I can apply the same criteria to cases before comparing.
  • I can state the scale/perspective of my judgement.
  • I can qualify the verdict using evidence and uncertainty.
📜 defensible history🔎 provenance/source utility⏱ 40 min
📜
How Big a Deal?DATE & CHALLENGE → SOURCE UTILITY → RANK CAUSES → AGENCY → SIGNIFICANCE → ACCOUNT → MAP
Inherited
Week 4 — evidence-led agency/impact profiles and nominations.
→
Feeds next
Your significance judgements and support requests set Week 6 account questions, source pairings and support.
GROW entryState/date with support.
GROW secureRank, qualify and explain with evidence.
LAUNCH reachCorroborate, weigh interpretations and transfer.
Source gate: genuine pupil source = what/who/when/origin/rights. Adapted/constructed material is labelled as such, never presented as an untouched original.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · rust
AUDIENCE · teal
INFLUENCE · gold
GROW History Studio: predictable structure, visible success criteria, quiet response time.
⏱ 3 min
🚪 Arrival · retrieve the historian spine
Inherited
Week 4 — evidence-led agency/impact profiles and nominations.
→
Feeds next
Your significance judgements and support requests set Week 6 account questions, source pairings and support.
◆ Supported

Name two significance criteria and one impact from W4.

▲ Standard

Explain why the same case can be locally significant but less nationally significant.

★ Stretch

Explain why duration/memory can be uncertain for recent change.

GROW Humanities Voice can be
🗣 explain / qualify☝ point / select🧩 rank / map / sequence✍ annotate / short edit🔁 re-attempt🎙 authorised voice response
Quiet response time; no public comparison. Personal/family history is optional.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · rust
AUDIENCE · teal
INFLUENCE · gold
Retrieve the prior historian judgement without personal disclosure.
⏱ 3 min
🌱 Starter · question before conclusion

🔍 Enquiry

How can criteria, perspective and timescale produce a defensible ‘how big a deal’ judgement?

‘Significant’ is not a fact printed on a person or event. What does a historian have to decide before using the word?

APPLY THE SAME CRITERIAPause for pupil noticing/decision before the next frame.
STATE THE SCALE / PERSPECTIVEPause for pupil noticing/decision before the next frame.
MAKE THE VERDICTPause for pupil noticing/decision before the next frame.
MAKE ‘DEPENDS’ SPECIFICPause for pupil noticing/decision before the next frame.
GROW Humanities Voice can be
🗣 explain / qualify☝ point / select🧩 rank / map / sequence✍ annotate / short edit🔁 re-attempt🎙 authorised voice response
Quiet response time; no public comparison. Personal/family history is optional.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · rust
AUDIENCE · teal
INFLUENCE · gold
Question/doubt before verdict.
⏱ 4 min
👩‍🏫 I Do · model defensible reasoning
🧠 Reveal one controlled decision at a time.
Apply criteria consistently: numbers affected, depth, duration, memory/legacy (or centre-approved criteria).
State scale/perspective: significant to whom/where?
Use evidence under each criterion; do not use fame as hidden fifth criterion.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · rust
AUDIENCE · teal
INFLUENCE · gold
Teacher models defensible reasoning; support staff watch source access and ownership.
⏱ 3 min
🤝 We Do · evidence hinge
Commit before reveal: Which is the most defensible judgement?
GROW Art Voice can be
🗣 explain / compare☝ point / select🎨 make / demonstrate✍ annotate / edit🔁 retry / refine🎙 authorised voice/clip
Quiet response time is available. No public comparison. Personal disclosure is optional.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · rust
AUDIENCE · teal
INFLUENCE · gold
Adult genuinely receives the response; next question/source scaffold changes.
⏱ 3 min
👩‍🏫 I Do 2 · qualify / compare
🧠 Reveal one controlled decision at a time.
‘Depends’ must name what it depends on: criterion, group, geography, timescale, evidence.
Compare criterion weights explicitly if pupil chooses one as more important.
The W5 outcome becomes the thesis/focus feeding W6—not a final immutable verdict.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · rust
AUDIENCE · teal
INFLUENCE · gold
Teacher models defensible reasoning; support staff watch source access and ownership.
⏱ 4 min
🤝 We Do 2 · interactive history lab
Model first, evidence next: the interactive panel is rehearsal only. Real source/map/assessment evidence remains in the authorised pack.

📜 Significance Depends Lab

NUMBERS

how many affected?

DEPTH

how deeply?

DURATION

how long?

MEMORY

how remembered/used?

DEPENDS

scale/perspective/time

Use the model, then make the real historical judgement with approved evidence.
GROW Humanities Voice can be
🗣 explain / qualify☝ point / select🧩 rank / map / sequence✍ annotate / short edit🔁 re-attempt🎙 authorised voice response
Quiet response time; no public comparison. Personal/family history is optional.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · rust
AUDIENCE · teal
INFLUENCE · gold
Adult genuinely receives the response; next question/source scaffold changes.
⏱ 16 min
📜 Independent · defensible evidence

📜 Independent historian mission

Run a Significance Depends comparison on two approved W4 cases: criteria matrix, stated scale/perspective, ranked verdict, ‘although/depends’ qualification and one evidence limitation/support request for W6.

16 minutes. Challenge routes alter reasoning demand, not source readability/access.
📚 HISTORY EVIDENCE READY
MaterialsLocally approved/credited source, clue, atlas/map or Week 6 plan/support materials appropriate to this lesson.
Access / carePersonal/family disclosure is optional. Provide enlarged/chunked/transcribed/audio/colour-safe source routes as needed. W7 uses only pre-agreed assessment access.
Evidence targetCriteria comparison + evidence-led significance judgement + qualification/support request.
◆ Apply 2–3 criteria with guided evidence and complete a qualified verdict.
Criterion → evidence → bigger/smaller effect → judgement.
Fade the first content prompt no longer needed; keep sensory/motor/navigation access.
▲ Apply all agreed criteria and write/say a defended ‘depends’ judgement.
Verdict → criteria evidence → scale → although/depends.
Fade the first content prompt no longer needed; keep sensory/motor/navigation access.
★ Re-weight a criterion or change perspective/scale and explain why the verdict changes or remains stable.
Alternative weighting/perspective + uncertainty.
Fade the first content prompt no longer needed; keep sensory/motor/navigation access.
1 · Historical judgementchallenge, utility, rank, agency, significance, thesis or map interpretation
2 · Evidencesource/clue/map/plan with provenance where applicable
3 · Reasoningbecause, comparison, qualification, uncertainty or limitation
GROW Humanities Voice can be
🗣 explain / qualify☝ point / select🧩 rank / map / sequence✍ annotate / short edit🔁 re-attempt🎙 authorised voice response
Quiet response time; no public comparison. Personal/family history is optional.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · rust
AUDIENCE · teal
INFLUENCE · gold
Pupil ranks, qualifies, explains and monitors; content prompts fade.
⏱ 4 min
🎫 Exit · evidence → response → Influence
◆ Supported

State/show one judgement and the evidence behind it.

▲ Standard

Explain one judgement plus a limitation/qualification.

★ Stretch

Transfer today’s historian routine to an unfamiliar source/question and weigh an alternative interpretation.

🔁 GROW Humanities close

VOICE: Disagreement is expected when criteria/evidence are explicit; no popularity vote.

AUDIENCE: adult genuinely receives and names the reasoning before R.

INFLUENCE: Judgement/support request shapes W6 enquiry, source pairing and scaffold contract.

No second closure/receipt system is added. The shared Reading the Response approach remains the interpretation route.

Inherited
Week 4 — evidence-led agency/impact profiles and nominations.
→
Feeds next
Your significance judgements and support requests set Week 6 account questions, source pairings and support.
GROW Humanities Voice can be
🗣 explain / qualify☝ point / select🧩 rank / map / sequence✍ annotate / short edit🔁 re-attempt🎙 authorised voice response
Quiet response time; no public comparison. Personal/family history is optional.
SPACE · steel
VOICE · rust
AUDIENCE · teal
INFLUENCE · gold
Short edit/verbal reply/re-attempt is received before R; Influence shapes next lesson/assessment plan.
🧑‍🏫 SUPPORT STAFF

NOT A HISTORY SPECIALIST? SAY THIS

Say: “Significant TO WHOM, WHERE, FOR HOW LONG and by WHICH TEST? ‘Depends’ is only strong if you name the dependency.”

Priority

Move learning forward

Least prompt first
waitself-promptpoint/source cuegeneral verbalspecific verbalmodeldirect support
🔁 GROW · READ THE RESPONSE

Disciplinary prompts

Receive the response first.

The general staff Reading-the-Response routine remains authoritative; these are subject examples only.

GROW Humanities W5 · How Big a Deal? · v3

Supported

◆ Apply 2–3 criteria with guided evidence and complete a qualified verdict.
Criterion → evidence → bigger/smaller effect → judgement.
Fade the first content prompt no longer needed; keep sensory/motor/navigation access.

Standard

▲ Apply all agreed criteria and write/say a defended ‘depends’ judgement.
Verdict → criteria evidence → scale → although/depends.
Fade the first content prompt no longer needed; keep sensory/motor/navigation access.

Stretch

★ Re-weight a criterion or change perspective/scale and explain why the verdict changes or remains stable.
Alternative weighting/perspective + uncertainty.
Fade the first content prompt no longer needed; keep sensory/motor/navigation access.

Independent mission

📜 Independent historian mission

Run a Significance Depends comparison on two approved W4 cases: criteria matrix, stated scale/perspective, ranked verdict, ‘although/depends’ qualification and one evidence limitation/support request for W6.