ALTERNATIVE ROUTE · GROW · AUTUMN 1

GROW Humanities · Teesside History Studio · Outstanding v3

DATE & CHALLENGE → WEIGH SOURCE → RANK CAUSES → AGENCY → SIGNIFICANCE → PLAN ACCOUNT → WRITE IT ★ → MAP & INFLUENCE

Week 7 remains an assessed independent account under centre-approved conditions/access arrangements.

Route status: Alternative GROW route, Autumn 1 2026–27. The existing lessons remain available in the Lessons catalogue.

W1 · Time Detectives

How can dates, periods and intervals help us build and challenge chronology?

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W2 · Source Detectives

How do provenance, content and context affect what a source tells, suggests or cannot prove?

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W3 · Cause and Consequence

How do personal motives, wider conditions and triggers combine to cause migration?

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W4 · People Who Shaped Britain

How can we explain historical agency while recognising context and evidence?

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W5 · How Big a Deal?

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

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W6 · Plan the Account

How can a plan organise chronology, causation and source evidence into an account?

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W7 · Write the Account ★ ★

How can I construct an independent account that uses evidence, explanation and qualified uncertainty?

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W8 · Where in the World?

How can atlas evidence and spatial scale deepen — but not replace — historical explanation?

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