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ActiveHistory provides interactive simulations, self-marking quizzes, lesson plans, worksheets and multimedia activities designed by full-time history teacher Russel Tarr.
Build and deliver complete history courses with resources for classroom teaching, remote learning and independent study - from multimedia lectures to interactive games and historical simulations.
World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
Miscellaneous Resources for GCSE History |
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Interactive Exercises |
| 1. | Manic Miner Game. - Crime and Punishment |
| 2. | CannonBall Fun Quiz - Crime and Punishment |
| 3. | Wordshoot Quiz - Crime and Punishment |
| 4. | Walk the Plan Quiz -Walk the Plank - Policing [external link] |
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Worksheets / Lesson Plans - External Link |
| 1. | Punishments Through Time - A lesson unit from Ian Dawson at www.thinkinghistory.co.uk |
| A Series of Worksheets donated to ActiveHistory by Cathy Warren: | |
Defining Crime: |
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| Determining Guilt: How do we decide if someone is guilty? |
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| Deciding on Punishment: How has the range of punishments changed over time? Nature of Punishment - Practice Questions |
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The Middle Ages - Crime and Punishment |
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Interactive Exercises for GCSE History |
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| 1. | Hereward the Wake Cut 'n' Paste Activity - Use Word, Publisher and the net to reconstruct the story of this Saxon resistance fighter and produce their own report (c.1 hour in classroom, can be split into 2 sessions). |
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| 2. | The Murder of King William Rufus - Online activity designed to improve sourcework skills |  |
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| 3. | The Murder of Becket - Redraft the account to detect and insert bias, learning about propaganda and censorship | |
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Worksheets for GCSE History |
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| 1. | Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages |
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| 2. | The Peasants' Revolt - A printable worksheet, designed to be used as a running dictation exercise. |
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The Eighteenth Century - Crime and Punishment |
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Interactive Exercises for GCSE History |
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| 1. | Interactive Running Dictation: The Fall of the Bastille An innovative activity designed to help students learn about the opening stages of the Revolution |
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Worksheets for GCSE History |
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| 1. | The Trial and Execution of King Louis XVI : Structured debate about whether the King deserves to die, plus grisly descriptions of the guillotine! | ||
| 2. | The Terror: Students are introduced to Danton, Robespierre and Marat and debate which one was the "most evil"! | ||
The Nineteenth Century - Crime and Punishment |
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Interactive Exercises for GCSE History |
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| 1. | You be the Judge! - An interactive simulation in which you pass sentence on a range of Victorian Crimes and compare them to the verdicts that were actually reached at the time. | ||
| 2. | Classtools Arcade Games: Jack the Ripper |
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| 3. | Fling the Teacher Quiz: Jack the Ripper | ||
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Worksheets for GCSE History |
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| 1. | Jack the Ripper - A complete project pack for a 5-hour unit | ||
| 2. | Crime and Punishment during the Industrial Revolution - Worksheet designed to be completed over a double lesson; students are given a series of crime case studies, and decide what punishments they would have given. These are then compared with punishments actually given at the time. | ||
The Twentieth Century - Crime and Punishment |
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Interactive Exercises for GCSE History |
| 1. | Jigsaw-Table Exercises |
| 2. | In-Depth Investigation The Strange Death of Emily Davison |
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Worksheets for GCSE History |
| 1. | Opposition to the Vietnam War - 1966 - Muhammad Ali |
| 2. | Opposition to the Vietnam War 1969 - Woodstock Festival |
| 3. | Opposition to the Vietnam War 1970 - Murder at Kent State |
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