Interactive lessons

1. Head2Head Interview
Interview Adolf Hitler!  
Interview the German dictator face to face! - An award winning activity!
2. Decision-Making Game
The Home Front in World War Two!
How successfully would you have been as a wartime leader of Britain?
3. Oral history project: World War Two
From interviews by students, complete with tasks
4. The World Between the Wars
An interactive timeline, complete with worksheet.

Interactive quizzes

1. Manic Miner Game
World War Two
2. Wordshoot Quiz
The Home Front in World War Two
3. Play Your Dates Right Quizzes
World War Two, 1939-45
4. Fling the Teacher Quizzes
World War Two
5. CannonBall Quiz
The Home Front in World War Two

Worksheets

1. Communism, Fascism and democracy 55kb
2. The Atomic Bomb 60kb

External Links

   
1. Decision Making Game: Armour Warrior!
2. Online Simulation: D-Day
3. International Relations, 1919-39 Activities and links from the GCSE page on this site
4. The Holocaust Educational Trust
5. Audio and Video: The Atomic Archive  
6. Wiesenthal Holocaust Museum
7. Codebreaking in WW2; make your own coded messages at The Enigma Site
8. The Invasion of the USSR - Photos of a German Soldier

Audio-Visual resources

  Documentaries  
1. Nuremberg VHS
2. World at War - Box Set VHS
3. Kwai [1991] VHS
4. The Second World War In Colour VHS
5. Britain At War In Colour VHS
6. London At War  VHS
7. The True Story Of Dunkirk VHS
8. Normandy The Great Crusade VHS
9. Churchill - The Speeches VHS
10. Station X - The Codebreakers VHS
11. Fire Storm Over Dresden VHS
12. Nagasaki VHS
13. Story Of The Atomic Bomb VHS
14. War Of The Century VHS
  Feature Films  
1. Saving Private Ryan  
2. Stalingrad DVD / VHS
3. The Third Man DVD / VHS
4. U571 DVD / VHS
5. Pearl Harbor VHS
6. The Dambusters VHS
7. Land Girls VHS
8. Goodnight Mister Tom VHS
9. Dunkirk VHS
  Audiobook  
1. Horrible Histories: The woeful Second World War CD

 

What's New? / Blog   Blog Summary   Google Gadgets  
Contact Testimonies   Google Earth
ActiveHistory Latest!

© 1998-2008 Russel Tarr, ActiveHistory.co.uk Limited (Reg. 6111680)
Mertag, Marchamley, Shrewsbury, England, SY4 5LE; Tel / Fax 01630 684059

Active History Email Contact: History Games and quizzes by RJ Tarr
All rights reserved.

Recommended sites for KS3 History, GCSE History and A-Level History:
SchoolHistory | FreePedia | JohnDClare | SchoolsHistory | BBC History | Channel 4 History | History Channel UK

About