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World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.

All of these freely downloadable printables can be used to make your history classroom a visually stimulating environment.

As well as the 40+ posters including those on the right, you may also find the following resources useful, I recommend that you print them off onto A3 and get them laminated!

"History: The Story of Everything!"

An A3 poster showing the connection between History and a whole range of other classroom subjects.

Classroom Posters: 10 Celebrity History Graduates

Print these off onto A3, get them laminated and stuck up around the room, then point at them whenever any student asks "What can you do with a history degree?"

Classroom Posters: 15 Key History Questions

Was the Black Death a blessing in disguise? Was Victoria's Empire racist? - 15 key questions, with illustrations, to put up around the classroom.

Classroom Posters: 20 History Quotes

"Study History, Study History! In History lies all the secrets of statecraft!" - plus 19 more motivational quotes about the noble subject.

Classroom Posters: 27 Key Dates from the 20th Century in Pictures

From the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, through to Boris Yeltsin making a fool of himself after too much vodka: 27 posters highlighting key events caught on the camera in the 20th Century.

"WHO tall are you?"

Each student in the class should measure themselves against the ‘Who tall are you?’ chart. Each student then has to choose one of the names corresponding to their height to research in more detail. The teacher will then conduct a ‘balloon debate’ between the different characters over several rounds to determine the most important character chosen.

 

Classroom Display: 24 Key Terms for IB/A-Level History | Classroom Display: 40 Key Terms for KS3 History

I print these off onto A3, laminate them and then cut them up to display all around the classroom.

Classroom Display: 30+ Topics studied in class

These posters (click on each for a larger version!) are designed to be printed, laminated and displayed outside your classroom so that passers-by can get a flavour of what's being studied in your history classroom. They can be changed at appropriate points and they are a great way of highlighting the great topics that your students get to study.

Student bookmark: Vocabulary for essay writing

Another great resource to print off, laminate, cut out and give to students to help develop their historical vocabulary:

Historically-themed bookmarks for rewards

Twenty historically-themed bookmarks which I give out as rewards for impressive work:

For more display ideas for the history classroom, check out these blogposts at Tarr's Toolbox!

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