All of these freely downloadable printables can be used to make your history classroom a visually stimulating environment.All of these freely downloadable printables can be used to make your history classroom a visually stimulating environment.An A3 poster showing the connection between History and a whole range of other classroom subjects.
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?"
Was the Black Death a blessing in disguise? Was Victoria's Empire racist? - 15 key questions, with illustrations, to put up around the classroom.
"Study History, Study History! In History lies all the secrets of statecraft!" - plus 19 more motivational quotes about the noble subject.
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.
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.
I print these off onto A3, laminate them and then cut them up to display all around the classroom.
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.
Another great resource to print off, laminate, cut out and give to students to help develop their historical vocabulary:
Twenty historically-themed bookmarks which I give out as rewards for impressive work:
