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ActiveHistory provides entertaining, educational award-winning interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, high-quality worksheets and detailed lesson plans for teachers and students. View the top 75 activities here.
This simulation will help you understand the events and outcome of the American Civil War. You can play for the Union, the Confederacy, or against an opponent. A detailed worksheet is provided.
The unit is designed to be used with Year 9 students (13-14 years) but is easily adaptable to other contexts. It develops sourcework and essay-writing skills, and the outcome is a detailed, structured essay answering the key question "Was Winston Churchill a hero, or a villain?".
You may find the following resources useful for brightening up your classroom. I recommend that you print them off onto A3 and get them laminated!
This @activehistory project links to thousands of podcasts. It's part of the ActiveHistory 20th Century Research Project.
A great way of starting the unit: complete with a range of differentiated worksheets, this decision-making adventure really gets students thinking about the important people, themes and events.
All the latest history news, blog entries, TV and radio programmes - updated daily. RSS feed / Email digest options also available.
Other citation generators need YOU to do most of the hard work - and only look for books. This one searches for books, websites and films. All it needs is a web address or a title / author of a book / film.
A fantastic way of building up your professional learning network - thousands of history educators and professional historians for you to follow.
A searchable database of books and DVDs, organised by topic and period - plenty of ideas for inspiration!
These materials help teachers plan a trip to the World War One battlefields of the Somme and Ypres. There are two versions of the trip available. Each one comes with a detailed student workpack (plus teacher notes) which opens in Adobe Acrobat Reader. There is also a detailed itinerary for each trip which can be opened in Google Earth.
Simply copy an essay into the box and click 'submit' to get an instant plagiarism report.
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Events (500 years ago today): 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
Births (150 years ago today): 1871 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1937)
Births (100 years ago today): 1921 – Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (d. 2014)
Births (50 years ago today): 1971 – Darrick Martin, American basketball player and coach
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