This history lesson builds on well from The Ambassadors and the Tudor Portrait Mystery Exercises. Students consider the tools used by artists to represent different policies, emotions and personality traits in individuals, using the famous “Armada Portrait” as a starting point. They then use what they have learned to produce their own colourful “Royal Portrait”…
Month: November 2006
Early Events of the Albigensian Crusade: The Campaigns of Simon de Montfort
A decision-making exercise: Would you have taken the same decisions as de Montfort?
Create your own “Dustbin” Game!
This interactive quiz generator allows you to create interactive “Dustbin” games. Students or teachers can create up to four categories of factors. The game created by ClassTools.net then involves students dragging and dropping each factor into its correct category as quickly as possible in a “race against the clock”!
The Cathars – A complete Scheme of Work with Resources
This brand new section of the website has now been launched.
The Siege of Montsegur: Interactive Running Dictation Exercise
Students watch the events unfold through a series of “news feeds” in this interactive history exercise and should then be asked to write a biased newspaper report about the event from either a Catholic or a Cathar perspective.
The Siege Stone at Carcassonne: Flash Animation
An animation designed to accompany the Cathars unit designed for Year 7 / Year 8 History.
The Siege Stone at Carcassonne: PostIt Activity
An interactive exercise based at ClassTools.net Interactive Whiteboard Resources, with an accompanying worksheet.
The Siege of Toulouse: Living Graph Activity
An interactive exercise based at ClassTools.net Interactive Whiteboard Resources, with an accompanying worksheet.
Coalbrookdale Interactive Census
I spent some time over half term completely rewriting the activities based around the Coalbrookdale Interactive Census of 1861. There is now a complete history lesson pack to accompany the searchable database, which I’ll be trialling with my own Year 9 students over the next two or three weeks. Hope you like it!
Why did the Pope launch the Albigensian Crusade? (a) Other Reasons
As part of the unit on the Cathars, an interactive Diamond 9 Exercise based at ClassTools.net Interactive Whiteboard Resources.
