A new running dictation exercise providing students with thorough details about Stalin’s policies for agriculture, including the Ukrainian Famine of 1932. Designed to accompany the full IB / A-Level unit on Stalin’s USSR.
Month: September 2008
Starter Activity: Methods of the Abolitionists
This PowerPoint provides students with an overview of the actual methods used by the real abolitionists. How do they compare with the campaigns the students came up with for Alan Sugartrader?
The Rise of Stalin
A new interactive running dictation exercise which outlines the main events in the final years of Lenin’s life which led to the Rise of Stalin as dictator of the USSR.
The Apprentice – A Campaign to Abolish the Slave Trade!
Alan Sugartrader of the good ship Amistrad leads the abolitionist movement in your local town. He has invited ambitious young businesspeople to come up with a brand new national campaign designed to generate support for the anti-slavery cause. Using a range of sources and a structured framework for preparation, groups of students have to produce…
Why Appeasement? (GCSE History)
A new diamond 9 diagram for GCSE Historians studying the causes of World War Two. Get students to elaborate on each factor and rearrange them in an order that makes sense to them. They can then use it to answer the question “Why did Britain pursue a policy of appeasement?” Click here for full screen…
Head2Head Worksheets
I have uploaded two worksheets to accompany the Head2Head Virtual Interviews. These are designed to work “off the shelf” and provide focus and direction to students conducting their virutal interviews with Hitler, Henry VIII, Martin Luther King, Dr. Fox and Stalin. 1. Newspaper Interview Task 2. Truth or Fiction Task
Flash Stopwatch
Type in your time, select a theme tune, and then click a button to start the countdown! A great tool for interactive whiteboards.
Causes of World War One
A one-sided summary sheet for GCSE History Revision.
Life on the Slave Plantations [2] – Images and Explanations
Students are presented with a series of images and explanations and placed into teams for a competition over several rounds to test knowledge and understanding of life on the slave plantations. Instructions for the game can be found here.
Accelerated Learning Cycle
Kolb’s Learning Cycle: The learning cycle model, developed by David Kolb, identifies four stages in learning. Peter Honey and Alan Mumford connected each stage in this learning cycle with a preferred learning style.
Create a Target Diagram Online!
A Target diagram is a fantastic way of getting students to break down a key question. Three factors are placed in the centre of the diagram. In the next layer, each factor can then be broken into two examples. In the final layer, each of these examples can then be substantiated with factual detail /…
Flash Game Generator
The Game Generator at www.classtools.net now has a feature which allows you to specify the type of quiz you would like the player to be directed to rather than allowing them a completely free choice. Check it out here!
Life on the Slave Plantations [1] – Slave Narratives
Students are placed in role as a real-life slave and read a first-person narrative from this sourcepack. They are then interviewed by the class, who records their findings in an attempt to determine the sorts of punishments inflicted for different types of “crimes” on the slave plantations.
Causes of Spanish Civil War: Conclusion
Students use this worksheet to summarise – and then crucially to connect – the various factors relating to the Origins of the Spanish Civil War. They are then given advice on how to structure an essay.
Runaway Slave Advertisements
This PowerPoint displays a series of advertisements for runaway slaves. Students are encouraged to read through each to deduce the sorts of conditions that slaves had to endure
The Spanish Second Republic
A worksheet in which students are given detailed information about The Spanish Second Republic and then asked to analyse it in various ways.
