Did we emerge from World War Two a better civilisation?” A full article has been published in International Schools magazine outlining the IB Induction event which takes place at the International School of Toulouse. What is the basic proposal? • In the first week back after the summer holidays: a. Students in Year 12 will…
Month: June 2013
Middle East pre-1939: 30-Question Quiz
A revision quiz – this time with 30 possible questions – designed to help students revise the Middle East Paper 1 depth study as part of their IB revision programme. I give students 10 minutes at the start of the lesson to try to complete the quiz. Anyone completing the quiz within the available time gets a…
Was the Palestinian refugee crisis the deliberate policy of the Jewish leadership?
A sample sourcework assignment, complete with model answers, in the style of the IB History Paper 1.
History in the News: Weekly Email Digest!
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Spanish Civil War: Causes and Events – Interactive Quizzes
A series of revision quizzes. I give students 10 minutes at the start of the lesson to try to complete the quiz. Anyone completing the quiz within the available time gets a score based on the amount of minutes left on the clock. They can then move on to the first lesson task, whatever that…
Who was to blame for the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War?
A sample sourcework assignment, complete with model answers, in the style of the IB History Paper 1.
20 TED Talks for History Lovers
TEDTalks are short (usually no more than 20-minute) talks on a very wide range of topics and disciplines. The focus is often on science and technology, but there is an excellent range of lectures on subjects of interest to history lovers. Here is my personal selection of 20 TED Talks for History Lovers, taken from…
Was it the Arab refusal to accept the UN Partition Plan that caused the 1948 War?
A sample sourcework assignment, complete with model answers, in the style of the IB History Paper 1.
