This brand new ActiveHistory widget provides a rolling gallery of historical images shared by some of my favourite people on Twitter. A great way to add a visual element to your blog or website, or to have on the screen as your students enter the room! Just click the widget icon at the top left…
Month: August 2013
Individual Research phase – Other Forms of Socialism: The Contributions of Trotsky, Stalin and Mao
Individual Research phase – Other Forms of Socialism: The Contributions of Trotsky, Stalin and Mao Looking ahead to our later IB studies of Trotsky, Stalin and Mao, this activity encourages students to consider how other key communist figures added their own twists to Marxist ideology. Students conduct their own research and feed back in small…
How did the war in Afghanistan undermine the USSR? (Telescopic Topic)
A telescopic topic of revision notes using the ClassTools Telescopic Topic template.
In Defence of Capitalism / Criticisms of Marxism
In Defence of Capitalism / Criticisms of Marxism It is very important that in a study of this kind students are reminded that an understanding of Marxist thought does not necessarily mean agreement with it. In this exercise students are presented with a series of common criticisms of Marxism and points in defence of the…
The Arab-Israeli Conflict 1939-1947 (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 score…
