“History: the Story of Everything!” A new A3 classroom poster showing the connection between History and a whole range of other classroom subjects.
Month: September 2014
“Sarajevo Sandwich Sydnrome” – Questioning the Reliability of Documentary Sources
One of the most popular classroom resources covering the assassination of Franz Ferdinand is an episode from the award-winning series “Days that Shook the World” At face value this 30-minute film should be highly reliable: it is a documentary (rather than a feature film), produced by the highly respected British Broadcasting Corporation. However, there are…
Citation Generator: Harvard, Chicago, MLA and APA formats
I’ve updated the ClassTools online citation generator so you can now choose from one of four citation styles. Try it out here!
Top 10 Free Activities for the History Classroom from ActiveHistory
ActiveHistory is updated so frequently with worksheets, interactive simulations and other resources that it’s sometimes difficult to keep track! Here are ten of the most popular FREE resources on the site (theActiveHistory Gallery provides lots more ideas and resources). To get full access to other resources available to subscribers, please sign up for a free trial.
Would the October Revolution have taken place without the input of Lenin?
A new KeyWord Checker that helps check the level of detail used in IB History essays.
Free countdown timer
I’ve just put the finishing touches to a new ClassTools template (http://www.classtools.net/timer) which I hope you will find useful. Unlike other online timers, this one is designed to work on tablet devices as well as standard computers. You can also add multiple timers, run them in sequence or all at once, add a tune / YouTube video to…
“Back to School” ActiveHistory resources for all year groups!
It’s great to start the new school year with some suitably engaging activities. With that in mind I thought I’d share with your the resources I’ll be using with my teaching groups in case you want to make use of them yourself! There are plenty of syllabus changes taking place in different educational systems at…
“Who is your Historical Hero?” – an independent research project, adaptable for all year groups!
“Who is your Historical Hero?” – an independent research project, adaptable for all year groups! This is a great activity for any year group: I trialled it at the end of Year 9 with my own students, but it went so well that I plan to run it with other year groups too. It was…
‘Google Hangout’ with Orlando Figes!
In June 2014, the world-renowned historianProfessor Orlando Figes generously agreed to participate in a live video link-up experiment with IB Historians at the International School of Toulouse to answer questions about the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Over the course of 45 minutes he answered a wide range of questions that the class had formulated in advance following an…
