Two excellent PowerPoint Presentations for use in the history classroom generously donated to ACTIVEHISTORY by Mr. Richard Fitzsimmons: Communication at KS3 What is Chronology?
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A Virtual Tour around Tsarist Russia
I am currently working on a Virtual Tour Around Tsarist Russia, in which students will be able to learn all about the national minorities, political parties, economic development and key characters of Nicholas II’s Empire. It’s taking a bit of work, but I hope to have in launched within the next couple of weeks!
Head2Head Chat: Medicine Through Time Expert!
Designed to allow a range of year groups to investigate medicine, surgery and public health at particular points in history.
World War One: Section Redesign
World War One: New resources and structure I added several new resources to this page of the site, and decided it was getting unwieldy, so I have now broken it into two sections: Causes of World War One Course of World War One Each one of these is now structured by topic (so it reads…
Game Update: Play Your Dates Right
Updated all of the Play Your Dates Right Quizzes to make the fully compatible with the Mozilla Firefox browser.
The Trading Game
Uploaded The Trading Game – an interactive simulation designed to teach students about what continents trade which goods, and what sorts of factors can encourage or hinder international trade. Could be used as a follow-up to a study of the British Empire, or as a cross-curricular link with the Geography theme of Globalisation. I would…
Game Updates: Now fully compatible with Firefox
Updated the Horatio Ramsbottom: Victorian Entrepreneur game, the League of Nations in the 1920s game and the Would you have Survived the French Revolution? game to make the fully compatible with the Mozilla Firefox browser. If you are aware of any other games which do not run perfectly with this browser, please let me know…
Fling the Teacher: Updated
Updated 154 Fling the Teacher Quizzes to make them fully compatible with the code developed by Andrew Field of www.schoolhistory.co.uk.
Play Your Dates Right: High Score Board
Added a new High Score Board feature to the Play Your Dates Right quizzes.
George III / IV: Propaganda and Censorship
George III / George IV: A stand-alone worksheet designed to develop understanding of censorship and propaganda.
GCSE Crime and Punishment: Interactive Simulation
Interactive Simulation: You be the Judge! Pass sentence on a series of ten crimes from 19th Century Britain and see how close you come to the actual verdicts reached at the time!
High Score Board Added to Popular Games!
Added the new High Score Board (using PHP / SQL) to the CannonBall Fun and Wordshoot games.
Venn Diagram
What does it take to become a successful businessperson? – An editable Venn Diagram, which can be changed to suit your purposes and which serves as a good introduction to the “Horatio Ramsbottom: Victorian Entrepreneur” decision-making game.
History Quizzes
Uploaded brand new Wordshoot; CannonBall Fun and Manic Miner games on the following topics: The Radical Reformation Calvin and Calvinism Henry VII – Domestic Policy The USSR under Lenin
History Quizzes: New Developments
Uploaded a new Medicine Through Time game to Wordshoot; CannonBall Fun and Manic Miner Developed the Manic Miner Game to make the initial levels a little easier after feedback from members.
History Quiz: Firefox and Safari Compatible
Adapted all of the CannonBall Games to make them fully compatible in Firefox, Safari and Opera Browsers
History Games: High Score Board Feature!
Added a brand new “Hall of Fame” feature to the Wordshoot quizzes; this will update automatically and provide an element of competition to the game. It will be extended to the CannonBall Games and the Manic Miner Games next week if it is clearly working well.
Manic Miner
Manic Miner A new game: based on arcade platform games, a new way of learning history! The sample game is on Nazi Germany please offer some feedback!
Manic Miner – History Games and Quizzes
Uploaded fresh “Manic Miner” games: The Tudors The Reformation Crime and Punishment The Middle East International Relations in the 1920s International Relations in the 1930s Medicine Through Time England in the Era of Cardinal Wolsey The Renaissance The European Reformation: Key Terminology The Ottoman Empire in the Era of Suleiman the Magnificent Russia under Alexander…
GCSE, A-Level and IB History Quizzes: Manic Miner!
Uploaded fresh “Manic Miner” games: The Era of World War Two Jack the Ripper The English Civil War The Renaissance The Treaty of Versailles Life in the Trenches The Liberal Governments, 190618 International Relations, 191939 The Causes of the Protestant Reformation The Life of Martin Luther Referenda and Democracy Pressure Groups Political Parties Germany in…
Report Writer Software
ActiveHistory Report Writing Wizard A major new application updated and amended to help teachers write history reports. Is this Holy Grail of history application?!
AS Government and Politics Games
Wordshoot Quiz Party Ideologies Cannonball Fun Quiz Party Ideologies
CannonBall Fun: Brand new History Game!
BRAND NEW GAME LAUNCHED: “CANNONBALL FUN!“ A game to test skills and knowledge – can you get into the Hall of Fame? Year 7: Medieval Realms (10th-15th Centuries) FREE Medieval Realms Year 8: The Early Modern World (15th-18th Centuries) The English Civil War, 1642-49 FREE The Reformation The Renaissance …
The Duke of Northumberland: Jigsaw table exercise
Jigsaw Table Exercise England Under Northumberland
Play Your Dates Right: Dating Game
Play Your Dates Right Code updated do that all the timelines can be printed off for revision prior to taking the quizzes.
Running Dictation Exercises
Running Dictation Exercises: The Middle East Conflict The Latter Stages of World OneWordshoot Quiz “High Stalinism”: Politics and Culture
TES Article by RJ Tarr of ActiveHistory
FREE: TES Article: Every Picture Tells a Story Article by RJT published in the TES Teacher magazine [full article]. In the same edition, Becky Hewlitt’s article on History and Numeracy described the the ActiveHistory Wall Street Crash Simulation in these terms: “…We then begin to look at the Wall Street Crash using a superb interactive…
Report Writing Wizard
The ActiveHistory Report Wizard A brand-new application which enables teachers – with a few clicks of a mouse button – to create eloquent student reports in continuous prose. Totally customisable, with a built in thesaurus, it could possibly save your hours of work! Member feedback on this new project is particularly welcome – the more…
Medicine Through Time
A new interactive “Wordshoot” quiz
