{"id":3449,"date":"2015-03-25T22:16:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:54:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:54:49","slug":"students-design-a-cover-image-for-their-topic-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/homework\/students-design-a-cover-image-for-their-topic-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"Students design a cover image for their topic packs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong>: When you provide your students with a printed work pack, or even if they have their topic notes in a ring binder with separators, ask them to decide upon an appropriate cover image with an <strong>explanation<\/strong> of its relevance directly underneath. The image here shows examples from my Year 10 students, who produced front covers for their work packs on the Origins of World War One.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking it further<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Get students to explain their choices to each other in pairs and groups. Each student reports back on what they have found out from the other person \/ people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview: When you provide your students with a printed work pack, or even if they have their topic notes in a ring binder with separators, ask them to decide upon an appropriate cover image with an explanation of its relevance directly underneath. The image here shows examples from my Year 10 students, who produced front&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/homework\/students-design-a-cover-image-for-their-topic-packs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":3328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,200,206,212],"tags":[241,246,280,304,339,354],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homework","category-knowledge","category-significance","category-visual-literacy","tag-cover","tag-design","tag-image","tag-packs","tag-students","tag-topic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4007,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/design-tubular-timeline-towers-for-chronological-understanding\/","url_meta":{"origin":3449,"position":0},"title":"Design \u201cTubular Timeline Towers\u201d for chronological understanding","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"May 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Overview As a \u2018choose your own homework\u2018 option, suggest to students that they consolidate their chronological understanding by constructing a \u201cTubular Timeline Tower\u201d. 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