{"id":3471,"date":"2015-07-30T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:50:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:50:51","slug":"design-a-childrens-storybook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/display-work\/design-a-childrens-storybook\/","title":{"rendered":"Design a children\u2019s storybook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After studying a complex topic, challenge students to turn it into an illustrated storybook that can be understood by primary school students. Spend time in class talking through the main concepts, events and personalities that should be covered in a brief story. Consider too which images could be used to bring the subject to life.<\/p>\n<p>In themselves these books can be useful revision aids, and could be peer-assessed. Even better however is to actually read them to students in a local primary school.<\/p>\n<p>I use this technique successfully in two major projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/Year_8\/Henry_VIII.php\">Henry VIII \u2013 Hero or Villain?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>In this exercise, Year 8 historians produce biased storybooks about Henry VIII. Half the class produce \u2018positive\u2019 books, half produce \u2018negative\u2019 books. In a subsequent lesson, different Year 5 students hear one \u2018positive\u2019 story and then one \u2018negative\u2019 story before completing a \u2018wheel of life\u2019 about Henry VIII where they try to reach a synthesis judgement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3171\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B9JsWClIUAEdOEz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3171\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B9JsWClIUAEdOEz-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Biased storybooks about Henry VIII (&quot;Hero or Villain?&quot;)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biased storybooks about Henry VIII (&#8220;Hero or Villain?&#8221;)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/GCSE\/mr_men.php\">How did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>After completing a detailed investigation of the causes of Hitler\u2019s rise to power, students produce a \u2018Mr. Men\u2019 storybook which they read to Year 6 students. In this exercise, the Year 6 students have an accompanying worksheet where their teams get points for correctly interpreting the different metaphors correctly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3173\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0971.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3173 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0971-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0971\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reading &#8220;Rise of Hitler Mr. Men&#8221; books (Year 11 &gt; Year 6)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A measure of how good this technique is can be gleaned from the fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/gove.php\">former UK education secretary Michael Gove thinks this approach is rubbish<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After studying a complex topic, challenge students to turn it into an illustrated storybook that can be understood by primary school students. Spend time in class talking through the main concepts, events and personalities that should be covered in a brief story. Consider too which images could be used to bring the subject to life&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/display-work\/design-a-childrens-storybook\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[194,196,199,203,205,211],"tags":[235,246,337],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-TZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}