{"id":4007,"date":"2017-05-25T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2017-05-13T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T10:39:00","slug":"design-tubular-timeline-towers-for-chronological-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/design-tubular-timeline-towers-for-chronological-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Design \u201cTubular Timeline Towers\u201d for chronological understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"post-title entry-title\">Overview<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As a \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/takeaway-homework\/\">choose your own homework<\/a>\u2018 option, suggest to students that they consolidate their chronological understanding by constructing a \u201cTubular Timeline Tower\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>Case Study<\/h3>\n<p>In the February holidays, I give an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/takeaway-homework\/\">open homework task <\/a>to students who will be taking public exams in May. I ask them to choose any topic that they are currently not very confident on, and produce a useful revision resource which demonstrates at least two hours of\u00a0thoughtful effort. In the past, and for students of Modern World History at IGCSE, they have chosen such ideas a a \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/make-a-tripadvisor-graphic-to-revise-impact-in-various-places\/\">TripAdvisor Graphic<\/a>\u2018 to illustrate successes and failures of the League of Nations, or have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/design-a-childrens-storybook\/\">designed a children\u2019s storybook<\/a>\u00a0covering the main events of Hitler\u2019s foreign policy among many other things.<\/p>\n<p>Another idea, which history student Jade came up with recently, was to go through the entire IGCSE Modern World History course and transform the main events and themes into a timeline, with each one covered in one \u201cpot\u201d of a joined up tower. On the cover of each pot was a title and the date, and inside a series of colour-coded revision cards covering such things as key events, main personalities and their significance, and key terms for revision.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being creative, the end result was thorough and academically rigorous: on which basis I think an excellent student like Jade is a fantastic reply to the sorts of educationalists who tiresomely insist that \u201cprogressive\u201d and \u201ctraditional\u201d approaches are somehow incompatible.\u00a0Here she is talking about her project further:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/205429532\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Case Study In the February holidays, I give an open homework task to students who will be taking public exams in May. I ask them to choose any topic that they are&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/design-tubular-timeline-towers-for-chronological-understanding\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[794,246,353,793,792,795],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-12D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007"}],"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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}