{"id":6075,"date":"2026-09-24T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:16:19","slug":"new-simulation-the-black-death-a-history-skills-challenge-for-grade-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/new-simulation-the-black-death-a-history-skills-challenge-for-grade-6\/","title":{"rendered":"*NEW* Simulation: The Black Death: A History Skills Challenge for Grade 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How well can your students <strong>think like historians<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/games\/black_death\/\">This revamped ActiveHistory Black Death simulation<\/a><\/span><\/strong> turns a medieval plague into a fast-paced <strong>20-minute historical skills challenge<\/strong> for Grade 6 students. Rather than simply testing factual recall, students tackle a series of challenges designed to measure three key areas of historical thinking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>?? <strong>Visual Literacy<\/strong> \u2014 interpreting maps and images as historical evidence<br \/>? <strong>Source Analysis<\/strong> \u2014 identifying and interpreting what historical sources reveal<br \/>? <strong>Historical Reasoning<\/strong> \u2014 weighing evidence, spotting mistakes and making informed decisions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students work through <strong>20 self-marking challenges<\/strong>, receiving immediate feedback as they go. Their results are automatically broken down into the three skill areas, giving both student and teacher a much clearer picture of <strong>where they are succeeding and where they need to develop<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there\u2019s a useful bonus for teachers: at the end, the simulation automatically generates a <strong>personalised performance comment<\/strong>, based on the student&#8217;s results, which can be copied directly into a markbook or reporting system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fun activity for students \u2014 but one that gives teachers <strong>meaningful evidence of historical skills, not just a score<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-20.15.08-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-20.15.08-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-20.15.08-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-20.15.08-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-20.15.08-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-20.15.08-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-20.15.08-2048x1335.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-at-20.15.08-460x300.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How well can your students think like historians? This revamped ActiveHistory Black Death simulation turns a medieval plague into a fast-paced 20-minute historical skills challenge for Grade 6 students. Rather than simply testing factual recall, students tackle a series of challenges designed to measure three key areas of historical thinking: ?? Visual Literacy \u2014 interpreting&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/new-simulation-the-black-death-a-history-skills-challenge-for-grade-6\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,212,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075"}],"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=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}