Category: Useful resources
-
Editable ‘fortune teller’ template for plenaries and peer questioning
A while ago I saw a brilliant resource from Stuart Godman at www.aheadofhistory.co.uk who had created a peer assessment version of the playground paper ‘fortune teller’ game. It’s great to reach these out as a plenary activity at the end of an intense lesson of historical analysis and get the students talking to each other…
-
Great website to find music, sorted by country & decade www.radiooooo.com
The www.radiooooo.com website is definitely worth adding to your ‘Favourites’. A crowd-sourced directory of 20th Century international music, it features a host of tracks categorised by country of origin and decade. With just a couple of clicks you have quick and easy access to a huge range music to play in the background while students…
-
History-based Inter-House Form Competition: Timelines
This simple resource, based on events from the excellent About Time boardgame, allows you to run a history-based House / Inter-Form Competition with minimal effort. Each team is given a copy of the timeline (click to download) which contains events from the entire range of KS2-5 History (as well as some references to other subject areas)…
-
“The Yorkshire Preface to the Bayeux Tapestry”
A great website about a Local Heritage Initiative funded project to create panels in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry to tell the events that took place in Yorkshire prior to the Battle of Hastings. Overview of the project – http://www.battleoffulford.org.uk/bayeux_project.htm Photos of the panels in progress – http://www.battleoffulford.org.uk/bayeux_progress.htm
-
The story of Peter Norman, the Australian in this photo.
This is an excellent article about Peter Norman, the white Australian sprinter who was awarded the silver medal alongside John Carlos and Tommie Smith while they raised their black-gloved fists and bowed their heads as the US National Anthem was played. http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-white-man-in-that-photo/
-
WW1 European Royal Family Tree graphic from @BrookingsInst
This graphic from the excellent Brookings Essay “The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War” by Margaret MacMillan shows the close family relationship between the three key European monarchs: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany; King George V of England; and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Click the thumbnail below to load the full-size version.
-
‘We Are History’ photo collage display to download
I created this photo collage as a title for one of my display boards. Each letter is made up of images I collected for my daily HistoryPod podcast so they cover a range of events from the Wild West to the Space Race and the Qing dynasty to Tiananmen Square. The letters make a great display…
-
How do we remember WW1? Royal Mail stamps make a great starter
The full details for this stamp set are available on the Royal Mail website at http://shop.royalmail.com/the-first-world-war-1914-souvenirs/first-world-war-1914-stamp-set/invt/20140713
-
Map showing extent of WW1 trench movement, Aug 1914-Nov 1918
This fabulous map comes from the Harvard University Map Collection.
-
Photo comparing daily diets of the ‘haves’ vs ‘have nots’ in France 1789
From www.aircirculation.org