Activities from 1900 & After
The activities don’t really need any introduction – simply, they cover the period from around 1900 to today – and, at present, the list isn’t long enough to need sub-dividing. But that may happen, sometime in the future.
Activities
This activity explains simply, but powerfully, why Salvarsan was effective, but risky. Activity by Ian Luff, on the SHP website |
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Walk your students through the map of Europe and make your decisions - then discover the grim reality |
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Arm wrestle your way to understanding the German army’s reaction to defeat |
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Sally Burnham demonstrates how these complex events can be readily assimilated. Chocolate biscuits an essential resource! |
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Help your A Level students get to grips with all those Weimar acronyms |
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Can your students buy a bar of chocolate before their money runs out? |
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Make the Depression personal and enhance students' understanding |
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Turn a difficult topic into an enjoyable, effective and inspirational lesson |
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Were the politicians of the 1930s really blunderers? |
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An active overview that’s challenging, enjoyable and effective |
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How did Hitler's forces reach the Channel? What was special about their tactics and what did the Allied defences get wrong? |
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Simulate the rival qualities of Spitfires and Messerschmitts and give your students more fire power in their explanations |
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A really good overview activity that helps students to see the patterns in all those events. |
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Recreate the tensions of the search for Viet Cong to help students understand why the US army couldn’t win |
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A gloriously simple way to make your students' understanding far more sophisticated |
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Your chance to fiddle the votes and improve your students’ understanding |
