Content List
For a complete list of activities for classroom use [ click here ]. But there’s a lot more on this site.
KS3 - Planning and Teaching
• Some thoughts on the role of historical knowledge at KS3 [ click here ]
• Planning issues e.g. integrating depth and outline [ click here ]
• Ideas for teaching the key themes including:
Chronology and Enquiry
• Developing Chronological Understanding [ click here ]
• Seeing the big picture – a summary of a talk on Chronological Understanding for Primary and Secondary teachers given at the LHF [ click here ]
• Developing Enquiry Skills – at KS3, GCSE and A level and at museums and sites [ click here ]
Active Learning
• Active Learning - an FAQ guide to why, how and lots of other queries [ click here ]
• Reflections on Active Learning – a guide to analysing what’s worked and what hasn’t. [ click here ]
• Guide to active learning for trainees and NQTs [ click here ]
• DVD on active learning – description and details [ click here ]
Other
• Using Family and Personal Histories in the classroom – exemplar strategies [ click here ]
• Teaching about 1381 – what do we want KS3 students to remember? [ click here ]
• The English Civil War – problems and solutions at KS3 [ click here ]
• The Industrial Revolution – what do we want students to understand? [ click here ]
• Henry VII – articles and activities for A level [ click here ]
• The Wars of the Roses – resources, additional activities and more for A Level [ click here ]
• Good websites for History teachers – a miscellany [ click here ]
• Open evenings - capturing imagination [ click here ]
• Help for non-UK readers – a guide to terms used on this site [ click here ]
Articles
• Time for Chronology (Teaching History, 2004) [ click here ]
• Thinking across time: planning and teaching the story of power and democracy at KS3 (Teaching History, 2008) [ click here ]
• What time does the tune start? From ‘sense of period’ to modelling history at KS3 (Teaching History, 2009) [ click here ]
• Identity, Nationality and the History of Britain – thinking about objectives and teaching activities (Euroclio Bulletin, 2008) [ click here ]
• The re-appearance of a Cheshire Cat – teaching the history of Britain at KS3 (Teaching History 1995) [ click here ]
• Fieldwork in history teaching and learning in universities [ click here ]
• ‘Not the white tights again!’ Role-play in History teaching at degree level (Teaching History, 1989) [ click here ]
• Wales and Edward I – finding a purpose and an approach (Welsh Historian, 1996) [ click here ]
• Henry VII: Diligent bureaucrat or paranoid blunderer? (Teaching History 2005) [ click here ]
• Henry VII: Out of the shadows? (The Historical Review 1995) [ click here ]
• Muck and misery in the Middle Ages? (Teaching History, 1995) [ click here ]