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Greece / The Truman Doctrine / Marshall Plan
A succinct look at the situation in Greece : includes an edited version of the Tuman Doctrine and source analysis / evaluation activity.
Model League Of Nations
A comprehensive resource that allows students to experience for themselves how the League worked. Case cards to cover Vilna, Aaland Islands, Upper Silesia, War of the Stray Dog, Corfu Incident, Manchuria and Abyssinia invasions.
I suggest putting students into small delegation teams to represent each country and or case.
A very powerful learning activity.
Review exercise included.
Russian Revolutions Review Activity
A simple categorizing and review activity that compares the 1905, February and October Revolutions.
1066 Battles Review
A summary and review exercise allows students to separate the 3 main battles of 1066 - Fulford Gate, Stamford Bridge and Hastings.
Medieval Society
A self contained activity requires students to classify and summarise sources based on Medieval religion, medicine, hygiene and sports.
Jack the Ripper : analysing the Dear Boss letter
Requires students to read, interpret and analyse the Dear Boss letter.
Victorian Police Cartoon Analysis / Jack the Ripper
A super cartoon and frame to support students complete a cartoon analysis
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Sources.
A simple sheet provides definitions and examples of source types.
The Slave Trade Unit Introduction
Lessons included :
Key words / Literacy
Life in Africa
The Middle Passage
Slave Auctions
Skill = Source Analysis / Corroboration
The Slave Trade: The Underground Railraod
The worksheet supports this excellent online 'choose your adventure' type activity. When running this activity I have the class vote on each choice and go with the majority.
http://pathways.thinkport.org/following/home.cfm
Bias : Testing Trump's Tweets
A history skills lessons to help students identify bias using the Tweets of DJT. SAD!
Ranking Versailles Treaty Terms
Requires students to judge and rank the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
Causes of the Holocaust
A range of sources and a number of potential follow up exercise and activities to pick and choose from. The final page of source were largely created by students. Feedback is very welcome on these!
I suggest printing the summary note sheets in A3
Skills =
Source Analysis
Source Evaluation
Corroboration
Bias
Revision Technique
How Far Did The American Economy Boom Battle ?
An engaging way to wrap up this unit of work - my student really got into this. Easily adaptable to any other for / against question.
The Political Spectrum Activites
A range of activities that consolidate the initial explanations of the different ideologies. This covers …
Communism
Socialism
Liberalism
Capitalism
Conservatism
Fascism
1960s Civil Rights + Black Lives Matter Protests
A range of sources with linked videos that allow student to understand the why and how of civil rights protests in h 1960s + 2020.
The Titanic
A good starter for any work or topic about Titanic - a range of sources with a nice option to colour code and categorise …
You may also find useful …
Titanic Investigation – who was to blame?
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12316415
History Skills + Titanic
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12287899
Holocaust Full Pack - 100 page teaching pack + Anne Frank + activities + skills
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12649611
First World War 150 + Page Teaching Pack
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-10002492
World War 2 PowerPoint
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11391771
Skills Unit Introduction
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11116434
What is Bias?
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12574124
Questioning Primary Sources
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11114807
Phil@icHistory Tes Shop
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Ichistory
WW2 Home Front - The Blitz
A colourful, well-presented, and creative resource. Includes worksheets and embedded links, ideas and activities.
Main contents … ( 67 pages in total )
1 - Simple key word and vocabulary starter, matching activity. Extension, differentiation option included.
2 - Background and overview gap fill exercise.
3 - Source study ( all sources included ) and template worksheet. The focus here is … Air Raid Warden / Precaution / Children of the Blitz / Blitz Spirit / Impact / effect of bombing on civilians. Students can colour code, categorise then summarize the key information discovered into a neat template.
4 - Source Skills / type activity - understanding primary, secondary and tertiary sources via Blitz source type examples.
5 - Air Raid Warden / Precaution focus. This included well-presented information worksheets, primary sources and a summary /via a fun, diverse differentiated literacy activity to consolidate learning.
6 - The Blitz Spirit - Four focus sources and supporting worksheet template that consider the idea of The Blitz Spirit.
Extension - Creative exercise gives students examples of Blitz propaganda and option to create their own piece of propaganda.
7 - Take Shelter - Covers the various ways people tried to escape the bombs. Morrison and Anderson shelters, London Underground, communal shelters, and countryside evacuations for children. There are two activities here - one allows students to match the group to the shelter, the second is a simple table summary.
8 - Strike Back - This is a very interactive activity that covers RAF Bomber Command and British response to German bombing. Students can be put into teams and make decisions based on their given team role / perspective. Cross curricular links here with - Math / e.g., using statistics - ethics / moral decision making. This activity also looks at D-Day, Dam Buster Raid and the Battle of Britain - albeit in brief.
There are many links to videos and other websites embedded in the resource throughout.
Corroboration + Titanic
A neat activity that explains corroboration and why it is important in history but also in daily life …
Supports other Titanic skills resources
Over the top empathy exercise / Battle Somme
Video Clip For Empathy Exercise : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0V1yRrjMmM