A simple but very effective sheet which I pieced together to help my students improve their written work for IB Papers 2 and 3. It really does help and I have found the number of students achieving Levels 6 and 7 has increased in my classes since I began using this approach.
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Escape from Sobibor is a terrific movie to showcase both the horrors of the Holocaust as well as one shining example of widerstand/resistance. In this activity there are 50 questions for students to response to as they watch the movie. Answers are provided also for peer and self assessment.
Get students to glue this sheet in. It explains graduated criteria for five skills (interpretation, significance, causation, change and continuity, and consequence). Each has criteria for Mastery, Secure, Developing, Emerging, and Beginner grades. I always ask students to highlight their grade on returned assessments and then do the same in another colour to note what they need to do to improve.
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Students work their way through the background knowledge before taking a what-would-you-do style quiz. Each question focuses on a different stage in the crisis and students are given three options to choose from. Afterwards students add up their tally and are grouped into brackets to show what kind of President they would have made. My students really enjoy this activity, especially as a starter to the Cuban Missile Crisis - I hope yours do also.
Very simple but spices up source analysis skills. Students create their die from the template and throw - when the die lands they have to ask the person next to them the question which is face up. This is a featured resource on the T.E.S scaffolding for History teachers website. Have a wonderful day.
This is a great little starter activity when teaching castle design. Students divide themselves into three teams - research, design, and construction. Then using only scotch tape, scissors, and a tablet/computer or textbook, they need to design their own castle using the labels provided. Works especially well when accompanied by Mission Impossible music! I hope you enjoy using this resource as my students do. And if you like this free resource why not check out my shop for more goodies?
In this 1-slide PPT you will find a student learning journey about Ancient China.
The template is easily editable and provides you with an outline of a scheme of work which can be delivered. I like to ask students to glue these into their exercise books so they know exactly where on their own learning journey they are.
This learning journey is broken down into inquiry units and individual lesson titles within these.
In this 1-slide PPT you will find a student learning journey about Medieval Realms.
The template is easily editable and provides you with an outline of a scheme of work which can be delivered. I like to ask students to glue these into their exercise books so they know exactly where on their own learning journey they are.
This learning journey is broken down into inquiry units and individual lesson titles within these.
In this 1-slide PPT you will find a student learning journey about the Triangular Trade.
The template is easily editable and provides you with an outline of a scheme of work which can be delivered. I like to ask students to glue these into their exercise books so they know exactly where on their own learning journey they are.
This learning journey is broken down into inquiry units and individual lesson titles within these.
In this 1-slide PPT you will find a student learning journey about the USA in the 1920s and 1930s.
The template is easily editable and provides you with an outline of a scheme of work which can be delivered. I like to ask students to glue these into their exercise books so they know exactly where on their own learning journey they are.
This learning journey is broken down into inquiry units and individual lesson titles within these.
In this 1-slide PPT you will find a student learning journey about Twentieth Century China.
The template is easily editable and provides you with an outline of a scheme of work which can be delivered. I like to ask students to glue these into their exercise books so they know exactly where on their own learning journey they are.
This learning journey is broken down into inquiry units and individual lesson titles within these.
In this 1-slide PPT you will find a student learning journey about Weimar and Nazi Germany.
The template is easily editable and provides you with an outline of a scheme of work which can be delivered. I like to ask students to glue these into their exercise books so they know exactly where on their own learning journey they are.
This learning journey is broken down into inquiry units and individual lesson titles within these.
In this 1-slide PPT you will find a student learning journey about Shanghai - Local History Unit.
The template is easily editable and provides you with an outline of a scheme of work which can be delivered. I like to ask students to glue these into their exercise books so they know exactly where on their own learning journey they are.
This learning journey is broken down into inquiry units and individual lesson titles within these.
In this 1-slide PPT you will find a student learning journey about Stalin’s Russia
The template is easily editable and provides you with an outline of a scheme of work which can be delivered. I like to ask students to glue these into their exercise books so they know exactly where on their own learning journey they are.
This learning journey is broken down into inquiry units and individual lesson titles within these.
In this 1-slide PPT you will find a student learning journey about Imperial Russia.
The template is easily editable and provides you with an outline of a scheme of work which can be delivered. I like to ask students to glue these into their exercise books so they know exactly where on their own learning journey they are.
This learning journey is broken down into inquiry units and individual lesson titles within these.
This works really well as a quick starter or plenary activity. Students complete a questionnaire about Roman inventions and how recently they have used them. From this they achieve a score (out of 66) and are asked to stand up when their score bracket is read aloud. A fun way to introduce the concept of why the Romans are so significant.
Great activity for revision. There are two different question cards and the battleships are all named after significant ships (eg Hitler’s personal yacht, the Grille). Students take it in turns to guess a square and if they answer the quesiton correctly they are awarded a hit or miss.
Needs to be printed back to back.
I hope your students enjoy this as much as mine do.
The title of this lesson is “What can we learn about Native America from the 1995 Disney movie Pocahontas?” NB: To use this lesson you need to have a copy of the 1995 Disney movie Pocahontas.
Students are given graduated learning objectives (some will/most will/all will). The lesson begins with a starter activity to engage your students in which they are invited to guess which of four facts is incorrect. There is then some background information about the story of Pocahontas. The class then work through 30 different bingo cards as they watch the movie and are invited to tick those which they see (some they do not, as the movie is not completely accurate). There are two versions of this card sort, one for students who like a challenge and a differentiated version for students who need a little help. It is a nice end of term type activity - but not simply watching a movie for the sake of it. From this the class then complete a movie review exercise using the template given and vote with their feet to establish how many stars (1-5) they would rate the movie for historical authenticity (i.e. they now answer the essential question).
This lesson was written for high achieving high school students and is written in UK English.
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This lesson is titled “What were the consequences of the Great Fire of London.”
This lesson begins with a The Price is Right Starter Activity in which the class guess on four questions which have statistical answers on the Great Fire. This then leads to the introduction of the Key Question, lesson aims, and graduated lesson criteria (all will/most will/some will). There follow slides of background information to allow for teacher exposition. After this the first main activity is for the class to review six sources and to answer a series of comprehension questions on these. The second main activity is for students to divide up a card sort (12 cards) into four different factors (political effects social effects, economic effects, architectural effects of the Great Fire). A colour coordinated version is provided for those who need a little extra help. There are then some slides explaining the mechanics of a good essay and the third main activity is for students to write their written response to the Key Question. Lesson objectives are revisited. The lesson concludes with a plenary activity in which students are asked to answer the Key Question by coming to the board and completing one petal on an eight-petalled flower. It has been written for high school students, but could be adapted to meet the needs of slightly younger learners.
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