I have taught for 17 years in High Schools.
I am a trained History teacher, but I have also taught English, Economics, Social Studies and Junior Science.
I have taught for 17 years in High Schools.
I am a trained History teacher, but I have also taught English, Economics, Social Studies and Junior Science.
1 year’s worth of access to an online whole-class quiz game - MAKEorBREAK
Consists of a website based game with 60 questions and answers that test student’s recall of essential content for this topic.
Questions appear on a classroom projector screen and students compete for the chance to answer by standing up with their team flag raised. If correct, the student can choose to MAKE one of their team’s six castles or BREAK an opposing team’s castle. The team with the most castles wins.
Expect noise and expect fun !
No devices required other than a teacher computer and projector.
Printable flag templates and printable answers included.
Covers the following IGCSE (Cambridge) Content:
Core Content: Option B The twentieth century: international relations since 1919
FQ6 - How secure was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948–c.1989?
-Soviet Power in Eastern Europe
– resistance to Soviet power in Hungary (1956)
and Czechoslovakia (1968)
– the Berlin Wall
– ‘Solidarity’ in Poland
– Gorbachev and the collapse of Soviet control
over Eastern Europe
For more History revision resources see the MAKEorBREAK website.
1 year of access to an online whole-class quiz game MAKEorBREAK with 60 questions and answers that test student’s recall of essential content for this topic.
Questions appear on a classroom projector screen and students compete for the chance to answer by standing up with their team flag raised. If correct, the student can choose to MAKE one of their team’s six castles or BREAK an opposing team’s castle. The team with the most castles wins.
Expect noise and expect fun !
No devices required other than a teacher computer and projector.
Printable flag templates and printable answers included.
Covers the following IGCSE (Cambridge) Content:
Core Content: Option B The twentieth century: international relations since 1919
FQ2 - To what extent was the League of Nations a success?
• How successful was the League in the 1920s?
• How far did weaknesses in the League’s organisation make failure inevitable?
• How far did the Depression make the work of the League more difficult?
• How successful was the League in the 1930s?
Covers the following GCSE Content: Section B: Wider world depth studies, BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918–1939
Part two: The League of Nations and international peace
The League of Nations: its formation and covenant; organisation; membership and how it changed; the powers of the League; the work of the League’s agencies; the contribution of the League to peace in the 1920s, including the successes and failures of the League, such as the Aaland Islands, Upper Silesia, Vilna, Corfu and Bulgaria.
Diplomacy outside the League: Locarno treaties and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
The collapse of the League: the effects of the Depression; the Manchurian and Abyssinian crises and their consequences; the failure of the League to avert war in 1939.
1 year’s worth of access to an online whole-class quiz game MAKEorBREAK
Consists of a website based game with 60 questions and answers that test student’s recall of essential content for this topic.
Questions appear on a classroom projector screen and students compete for the chance to answer by standing up with their team flag raised. If correct, the student can choose to MAKE one of their team’s six castles or BREAK an opposing team’s castle. The team with the most castles wins.
Expect noise and expect fun !
No devices required other than a teacher computer and projector.
Printable flag templates and printable answers included.
Covers the following IGCSE (Cambridge) Content:
Core Content: Option B The twentieth century: international relations since 1919
FQ5 - How effectively did the United States contain the spread of Communism?
Case studies of:
American reactions to the Cuban revolution, including the missile crisis and its aftermath
American involvement in the Vietnam War, e.g. reasons for involvement, tactics/strategy, reasons for withdrawal
American reactions to North Korea’s invasion of South Korea, involvement
For more History revision resources see the MAKEorBREAK website.