Provide students with a range of images relating to the topic. They imagine they are curating a museum exhibition on four separate walls. How will they categorise the images into four categories? How will they caption them?

Examples: Portraits of Napoleon, Stalin or other dictators with a penchant for propaganda. Images of the Middle Ages. Images relating to the British Empire (both positive and negative). Political cartoons about appeasement and Hitler’s foreign policy.

Taking it further:

• Some of the images may be deliberately obscure – students should place these to one side. In a second phase of the exercise, the teacher provides caption slips which have to be matched to each image prior to further thought being given to the exhibition.
• Students could choose the images / images of artefacts themselves.
• Students could even construct the exhibition and place it in a public area, or design a ‘Museum in a Box‘

Year 10 Historians designing an exhibition about the Weimar Republic