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Quick and easy ideas to spice up your lessons, brought to you by @russeltarr. I teach History but many of these ideas will be transferable to other subjects too!
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Student Bookmark: vocabulary for essay writing

Student Bookmark: vocabulary for essay writing

“History in your pocket”: Coins as sources

“History in your pocket”: Coins as sources

Develop persuasive vocabulary with a ‘biased words knockout challenge’

Develop persuasive vocabulary with a ‘biased words knockout challenge’

Design “Tubular Timeline Towers” for chronological understanding

Design “Tubular Timeline Towers” for chronological understanding

Writing “Dialogue Poems” to compare and contrast viewpoints

Writing “Dialogue Poems” to compare and contrast viewpoints

  • Using Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions to improve the evaluation of sources
  • Using Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions to improve the evaluation of sources
  • Using Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions to improve the evaluation of sources
  • Using Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions to improve the evaluation of sources

Using Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions to improve the evaluation of sources

  • Using drinking straws to study competition, co-operation and the arms race
  • Using drinking straws to study competition, co-operation and the arms race

Using drinking straws to study competition, co-operation and the arms race

Alphabet Challenge: know the topic from A-Z!

Alphabet Challenge: know the topic from A-Z!

  • How to help students design educational board games
  • How to help students design educational board games
  • How to help students design educational board games
  • How to help students design educational board games

How to help students design educational board games

Data-driven history lessons: “How could geographers help us to answer this question?”

Data-driven history lessons: “How could geographers help us to answer this question?”

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