20th February 2015
Venn Diagrams: Compare and Contrast Two / Three Factors Visually
Group Work Plenary Question: “Which Part of the Body Were You?”
20th February 2015
Field Trips on the Cheap: Educational Scavenger Hunts in your Area!
17th February 2015
Group Work Role Cards
I am a big fan of group work tasks as a way of getting students interacting with each other and sharing their expertise. peer assessment slips are useful [...]
16th February 2015
Using sweets to represent change over time
14th February 2015
“Beat the Teacher” – Hotseating with an edge!
13th February 2015
“Linkage Bingo” to summarise and connect key factors
This whole-class game is a great way firstly to summarise issues of cause or effect, and then (most importantly and most challengingly) to link them [...]
13th February 2015
Answer Buzzers for Revision Quizzes
A quick search for “Answer Buzzers” on Amazon will provide you with a link to something like this. They are a great way of adding a bit of fun [...]
13th February 2015
Target Diagrams for Categorisation
13th February 2015
“On School Report!” – A fun way of evaluating factors and individuals
When assessing the successes and failures of a particular historical figure, consider approaching the task in the form of a “school report”. [...]
12th February 2015
“Takeaway Homework”
Overview Giving students the flexibility to choose the content and / or the outcome of their homework assignments increases engagement and promotes [...]
12th February 2015
“Factor Auction”
This is a great idea to get students to think more creatively about which factors are the most important to cover in their written work. I think I [...]
12th February 2015
Create a “Fakebook” Profile for a key character
When researching a key character, students could frame and present their findings by creating a fake “Facebook” profile using the Fakebook application at [...]
12th February 2015
Creative Acronyms for Topic Revision/Introductions
For revision purposes, creating memory words, with each letter representing the first letter of another key word, is an effective way of getting students [...]
12th February 2015
“Create a Google Doodle to represent our topic”
At the close of a topic or as a revision exercise, ask students to design their own ‘Google Doodle’ to represent the essence of the subject. [...]
10th February 2015
PieChart Prioritisation
9th February 2015
Sparks, branches and logs
9th February 2015
Create a Subject-Themed Spotify Jukebox
I am a big fan of using music in my lessons. Sometimes this is simply some quiet classical music to help create a calm working atmosphere, sometimes though [...]
9th February 2015
Create Bookmarks as Rewards
9th February 2015
Peer Assessment Slips
When conducting group work, there is always a danger that certain students might take a bit of a back seat and let their teammates do all the work. To [...]
9th February 2015
“Only Connect!”
9th February 2015
“Guess Who?” as a meaningful revision game
7th February 2015
6 Hats. 6 Interpretive Approaches.
7th February 2015
Create a tweet for a fictional/historical character
7th February 2015
QR Code Treasure Hunt
7th February 2015