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!
Overview To help students consolidate their understanding of the similarities and differences between key groups (such as parties, countries, ideologies or [...]
Overview When requiring students to spot connections and contrasts between different groups and invididuals, challenge them to present their findings in [...]
Overview The speed-dating format is designed to help students spot comparisons and contrasts between different ideas, answers or categories of information. [...]
Overview Dialogue poems are designed to compare and contrast the perspectives of the same event or situation from the point of view of different parties [...]
Overview After studying individuals, parties or organisations, challenge students to design a logo which summarises their essential aims, methods, [...]
Overview When studying an issue, event or personality which is open to different interpretations, get students to design a placard summarising their [...]
As a revision strategy, provide each member of the class with two random characters from their studies, spot a connection between them, then design a [...]
This is a simple but effective revision quiz based around any lesson or activity which makes use of Venn Diagrams, and it is a great way of ensuring that [...]