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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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Educational Escape Rooms: Case Study 1 – Larger groups / younger students

Educational Escape Rooms: Case Study 1 – Larger groups / younger students

Educational Escape Rooms: Case Study 2 – Smaller groups / older students

Educational Escape Rooms: Case Study 2 – Smaller groups / older students

Design educational “escape rooms” for your students!

Design educational “escape rooms” for your students!

Turn a timeline into an interactive quiz for student revision

Turn a timeline into an interactive quiz for student revision

Design “Tubular Timeline Towers” for chronological understanding

Design “Tubular Timeline Towers” for chronological understanding

  • 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

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?”

25 of my favourite props for the history classroom!

25 of my favourite props for the history classroom!

What happened to these people before and after our period of study?

What happened to these people before and after our period of study?

Protest placards: design, anticipate, react

Protest placards: design, anticipate, react

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