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Create an engaging starter/plenary text in the form of scrolling movie credits
This new ClassTools.net Movie Text Generator scrolls your text into the infinity of space! Ideas for using it in the classroom: Provide students with an [...]
22nd October 2015
“Hands up if you DON’T know!”: reverse the question, increase engagement!
The most common, and maybe the very worst, teaching technique is to say to students “Hands up if you can answer this question”. This is [...]
26th September 2015
Spiced-up “Fill the Gaps”(Cloze) Exercises
Overview “Fill the Gaps” (“Cloze”) exercises are a very simple but very effective strategy for helping students build up vocabulary [...]
19th September 2015
10 Creative Strategies for Teaching Chronological Narratives
Overview At the start of a new topic in a subject like history, it’s often necessary to familiarise students with an essential chronology of events [...]
19th September 2015
Stimulating Enquiry-Based Learning through a “Mysteries” approach
Overview What is the “Mysteries” approach? “Mysteries” lessons are designed as stand-alone projects which each last 3-4 hours. [...]
31st August 2015
“Half a Source”, or “How will this story end?”: The perfect question to promote engagement with sources
The increasingly accessible nature of online video and textual sources means that it is now easier than ever to watch short clips from films and video [...]
1st June 2015
Running Dictation
The ‘running dictation’ method is a simple, fun, intensive way of imparting a detailed narrative to students. It is great for introducing a [...]
27th April 2015
“Say What you See” – Talkers and Listeners
24th February 2015
Field Trips on the Cheap: Educational Scavenger Hunts in your Area!
17th February 2015
Using sweets to represent change over time
14th 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
Image Wipe
1st February 2015
Silent Discussion
This is a great way of getting students to conduct some close reading of detailed sources. The lesson is framed around a key question for investigation [...]
1st February 2015
Using Hexagon Learning for categorisation, linkage and prioritisation
Using Hexagon Learning for categorisation, linkage and prioritisation
31st January 2015