Straightforward matching exercise - students must match events that occured post bloody sunday with the significance of those events. Then students prioritize the greatest threat (for discussion purposes to check understanding).

Group activity - 'running dictation'. Teacher has flash cards on which are events that lead to the end of the war. One student from each group comes to the front and looks at the card for 30 seconds; has to remember it and then take it back to the group; who all record it. Full instructions provided with wrap up activities.

Students use (differentiated) set of cards provided to investigate the consequences of World War I.They use this information to create a circles diagram to explore how the war was won; but the peace was lost. Notes provided about how to construct the diagram.

This is an essay sorting excercise designed to teach students the elements of effective paragraphs and essays. It is easily adapred to other year groups/topics.

Using student artwork/doodling to bring history alive. Examples of teacher notes to deliver core content and to help students to take notes using strategic doodling techniquesample doodles provided for teacher reference (though students should draw their

A differentiated homework or unit wrap up literacy activity. Students link the events that led to the outbreak of war with arrows; writing appropriate connectives on the arrows to explain the relationship.

Some interesting research on how the brain responds to the appearance of text, increasing or decreasing motivation.

Guide to cutting paper structures that act as models for the 4 main tactics of the roman army - the wedge, orb, repel-cavalry and tortoise. Not flashy but worked really well with my students as a 3d visualization rather than just looking at a drawing. Easy to enact also, once has been seen. Short, straightforward activities included also.

Core notes for students and teachers, with some activities at the end

I thought I would collect together my experiences of different types of drawing with students and my thoughts/tentative conclusions about the value / learning outcomes of such activity, in case it is of any interest.

Exercise to encourage collaborative learning and to develop analytical essay writing skills. Class is split in half. Each half has different interpretation (Haig was / was not a terrible leader of the allied forces) These teams collect evidence into a table under 3 headings. Then pairs are made - 1 from each interpretation. Using guidance given, they write an analytical answer exploring the extent to which Haig deserves the title 'the butcher of the Somme'.

PPT and follow up resources for a lesson using 'spaced learning' technique to explore the causes of WWI.

Marketplace activity to help students understand the contribution of different nations to the escalating tension in Europe, and to deconstruct/reconstruct knowledge to answer key questions from the spec Second document is complete notes for students, integrating the ideas

Requires students to interpret a range of sources about the events at Wounded Knee. Students then to use synthesis information to create a chronological account. Higher attaining students have the opportunity to develop and integrate their evaluation skills. Prior knowledge of the Ghost Dance and the death of Sitting Bull required.

Begins with the preconceptions activity available here separately. This is a cut down activity provided by the Imperial War Museum; London; England which is excellent. The rest of the scheme of work has been written by me. Assessment task at the end.

Half a term’s planning with resources. My 7th grade are investigating the theme of ‘power and protest’ this year (6th grade is ‘lives of ordinary people’ and 8th grade is ‘conflict and resolution’ - these are the themes i have chosen in line with the new 6th-8th grade national program of study). This is the introductory module, so far my students are loving it. its not content heavy, as it allows for much discussion in class and pursuing the ‘do less, more effectively’ concept with my planning this year!

Activity about Hereward's rebellion, which followed the conquest. Story told as a memory game ('I went to market').

Core text and some resources for teaching the children section of the British Depth Study (1939-1975) for OCR GCSE.

GCSE style source questions using 3 sources about current news stories (Grexit / Shooting in USA / Criticism of online review sites). The intention is to separate out the skills of source handling from the secondary challenge of understanding the history - hopefully by using sources which relate to stories in the news today, they will feel confident in the material and be able to focus on the skills.

Spaced Learning activity, self quiz and core notes. Cartoon activities as extension. SL activity and quiz will take about 1 hour