This interactive game helps students review key concepts about the Treaty of Versailles in a fun and engaging way. Students will listen carefully, read aloud, and follow the sequence until the last card is played.
Engage Your Students in a Thrilling Historical Mystery!
Step into the year 1914 with this immersive, interactive classroom activity that transforms your students into secret investigators solving the mystery of the missing Austro-Hungarian telegram. Designed for history educators looking to inspire curiosity and critical thinking, this 80-minute (or more) experience combines teamwork, problem-solving, and historical analysis to uncover the causes of World War I.
Interactive Learning: Students actively engage with historical content by analyzing alliances, tensions, and events leading to the Great War.
Collaboration and Critical Thinking: Working in teams, students piece together clues from fragmented telegrams to reconstruct history and identify key players in the conflict.
Immersive Storytelling: The narrative-driven format immerses students in the drama of pre-war Europe, fostering a deeper understanding of historical complexities.
Adaptable and Easy to Implement: Perfect for a single class session, with clear instructions and flexible materials.
What’s Included:
A compelling storyline that hooks students from the start.
Printable resources for five interactive stations featuring unique challenges like decoding alliances, analyzing military spending, and debating the role of nationalism.
A step-by-step guide for educators to facilitate the activity seamlessly.
Ideal For:
High school history classes exploring the causes of World War I.
Educators seeking engaging methods to teach historical analysis and teamwork.
Students aged 14-16 who benefit from dynamic, hands-on learning experiences.
Turn your classroom into a hub of historical intrigue and let your students solve the mystery that changed the course of history!
This game is a fun and interactive way to test historical knowledge while challenging students’ pronunciation skills.
Players must solve riddles about historical events, figures, or treaties. Once they answer correctly, they must recite a tongue twister related to the answer three times quickly without making a mistake.
The game encourages critical thinking, teamwork, and speaking skills while making history more engaging and dynamic. The mix of problem-solving and verbal dexterity makes it both educational and entertaining for a fun revision!
Historical Thinking Skills Presentation
Help your students build essential historical thinking skills with this ready-to-use presentation — perfect for IGCSE, IB, or any history classroom focused on critical thinking and source work.
What’s inside:
Clear explanation of the IPEEL structure for writing analytical essays
Activities on chronology and timeline building
Interactive tasks on corroboration using multiple sources
Different types of sources and their reliability
Student-friendly examples and visual slides
Ideal for:
— Introducing or revising historical skills
— Building a foundation for source-based exams (e.g., IB Paper 1, IGCSE Paper 2)— Teaching document-based learning with confidence
— Reinforcing key concepts like bias, usefulness, and perspective
This resource helps students not just learn history — but think like historians.
Available in PDF & PowerPoint formats.
Daily Agenda Slides with Pomodoro Timer & Randomizer Wheel (Editable)
Keep your class on track and your students engaged with these interactive and editable daily agenda slides — perfect for any subject and grade level!
What’s included:
Editable daily agenda slides (add your objectives, tasks, and reminders)
Built-in Pomodoro timer (for focused work + break)
Randomizer wheel to pick students, questions, activities, or teams
Clean, modern design for easy projection or screen sharing
Ideal for:
— Classroom routines
— Station rotations
— Review games
— Time management practice
— Building student autonomy and focus
Perfect for teachers who want a calm, productive classroom flow with built-in variety and student engagement.
Just open, customize, and go!
Everything you need to set up a well-organised, skills-focused IGCSE History classroom!
This FREE starter kit includes carefully designed tools to help both you and your students build confidence, structure, and success from day one.
What’s inside:
Two Editable Timeline Templates
Use them for topic overviews, revision, or classroom activities. Fully customisable!
Exam Strategies and Answer Structures
Clear, student-friendly breakdowns of how to approach Paper 1, Paper 2, and Paper 4 — including tips, and strategies.
The IPEEL Technique Toolkit:
What is IPEEL and why use it in History?
Example paragraph + analysis
Student activity to practise IPEEL
Top tips and when to apply it in each paper
Digital Teacher Planner
Perfect for busy history teachers! Includes:
Teacher goals section
Yearly and monthly overviews
Weekly planner (designed for teachers who teach multiple classes per day)
Lesson plan template
Unit plan template
Notes section
Key Concepts & Skills Poster for IGCSE History
A printable or digital visual reference featuring the most essential historical concepts and exam skills — to help your students master the syllabus.
Start the year strong with structure, clarity, and ready-to-use tools!
Perfect for IGCSE/GCSE teachers — and easily adaptable for general history classrooms too.