Historical Thinking Skills - presentation

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.