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10 BALL GAMES: SUBVERSIVE TEACHING IN 21ST CENTURY. We innovate, constantly. We see the extraordinary in the everyday. We know that real education is about feeding the soul, not just passing exams. We sometimes see children with problems, we don't see children as problems. We re-draw the boundaries of the possible. We survive, despite the slings and arrows of outrageous policy. Freely sharing resources gives us time to do these things. Please help yourself, and play on.
Henry VIII Foreign Policy 1527-end 1538
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Henry VIII Foreign Policy 1527-end 1538

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Students use chronology on paper slips to create a huge graph across the desks. This graph (and obviously the discussion which goes with it) answers 2 questions: was foreign policy in this period a success or a failure?; what factors influenced foreign policy in this period? Photograph of student graph included for reference. Lesson plan (mirrors activity for foreign policy 1509-1527 available on TES) plus key notes for students revision.
Henry VIII Foreign Policy  1539-1547
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Henry VIII Foreign Policy 1539-1547

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Complete notes for AS students to use as pre-reading/revision. Plus lesson activity: Students use chronology on paper slips to create a huge graph across the desks. This graph (and obviously the discussion which goes with it) answers 2 questions: was foreign policy in this period a success or a failure?; what factors influenced foreign policy in this period? Lesson plan and photograph of student graph included for reference.
Henry VIII foreign policy 1509-1527
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Henry VIII foreign policy 1509-1527

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Complete notes for AS students to use as pre-reading/revision. Plus lesson activity: Students use chronology on paper slips to create a huge graph across the desks. This graph (and obviously the discussion which goes with it) answers 2 questions: was foreign policy in this period a success or a failure?; what factors influenced foreign policy in this period? Photograph of student graph included for reference.
How to measure significance
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How to measure significance

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A P4C style lesson exploring the concept of historical significance and offering KS3 students ways of measuring it. Very detailed lesson notes on first couple of pages
Pecha Kucha y9 big homework competition
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Pecha Kucha y9 big homework competition

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Pecha Kucha is a Japanese powerpoint competition format. It is based on 20 slides auto timed to last 20 seconds each. I have reduced this to 10 slides for KS3. My reasons for doing this are: 1) It allows for personalised learning 2) it gives homework more of a meaningful structure than a 'finish off...&' homework, which is always tempting under pressure 3) it should help students develop research and presentation skills they will need later 4) it should preclude &';reading from slides' presentations 5) it should help to develop constructive criticism as a skill
Winning the war and losing the peace
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Winning the war and losing the peace

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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.
Bloody Sunday aftermath
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Bloody Sunday aftermath

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Straightforward matching exercise - matching events that occured post bloody sunday with the significance of those events. then prioritising greatest threat (for discussion purposes to check understanding)
Wounded Knee Synthesis Exercise
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Wounded Knee Synthesis Exercise

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Requires students to interpret a range of sources about the events at Wounded Knee. Students then to 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.
Paper dolls of Roman army tactics
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Paper dolls of Roman army tactics

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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 visualisation rather than just looking at a drawing. easy to enact also, once has been seen. short, straightforward activities included also.
The  Somme 1916
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The Somme 1916

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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'.
Causes WWI Spaced Learning Activity
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Causes WWI Spaced Learning Activity

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PPT and follow up resources for a lesson using 'spaced learning' technique to explore the causes of WWI. Detailed notes about delivery for those who haven't used this technique before are provided in word doc. It's great fun and you might be surprised how good the students' memories are even a week later. http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6007881
Y8 SOW Unit 5 Did all Germans hate the Jews?
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Y8 SOW Unit 5 Did all Germans hate the Jews?

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Unit 5 in new Year 8 scheme of work (theme = power and protest). Begins with the preconceptions activity available here separately. THis is a cut down activity provided by the IMperial War Museum London which is excellent. The rest of the scheme of work has been written by me. Assessment task at the end with AFl marksheet. The powerpoint is to support activity 4, and is a simplified/edited version of a powerpoint on Nazi anti-semitic propaganda available separately on TES resources (by me).Please leave a comment if it is useful to you!
Hereward
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Hereward

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