Looking for something for form time in the run up to the Easter Holidays – let your students have a go at this Kahoot based on the theme of Easter!
https://create.kahoot.it/share/easter/74c812c2-731b-4862-a0c8-0ab0269cd46b
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I have new email address for any queries and feedback on the resources on this site. Please feel free to contact me using the following email address –
Jivespin74@gmail.com
Artificers and Charity – Changing attitudes towards poverty in Elizabethan England lesson resources.
These resources are for a GCSE lesson on changing attitudes and government action towards poverty in Elizabethan England.
Gales and Galleons – Impact of the Spanish Armada lesson resources
These resources are the for a lesson on the impact of the Spanish Armada – the final one in a sequence of GCSE lessons on this topic. Hope they are useful.
Defeat of the Spanish Armada worksheet
Détente lesson resources and event cards
These revamped lesson resources and event cards on détente are geared for the new GCSE exam spec.
Causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis learning grid
This learning grid is in the causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis and can be used in a variety of ways to encourage students the visually link their thinking.
Consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis cards
These consequence cards on the Cuban Missile Crisis can be used for a variety of tasks.
Roosevelt elected President lesson resources
These lesson resources are based on the election of Roosevelt as President. They focus around a cartoon which students need to unwrap the message of the cartoon and explain it.
Prohibition gangster word cloud
This word cloud uses words that summarise the impact of prohibition on the United States of America. Great for a plenary or introductory activity.
In praise of BBC iWonder guides – a great learning resource
Recently, I have been using the iWonder guides created by the BBC and freely available from the BBC website. iWonder guides focus on a specific question, such as Why is Chinese New Year so Important? and How did the Tudor Dynasty Shape Modern Britain?, and then present key information that answers the enquiry through structured text, videos of presentations from an expert, audio interviews and pictures of documents. The iWonder guides cover many different areas relating to the curriculum, but history does particularly well with this resource as the guides were launched with their guides on e First World War in the summer of 2014.
As a digital learning resource, the iWonder guides provide a valuable and interactive opportunity to engage students in a way that perhaps. Text book does not. The enquiries are extremely interesting and accessible to all. Although, the guides cover the more traditional questions that are seen in many text books, they also offer alternative areas that gain less attention, such as the impact of Pack Up Your Troubles on popular culture during the First World War, which I found engrossing and allowed me to explore with my classes a distinct and alternative curriculum areas that would not otherwise been examined.
The most effective application I have used the iWonder guides is in two ways –
– They make an excellent resource for home learning assignments where students are given the link to a specific iWonder guide and students are expected to read it and write a summary of what they have looked at. This has been very popular with my students, particularly those who find it difficult to handle large amounts of text.
– The iWonder guides also provide an excellent resource to stretch and challenge your more able students, as many of the guides are thought-provoking and stimulate discussion and extend knowledge on curriculum linked topics. This is an alternative way to encourage wider reading and independent learning.
iWonder guides are certainly worth exploring as a teaching and learning resource, so do have a look at the iWonder home page – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iwonder – and follow them for all their latest news on Twitter – @BBCiWonder. Highly recommended.
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