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Essential timesavers to help you make your own history activities in a jiffy, with suggestions for how you can use them – including Venn diagrams for sorting key words or factors, Bullseye for ranking factors in order of importance and Pyramid plenary for helping students assess their own progress.
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Research template | ||
A framework designed to encourage students to select information carefully when approaching research tasks and to record their findings in their own words. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Historical enquiry Published: 17/04/2013 | |||
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British History timeline template | ||
A neat and tidy timeline to aid understanding of chronology. | |||
| Chronology Published: 14/12/2012 | |||
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Key concepts and processes levels posters | ||
Great for literacy! Posters and keywords to produce a display on what progress looks like across the different key concepts and processes. The keywords could also be used for other activities on understanding History's conceptual tools. | |||
| KS3 | Communicating about the past | Literacy in History Published: 21/11/2012 | |||
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Handling challenging texts in History | ||
A literacy tool for KS4 and KS5 which allows students to break challenging sources or academic works into manageable areas for thought. | |||
| KS4 KS5 | Literacy in History Published: 19/09/2012 | |||
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Asking better questions in History |
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A resource to promote independent enquiry which helps students formulate their own, more sophistiated lines of questioning in History. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 | Historical enquiry Published: 12/09/2012 | |||
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KS3 literacy mats | ||
Designed for the new literacy focus, these are Y7 and Y8 topic focused mats which could be made available in every lesson. They would be easy to adapt. | |||
| KS3 | Literacy in History Published: 12/09/2012 | |||
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Storyboards |
 
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A selection of three storyboards for you to print, copy, enlarge and hand out for students to depict those all important historical events or produce their own propaganda films! Choose from a simple storyboard, a more technical film storyboard, or a comic book outline. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Treasure hunt |
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A pirate-themed board game template which can be used to revise or test any subject. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Dating profile |
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A light-hearted and flexible resource which can be used to help students explore a historical figure in a fun and engaging way. | |||
| KS3 KS4 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Cube template |
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Create a dice for classroom games, or use it for teaching and revision (six historical figures, events, dates, factors, or key words). You could even enlarge and use it as a box, and students could put questions inside to test each other. | |||
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Jigsaw pieces |
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Using these templates you can encourage students to make connections between events, developments, key historical figures etc. The first two versions of the outline are intended for printing out and writing on by hand. The third version includes text boxes for use on-screen. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Playing cards |
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A set of blank colour and pattern coded cards for you to fill in and use in all sorts of imaginative ways! Suggestions for use included. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Exam schedule | ||
Make sure your students know which GCSE exams they're taking when! | |||
| KS4 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Continuums | ||
An adaptable linear and cross-continuum for exploration of simple and more complex historical events, figures, concepts or periods. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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'Blockbusters' revisited | ||
A handy template for creating a game of 'Blockbusters' on your IWB. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Diamond ranking |
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An adaptable template for ranking importance. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Historical figure |
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Two silhouettes (male and female) that can be assigned to any historical figure. Add quotations, thought bubbles, words and phrases associated with the figure. (Also works well enlarged to A3.) | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Dominoes template |
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Blank dominoes with teaching ideas on how to use them in the history classroom. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Top trumps | ||
Students analyse historical figures or a historical issue by playing this classic game. Teaching notes are included. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Venn diagrams |
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Two and three-way Venn diagrams for you to adapt to your needs. Use them to directly compare the similarities and differences between historical events or figures, or use them to group factors characterising or contributing to an event. Includes labels for students to complete. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Revision timetables |
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Three different timetable templates to help students plan their revision. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Revision review |
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Keep your students on track with their revision by recording how much they know and what else they need to do! | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Bullseye! |
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A concentric circle template that can be used as a ranking, sorting or connections activity. Divide the circle in half or into quarters to examine different aspects of an idea. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Mind map | ||
A basic outline for mind-mapping activities. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 18/07/2012 | |||
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Pyramid plenary |
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The perfect plenary in pyramid form – a simple way of checking students' understanding of any topic, at any level. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 Published: 10/07/2012 | |||
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