Schools History Project on www.schoolshistoryproject.org.uk

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In line with SHP’s principles, the resources in this section provide high quality CPD from the best in history education.

Our aim is to add at least 3 resources each year which brilliantly, and rigorously, capture these principles.

TEACHING IDEAS

General Issues

General Resources

Primary

KS3

GCSE

A Level

 

Teaching Ideas & Activities – A Level

Guidance

Using life histories
deepens students’ thinking

Find out how Diana Laffin uses life stories to help her students investigate unity and division in Fascist Italy.

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Website

Thinking History Website

The Thinking History website, by Ian Dawson, provides guidance on how to use kinaesthetic activities to deepen students’ knowledge and understanding – and a wide range of examples for A Level.

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Guidance

Developing confidence at A Level

Using the example of the Wars of the Roses, Ian Dawson discusses the use of timelines and time-stories to develop an overview of the content of a new module.

He argues that an overview is vital because it creates confidence, it creates a context and it starts to give a module a unity.

See this blog post

Websites

Their Past – Your Future

Their Past – Your Future is the Imperial War Museum’s website for schools. It provides history teachers and students with wealth of resources for exploring the course, cause and consequence of conflict in the twentieth century.

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