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 & Activities – GCSE

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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Science Museum’s ‘Brought to Life’ Website

‘Brought to Life’ is the Science Museum’s website for the history of medicine. It contains a wealth of material aimed at the School History Project GCSE medicine development study.

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Guidance

Compare the Specifications

Each of the three GCSE Schools History specifications has a different course structure and assessment format. Tables provide an ‘at a glance’ comparison of the specifications from AQA, Edexcel and OCR.

Compare the specifications

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 GCSE.

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Activity

Revising individuals from
the Medicine Development Study

Find out how Muriel Wilkins uses bingo revision to help her students to sort out the key individuals from the history of medicine.

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Guidance & Activity

History Around Us:
Archaeology and the NMR

Guidance and an activity from Mary Mills, Catherine McHarg and Ian Coulson on doing archaeological research without leaving the classroom.

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SHP Conference 2009

Activity

Simulating an early 19th Century
Surgical Operation

Find out how Andy Harmsworth provides his students with an engaging and memorable introduction to a series of lessons on the development of surgery.

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Website

American West Films

The website of Timelines TV includes a range of films to support school history. Recently added to the site are seven wonderful films on different aspects of American West.

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