Teaching Ideas, Activities and Resources for GCSE
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Websites
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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Guidance & Activity
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
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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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Activity
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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Guidance
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
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Website
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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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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