Teaching and Learning

Music in History Lessons

Assessment for Learning

Schemes of Work

ICT based activities

Starter Activities

Discussions about teaching

Recommended resources

Welcome to Schoolshistory.org.uk

Parts of this site have recently been redeveloped. Students will find the GCSE sections easier to navigate and the whole of the teachers section has been redesigned to make the full range of resources more accessible.

New features:

The Great War and West Yorkshire. A new section designed to enable teachers in West Yorkshire access information relevant to the area for use in lessons about the Great War.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade. A series of links between the Slave Trade and Yorkshire. As with the Great War section, this is designed as an aid for teachers and provides a number of examples that can be used in teaching.

Oral History Project - the Era of the Second World War. A new section that will be added to over the coming months.

As sections are developed a Multimedia section is being added. Currently these include examples of Video, Music and other multimedia resources which can be used to enhance lessons. Once all of the the content of the site has received its facelift, the next stage in site development will incorporate the creation of original multimedia resources for classroom use.

The Multimedia Section has been featured in The Yorkshire Post, The Guardian and on BBC Breakfast News, with a second appearance here (the introduction is the smae but the interview that follows is different). Click here for the youtube version of the resources.

Updates Newsletter: To receive updates about new resources and sections of this site, click here.

Contacting Schoolshistory.org.uk - e-mail dan(AT)schoolshistory.org.uk

The online lessons section has been streamlined and a few new additions are listed. There is also a new section outlining activities for classroom use. This currently provides a range of active learning exercises, revision games and a series of recommended links to other highly effective resources.

CPD and Inset. This section highlights excellent forthcoming CPD / Inset opportunities provided by Ian Dawson, the Schools History Project and the Historical Association. It also provides links to online CPD and seminars. In the coming months a series of training resources will be made available via this section, based on inset that I have provided in relation to the use of ICT in the history classroom.

NEW Medicine and Health Through Time Dynamic Learning Network Editions Ian Dawson, Dan Moorhouse Bring the history of Medicine to life with these unique resources, designed to be used alongside any of our printed Medicine titles for the various GCSE specification. Ian Dawson is Publications Director for SHP. Dan Moorhouse is webmaster of schoolshistory.org.uk and is a regular provider of inset at the SHP conference. CD-ROM 1 People and periods * Assets launched via easy to navigate menus * Covers the Ancient World to the Twentieth Century, providing activities to teach and test the key topics * Includes decision-making and website enquiries, questions based on video clips and PowerPoint® presentations CD-ROM 2 Review and Revise * Assets launched via easy to navigate menus * Provides strategies for recapping the key themes and factors through time * Includes useful revision techniques and quizzes in the Revision Busters section * Includes artwork, photo and audio banks To find out more, order a demo CD and see examples of how the dynamic learning environment works, click here.