Worksheets

1. Year 7
2. Year 8
3. Year 9
4. GCSE

ICT based lessons and activities

1. Year 7
2. Year 8
3. Year 9
4. Medicine through time
5. Other

Classroom activities - active learning, roleplays and source investigations

This section currently provides aselection of activities that are tried and tested in the classroom. Currently there are examples of effective groupwork, simulations and examples of how to make a radio programme in 'normal' lessons.

NOTE: Ian Dawson's Thinkinghistory.co.uk website is about to receive a facelift! The site will be providing a range of new activities, including several of my ideas. For further details register for the newsletter on Thinkinghistory.co.uk

Starter Activities

A growing selection of resources to use in engaging starter activities. Ideas include:

• Blockbuster games
• Living Timelines
• Dingbats
• Empathy tasks / Freeze framing

Note: Most of the ideas in the Uses of Music in History lessons are designed as Starter / Plenary sessions

Uses of Music in History lessons

• The Normans
• Black Death
• King Henry VIII
• The English Civil Wars (and related areas)
• Era of the Industrial Revolution - Empire, Industry, Napoleonic Wars
• Civil Rights
• Era of the First World War
• Era of the Second World War, including Appeasement, Atomic Bombs and the Holocaust
• The Cold War
• Vietnam
• Changing role of women
• Irish Question
• Medicine through time

Reading, Writing and Speaking Frames

This section hosts a range of excellent frames designed to aid pupils in their construction of a variety of different reading, writing and presenting tasks.

Currently including frames to help planning for:

1. An argument
2. Cause and effect
3. Persuasion
4. Recounts
5. Debate

And others!

Differentiation

This unit of the site currently hosts a selection of ideas about differentiation for:

Gifted and Talented Students in History

Covering identification of G&T students, definitions, charectoristics of gifted historians, examples of effective differentiation and examples of enrichment activities.

External Link:

For a fantastic range of ideas about differentiation see this excellent seminar led by John D Clare on the History Teaches' Discussion Forum. (Opens in a new window)

Assessment for Learning

A large selection of assessment activities, resources and methods of demonstrating targets to pupils. This extensive selection is the result of a large number of generous submissions to this site.

• Assessment for Learning tools
• Year 7 Assessments
• Year 8 Assessments
• Year 9 Assessments
• GCSE Assessments
• Record keeping resources
• Administrative resources

Online ICT qualifications, testing and courses.

Schemes of Work

The Schemes of Work section hosts a number of example schemes of work submitted to the site, or previously created by myself.

Note: This section needs updating to reflect changes to the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3.

Literacy

This section of the site, created jointly with schoolhistory.co.uk hosts a number of ideas about catering for Literacy needs of pupils, links to exemplar materials and resources for classroom use. Note: this section is in need of a tidy / update!

Student Placemats - designed to be laminated and used as a 'help yourself' tool for students. These provide an easy reference point for key terms, dates and events along with providing some reminders about how to tackle focus questions.