There’s a great clip here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0151t8r on the effect of the Railways on life and work in Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Perfect for a starter which really focuses on the issue of change. The other clips are here:
Ian Dawson is on Twitter.
Ian Dawson is on twitter, and is also promising a re-vamp of his website. If you’re a history teacher, you’ll want to follow him! Twitter a 10th birthday present for website and 3×21 present for me. Site to be refreshed,
New H.A. Primary Schemes of Work
Keen to support primary colleagues, I thought I’d pass on this link to new schemes of work from the Historical Association: At the HA we understand the difficult task that primary schools are facing getting ready for curriculum change this
Starters on the Schools History Project Website
I’ve been exploring the Schools History Project website – still fired up from the conference I thought I’d give myself a refresher course into things like starters and plenaries. I stumbled across Jamie Byrom’s excellent resources from the 2012 conference on
Make history with Mass Observation
Mass observation would like to hear from you at – http://www.massobs.org.uk/12may.html. They are repeating a historical request from the 12th May 1937 for people to record what they did on that day. That original request was part of Mass Observation’s
SHP’s Primary Hub
Great news – the SHP’s primary hub is up and running at: http://www.schoolshistoryproject.org.uk/Teaching/Primary/Index.htm Lots more great stuff is planned for the next few weeks, and there’s already some really interesting items. Take a look! I’ve added a new category in
Pontefract Workhouses
Just stumbled across this great set of images of the workhouses in Pontefract. Would be great for GCSE paper 2 sources. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.598610226864611&type=1
British Propaganda during the Second World War
You can now find a series of lessons that I’ve been teaching about British propaganda during the Second World War on this site. These might be adaptable in the future to help tick off many of those on the list
Prezi and collaborative learning
This isn’t rocket science, but I was really impressed by the easy way in which Prezi worked, the students were enthused and were able to easily share their knowledge using Prezi’s ‘edit together’ set up. I was so impressed, I
Battle of Britain Lesson by Jenny Hutton
Jenny Hutton has very kindly donated a brilliant lesson on the Battle of Britain. Jenny was one of the (great) PGCE interns I worked with in 2009-10. Please take a look, and have a go!