Year

Term

Idea

Curriculum Connection

7

1

2

3

Make your own Viking Shield

Create a appealing factfile on Eyam Village (What happened? What was the impact?)

Tudors - Black Tudors Black Tudors Extend.pdf

Y7 Extension worksheet.docx

Vikings

Black Death

Tudors

8

1

2

3

Create a poster linking your work on Africa with what you have learnt in Geography

Create a poster linking your work on Industrial Revolution with what you have learnt in English

Empire - research project on another Empire e.g. Spanish, Mayan, Russian…

Africa

Industrial Britain

Empire

9

1

2

3

Create a poster linking your work on WWI with what you have learnt in English

Holocaust  - timeline of Jewish history after WWII (Israel, Palestine, refugee crisis)

Equality - comparison poster with US civil rights (MLK, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks)

WW1

Holocaust

Equality

Active History

www.activehistory.co.uk Russel Tarr's site. Particularly useful for teachers who want to try out different teaching approaches. See www.activehistory.co.uk/top.php for a list of the 'top 50' activities..

BBC History

www.bbc.co.uk/history See, for example, the 'Explain this" feature, which gives short animated clips to explain terms such as communism, fascism, revolution, etc.

Also see clips on various topics, ideal for a component of a lesson. See, for example, the range of short clips on World War One

Facing History and Ourselves

www.facinghistory.org Resources for teaching about the Holocaust, the civil rights movement, human rights, democracy and civil engagement

www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies).

See, for example, Choices in Little Rock for a collection of powerful resources on civil rights in the US - www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/ 

Historiana

https://historiana.eu/ See the collections ot resources and activities page 

JohnDClare

http://www.johndclare.net/ A massive site, with suggestions for activities and resources on a wide range of commonly taught topics.

Oak National

Academy

www. thenational.academy Wide selection of KS3 topics 

One Big

History

Department

https://onebighistorydepartment.com/ Valuable for keeping up to date with recent developments.

See, for example, an inventory with links to clips of historians to develop the use of historical scholarship. https:// onebighistorydepartment.com/2019/07/14/historians-short-film-clips/.

School

History

Project

www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/ Useful ideas and resources right through from KS to A level, including some useful revision materials; see, for example, Richard Kennet's resources on 'Living under Nazi rule 

Spartacus

Schoolnet

www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk John Simkin's invaluable and massive thesaurus of historical knowledge 

Thinking

History

www.thinkinghistory.co.uk A treasure trove of well-thought activities and much more. Particularly strong and up to date on medieval history and the Wars of the Roses.

Timelines TV

https://timelines.tv/ Good for both depth and overview enquiries and to strengthen chronological understanding