Archive for October, 2005

GCSE Crime and Punishment: Interactive Simulation

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Interactive Simulation: You be the Judge!
Pass sentence on a series of ten crimes from 19th Century Britain and see how close you come to the actual verdicts reached at the time!

GCSE Crime and Punishment: Worksheets

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

A Series of Crime and Punishment Worksheets donated to ActiveHistory by Cathy Warren:
Defining Crime:
(a) What are the different types of crime?
(b) How and why do different periods define crime in different ways?
(c) How are laws made?
(d) Nature of Crime - Practice Questions

Determining Guilt:
How do we decide if someone is guilty?

Deciding on Punishment:
How has the range of punishments changed over time?
Nature of Punishment - Practice Questions

GCSE Crime and Punishment during the Industrial Revolution

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Crime and Punishment during the Industrial Revolution - Worksheet designed to be completed over a double lesson; students are given a series of crime case studies, and decide what punishments they would have given. These are then compared with punishments actually given at the time.

High Score Board Added to Popular Games!

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Added the new High Score Board (using PHP / SQL) to the CannonBall Fun and Wordshoot games.

The Renaissance and the Reformation: Quiz

Monday, October 17th, 2005

New Wordshoot Quiz

The Renaissance
Era

Stalin and the USSR: Worksheets for A2 / IB

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

A2
The Rise of Stalin - Collapsible revision notes
Worksheets on Stalin’s Russia:
1. >Divisions in the party before 1924
2. >Who should succeed Lenin?
3. >Lenin’s Testament
4. >What were Stalin’s Economic Objectives?
5. >Collectivisation: Theory and Practice
6. How successful was the policy of collectivisation?