Archive for November, 2005

Life in the Medieval Village: New Games

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Games designed to accompany the Time Machine Journey to the Middle Ages and The Peasants’ Year activities:
Social Life in the Middle Ages – CannonBall Fun Game
Social Life in the Middle Ages – Manic Miner Game
Social Life in the Middle Ages – Wordshoot Game

The Trading Game

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Uploaded The Trading Game – an interactive simulation designed to teach students about what continents trade which goods, and what sorts of factors can encourage or hinder international trade. Could be used as a follow-up to a study of the British Empire, or as a cross-curricular link with the Geography theme of Globalisation. I would really appreciate some feedback if you have any ideas about how this could be improved or adapted.

The Luttrell Psalter: Interactive Exercise

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

The Peasants’ Year – Copy and Paste the pictures into the correct spots in the peasants’ calendar. Follow-up questions included.

Game Updates: Now fully compatible with Firefox

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Updated the Horatio Ramsbottom: Victorian Entrepreneur game, the League of Nations in the 1920s game and the Would you have Survived the French Revolution? game to make the fully compatible with the Mozilla Firefox browser. If you are aware of any other games which do not run perfectly with this browser, please let me know using the Members’ Feedback Form.

The Tudor Portrait Mystery

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Added Flash elements to the Tudor Portrait Mystery – a ‘zoomable’ image is now featured.

Fling the Teacher: Updated

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Updated 154 Fling the Teacher Quizzes to make them fully compatible with the code developed by Andrew Field of www.schoolhistory.co.uk.