This worksheet covers the period 1917-39. Students use a detailed timeline to produce a biased account from firstly a communist, then a capitalist perspective.
Month: March 2007
IB History Internal Assessment
Valuable guidance on how to structure the Internal Assessment for IB History!
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In this lesson, students consider the ethical implications behind the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by reconstructing a scientific debate chaired by Farrington Daniels in 1945. Some excellent multimedia materials are available at the Atomic Archive.
Source Work at GCSE / IGCSE History
Sample markschemes and exemplar material designed to be used in class.
Famous History Graduates
A printable pack of posters which can be put up around the history classroom
Nicholas II: Industrial Developments
For IB / A-Level historians. A PowerPoint presentation with an accompanying worksheet. Teachers may wish to use this if they are pressed for time and so prefer to simply deliver a lecture with students taking notes. It’s less fun that the “Witte’s Dilemma” worksheet above, though!
Video Worksheet [2]: Who were the top suspects?
This worksheet accompanies the final 20 minutes of the video available from Amazon. In this part of the documentary, the top suspects are suggested and the video narrator offers his own view on who the murderer was. This is a stimulating way of following the classroom debate and usually provides some lively discussion.
Historiography: Quotes about History and Historians
150 sides of paper, each with a historiographical quote – slap them up around the classroom and when you’re stuck for a lesson just start debating the meaning / accuracy of each one.
Witte’s Dilemma: An Overview of Industrial Developments in the Reign of Nicholas II
For IB / A-Level historians. In this worksheet, students are presented with a series of key policy options facing Sergei Witte, the economics minister under Nicholas II. For each issue, they have to consider the advantages and disadvantages of carrying out the policy and how those policies could relate to each other. After formulating their…
Yalta and Potsam: How similar were they?
Students answer the key question, then the class is divided into groups representing USA, USSR, UK, Germany and Poland. Each person in the group needs to produce a biased news report about the outcomes of the two conferences.
Overview of the Reign of Tsar Nicholas II, 1894-1917
For IB / A-Level historians. Students now spend a lesson researching different aspects of the reign of Tsar Nicholas II. Each topic area has a brief introduction, and individual students take responsibility for reporting back to the class with their findings. This helps to break the topic up nicely before they start to look at…
Yalta and Potsdam: What really happened?
In this exercise, students learn about what really happened at Yalta and decide who got the most out of the conference; they then compare this to the results of the Potsdam Conference.
The Yalta Conference: Classroom Role Play!
The class re-enacts the debates at Yalta by dividing into three groups and campaigning to get their voices heard on key issues. A great way of familiarising students with the differences of opinion between the Big 3.
Berlin Blockade Interactive Newsfeed
A new Interactive Running Dictation Exercise for GCSE History.
The Yalta Conference: Photographs as evidence
Students compare several photographs of the Big Three at Yalta, and produce a newspaper headline to accompany each one highlighting how different pictures can create sharply differing impressions.
Roots of the Cold War: Events (Historical Differences)
Students produce a “chat show” dialogue between a communist and a capitalist using the events in a timeline that is provided; each speaker will have a biased interpretation. As an extension, students produce a “living graph” using www.classtools.net.
