An image of 27 well-known History graduates.
The appropriate point at which to watch this video is made clear in the PowerPoint presentation above.
Get the class into teams. Each team will take it in turns to name a different face. Teams are “knocked out” when they run out of ideas. The winning team will be the one with the most points.

A full set of resources for Year 9 Options can be found here.

After watching the film, students should watch this Google Earth Tour and list the 10 key personalities shown in it based on what they learned from the film.
As the tour progresses, give some clues / anecdotes about each character to maintain interest.
Award merits to the best scoring students in the class.

A full set of resources for Year 9 Options can be found here.

A three-minute video I put together to give students an overview of some of the main events and personalities of the 20th Century.
The appropriate point at which to watch this video is made clear in the PowerPoint presentation above.
Before students watch the film, warn them that there will be a quick factual test afterwards to test how much they have learned.

Full materials for Year 9 options can be found here.

A comprehensive PowerPoint presentation which forms the basis of the lesson. Packed with loads of useful information about famous history graduates, skills and content covered by the GCSE Modern World History Course. Activities and discussion points are sprinkled throughout to maintain interest and engagement.

Full materials for Year 9 options can be found here.

Essay Project: Gathering the Information [interactive]
Students begin by using interactive running dictation exercise to complete this worksheet. This will enable them to get a thorough grounding in the political, military, cultural and economic reasons why Germany and her allies lost World War One. It will also get them to consider whether Allied strengths, or the weaknesses of the Central Powers, were more important.

An example of how Xtranormal can be used as a learning tool: this project was produced as a homework project by one of my Year 9 students.