Design your own coat of arms by answering a series of detailed questions about your personality and interests. The computer uses the information to design your shield, choose the colour scheme, and recommend the symbols you should use. A great classroom project which turns into a brilliant display of finished projects!

An updated version of the Year 7 History Worksheet; now included is a template map of the UK (for students to plot names relating to places) and a diamond9 diagram for students to plot profession-based surnames in rank order of status.

Year 7 History students create their own family tree after analysing that of The Simpsons cartoon characters using this worksheet.

The latest “History in the Headlines“!
This newsfeed is updated (almost!) daily. It provides a hand-selected digest of the automated newsfeed at ClassPress.net.
This provides a great way of adding contemporary relevance to your classroom studies.
Why not print some of the articles out and stick them on a news board?
Or get your students to produce a “History Newsletter” once a month from the most interesting pieces?

In this exercise students organise slips of information into appropriate categories, reduce them down to just 15, and use them to answer the question “Was Life Good or Bad in the Middle Ages?”. They work in teams of two or three, and at various points during the exercise the teacher will test each team with questions from this picture quiz.

A short video I put together for my Year 7 students as a “starter” to their studies of views of Hell in the Middle Ages.