I have just completed teaching the transatlantic slave trade to my Year 9 students. “The Apprentice” roleplay was a particular highlight and I’ve uploaded some new resources to the main page, in particular a new PowerPoint getting students to think about logos, slogans and brand names and a streamlined tasksheet for the Apprentice roleplay exercise.

Using a worksheet and a record sheet, students are given different sources from different witnesses and have to analyse their position on the issue of disarmament. They then ‘interview’ each other by moving around the classroom, trying to reach a judgement on the key question of “Who was to blame for the failure of disarmament in the 1920s?”. There are important teacher notes and sources that should be downloaded for this activity.

The resources for this new activity can be found on this page.

Students organise the successes and failures of Border Disputes into a ‘Diamond 9′ formation and explain their reasoning. An effective revision aid. There is a sample Teacher Version.

I have just updated my IGCSE revision pages with the most recent past examination questions on the key topics for Papers 1 and 2 ready to start revision lessons with my students next week. Hope you find them useful!

I’ve just finished developing a new feature which allows you to customise ActiveHistory decision-making adventures by adding a class list. You then get a special link to a version of the game to share with your students which includes their names as characters in the game itself.

You can check it out for yourself in the Weimar Germany game here. If you like this feature, let me know what games you’d like to see it added to next!

To accompany the Gunpowder Plot History Mystery, I’ve produced this QR Code Treasure Hunt on the same topic. Whilst students are working on their essays as a two-week homework exercise, these codes are hidden around the school and students gain a point for every QR code they successfully decode, and another point for every QR code question they successfully answer.