Transform your history classroom

ActiveHistory provides educational, award-winning interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, high-quality worksheets and detailed lesson plans for the school history classroom. All resources have been designed by full-time history teacher Russel Tarr.

These consist not just of lesson plans, worksheets and teacher notes, but also multimedia lectures and interactive games and historical simulations ideal for remote learning and self-study.

1.	Introduction: What is History?	�
2.	Medieval Life in the Town and Village
3.	Language and History: Places, Surnames, Everyday Words
4.	The Black Death / Peasants' Revolt
5.	The Norman Conquest
6.	Medieval Religion
7.	Castles
8.	Stand-Alone History Lessons and Homework Resources
9.	Islamic Civilisations
10.	End of Year History Revision

History weblinks for Year 7 History

1. A History of 'Trial by Ordeal' Have you ever undergone a ?trial by fire?? In its modern use, this refers to any ordeal meant to test one?s strength, endurance, or resolve. Originally, however, the ?trial by fire? was a much more literal term, and was one of the many categories of ?trial by ordeal? that permeated the judicial system of Europe, Asia, Africa, and colonial America.
2. BBC - Schools - The Beauty of Maps The Beauty of Maps - Teacher's resources
3. Family Echo - Free Printable Family Tree Maker Great for a Year 7 family tree project
4. The National Archives | Exhibitions | Uniting the Kingdoms?
5. In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
6. The Middle Ages: Feudal Life - Great summaries organised by theme
7. World History Medieval Timeline
8. Timeline of the Middle Ages - Wikipedia