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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.
An ActiveHistory subscription provides everything you need to construct and deliver a History course from start to finish for the entire 11-18 age range!
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.
World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
Modern History: Stand-Alone Resources |
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The following resources can be used either as Miscellaneous homework / extension activities or as stand-alone lesson units in themselves. |
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| 1. | ActiveHistory Mysteries [Interactive] A series of engaging "Historical Mysteries" designed to develop skills of question formulation, deduction, research, groupwork and essay writing. Using a range of visual and written "clues", students piece together a genuine historical mystery and work towards an independent conclusion. Worksheets and markschemes included. |
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The Worst Jobs in History: Victorian This activity can be used as a stand-alone lesson, homework assignment or as part of a broader unit on "Was life Good or Bad during this particular period?". The worksheet has basic activities for a 30 minute lesson, and extension tasks that could be followed up later. |
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| 3. | "Timeline of my Birthday" - worksheet Replace [DATE GOES HERE] with the month / day of your birthday (e.g. “November 30th”). Go to https://www.activehistory.co.uk/birthdayTimeline and input your birthday. It will provide a list of events, births and deaths that took place across a wide range of time on the day you were born. Select AT LEAST FIVE of these entries to put into your timeline, following these rules: a. At least one ‘event’, one ‘birth’ and one ‘death’ must be included b. No more than one entry in each row (=century) c. Put a picture relating to this entry in a cell next to it, with a caption. Complete the final row with information about yourself. |
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| 4. | George III / George IV: A stand-alone worksheet designed to develop understanding of censorship and propaganda. | |
| 5. | Kings and Queens: Charles I to George II Learn about these monarchs interactively! |
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| 6. | Death on the Railways A sourcework investigation. |
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| 7. | Victorian Life - spotting anachronism Students use Encarta to spot the anachronisms contained in the account. |
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| 8. | Children in the factories - detecting bias Students edit and analyse a primary source document in order detect bias. |
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| 9. | The Amazing Animated Steam machines A worksheet and lesson plan to accompany the excellent resource at the BBC site. |
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| 10 | Slavery and Civil Rights Timeline quiz, followed by a structured Internet Investigation. |
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| 11. | Social Conditions: Local History Study The Bilston Cholera Epidemic A complete project pack for a 5-hour unit. |
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