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.

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.

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"Active History gives teachers more opportunity to bring History to life in the classroom, inspring students to dig deeper and ask probing questions, not to mention the sheer enjoyment of the head to heads and other activities'"

"Active History has helped make revision a fun experience for all students of all abilities. The decision making activities get pupils to think like the historical characters they have been studying. An excellent resource'. "

"Creative, interactive, fun resources that challenge students at all levels. The site has become integral. I recommend it to all secondary history teachers.' "

"Active history engages pupils of all ability levels. The activities are thorough and accurate. My pupils just love to get on the games - a great incentive to get the set task finished!'"

"Russel Tarr is a great asset to all History teachers and should be kept under lock and key.'"

"My Year 9s love the Manic Miner games...and strive to get on the highest scores board barely aware that they are learning history along the way....This is a great site'"

"Every year my students rate the exercises they do from the ActiveHistory site as some of the most enjoyable and informative. Russel Tarr knows how to engage students.'"

"ActiveHistory is among the most useful online instructional tools that I have ever used in my history classes. The resources available foster critical thinking skills in a manner that is often fun and engaging'. "

"The great thing about 'ActiveHistory' is that it gets students and teachers alike thinking imaginatively about the subject. It forces you to get personally involved in the controversies of the past and to make informed judgments."

"It does what it says on the tin! This site has been invaluable in helping me to provide historically accurate, challenging and enjoyable learning opportunities for my students.'"

"ActiveHistory is a valuable resource and provides a multitude of interesting and inventive activities. Students particularly like the 'talking heads'. Hours of fun, and learning of course!!!'"

"My students learn when History is made fun. ActiveHistory makes learning fun.'"

"The students love the 'talking heads'! Activehistory has effectively used the internet to achieve what we've wanted for years, the sharing of excellent resources, easily accessible, well written but adaptable'. "

"Excellent website which brings lessons to life, and enhances teaching and learning'. "

"ActiveHistory provides a wide range of activities for use individually or with whole classes. Material is focused on the skills and knowledge required for exams and a lot of 'fun' material on the site can be used as introductions to a topic or as revision."

"ActiveHistory and an interactive whiteboard allows us to teach in the way that we know we should be teaching...with starters, quizzes and interactive exercises allowing the students to engaging with activites in a lively and involving way.'"

"As a teaching and studying tool it's second to none."

"ActiveHistory inspires students, it brings together their understanding to engage with the subject at a deeper level, aids revision and is a godsend for planning for overstretched teachers!'"

"ActiveHistory provides a fun and different way to experience history. The Simulations and Interviews are unique and fun for my students which always help to spark interest in the subject of history.'"

"Activehistory has enabled my History students to see that History is fun -they have been able to have an online conversation with Hitler and learn so much without realising it !!'"

"Active History is a gold mine of great ideas and activities. It challenges pupils to think for themselves. The games are a great way to provide educational but fun activities in stressful times before examinations."

"Active History is the best educational site for History that we have come across. There is such a wide range of material both in terms of the key stages addressed and in the variety of interactive activities for the students."

"A fantastic teaching resource which my classes absolutely love. It's particularly useful in bringing to life potentially difficult or dull topics such as the League of Nations with its simulation games.' "

"Active History is an excellent site full of captivating activities and interesting History. We love to visit it and it contributes significantly to our teaching of and our learning about history."

"I have really enjoyed using activehistory to enhance the learning of my pupils. They especially like the interview activities where they get to interview the likes of Hitler and Henry VIII!!'"

"The department especially values the material on 16th century Europe and England. This is not covered by other websites and Active History provides a wealth of activities in these areas."

"Active History enthuses previously 'bored' pupils and allows them to make the vital connections whilst learning the facts. Active History is one of the reasons why our numbers are growing in KS4 History.'"

"A fantastic range of resources with imaginative and accessible material. Hard to live without'"

"My students really respond to the interactive games I use to review or wrap up a topic. My personal favorite is the Life in the Trenches. The game has wonderful details about the war and how it affected the everyday soldier.'"

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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!

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