A brand new version of the popular game, now with a high score board – can you get onto the Hall of Fame with your historical knowledge?
Author: Russel Tarr
SPLAT the Industrial Celebrity!
A brand new version of the popular game, now with a high score board – can you get onto the Hall of Fame with your historical knowledge?
SPLAT the Tudor!
A brand new version of the popular game, now with a high score board – can you get onto the Hall of Fame with your historical knowledge?
Weimar Germany Decision-Making Game – Part 1: 1918-21
This simulation is a great way of introducing or revising the issues surrounding Weimar Germany in the years 1918-20.The game is designed to “run itself” with minimal teacher preparation. Each of the 5 key decision points covers a different issue. By working through the activity and completing the worksheet, students will learn about the diplomatic, economic, social and political problems faced by the Republic, and consider how successfully the Republic dealt with them.
Head2Head Chat: Medicine Through Time Expert!
Designed to allow a range of year groups to investigate medicine, surgery and public health at particular points in history.
Weimar Germany Decision Making Game – Part 2: 1921-29
A brand-new simulation, which offers a great way of introducing or revising the issues surrounding Weimar Germany in the years 1921-29.
The German Reformation: PowerPoint Presentation
New Powerpoint Presentation
Weimar Germany PowerPoint Presentations
Revolts and Rebellions | The Crises of 1923
USSR under Stalin: New Worksheets
Why did the USSR win the Great Patriotic War? Designed to follow on from the interactive exercise. Students drag and drop factors to make connections and write up their findings. A series of worksheets: 1. Stalin’s USSR: 1945-53 – Industrial and Agricultural recovery? 2. Stalin’s Legacy: Did he corrupt or fulfil Lenin’s vision? 3. Stalin’s…
Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Consequences of World War One in Germany, Britain and the USSR
A topic which is easy to overlook – so I have put together these materials: Students should open a copy of this table, and fill the gaps by playing one of the following quizzes: Manic Miner Quiz – Consequences of WW1 Cannonball Quiz – Consequences of WW1 Wordshoot Quiz – Consequences of WW1
New Game: Worst Jobs of the Industrial Revolution
Careers Advice: Victorian Style! An interactive, self-contained game designed to teach students about some of the worst jobs in Victorian Britain. Simply answer a series of questions about your personality and preferences, and get a full description of your perfect working-class job. A workheet is provided – a great way of spicing up a unit…
World War One: Section Redesign
World War One: New resources and structure I added several new resources to this page of the site, and decided it was getting unwieldy, so I have now broken it into two sections: Causes of World War One Course of World War One Each one of these is now structured by topic (so it reads…
Game Update: Play Your Dates Right
Updated all of the Play Your Dates Right Quizzes to make the fully compatible with the Mozilla Firefox browser.
The Black Death: Interactive Animation
Flash Animation – Spread of the Black Death Complete with tasks. Allows you to examine the spread of the disease month by month in cities around Europe.
Stalin resources on The “Social Revolution” and the “Cult of Personality”
1. The 1936 Constitution 2. The Stalin Cult 3. The Social Revolution 4. Conclusion
The Princes in the Tower: Interactive Investigation
What happened to the Princes in the Tower?
The Flight to Varennes
Interactive running dictation exercise: The Flight to Varennes
The USSR under Stalin: New Worksheets
More resources on Stalin’s USSR uploaded: PowerPoint Presentation – By Mr. Fitzsimmons C. Economic Policies: Industry 1. Introduction and Overview [student worksheet] [teacher copy] [PowerPoint Presentation] 2. Debate on the causes, course and consequence of the 5-Year Plans [student worksheet] 3. Assessment of the 5-Year Plans [student worksheet] [teacher notes] 4. Industrial Policies: A comparison…
The Peasants’ Revolt: Running Dictation Exercise
Interactive Running Dictation Exercise – Consequences: The Peasants’ Revolt A running dictation exercise. Students should follow it up by producing a biased newspaper report from either a pro-revolt or an anti-revolt perspective.
The Great Patriotic War
Interactive Running Dictation Exercise: The Great Patriotic War
The European Lutheran Reformation: Quiz for AS / A2 / IB History
New Wordshoot Quiz The Causes of the Lutheran Reformation 14/11/04 A2 New Wordshoot Quiz The Henrician Reformation to 1536
The Black Death: New Resources
1. Introductory PowerPoint Go through each of the slides in this presentation, asking the students to raise their hands once they know what the connecting factor is between all the pictures. Then, go back through the presentation a second time elaborating on each picture to give an overview of the topic and engage student interest….
Witchcraft in Tudor Times
Witchcraft PowerPoint Presentation uploaded to accompany the A classroom witch trial!
Stalin’s Purges: New Worksheets
1. Introduction to the Terror – including an investigation of the key characters 2. Causes of the Terror – economic, political, diplomatic 3. Who Killed Kirov? – a sourcework investigation leading to a debate 4. Key Events, 1936-38 – political, economic and military victims 5. The Trials of Kamenev, Zinoviev and Bukharin – transcripts and…
The USSR under Stalin: New Worksheets
Agricultural Policies: 1. What were Stalin’s Economic Objectives? [student worksheet] [teacher copy] [PowerPoint Presentation] 2. Collectivisation: Theory and Practice [student worksheet ] [teacher copy] [PowerPoint Presentation] 3. The Ukrainian Famine: Sources and Questions [student worksheet] [PowerPoint Show] 4. The Ukrainian Famine: Individual Research Task [student worksheet] 5. Collectivisation: How successful was it? [student worksheet] [teacher…
Life in the Medieval Village: New Games
Games designed to accompany the Time Machine Journey to the Middle Ages and The Peasants’ Year activities: Social Life in the Middle Ages – CannonBall Fun Game Social Life in the Middle Ages – Manic Miner Game Social Life in the Middle Ages – Wordshoot Game
The Trading Game
Uploaded The Trading Game – an interactive simulation designed to teach students about what continents trade which goods, and what sorts of factors can encourage or hinder international trade. Could be used as a follow-up to a study of the British Empire, or as a cross-curricular link with the Geography theme of Globalisation. I would…
The Luttrell Psalter: Interactive Exercise
The Peasants’ Year – Copy and Paste the pictures into the correct spots in the peasants’ calendar. Follow-up questions included.
Game Updates: Now fully compatible with Firefox
Updated the Horatio Ramsbottom: Victorian Entrepreneur game, the League of Nations in the 1920s game and the Would you have Survived the French Revolution? game to make the fully compatible with the Mozilla Firefox browser. If you are aware of any other games which do not run perfectly with this browser, please let me know…
The Tudor Portrait Mystery
Added Flash elements to the Tudor Portrait Mystery – a ‘zoomable’ image is now featured.
Fling the Teacher: Updated
Updated 154 Fling the Teacher Quizzes to make them fully compatible with the code developed by Andrew Field of www.schoolhistory.co.uk.
Play Your Dates Right: High Score Board
Added a new High Score Board feature to the Play Your Dates Right quizzes.
Jack the Ripper: Updated Worksheets
Jack the Ripper Improvements made to several of the worksheets (Victims, Other Evidence, Who Was Jack?)
Head2Head: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Updated the “Virtual Chat with Martin Luther King Jr” to make the text-to-speech facility Firefox compatible.
George III / IV: Propaganda and Censorship
George III / George IV: A stand-alone worksheet designed to develop understanding of censorship and propaganda.
19th Century Crime and Punishment: Interactive Game
Amendments to the “You be the Judge” game – students now have to explain their choices as they go along to ensure they reflect on them.
World War One: Interactive Quizzes
Three new quizzes – each one with 74 possible questions! Manic Miner Quiz – Causes of World War One Wordshoot Quiz – Causes of World War One CannonBall Fun Quiz – Causes of World War One
GCSE Crime and Punishment: Interactive Simulation
Interactive Simulation: You be the Judge! Pass sentence on a series of ten crimes from 19th Century Britain and see how close you come to the actual verdicts reached at the time!
GCSE Crime and Punishment: Worksheets
A Series of Crime and Punishment Worksheets donated to ActiveHistory by Cathy Warren: Defining Crime: (a) What are the different types of crime? (b) How and why do different periods define crime in different ways? (c) How are laws made? (d) Nature of Crime – Practice Questions Determining Guilt: How do we decide if someone…
GCSE Crime and Punishment during the Industrial Revolution
Crime and Punishment during the Industrial Revolution – Worksheet designed to be completed over a double lesson; students are given a series of crime case studies, and decide what punishments they would have given. These are then compared with punishments actually given at the time.
High Score Board Added to Popular Games!
Added the new High Score Board (using PHP / SQL) to the CannonBall Fun and Wordshoot games.
The Renaissance and the Reformation: Quiz
New Wordshoot Quiz The Renaissance Era
Stalin and the USSR: Worksheets for A2 / IB
A2 The Rise of Stalin – Collapsible revision notes Worksheets on Stalin’s Russia: 1. Divisions in the party before 1924 2. Who should succeed Lenin? 3. Lenin’s Testament 4. What were Stalin’s Economic Objectives? 5. Collectivisation: Theory and Practice 6. How successful was the policy of collectivisation?
The Soviet Union under Stalin: Worksheets for A-Level and IB History
The Soviet Union Stalin’s Police State: Introduction and research task Stalin’s Terror: Overview of the main events research task Stalin’s Terror: Causal Links
Medieval Village: Year 7 Adventure Game Updates
Time Machine Journey to the Middle Ages In response to member feedback, this popular activity has now been completely re-programmed to contain a whole raft of new features, including: a. Quiz questions throughout the game (which each student will only have to answer the first time they visit a location) b. Additional sound effects (even…
Causes of World War One: Worksheets for GCSE / IGCSE
Uploaded a new series of editable worksheets on The Causes of WW1: The Assassination at Sarajevo Serb Nationalism The Alliance System Colonial and Economic Rivalry
Industrial Revolution: Interactive Simulation Update!
“Horatio Ramsbottom: Victorian Entrepreneur” decision-making game. Completely rewritten and updated to cover more factors, with a new worksheet and added interactive elements.
Venn Diagram
What does it take to become a successful businessperson? – An editable Venn Diagram, which can be changed to suit your purposes and which serves as a good introduction to the “Horatio Ramsbottom: Victorian Entrepreneur” decision-making game.
Early Modern European History: Worksheets and PowerPoints
Uploaded a series of PowerPoint Presentations kindly offered to the site by Mr. Fitzsimmons: Counterfactual History The League of Nations to 1930 Witchcraft Trials in Scotland Tudor Monarchs Phillip II and Elizabeth I Revolts in the Reign of Phillip II William the Conqueror Also, two PDF Worksheets from the same source: Charles V Phillip II:…
History Quizzes
Uploaded brand new Wordshoot; CannonBall Fun and Manic Miner games on the following topics: The Radical Reformation Calvin and Calvinism Henry VII – Domestic Policy The USSR under Lenin
History Quizzes: New Developments
Uploaded a new Medicine Through Time game to Wordshoot; CannonBall Fun and Manic Miner Developed the Manic Miner Game to make the initial levels a little easier after feedback from members.
History Quiz: Firefox and Safari Compatible
Adapted all of the CannonBall Games to make them fully compatible in Firefox, Safari and Opera Browsers
History Games: High Score Board Feature!
Added a brand new “Hall of Fame” feature to the Wordshoot quizzes; this will update automatically and provide an element of competition to the game. It will be extended to the CannonBall Games and the Manic Miner Games next week if it is clearly working well.
Manic Miner
Manic Miner A new game: based on arcade platform games, a new way of learning history! The sample game is on Nazi Germany please offer some feedback!
Manic Miner – History Games and Quizzes
Uploaded fresh “Manic Miner” games: The Tudors The Reformation Crime and Punishment The Middle East International Relations in the 1920s International Relations in the 1930s Medicine Through Time England in the Era of Cardinal Wolsey The Renaissance The European Reformation: Key Terminology The Ottoman Empire in the Era of Suleiman the Magnificent Russia under Alexander…
GCSE, A-Level and IB History Quizzes: Manic Miner!
Uploaded fresh “Manic Miner” games: The Era of World War Two Jack the Ripper The English Civil War The Renaissance The Treaty of Versailles Life in the Trenches The Liberal Governments, 190618 International Relations, 191939 The Causes of the Protestant Reformation The Life of Martin Luther Referenda and Democracy Pressure Groups Political Parties Germany in…
Report Writer Software
ActiveHistory Report Writing Wizard A major new application updated and amended to help teachers write history reports. Is this Holy Grail of history application?!
The Lutheran Reformation: Revision Notes
AS Collapsible Revision Notes The Spread of the Reformation Complete with worksheet
John Calvin and Calvinism
AS Collapsible Revision Notes Calvin and Calvinism Complete with worksheet.
The Causes of the Reformation
AS Collapsible Revision Notes Causes of the Reformation
The Middle East Crisis
Yr9 The Middle East Conflict 5 Possible Outcomes a new worksheet.JigsawTable Exercise Possible outcomes of the Middle East Conflict
History Games: AS / A2 / IB History
Cannonball Fun Quizzes a. Russia under Alexander II b. Russia under Alexander III c. Russia under Nicholas II Wordshoot Quiz a. Russia under Alexander II b. Russia under Alexander III c. Russia under Nicholas II
AS Government and Politics Quizzes
Cannonball Fun Quiz Electoral Systems Wordshoot Quiz Electoral Systems
AS Government and Politics: Quiz
Cannonball Fun Quiz Democracy and Referenda Wordshoot Quiz Democracy and Referenda
AS Government and Politics Games
Wordshoot Quiz Party Ideologies Cannonball Fun Quiz Party Ideologies
Queen Elizabeth I: History Worksheets
Worksheets Elizabethan Domestic Policy to 1566: The Religious Settlement Elizabethan Domestic Policy to 1566: Other Issues
Stalin and the USSR: Worksheet and Quizzes
Worksheet Comparison of the Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev Eras: A useful revision aid in the form of a Cloze exercise; designed to be used with the CannonBall Fun Quiz or the Historical Wordshoot Game.
Devolution in the UK: Worksheets
Devolution in the UK A workpack designed to be printed off and used in the classroom.
Nazi Germany – Quiz and Worksheets
Why did Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany? A complete one-hour lesson plan, designed to be used with this PowerPoint Presentation and this interactive quiz.
Khrushchev and Brezhnev: History Quizzes
A2 Modern History CannonBall Fun Quiz Khrushchev and Brezhnev WordShoot Quiz Khrushchev and Brezhnev
Phillip II of Spain: Worksheets and PowerPoints
Philip II: Worksheets Philip II’s Foreign Policy (2) The Dutch Revolt*Courtesy of Richard Fitzsimmons
Phillip II of Spain: Worksheets
AS / A2 New Editable Worksheet Resources on Philip II 1. Philip II’s Foreign Policy[1]* 2. Philip II’s Foreign Policy[2]* *All courtesy of Richard Fitzsimmons
Elizabeth I and the Tudor Regime: Work sheets
New Editable Worksheet Resources on Elizabeth I 1. What Constrained Elizabeth’s Foreign Policies?* 2. Elizabeth’s Relations with Spain* 3. Elizabeth’s Relations with Scotland* 4. Elizabeth’s Relations with France* *All courtesy of Richard Fitzsimmons
Emperor Charles V: Worksheets
New Editable Worksheet Resources on Charles V 1. Charles V’s Foreign Policy* 2. Charles V and the German Protestants* 2. Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire* 2. Charles V and the Habsburg-Valois Conflict* *From Richard Fitzsimmons
Pressure Groups and Politics – Quizzes
AS AS Government and Politics: Pressure Groups CannonBall Fun Quiz Pressure Groups WordShoot Quiz Pressure Groups
Government and Politics: Pressure Groups
Site Redesign Redesigned the AS Government and Politics Pages. AS Government and Politics: Pressure Groups AS Government and Politics: Pressure Groups Why do Pressure Groups succeed or fail? 1. What are the differences between parties and pressure groups? 2. Why is it sometimes so difficult to distinguish between parties and pressure groups? 3. How can…
The Catholic and Counter-Reformation: Worksheets
1. Introduction and Overview 2. The Papacy: Positive agents of reform? 3. The Council of Trent: (a) Background to the meetings 4. The Council of Trent: (b) The Decrees 5. The International Impact of the Counter-Reformation 6. Propaganda and Censorship in the Counter-Reformation
Medieval Castles: Interactive Simulation!
Castles: Defence and Attack A game of strategy: Spend your budget on your choice of features, then read a story of how your castle fares when faced with attack! Complete with worksheet and extension activities.
Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union: History games
Economic Developments under Stalin High Stalinism: 1945-53Wordshoot Game: High Stalinism: 1945-53
Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev
Created a new page on Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and uploaded some worksheets: 1. Overview of the key figures Online exercises in Word Editable Timeline of Brezhnev’s Life The Brezhnev Era: “Big Sleep” or “Developed Communism”? [Synoptic] 1. Venn Diagram: Comparing Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev
GCSE Depth Study – Britain 1906-18 – Interactive resources
British Depth Study Jigsaw Table Exercise: The Defence of the Realm Act
“Bloody” Mary Tudor: Works sheets and lesson plans
Fresh worksheets and resources for teaching the subject of “Bloody” Mary Tudor: Timeline of the Reign The Issue of Marriage An introduction to Religious Policy Foreign Policy Government and Administration
CannonBall Fun: Brand new History Game!
BRAND NEW GAME LAUNCHED: “CANNONBALL FUN!“ A game to test skills and knowledge – can you get into the Hall of Fame? Year 7: Medieval Realms (10th-15th Centuries) FREE Medieval Realms Year 8: The Early Modern World (15th-18th Centuries) The English Civil War, 1642-49 FREE The Reformation The Renaissance …
Causes of the French Revolution: Interactive game
Decision Making Adventure Game: The Causes of the French Revolution Would you have been able to help Louis XVI keep his throne? A major interactive decision making game for use in the history classroom, complete with a worksheet. Just log students onto a computer, and away they go!
The Duke of Northumberland: Jigsaw table exercise
Jigsaw Table Exercise England Under Northumberland
Women in World War One
GCSE Jigsaw Table Exercise Women in World War One
Khrushchev’s Economic Policies
A2 Jigsaw Table Exercise Khrushchev’s Economic Policies
Suffragettes, Suffragists and the Vote
GCSE British Depth Study, 1906-18: New worksheet What were the arguments for and against female suffrage? A combination of general points and primary sources – excellent follow up activity to the interactive exercise. Women and the Vote: Sourcework exercise Complete with markscheme.
England Under Protector Somerset
A2 England Under Protector Somerset – New worksheet Sourcework Exercise and Markscheme
USSR under Khrushchev: New worksheets
A2 USSR Under Khrushchev: New worksheets 3. De-Stalinisation 4. De-Stalinisation: Source Questions 5. Khrushchev: What sort of a man was he?
England under Protector Somerset and Edward VI
A2 England Under Protector Somerset – New worksheets and Resources: Interactive WordShoot Quiz England Under Protector Somerset Worksheets 1. Timeline of the Reign For reference / revision purposes. 2. Key Figures of the Reign Complete with a task. 3. Introduction: England in 1547 76kb 4. Somerset: Character and Style of Government…
Khrushchev: Early Career
Khrushchev: Early Career / Rise to Power Worksheet
John Calvin and Calvinism
Khrushchev: The “Secret Speech” of 1956 WorksheetCalvin and Calvinism – worksheets A negative introduction (pictorial propaganda) A positive introduction (hagiographical propaganda) Civil Government in Geneva Was Church and Civil Government in Geneva a strength or a weakness for Calvin?
Play Your Dates Right: Dating Game
Play Your Dates Right Code updated do that all the timelines can be printed off for revision prior to taking the quizzes.
Running Dictation Exercises
Running Dictation Exercises: The Middle East Conflict The Latter Stages of World OneWordshoot Quiz “High Stalinism”: Politics and Culture
The French Revolution: Worksheet unit
Yr8/9 Completed uploading the worksheet unit on The Causes of the French Revolution, designed to be taught over three weeks. The complete unit now looks like this: Interactive Exercises 1. Interactive Exercise By C. Warren at Rochester Girls’ Grammar 2. Interactive Running Dictation: The Fall of the Bastille An innovative activity designed to…
Head2Head Interview with Josef Stalin!
Head2Head Virtual Interview with Josef Stalin! A major new project: type questions and through artificial intelligence and a massive database, Stalin responds to your queries! With almost 200 responses, 150 suggested questions, and text-to-speech fully enabled, this promises to be a great addition to the site.
Time Machine Journey to Renaissance Florence
;Decision-Making Game: Time Machine Journey to Renaissance Florence A major new decision-making game: journey around the landscape of Renaissance Florence learning about the key events, characters and concepts of the period. Complete with a choice of four differentiated worksheets and a follow-up wordshoot quiz.
Gladstone and Disraeli: History Quizzes
Play Your Dates Right New interactive quizzes uploaded using the new format: The Life and Career of William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-98 The Life and Career of Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-81
The Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada Running Dictation Exercise
