An artificial intelligence simulation, complete with a worksheet: students choose whether to play as Churchill, Roosevelt or Stalin at the Yalta Conference of 1945, and then pit their wits against their opponents to achieve their objectives. Complete with a worksheet, this computer lesson runs itself and is a great way of learning about the personalities,…

In this lesson, students consider the ethical implications behind the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by reconstructing a scientific debate chaired by Farrington Daniels in 1945. Some excellent multimedia materials are available at the Atomic Archive.

Sample markschemes and exemplar material designed to be used in class.

Students answer the key question, then the class is divided into groups representing USA, USSR, UK, Germany and Poland. Each person in the group needs to produce a biased news report about the outcomes of the two conferences.

In this exercise, students learn about what really happened at Yalta and decide who got the most out of the conference; they then compare this to the results of the Potsdam Conference.

The class re-enacts the debates at Yalta by dividing into three groups and campaigning to get their voices heard on key issues. A great way of familiarising students with the differences of opinion between the Big 3.

A new Interactive Running Dictation Exercise for GCSE History.

Students compare several photographs of the Big Three at Yalta, and produce a newspaper headline to accompany each one highlighting how different pictures can create sharply differing impressions.

Students produce a “chat show” dialogue between a communist and a capitalist using the events in a timeline that is provided; each speaker will have a biased interpretation. As an extension, students produce a “living graph” using www.classtools.net.

Students start the topic with an introduction to what the Cold War was, and then they conduct their own research to produce an illustrated timeline of the main events using this cold war work sheet.

A worksheet to accompany the classic history documentary from the BBC.

Originally designed as a PSHE lesson for Year 11, this worksheet would also fit well into studies of opposition within Nazi Germany.

A handout designed to get GCSE History students thinking about how reliable the cartoons of David Low and Bernard Partridge actually are.

A revamped and relaunched version of this popular interactive investigation for GCSE / IGCSE History. The investigation focuses on getting students to think about how factors link together, and the work sheet helps them to structure an essay.

A student guide with some worksheet material, designed to develop essay-writing skills with GCSE / IGCSE History students.

A step-by-step guide providing students with different strategies for approaching “describe, explain, assess” questions in the GCSE / IGCSE History examination.

After marking my students’ IGCSE History mock exam answers, I put together this feedback session which I think they got a lot out of – basically, I wrote a whole raft of responses based around the describe / explain / assess format, and then students had to mark each response using a generic markscheme. It…

A Flash Activity based at ClassTools.net Interactive Whiteboard Resources.

An interactive Flash exercise based at ClassTools.net Interactive Whiteboard Resources.

A brand new self-contained worksheet.

A brand new worksheet.

A new worksheet for GCSE students.

A new worksheet – students write each other a Nazi school report using original source material.

A new worksheet designed to get students thinking about exactly when or if “acceptable” and “civilised” ideas descend into irrationality and barbarism.

A new worksheet, designed to make the point that Nazi social policies did not “come out of nowhere” nor have they entirely “gone away” – it should be a stimulating lesson!

A new worksheet for GCSE students.

A new worksheet designed to be used in conjunction with the Head2Head Interview.

A new worksheet for Year 10 students.

The Virtual Interview with Adolf Hitler, recently updated with a custom-made 3D face, is currently being updated with 300 new questions submitted by members over the past few months. This will obviously take a couple of weeks, so if no other updates appear during that time, then this is the reason! The final activity, when…

A PowerPoint Presentation donated to the site by Mr. Fitzsimmons.

This popular game, central to the GCSE history syllabus, has been reprogrammed to run more smoothly in the Firefox browser. Several pages have been amended to add extra detail in response to visitor feedback.

This simulation allows students to take on the role of an ordinary soldier and take a series of decisions covering the whole period 1914-1918. I have streamlined the programming of this popular activity so that it should now run more quickly and provide more detailed feedback to students studying this central modern history topic.

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?

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?

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?

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