A Dustbin game is great for helping students to organise ideas into categories. Students or teachers can create up to four categories of factors. The game created by ClassTools.net then involves students dragging and dropping each factor into its correct category as quickly as possible in a “race against the clock”!

This is a simple activity which is a great way of rounding off a unit and revising important dates, concepts and people. It can also be used to randomly pick a name from a list of students. You can copy and paste your data direct from Word, Excel and other programs.

This is a powerful interface: you create one set of questions, then you can choose from four different interactive quizzes. Your question sets can be saved for future development and editing, and even hosted on a website as HTML pages!

A Diamond Nine Diagram helps to prioritise and categorise key factors. The most important factors are placed towards the top of the “diamond 9 “. The least important factors are placed towards the bottom. Factors of equal importance are placed in the same row. Each factor can be colour coded for further sophistication.

This simple interface will convert a message into a secret code using a substitution cypher. When you click ‘Submit’ it will beturned into a worksheet for your class which you can print out or copy and paste into a word processor for further editing

I have now updated ActiveHistory’s sister website, www.ClassTools.net, so that you can now embed your educational game templates directly into your blog, wiki or website! Try it out at www.classtools.net!

I have developed the Quiz Maker at www.classtools.net so that you can now cut and paste questions and answers from a word processor very easily and, with the click of a button, create a Manic Miner / Wordshoot / Cannonball Fun / Matching Pairs game.

Using this template, Teachers are increasingly using accelerated learning, an approach to learning which builds on a range of learning styles. This template will help you plan lessons which address the issue of multiple intelligences. Kolb’s Learning Cycle: The learning cycle model, developed by David Kolb, identifies four stages in learning. Peter Honey and Alan…

This “Living Graph” template encourages students not only to select the most important events within a topic, but also to rate them against criteria such as success and failure, strength and weakness and so on.

This timeline generator is a great way of getting students to select and summarise key events across a defined period. This activity allows them to do this simply and effectively, and to colour-code the events if they choose to do so. They can also add a background image before printing off their work and /…

A printable pack of posters which can be put up around the history classroom

A fishbone template is an essay planning tool. Whereas the burger diagram encourages students to think in terms of introduction, three main sections and a conclusion, the fishbone approach involves selecting four main factors, then providing three key pieces of detail about each.

Teachers are increasingly using accelerated learning, an approach to learning which builds on a range of learning styles. This template will help you plan lessons which address the issue of multiple intelligences

This interactive quiz generator allows you to create interactive “Dustbin” games. Students or teachers can create up to four categories of factors. The game created by ClassTools.net then involves students dragging and dropping each factor into its correct category as quickly as possible in a “race against the clock”!

Added the new High Score Board (using PHP / SQL) to the CannonBall Fun and Wordshoot games.

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.

FREE: TES Article: Every Picture Tells a Story Article by RJT published in the TES Teacher magazine [full article]. In the same edition, Becky Hewlitt’s article on History and Numeracy described the the ActiveHistory Wall Street Crash Simulation in these terms: “…We then begin to look at the Wall Street Crash using a superb interactive…

The ActiveHistory Report Wizard A brand-new application which enables teachers – with a few clicks of a mouse button – to create eloquent student reports in continuous prose. Totally customisable, with a built in thesaurus, it could possibly save your hours of work! Member feedback on this new project is particularly welcome – the more…