From the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, through to Boris Yeltsin making a fool of himself after too much vodka: 27 posters highlighting key events caught on the camera in the 20th Century. A full set of poster resources can be found on this page.

“Study History, Study History! In History lies all the secrets of statecraft!” – plus 19 more motivational quotes about the noble subject. A full set of poster resources can be found on this page.

Print these off onto A3, get them laminated and stuck up around the room, then point at them whenever any student asks “What can you do with a history degree?”

Recently posted on Andrew Field’s site – oh, the nostalgia!

A new template designed for ActiveHistory’s sister website, www.classtools.net.

Newly updated: create 2-circle as well as 3-circle venn diagrams at www.classtools.net

This online countdown timer allows you to choose from a number of tunes!

Type in your time, select a theme tune, and then click a button to start the countdown! A great tool for interactive whiteboards.

Kolb’s Learning Cycle: The learning cycle model, developed by David Kolb, identifies four stages in learning. Peter Honey and Alan Mumford connected each stage in this learning cycle with a preferred learning style.

A Target diagram is a fantastic way of getting students to break down a key question. Three factors are placed in the centre of the diagram. In the next layer, each factor can then be broken into two examples. In the final layer, each of these examples can then be substantiated with factual detail /…

The Game Generator at www.classtools.net now has a feature which allows you to specify the type of quiz you would like the player to be directed to rather than allowing them a completely free choice. Check it out here!

A burger diagram is a simple essay planning tool. Students make basic notes covering their introduction, three main sections, and a conclusion. It is a useful way of ensuring that students think about structuring their essays in a logical format.

A “Living Graph” 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.

A Venn diagram is a classic way of getting students to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between three key events, concepts or people. Characteristics shared in common go in the central area; those shared by just two factors go in the area where those two circles overlap; characteristics possessed by just one go…

A drop-down menu that takes you straight to the ClassTools.net template of your choice. Add it to your webpage, blog or IGoogle homepage

Type the title and / or author of a book, and get a professional Harvard-Author Date reference for your essays. Add it to your webpage, blog or IGoogle homepage.

A summary of the latest games, worksheets and activities added to the site. Add it to your webpage, blog or IGoogle homepage.

Only sites designed for teachers and students will be searched. Join up as a collaborator to add websites to the search engine! Add the search engine to your webpage, blog or IGoogle homepage.

An inspirational quote about history and historians, updated daily! Add it to your webpage or to your IGoogle homepage.

The Jigsaw template is designed to allow students to make connections between various factors in an engaging manner. The “pieces” of the jigsaw can have text written into them. When they are dragged next to each other, they “snap” into place. The pieces can be colour coded as appropriate.

This template allows you to load an image, then “turn the lights off” so that you can view just small sections of the image at a time. It provides a great way of getting students to look more closely at an image.

A timeline 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 / or…

This generator allows you to cut and paste text into a template and turn it into an animated book!

This interactive Venn Diagram Generator is a great Flash template for use in the classroom.

This fishbone (Ishikawa) 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.

This fishbone (Ishikawa) 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.

This 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 is a simple tool 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. Random Name Picker

This online countdown timer has a selection of tunes to choose from, and you can even upload your own to it.

Use this interface to create flashcards free of charge!

I have developed the Classtools.net random name generator so that words can now be “removed” from the fruit machine after they have been selected. This means that using the game in class doesn’t result in the same people / keywords being selected several times each session.

PostIt is a useful tool for helping students to identify and then categorise key factors. Each “Note” can be dragged and dropped anywhere in the screen and colour coded if necessary. A background image can also be inserted for annotation purposes.

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.