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Using Photographs in the History Classroom
Photographs are a valuable way to bring history to life for students. Seeing exact reproductions of faces and places from the past can deepen students’ sense of what life may have been like in times past. This supports what Michael Hill refers to as ‘world building’: students’ ability to develop sufficient contextual knowledge and understanding…
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The undisciplined side of history and how to use it to strengthen historical reasoning
Students encounter the past in a myriad of ways outside of the history classroom: family (hi)stories, commemorations, cinematic movies, TV programmes, social media, comic books, video games, you name it. We might call the approach in the classroom, based on academic methodology, ‘disciplined history’. The non-academic approaches could then be categorized as ‘undisciplined’. Disciplined and undisciplined histories…
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In what ways did Roman inventions affect later developments in European life? Prioritizing the Legacies from Ancient Rome
This article is the twenty-second of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. This activity uses the material of…
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The precursors to the Reformation
This article is the twenty-second of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. Five centuries of reformist dissent within…
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In what ways did Greek inventions affect later development in European life?
This article is the twentifirst of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. What have the Greeks ever done…