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Teaching Strategy: Developing a Sense of Place
Helping students to develop a sense of place and period, a crucial part of thinking historically Students often have problems thinking historically because they do not know enough about the time and place they are trying to think about. For example, how can we expect a student to analyse propaganda posters from World War One…
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Understanding Political Cartoons
Helping students to understand how political cartoons are constructed and how every part of the image, and the way the parts relate to each other, are important when analysing such cartoons Students often struggle to identify the main message of a political cartoon, because they do not know how to read the different aspects of…
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Teaching Strategy: Family and Relations
Helping students to get to engage with the biography of an important historical figure Students take on the role of people who have to explain their relationship to a leading historical figure, thereby broadly mapping out his or her biography. Students are given a person that is in some way related to the historical actor…
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Teaching Strategy: Planning a Documentary
Helping students to decide the relative importance of different factors, events or changes Students plan a documentary by deciding how much time should be allocated to given topics. Students imagine they are planning a one-hour documentary. The teacher gives them a list of topics that need to be included. They plan by labeling and shading…
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Human timeline for developing chronological understanding
Helping students to develop their chronological understanding Using students wearing paper tabards as a human timeline to demonstrate sequencing and change over time. By being a human timeline the teacher can test students understanding of key historical terms. The students can more easily understand sequencing. They can also see change and continuity over time. By making…