Mr. Jerrit's History teaching blog

Inspired a little by AQA's GCSE spec where it talks about Second Order Concepts of " continuity, change, cause, consequence, significance, similarity and difference" , and the Bayeux Tapestry Meme-Generator , I came up with these.  They are designed at least to get students thinking about how to use these concepts (having used other similar but less interesting things in the past). Hopefully they will also give students a starting point for their own work. There are probably things one could quibble about; whether the text is readable by SEN, and to what extent these are emphasising the traditional "top-down" understanding of hierarchy by saying that the king is more important than the people. I'll put the files in this Google Drive directory.  Here you'll find the images (which I'll try to print on A3) and the file I downloaded from the  Bayeux Tapestry Meme-Generator , which might allow you to make your own version (I've not had the chan...

Timeline of Inter-War Years and Dictatorships Inspired, as ever by the work of  @worcesterjonny,  and using one of his files as a template, I knocked this Timeline together to cover the Interwar years and the dictators of the 1920s and 1930s. I think it should be useful for display purposes if you can find a printer which can use A2 pages and also for analysis (give an A3 version to your students!). I hope to use it with my IB History students (Paper 3, Europe Topics 14 & 15), and it should be useful for a variety of GCSE courses too. The PDF can be found here The Editable Publisher file can be found here (if you want to do your own version)

I've tried various ways of encouraging students to read around the subject, sometimes with success - mostly talking to keen students about relevant texts is the best way, although a good display helps! With this in mind, I have put this poster together - inspired by the work of Twitter Educationalist Mark Anderson ( https://twitter.com/ICTEvangelist) . It is designed to look like a "periodic table" and is organised into broad themes which we cover in our various courses: As with a real periodic table I have tried to demonstrate a range of complexity; by putting the more straight-forward texts towards the top and the more complex and challenging towards the bottom. In case anyone wants to have their own version for editing (as not everyone covers the Tudors, the Dutch Revolt and Health & the People!) here is the editable PUB file (for MS Publisher 2013) . Here is the PDF file if you'd like that instead !

In my head I've got a post to write about using Hexagons in teaching, but in the meanwhile I'll post this here while I see if there is a better place to share it. The image below is timeline of selected events in the Tudor period 1509-88 which students can colour-code using the relevant themes, and make connections between events. It's designed around the Edexcel A Level specification for Paper 1, option B, although could probably be used for any Tudor unit. It works well on A2 or A3, but is a little harder to read on A4, as demonstrated below: It was inspired by some of the excellent work by Jonny Hemphill ( @WorcesterJohnny ), so props to him for his magnificent GCSE timelines I have shamelessly used in class! The file itself is a non-editable PDF (sorry if there any errors and typos!), but was make using the free Scribus publishing software. If anyone wants the original file, I am happy to share that too.