Mr. Jerrit's History teaching blog

I have other blog posts on the boil at the moment, but while I was thinking about it, I thought I would share a set of "Revision Grids" for the Edexcel IGCSE Germany Depth Study. I have given them out to Year 10 students as we have gone through the course - part of a lesson or homework has been to fill in part of them when we get to the end of a section. The intention is not for every fact to be included, but at least one (more is ideal) to help student to memorise the facts. I hoped it would help students to keep details in context. Many, if not all of these icons are used by me during teaching so the intention is that there is some recall of the learning that happened. I have also tried to highlight any causal links or thematic connections to help students see the link between factors, so that is also part of their learning too. Again - this has been a focus of my lessons and the students' classwork, so none of these ideas are new. I have been doing this sort of thing f...

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.