Mr. Jerrit's History teaching blog

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.