This guidance is based the workshop at the 2009 SHP Conference by Mary Mills, Catherine McHarg and Ian Coulson, ‘Dig it with NMR’. The workshop provided a range of resources and ideas for engaging pupils in archaeological enquiry using the websites of English Heritage and the National Monuments Record. Two particularly useful resources from the workshop are: A handout (in PDF) which explains how E...
Read More »This activity, by Diana Laffin, forms part of a sequence of learning focussed on the enquiry question: Did the Fascists unite or divide Italy in the years 1922-1944? It uses real life narratives to develop students’ thinking about the impact of fascism on the lives of individual Italians during this period. The activity requires small groups of students to work collaboratively on an individual lif...
Read More »Richard Kennett (at Redland Green School, Bristol) writes … When I was a child ‘visual history’, on the whole, meant Ladybird books with their combination of text and illustrations, but in the words of Bob Dylan “the times they are a changing”. With video sharing sites like YouTube, students today have instant access to a vast array of audio-visual historical resources. Now is the time to take adv...
Read More »Unlike a club that people joined, such as the Jacobin Club, the Girondins were never quite so clearly identifiable as a group and historians have debated whether they actually existed as a political party or whether they were linked by ties of friendship and geography. Many of the Girondins came from the Gironde region (e.g. Bergeoing, Ducos, Gensonné, Guadet, and Vergniaud) and some of them were ...
Read More »Greetings from the Schools History Project. I hope that the new school year has started well. This academic year will be a busy one for SHP as we launch our new GCSE specification – OCR B (SHP). It’s been reassuring to have received such positive feedback from teachers on the draft specification. As you probably know, none of the History GCSE specifications were accredited on first submissio...
Read More »I hope that you had a good Easter break. Last term was particularly busy for SHP as we worked in partnership with OCR to complete our new draft GCSE specification for 2016, OCR B (SHP). We hope you agree that our new specification truly reflects the SHP principles for ensuring engaging, meaningful and rigorous school history. The draft specification and sample assessment materials have now been se...
Read More »Esther returns for Spring with positive plans for tackling all the changes in prospect at A level and GCSE ….
Read More »Greetings from SHP – we hope that 2015 is a good year for you. The year promises to be a special one in the history of the Project as we develop the new SHP GCSE in partnership with OCR. This is a great opportunity to produce a specification firmly based on SHP principles. You can read more about the new SHP specification in my blog here . We appreciate that access to high quality resources ...
Read More »Gifts from the Christmas elves - aka history teachers - for all those new to History teaching
Read More »Preparing the way for next week's Christmas-present, plum pudding, tinsel-wrapped Letter Esther asks .....
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