A History Teaching Toolbox: Volume Two: Even More Practical Classroom Strategies

by Russel Tarr

This second volume of A History Teaching Toolbox is an ideal handbook for busy classroom teachers eager to try out fresh strategies with their students. More than 65 tried and tested activities and approaches are organised into helpful categories and explained with step-by-step instructions and topic-specific examples to illustrate how they can be immediately employed. A History Teaching Toolbox Volume Two is written for both new and experienced classroom practitioners keen to bring history alive for their students and is written by award-winning history teacher Russel Tarr.

Chapter outline

1. Imparting knowledge to students

Escape the room!
Three effective role-play techniques
Hand gestures to reflect changing relations between groups
Unlock the box
Mysterious moments
Image flash
Time-wipes

2. Debate and Discussion Strategies

Chat-show challenges
Tell us something we donít know!
Protest placards: design, anticipate, react
Brilliance or Baloney?
Guess the statistics
Sticky notes for silent presentations
Boxing match debates

3. Transforming and applying knowledge

TripAdvisor graphics showing impact in various places
Design a theme park based around the topic
Convert statistics into infographics
Design / destroy a banknote
Create a Google Doodle
Produce a board game
Guess who?

4. Comparing, contrasting, linking

Sports commentaries
Crime boards
Dialogue poems
Speed dates / Blind dates
Top trumps
Which one doesn't belong?

5. Judgments and interpretations

Relationship webs
Living graph
Factor auction
How would geographers approach this question?
Design a DVD Inlay
Time travel agent: complaint letters v. advertising blurb

6. Group work approaches

Destroy or deploy?
Random name picker
Re-enact a conference
Which part of the body were you?
Image jigsaw
Peer assessment slips

7: Tests and revision

Takeaway mark scheme
How certain are you?
Plot holes in history <

173 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2018