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Teaching KS3 History: OverviewsWith the advent of the KS3 curriculum September 2008, most schools are now experimenting with more radical ways of teaching overviews. Some of you will be running longitudinal studies looking at change over, say, 2,000 years. These may occur at the beginning of the Y7 course or perhaps at the end of the Key Stage looking backwards. At other times, you may want to look forwards and backwards, building an overview out of a depth study. As yet many of these exciting ideas are still in the experimental stage. When teachers start reporting obvious success with these overview lessons, examples will start appearing on the site. You can expect lessons connected to themes such as: Living and believing SMART TASKSMinted: Telling the stories of changing British rulers by exploring 10 signfiicant coins On the move: teaching the theme of migration
Teaching overviewsAs you develop your overviews, especially those around British history, I warmly recommend that you bear in mind Andrew Chater's website Timelinestv. Not only does it offer good timelines, organised by important themes, it also makes a point of referring forwards and backwards in time. This is done succinctly and accessibly, providing short film clips that can easily be integrated into a number of lessons, bringing variety and high interest levels. Andrew usually takes a film crew to the site of significant events and uses this as a way of linking to the present but also to other linked events. In terms of textbooks, you will find some thoughtful overview work, as you would expect, from Ian Dawson. As with his earlier GCSE History of Medicine and Crime and Punishment work, Ian can be relied on to give clear an authoritative overviews. I particularly like his attempt to show, by way of a living graph, how living conditions changed over the 900 year span between 1100 to 2000.You can find this in his new book SHP History Year 7 (Hodder Education 2008) p188-9.
If you would like to preview sample activities and resources from these lessons, then email us and we will forward some draft material prior to formal publication here.
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