Highly rated

Keystage History Online now regularly receives over 8,000 visits a month.  Over the last 6 weeks these pages have proved the most popular, attracting over 250 unique visitors each.  Advice on teaching the gifted and talented has also proved very helpful.  You can find this in the Every Child Matters section.  Popular KS1 pages can be seen immediately below.  Click here to see at a glance the highly rated pages for:

KS2     KS3     GCSE    and    A level

Key Stage 1

1. 100 Great HISTORY TEACHING IDEAS for Key Stage 1

2. Medium term PLANNING on Florence Nightingale

3. Cross-curricular long-term planning on Man on the Moon

4. Outstanding LESSON on the changes Florence Nightingale made

5. Diagnostic ASSESSMENTS and MARK SCHEMES on Florence Nightingale, Grace Darling and Going to the Seaside.

Key Stage 2

1. 100 Great IDEAS for TEACHING HISTORY at Key Stage 2

2. Medium–term PLANNING on Roman Britain, featuring key questions, active enquiry-based learning and fully resourced step-by-step lesson plans AND LESSONS judged outstanding by OFSTED.  Each lesson has a PowerPoint presentation and pupil resource sheets

3. Creative ideas for teaching Ancient Greece in a cross-curricular way using mantle of the expert approach

4. Outstanding cross-curricular LESSONS on Ancient Egypt, judged grade 1 by OFSTED inspectors

5. 20 Cool, creative ideas for history outcomes at Key Stage 2

6. Imaginative approaches to teaching Tudor Britain using a range of thinking skills approaches.

Key Stage 3

1. Teaching Black peoples of the America and Slavery attracts over a 1,000 visitors a month with its range of outstanding LESSONS, graded 1 by OFSTED, which enable students to learn in a variety of imaginative ways and producing creative outcomes.

2. APP in history: expert up-to-date ADVICE.

3. Outstanding LESSONS, graded 1 by OFSTED on early modern period

4. Outstanding lessons on Medieval Britain on most popular topics including great lesson on Doom paintings and new interpretations ideas on teaching medieval castles

5. Exceptionally helpful ADVICE on PROGRESSION at Key Stage 3 which not only brings together all the recent research but offers expert practical advice and models of best practice.

6. 100 Great HISTORY TEACHING IDEAS for Key Stage 3. Teachers have found that they return to this time and time again for its tremendous source of inspiration.

Key Stage 4

1. Expert ADVICE on which strategies really do help improve your history exam results, written by OFSTED inspector and adviser who has improved results by over half a grade per student in each of the 30 schools he worked with over a term.

2. Outstanding LESSONS on the American West which challenge and support across the ability range

3. 50 Imaginative LEARNING ACTIVITIES at Key Stage 4.  Because it is so hard to bring variety to GCSE history, subscribers have found this section a godsend.

4. High quality lessons on Crime and Punishment with novel approaches

5. Outstanding lessons on all Modern World Topics, the latest and very popular ones being on the Montgomery Bus Boycott and interpretations of Haig

6. Outstanding lessons on the History of Medicine which offer a very wide range of imaginative and fully-resourced activities

7. Outstanding lessons on teaching the USA both 1900-1942 and post-war, all graded 1 by OFSTED history inspector

Key Stage 5

This section has only been introduced a few months ago. To date these have been the most popular parts of the site.

1. Expert ADVICE on teaching AS and A2 history with excellent, tried and tested practical examples of strategies you can use everyday which focus much more on application rather than acquisition of knowledge.

2. Outstanding LESSONS graded 1 by OFSTED on a range of topics including Mussolini’s foreign policy, the 1945 general election, Why the USA got involved in Vietnam and a source-based enquiry on Kristallnacht and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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