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History Teaching Smart Tasks for Key Stage 3 History>> SMART TASK ADDED AUGUST 2011 This section of the site look at smart tasks: short enquiry-led thinking skills activities. Unlike the outstanding lessons section, they do not attempt to offer a lesson plan but do offer a fully-resourced activity with clear learning objectives that can be used flexibly at different stages of a lesson. Some are starters, some plenaries but most are simply highly effective ways of deepening pupils’ historical understanding. At present there are smart tasks on the following. In time, there will be just as many smart tasks as full lessons, and probably more. How did a small country on the edge of North West Europe manage to rule a quarter of the world’s land surface and 400 million people? (Members Only: August 2011) Pupils are presented with a hypothesis which they have to challenge and come up with a better explanation of their own. The final product asks them to create a visual display. Includes PowerPoint and 14 influence cards. The Court of King Cholera. Well-known image which pupils annotate using the labelled copy provided with authoritative animated PowerPoint presentation which allows for quick peer assessment. The strange case of the missing slave. A fascinating look at a doctored family portrait, sheds light on views of the trade before and after abolition. Analysing Victorian photographs. A fascinating study of a photograph of two Welsh female miners, where all is not what it appears. A great way of getting pupils to think about reasons why photographs were taken and the uses to which they might be put. Evacuation: was it worth it? (Members Only) A study in creative lateral thinking in which pupils use de Bono’s thinking hats to consider the possible advantages and drawbacks of evacuation Puzzle Corner: The strange case of the steel helmet Why did deaths in the British Army increase when the steel helmet replaced the cap? The curious case of the missing slave (Members Only) A fascinating example of the black slave painted out of a family portrait in the 19th century. The curious case of the missing slave (free sample) Minted, Telling the story of changing British rulers (Members Only) a quick activity involving pupils in looking at images of coins taken from the last 2000 years of British history to infer the different ways in which the British nation has developed. Superb PowerPoint contains all the images for the pupils to use and ,background detail, (and answers!) for you On the move: migration (Members Only) A headline is projected onto the screen. Pupils are asked who they think the refugees might be? Many will mention asylum seekers, migrants from eastern Europe etc. It is actually a Sunday Pictorial from June 1938. The newspaper is railing against Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. When the pupils know the context, does it make them change their mind? How does this activity change the way they will think in future? |
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