Keystage history
Vikings – KQ6 – Raiders or settlers: how should we remember the Vikings?
Differing views of the Vikings Fun concluding lesson in which pupils produce a balanced, illustrated Zig-Zag book to please a…
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Primary History: Teaching Benin
When teaching this unit, you are advised to use the medium-term planner in the planning section which links the learning strategies…
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Primary History: Teaching Early Islam/Baghdad c.900
All the lessons featured below flow from the detailed medium-term planner. Each has been chosen to help pupils not only…
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Early Islamic civilization – KQ6 – Which of the early Islamic achievements has most effect on our lives today?
Key Question 6 consists of 2 Smart Tasks. Following a brief overview of the impact of early Islamic achievements on…
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Primary History: Teaching the Maya at Key Stage 2
Containing 6 motivating key questions, designed to bring out the central historical skills and concepts related to this topic, as…
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History Teaching Smart Tasks for Key Stage 2
This section of the site look at smart tasks: short enquiry-led thinking skills activities. Unlike the outstanding lessons section, they…
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Teaching KS3 History: Local Study
The current history curriculum makes it mandatory to include a local history study in your KS3 history curriculum. For example:…
Read MoreTeaching Thematic from pre-1066
Area 6 of the National Curriculum for history requires that you include the study of an aspect or theme in…
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KS2 Quick Quiz on the Vikings
This exit task is a quick way of working out whether the key messages of your teaching about the Vikings…
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What to look for in your excellent history lessons: Your starter for 12
This is not meant to be painting by numbers. You will see from the detail of the many outstanding lessons…
Read MoreICT and history at Key Stage 4
There are a number of ways in which ICT is already being used successfully in history that go far beyond…
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Puzzle Corner 2: Analysing Victorian photographs: the puzzle of the Tredegar patch girls.
Beguilingly simple, but actually quite thought-provoking, this short smart task teaches pupils not to take things at face value –…
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Great Fire Smart Task – What’s going on in our mystery picture?
This simple starter activity uses a large, coloured, artist’s reconstruction of Pepys burying his possessions when he knows it is…
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History and literacy – Making sense of a letter from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Pupils are given a copy of a letter from Henry to Anne Boleyn. It appears, at first glance to be…
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Assessment of interpretations of Boudicca
Below is an account of an assessment task on Boudicca , with downloadable resources, just one of many assessed tasks…
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Teaching Life in Britain 1930-1945 at Key Stage 2
Inexplicably axed by Michael Gove from the curriculum, my advice is to carry on teaching this highly successful unit focusing…
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Are you teaching your KS1 the truth about Guy Fawkes?
In many schools I hear teachers tell the same story about Guido Fawkes. Guy Fawkes was angry at the King…
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Excellent resource on Great Fire of London for KS1
The Museum of London has a wonderful selection of teaching resources on its website including an interactive story and perhaps best of…
Read MoreNumeracy in history at Key Stage 3
History’s contribution to numeracy needs to be really carefully thought out or we could waste an awful lot of valuable…
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Policy and vision in Key Stage 2 history
Having seen so many Key Stage 2 history policies that nobody on the staff ever refers to, it seemed pretty…
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Launch of new website www.keystagehistory.co.uk
Hi, Just a short note to say that a new website is being launched this week for teachers of history…
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