Primary Teaching Methods
Teaching Methods
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The Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) developed a range of approaches and techniques for doing history with children.
For each of these there is a description - see the list below - with a list of lessons and short lesson exemplars using this approach.
We also have short lesson exemplars of the methods, plus video and audio files of some of the methods in action.
Primary Teaching Methods
- Questions and Questioning
- Speaking and listening
- Reading books
- Reading documents
- Children writing
- Learning about Time
- The Visual Image
- Objects
- Maps and Plans
- Story-telling
- Drama and role play
- Simulations and games
- Expressive movement and freeze frames
- Sites and the environment
- History Investigations