Cunning Plans
Cunning Plans are one of the regular features in Teaching History. While they all follow the same basic principles, offering a step by step series of instructions for tackling a particular issue, the purpose and scale of each plan varies considerably. They range from detailed suggestions for teaching specific topics or responding to particular challenges, through outline schemes of work for a particular enquiry, to overarching frameworks that map progression in relation to particular concepts or themes. The vast majority are written by classroom teachers, eager to share their successful ideas in an accessible format. Each one sets out the issue or problem that the plan is intended to address and provides a series of instructions – a kind of recipe – for achieving the core objective(s).
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Cunning Plan 149.1: a Year 7 lesson on Gladiators
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Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts
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Cunning Plan 144: promoting independent student enquiry
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Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire
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Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?
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Cunning Plan 140: bringing history to life
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Cunning Plan 139: Victorian debates about progress
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Cunning Plan 137: making homework more exciting
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Cunning Plan 135: challenging generalisations
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Cunning Plan 129: Why has there been so much interest in Mary I?
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Cunning Plan 134: local history at KS3
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Cunning Plan 132: Year 7 and the new National Curriculum
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Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons
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Cunning Plan 123: planning a school trip
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Cunning Plan 120: Berlin after 1945
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Cunning Plan 116: how do earthquakes affect a place?
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Cunning Plan 114: building overview understanding of 19th-century social history
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Cunning Plan 112: Empire
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Cunning Plan 111: Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing
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Reading C.V. Wedgwood
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