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  • Teaching about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and events happening there

      Article
    The events of the last few days appear to have come out of nowhere to many people, especially children. While tensions have existed in the region for some time Russia’s decision to attack Ukraine was without provocation. To have war return in such a way to the edges of Europe...
    Teaching about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and events happening there
  • One of my favourite history places: Eyam

      Primary History feature
    Imagine……… walking down the street and crossing the road to avoid having to talk to a friend……. declining a friend’s invitation to enter her house…... feeling angry and trapped that you cannot travel away from your home….  Are such feelings familiar to you during the coronavirus crisis?  Maybe they are – but I am...
    One of my favourite history places: Eyam
  • Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes particular problems can lead to unexpected solutions. In this case, Sally Burnham decided to solve a problem that she had identified among her Year 12 students by changing the way in which she teaches Year 7. Her Year 12s were finding it difficult to set appropriate questions for their...
    Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600
  • Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Studying famous people at Key Stage One has obviously been an issue for many years and no matter how long you have been teaching the name Florence Nightingale seems to appear as the only famous...
    Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One
  • Why stop at the Tudors?

      Primary History article
    When deciding to teach the topic of Benin to my Year 5 pupils I was somewhat daunted by the fact that I had never taught it before, and I was determined that it be a meaningful experience which benefited their narrative, chronological and historical skills-based understanding of the subject. I was...
    Why stop at the Tudors?
  • What can you tell about the Maya from a Spanish soldier?

      Primary History article
    This article focuses on the links between the Maya and Europe in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, exploring the impact of the Spanish on the life and times of the Maya, as seen through the eyes of one man – Gonzalo Guerrero, who was shipwrecked off the Yucatan peninsula...
    What can you tell about the Maya from a Spanish soldier?
  • Scheme of Work: Waterloo and the Age of Revolutions

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (resourced)
    This scheme of work explores the 'Age of Revolutions' period across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was written for the Historical Association by Karin Doull to supplement the Age of Revolutions Teacher Fellowship Programme, which is funded by Waterloo 200. The Napoleonic wars shaped their age: children...
    Scheme of Work: Waterloo and the Age of Revolutions
  • Using the back cover image: Mummified cat

      Primary History feature
    For hundreds of years, travellers to Egypt have marvelled at the amazing monuments evident throughout the country. The treasures of Ancient Egypt became more fascinating after  the discovery of the Rosetta stone in 1799, which led to the deciphering of the hieroglyphic language. Many Victorian explorers returned to their European...
    Using the back cover image: Mummified cat
  • Anglo-Saxon Women

      Primary History Article
    The Anglo-Saxon era is a diverse period that stretches across just over 650 years. Those we call Anglo-Saxons were not homogenous nor were their experiences. In AD 410 the Roman legions leave and the first Anglo-Saxon raiders appear. These pagan warrior bands would come to terrorise Romano-British settlements until, inevitably,...
    Anglo-Saxon Women
  • The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. This article reports some surprising gender-based trends indicated by a small scale piece of classroom research looking into incidental responses of Year 6 pupils to the teaching of Study Unit 11b (Britain Since...
    The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany
  • Florence Nightingale

      Primary History resource
    Born: May 1820; Died: August 1910 Background and early life Florence Nightingale was born to a wealthy evangelical family in Florence, Italy in 1820. She was named after her place of birth. It was normal at the time for girls from wealthy families to be educated at home by a governess,...
    Florence Nightingale
  • What makes good primary history?

      Transition Training Session 5
    This is the 5th in a series of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc -...
    What makes good primary history?
  • Assessment exemplar: children questioning artefacts

      Exemplar
    Questioning can be used in assessing childrens historical skills, as this example shows.The children were all in Year 4, and were withdrawn from their mixed Year 3/4 class for this lesson. They had covered several aspects of National Curriculum history, including over the past year the Egyptians and a local...
    Assessment exemplar: children questioning artefacts
  • Citizenship in Ancient Greece: case study

      Case Study
    This was a ten-week Ancient Greece unit, taught to a Year 6 mixed ability class of 34 children. There was a strong citizenship strand running through the whole programme, particularly the strands of political literacy and critical enquiry (see below). Citizenship values and concepts, with teaching/learning activities in italicsAppreciation of...
    Citizenship in Ancient Greece: case study
  • Objects and visual image exemplar: toys and games

      Exemplar
    This was a half-term cross-curricular topic with a mixed Year 1/2 class. It focused on forces in science, storytelling in English, and objects and pictures in history. The children in the class had a wide range of abilities, with a large number having very poor expressive language. Therefore many of...
    Objects and visual image exemplar: toys and games
  • Story-telling and simulation exemplar: The Great Exeter Fish War of 1309

      Exemplar
    The lesson was taught to 44 Year 3 children in a first school in Exeter. It describes how a story was used to introduce a local history unit, and how we followed it up. To begin, we sat the children on the carpet and told them John Hooker's story about...
    Story-telling and simulation exemplar: The Great Exeter Fish War of 1309
  • Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction

      Reference guide
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction
  • Drama: Ancient Egypt - Akhenaten

      Exemplar
    This exemplar outlines a lesson John Fines taught to a class of Year 3 children. He was visiting them for the first time to do some drama work. The children already knew a great deal about the Ancient Egyptians and were also used to learning through drama. John writes:After a...
    Drama: Ancient Egypt - Akhenaten
  • Urban spaces cross-curricular work: Art & Design

      Lesson Resources
    Please note: these free resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum. This is part of a set of subject areas also covering History, Science and Literacy. See also Cross-curricular learning Public spaces offer a range of opportunities for children's learning, and can enable children to investigate, observe, wonder, record and create. The suggested activities in this section...
    Urban spaces cross-curricular work: Art & Design
  • Ancient Egypt

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Ancient Egypt
  • Victorian Britain: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    Victorian era | Questions | Industrial revolution | Social reforms | Empire | Teaching the Victorians | Citizenship | Victorian achievements | Key concepts < This resource is free for everyone For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and...
    Victorian Britain: a brief history
  • Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

      Exemplar
    Almost more than any other source a photograph provides an incentive to dig, to burrow, to stretch, to tease out, to investigate and follow up leads. A good starter activity. We used a photo in this way to begin our Britain since 1930 unit with a mixed Year 5/6 class....
    Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph
  • Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times

      Reference
    The wider world: The Tudors ruled Britain during a fascinating and fast-changing century. Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, and Europeans sailed across the oceans, reaching the East, discovering the New World of America, establishing colonies, and circumnavigating the world for the first time (Ferdinand Magellan in 1517, and Francis...
    Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times
  • Changes within Living Memory

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Overview  Post-1930s Britain has been transformed by a technological revolution...
    Changes within Living Memory
  • Aztec Experience

      Lesson Plan
    Take a holiday with the Aztecs! Children design holiday brochures. History providing a context for literacy. Demonstration and modelling of the holiday brochure genre, and the transfer of understanding of the generic form into an historical context. Pupils produced their own brochures giving information about life in the Aztec capital,...
    Aztec Experience