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History on Teachers TV
The following videos which are still available to view on the Teachers TV website were part of a week of programmes of History Lesson Starters, Ideas, and enlightening documentaries:
Primary History: Vicious Vikings
Tim Browse, Pete Jackson and Alexa Vickery, both from Headley Park Primary School, Bristol, emphasise skills for learning, aiming to teach the skills of a historian that can be transferred to other historic periods.
Primary Cross Curriculum: World War II
A Year 5 teacher demonstrates three great lesson ideas for teaching World War II, focusing on Drama, Literacy and Design and Technology
Lesson Starters: The Holocaust
Six KS3 history lesson starters on the Holocaust, featuring archive footage, personal testimonies from survivors and other material. There are testimonies from eye witnesses regarding the Auschwitz Orchestra,
pre-war home movie footage of a Jewish family in Germany as well as the story of Leon Greenman, one of a few British Jews deported to Auschwitz.
The video is designed to stimulate classroom discussions on the subject.
N.b videos are available to view after the end of the Teachers TV week on history
Defence Dynamics
A free teaching resource bank for 14-16 year olds from the Ministry of Defence. Nearly 100 complete lesson plans provide real-life and topical contexts for students to apply their learning. Plus over 1,000 film clips, images and animations are available to access now.
The site has lesson plans for both Geography and History as well as other GCSE subjects.
History topics include:
Remembrance, loss and sacrifice
Sampling, data and bias
Life in the trenches
Abolition of slavery
Liberal Reforms 1906-1918
Unique audio-visual material and photography from the Ministry of Defence archives and museums will help to capture students' attention.
Hertfordshire Memories
 The Herts Memories website was launched in 2009 to celebrate life in Hertfordshire. It is for people of all ages and backgrounds, from teenagers to teachers, families to local historians; it's about much more than history.
The opportunities for students to get involved in recording local history and their present day communities are virtually endless.
Find out more....
Teaching Emotive and Controversial History Resources (KS1 - KS5)
T.E.A.C.H. Online is a resource that follows on from the Historical Association's T.E.A.C.H report published in 2007 with support from DCSF. It offers further expert advice, case studies, materials and classroom resources for teachers of history on teaching emotive and controversial history from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 5.
The National Archives Education Services
 This website replaces the award-winning Learning Curve, with all the same resources for teaching and learning history, but in an exciting new design and a structure that should make resources much easier to find and use.
They have added in additional topic websites from The National Archives, covering subjects as diverse as the formation of the United Kingdom, war art and public information films. The site also showcases the huge range of taught sessions that their staff deliver on site at Kew, by videoconference, and now online in their virtual classroom.
This new site contains all of the Learning Curve's content plus additional 'topic' webpages from The National Archives. These cover subjects as diverse as the formation of the United Kingdom, war art and public information films.
As part of the exciting new design, the site is structured to make their resources easier to find; you can now browse them by time period and key stage.
Most importantly, you can see resources alongside the programme of their taught sessions.
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