Remote Teaching and Learning Ideas for Lower Primary
History
Host a Lesson on Quizziz
Lessons are a great way to teach! As a teacher hosting a lesson on Quizizz, you control everything about the way your students experience your content. You can choose from a variety of slide types and include polls and questions at any point in your lesson to make it informative and engaging for your students.
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Time Travel Is Real With Kahoot's Ready-to-Play History Games
History teachers – it’s time to banish disengagement and bring the past to life with our free, ready-to-play kahoots aligned with National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. Step back into Ancient Greece, sail through the French Revolution and explore World War I.
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History Primary Resources
These primary resources for History are great for helping your pupils take a trip through time. Discover dinosaur fossils, analyse ancient civilisations or explore Ancient Egyptian artifacts with our curriculum-aligned resources. They have been carefully divided into relevant sections that work to the KS1 and KS2 National Curriculum, making them easy to use in lesson plans.
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10 Amazing Interactive History Lesson Ideas in the Classroom
Check out these 10 interactive history lessons examples and get inspired. History teachers will love all these history apps they can use in their classroom.
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12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch
Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 2500 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world.
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Teaching Resources for Primary History
This website provides resources, links and ideas for teachers of Primary History.
- schoolhistory.org.uk-
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From Tech To Pedagogy: 8 Tips For History Teachers
As you prepare your next history curriculum, here are some important points to keep in mind–and above all, keep on learning yourself. Being fascinated with your subject material is the best way to ensure that your students will remember it after the tests are done.
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History Teaching Resources for Early Years, KS1 & KS2
Take a journey through time with our primary history resources. Taking you from ancient times to the recent past, looking at the wider world and Britain. Download colourful fact cards, word mats, background information PowerPoints and interactive quizzes.
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Teaching History with 100 Objects
One hundred objects from museums across the UK with resources, information and teaching ideas to inspire your students’ interest in history.
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Making Connections: Teaching History
Kristina Edgar explains how stories of the past live again in our lives.
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History Lesson Plans
Make teaching History lessons engaging and easy with our large range of History lesson plans. All lesson plans are editable and tailored to match the History National Curriculum.
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History for Age 5-11
Free teacher classroom resources suitable for use in History lessons with primary school children at Key Stage 1 & 2.
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8 Best Apps for Learning History
Unlike math, history does not deal with numbers and complex formulas, excluding dates and timelines; you can either do self-study or ask your history tutor to help with any theoretical concepts for better understanding.
There are also online applications that are a useful resource for learning the subject. Here are 8 best apps for learning history.
- SchoolsHistory.org.uk -
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Game-Based Learning Brings the History of Civilization to Life
Middle school students learn social studies through Historia, a paper-based simulation game that incorporates a world cultures curriculum aligned to state standards.
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Teaching History in the 21st Century : Thomas Ketchell at Tedxliege
Thomas Ketchell and Steven Chiu cofounded Hstry, which is now providing interactive storylines of historical events for both elementary and secondary schools across the globe in line with their vision to become the leading digital learning platform for history.
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Teaching History at Key Stage 1
Welcome to the Key Stage 1 section of Keystage history where you will find masses of advice on how to make KS1 history lessons fun and how to help pupils to take their first steps into the fascinating world that is the past.
- Keystage History Online Ltd. -
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Education Sessions and Resources for History
Check out taught sessions and online resources that cover a variety of time periods and places provided by The National Archives. Lesson packs are available!
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