Teaching
History Online
Number
13: 15th October, 2001
Introduction
1.
Black
History Museum
2.
Active
History
3.
American
Slave Narratives
4.
Elizabeth
I and Tudor Religion
5.
Vietnam:
Yesterday and Today
6.
Snaith
Primary School
7.
History
Learning Site
8.
GCSE
History
9. History
Website Directory
Introduction
Spartacus Educational
publishes Teaching
History Online
every week. The newsletter includes news, reviews of websites and
articles on using ICT in the history classroom. Members of the mailing
list are invited to submit information for inclusion in future editions
of Teaching
History Online. In this way we hope to create
a community of people involved in using the Internet to teach history.
Currently there are 15,068 subscribers to the newsletter.
John Simkin
spartacus@pavilion.co.uk
Black
History Museum: This creative website
provides several interactive exhibits on Black History. This includes
Black Resistance: Slavery in the U.S., The Tuskegee Airman, Jackie
Robinson, Black Panther Party, Black or White, The Million Man March,
The Scottsboro Boys and This Is Our War. There is also a Kid's Zone
with a collection of games and brain teasers.
Active
History: "Probably the best history website around"
is how The Guardian recently
described this site, which has been developed by Russel Tarr of Wolverhampton
Grammar School. Active History provides dozens of self-contained interactive
lessons for students and teachers of history throughout the 11-18
age range, in the form of historical decision making games, self-marking
quizzes, virtual tours and summary slides. Worksheets and lesson plans
are continually being added, and the site provides an excellent example
of how ICT can effectively and simply be incorporated into the history
classroom.
American
Slave Narratives: From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves
from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists
under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. Their narratives
are a splendid resource for understanding the lives of America's four
million slaves. This website provides an opportunity to read a sample
of these narratives and to see some of the photographs taken at the
time of the interviews.
Elizabeth
I and Tudor Religion: Making
innovative use of Flash technology, this online lesson from School
History offers a visual presentation of a Tudor Religious Roller coaster
followed by a multiple choice assessment quiz. After this, pupils
are then able to assess the fairness of the Elizabethan Religious
settlement with an interactive drag and drop exercise. The lesson
ends with an essay frame within a word document. The author, Andrew
Field, would very much welcome feedback and comments to help improve
this resource further (mrfield@btinternet.com).
Vietnam:
Yesterday and Today: Sandra Wittman has attempted to collect together
a range of materials that provides insights into the Vietnam War.
This is lusted under the categories: 'Vietnam War: Fiction', 'Vietnam
War: Non-Fiction', 'Vietnam War: Fiction', 'Vietnam War: Films', 'Vietnam
War: The Women's Experience' and 'The Vietnam War: The Vietnamese
Perspective'. Sandra Wittman also provides a useful chronology of
the Vietnam War and links to E-Journals and Discussion Lists on the
Vietnam War.
Snaith
Primary School: The website is primarily designed for classroom
use. Many of the units available loosely follow the structure of QCA
schemes of work, with humour and interactivity added. You will find
1500 pages of classroom resources, worksheets and lesson plans for
Key Stage 1 & 2. This includes Myths & Legends, Aztecs, Ancient
Greeks and Egyptians, Vikings, Victorians, World War 2 and much more.
History
Learning Site: This site is run by Chris Trueman, head of year
at Sackville Community College in East Grinstead, West Sussex. The
site contains comprehensive content on Medieval England, Tudor England,
Stuart England and the Industrial Revolution for Years 7 and 8 pupils.
The requirements for Year 9 - World War One, Important Inventions
of the Twentieth Century, the growth of women's rights in the Twentieth
Century and the Indigenous People of America are also covered. The
requirements for the GCSE Modern World History course are covered
in depth as are some aspects of the British Social and Economic course.
The site also contains a number of very detailed A level sections
including Luther, Calvin, Philip II of Spain, the French Wars of Religion,
the Thirty Years Wars and the Civil Rights movement of America 1945
to 1968.
GCSE
History: Dan Moorhouse has created a wide range of resources for
students studying GCSE history. This site focusses mainly upon the
Schools History Project: medicine through time, Weimar and Nazi Germany,
Northern Ireland and the development of Skipton Castle as a local
study. Teachers will find a range of resources to supplement the easy
to access content whilst students will benefit from the wide range
of revision activities and online lessons offered by this site.
History
Website Directory: All websites reviewed in Teaching
History Online are added the History Website Directory.
The websites included in the directory are organized by topic and
age of target audience.
Please email John Simkin at spartacus@pavilion.co.uk
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