Planning

This section organises material on Key Stage 3 planning into three categories. In KS3 planning: general, you will find general advice on planning in the lower secondary years. This includes examples of how history teachers and other history education experts have planned everything from single activities and lessons to two or three years of work.  You will find examples of planning for local history in KS3 planning: local history.  The third category, KS3 planning: Learning outside the classroom embraces fieldwork of all kinds, from studying landscape and cities, to museums, galleries and memorials, as well as inter-school activities, work with outside organisations and assorted international collaborations, real and virtual. Read more

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  • My essays could go on forever: using Key Stage 3 to improve performance at GCSE

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    History teachers are waking up to the fact that you cannot raise standards in GCSE by very much if you leave this work until Year 10. To leave it that late is to resort to surface, tactical moves rather than to address the deep reasons why so many pupils find...

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  • Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

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    Big theme: dissent and the formation of the concept of ‘rights' You can teach citizenship not only without compromising National Curriculum content, processes and concepts, but in such a way as to improve them. Review your department's ‘whole Key Stage' planning. Secure rigour and high levels of challenge by remembering...

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  • Denis Shemilt's four stages of adolescent ideas about historical methods in a nutshell

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    Denis Shemilt's four stages of adolescent ideas about historical methods in a nutshell.

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  • Big Stories and Big Pictures: Making Outlines and Overviews Interesting

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    An examination, with practical strategies, of the teaching of 'outlines and overviews' by Michael Riley. Why teach overviews? One of the problems of the first phase of National Curriculum history was the percieved overload of content. Some teachers felt obliged to race through the Programme of Study, treating issues in...

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