Dear History Students,
Welcome to the subject of History and to your new year at school! I hope that you make new friends and enjoy all the experiences that our school has to offer. In particular, I wish you the very best in my class and I look forward to hearing your comments and reading your ideas about the past — and the present.
As you know, we have no choice but to experience our lives in chronological order, from birth to death. When we take on the role of historians, however, we can dip into the history of humankind at any time and in any place.
I like to imagine that, in this role, we all become rather like timelords who, even without a tardis or a time machine, somehow manage to wander into other societies where mysterious people lived. These people were like us, yet also different from us in intriguing ways. As historians, we encounter their suffering, their hopes and their dreams. In the process, we both discover their stories and enrich our own.
I hope you will enjoy this journey through space and time. The activities and the presentation below will introduce you to many vital details about history and prepare you for the adventure ahead.
Kind regards,
Roslyn Green
Materials, Links and Videos for Your First Experience as a Time Traveller
Presentation:
Handouts:
- Becoming a Timelord
- The Old and New Stone Ages and Hunting and Gathering
- Primary and Secondary Sources in History
- A SWOT Analysis – To what extent was farming advantageous for human beings?
Online Quizzes and Activities:
- Periods and Time Conventions: Describing Times and Periods in History
- The Chronology of History: A Jumble Kahoot
- Revision Bingo: Flashcards + Online Bingo
Videos:
- About Time: The History and Future of Everything by the YouTube Channel Kurz Gesagt – In a Nutshell
- About a Time Machine: H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine as a Film (just a four-minute excerpt)
- Human Prehistory: Stories from the Stone Age, Part 1
- Crash Course History: The Agricultural Revolution
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