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Top Tips for teaching History Create a blog, on a site such as BlogSpot, that can be used during set lesson times but is also available for students to access at home, or in free periods. On this blog, post interactive activities such as: o Goggle Earth; post detailed maps from Google Earth to educate the students in the geographical locations of the regions they are studying. This can be used on an interactive whiteboard using class time, or students can access it online when revising. o Create a treasure hunt; Give students images of specific archaeological evidence, such as coinage then ask them to analyse evidence, which will enable them to date the coinage. Ensuring the students are aware that by indentifying who the people who are on the coinage, as this will indicate who was ruling during the time and they can then make an estimated time of manufacture and hence, the age and era of the coin. o Create an interactive activity asking the students to match specific pottery with its time of manufacture. Add additional information to the page, which explains how different regions and time periods have specific styles of pottery. Furthermore, highlight to the students that the images on pottery indicate social customs, religious activates and etc of that time period. o On the blog, post clues about a specific historic person and the students have to use to hints to determine who the personality is. Each day, if the personality has not been discovered, more clues can be posted until their identity is determined. Upon discovering the personality, the students will receive a small prize as both a reward and incentive. This activity will further the students knowledge on well known personalities in history and may spark the student to continue further personal studies about the personality or this era in which the personality lived which they can then post on the blog page. o Link YouTube videos to your blog site that provide additional information about a specific subject area you are covering in class. Allow room for students to comment on these videos or ask you questions.