General Teaching Ideas for the Senior Years History Classroom
Collating Resources with PinterestIn 2013 my favourite accessory has been Pinterest. I teach both Year 12 Australian History and Year 11 20th Century History. I have used Facebook in the past (and still do) to communicate with my students, but this year I needed a way for students to access the content I had posted earlier on in the year with the same ease as the content posted in term four. Enter Pinterest. Pinterest enables me to 'pin' content, from websites and YouTube, on to a virtual pin board. All pins can be ordered in to categories which makes it very easy for students to find resources. Another great feature is that you need to pin an image to the content you are posting. In Year 12 sections of the exam ask students to analyse visual images, hopefully we get lucky and one of the images on the exam will be one that I have already pinned.
Click on the link below to view my Pinterest Page - you will notice that I have used boards in EAL and Humanities also. http://www.pinterest.com/sallyluane/ Analysing Visual Images with ThingLink |
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Thinglink is a great way to get students to interact and analyse visual images.
Once they have opened an account, students can upload an image and annotate it in a number of different ways. They can add music, video, sound, photos and written text. Click on the link below to see how my class have used it to complete a See Think Wonder thinking routine:
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/426713481497018370#tlsite
For further information on how to use ThingLink in your classroom, click on the image to the right to visit their website:
Once they have opened an account, students can upload an image and annotate it in a number of different ways. They can add music, video, sound, photos and written text. Click on the link below to see how my class have used it to complete a See Think Wonder thinking routine:
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/426713481497018370#tlsite
For further information on how to use ThingLink in your classroom, click on the image to the right to visit their website:
Introducing or reinforcing vocabulary- Rwandan Genocide Activity
This is an activity that I like to call, 'Tic Tac Know'. I use it to introduce vocabulary, but it could be used to reinforce or revise also. I get students to define key terms. They can use a dictionary or the internet. I then place these key terms in a grid, students then demonstrate their understanding by writing sentences using the key words. I find that this is a more powerful learning tool than simply asking students to define and copy out sentences. You can do this task with just a whiteboard and marker or you can make a PPT or Keynote presentation.
Reading Strategies - Making it stick
When I need my students to read a large chunk of text, and read it well, I ask them to do so using the VIP reading strategy. In my Humanities faculty we use this strategy a lot and with great success (years 7-10). Click on the image for information.