Get a timeline that helps understand historical events, the people involved and their motives.

This worksheet guides your students through writing their own podcast script.

Objective: Learners acquire basic knowledge of a selected topic in history.

Content and methodology: Learners read a basic text and can answer comprehension questions based on it.

Competences:

• Promote reading skills
• Deepen historical knowledge

Level: Grades 5 - 7

In this worksheet, the learners look at the question of what alternative courses the story could take.

Objective:

The students practice reading a diagram and extracting information from it.

Contents and methods:

The students will first answer guided questions about the shown diagram. Afterwards they will analyze the diagram in more detail.

Skills:

• Reading charts and diagrams
• Extracting information from charts and diagrams
• Analyzing charts and diagrams

Target group:

Grades 8 and above

In this worksheet, learners look at the career and impact of a selected (historical) figure. In addition, learners reflect on the impact of that person on society. The worksheet is suitable for middle/secondary school.

Have the principle of the time capsule illustrated using an example of your choice. The learners learn more about the chosen era and relate this information to the principle of the time capsule.

Have the appropriate worksheet created for different people and their circumstances.

Examine a historical or current election campaign in terms of the narratives used. Teach your students about important types of narratives and their pursued objectives.

Use your own text and practice analyzing cause and effect

Objective: Learners can explain a selected event in the context of the Second World War and categorize it in the overall context of the war.

Content and methodology: Using various texts and audio messages, learners work through the most important information in the context of the Second World War. They focus specifically on one event during the war and receive information about the time before the war and the consequences in the post-war period. The learners summarize this information in a final essay task.

Competences:

• Analyse historical facts in their causal contexts (multi-causality)
• Reconstruct historical facts (reconstruction)
• Characterise and evaluate the Second World War

Level: 9th/10th grade

Background knowledge and exercises