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60 second histories
date: 18 Jan 2016
History is EPIC. Let’s deliver it in an EPIC way.   My EPIC Era 2016 is a new History competition for schools and pupils throughout the UK, brought to you by 60 second histories. My EPIC Era puts pupils in the driving seat, allowing them to share...
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date: 30 Dec
5 Great Reasons to Use 60 Second Histories Engage your students by getting pupils to watch the videos for their homework. They will enjoy it far more. Using the virtual classroom you can dictate which films and how many films you want your students...
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date: 04 Dec 2015
The traditional way that classrooms work is that there is content perhaps by teacher input, perhaps some reading, use of video, textbooks, IT and research sheets. Pupils absorb concepts, ideas, knowledge or theories. At the end of the lesson a...
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date: 01 Apr 2015
Francis Bacon once said, “Histories make one wise.” The writing of History goes back to the Sumerians around 3500BC. Herodotus of Halicarnassus is often given the epithet of the father of History and he wrote his histories between the 450s and 420s...
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