End-of-term activities for history

Have some fun with classic historical topics using these topic-based games, quizzes, escape rooms and mystery packs

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Mystery packs, board games and interactive lessons to help you make the most of the last history lessons of the academic year

With the holidays just around the corner, there are only a few precious weeks of teaching left. To help you keep those last few lessons fresh and engaging, we’ve hand-picked a selection of our favourite team quizzes, stand-alone lessons and activities, guaranteed to help cement a love of history among your students.

End of Year History Quiz
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End of Year History Quiz

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The Ultimate History Quiz! For or any time, no fuss, historical fun. This quiz is a whirlwind tour through time, focusing mainly on time periods studied in KS3 and GCSE in British Secondary Schools (with a little off-curricular extra thrown in!) This quiz will definitely raise a few smiles and gigg...
The Ultimate World War Two Decision Making Game
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The Ultimate World War Two Decision Making Game

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Can your students defeat the Axis Powers? Can they make the right decisions to win the war? Can they do a better job than Chamberlain and Churchill? In this unique resource, students have the opportunity to study the real scenarios facing the allied commanders between 1939 and 1945. Playing the...
Mystery of the princes in the tower
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Mystery of the princes in the tower

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A well presented lesson on the Mystery of the Princes in the tower created for KS3 history students on Microsoft Powerpoint **A little about the lesson** Using primary and secondary source evidence, students work in pairs to investigate the mystery of the 2 princes in the tower using sources to d...
The Great Depression - Escape Room
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The Great Depression - Escape Room

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An interactive escape room lesson that explores the great depression. There are six fun task cards that include activities relating to the great depression. The lesson provides a fun and interactive introduction to how the great depression occurred. **Lesson Objectives:** To be able to identif...
Titanic Ticket Activity with Real Names (Full Lesson)
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Titanic Ticket Activity with Real Names (Full Lesson)

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The Titanic Ticket activity has real names of passengers and crew, to bring any study of this tradegy alive. This is a very popular lesson that never fails to catch the imagination of a class and they will talk about it for years to come. When you download you get: 30 tickets with the names of...
History End of Term KS3 Quiz
Cre8tiveHumanities

History End of Term KS3 Quiz

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**KS3 History End-of-Term Quiz** A fun and interactive revision quiz for KS3 students, packed with over 50 questions across 10 varied rounds. This editable and flexible history resource is ideal for reinforcing learning at the end of term or revisiting key content. Use it in class as a whole-group a...
Wall Street Crash Trading Game
MissT_History

Wall Street Crash Trading Game

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A fun and interactive game to demonstrate how the Wall Street Crash impacted people involved in trading shares. This lesson was created to help students understand how so many people were involved in trading shares in the 1920s and how people were caught by surprise when the stock market crashed. ...
END OF TERM QUIZZES AND WORDSEARCHES FOR YEAR 7
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END OF TERM QUIZZES AND WORDSEARCHES FOR YEAR 7

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This resource contains 3 quizzes and word searches on Year 7 topics. The students have to find the words by filling in the gaps using their historical knowledge, and then locate them on the grid. The resource contains 3 quizzes/word searches: 1. The Norman Invasion 2. The Black Death 3. What is Hi...
Trenches Survival Game
MattR88

Trenches Survival Game

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A board game for collaborative learning about the experience of soldiers in the trenches of WW1. Game based on snakes and ladders, students move toy soldiers around a game board to collect information about the hardships of trench life. I developed this game with year 8 students in mind, the game...