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You can include Learning Curve in your teaching in a variety of ways, from classroom activities to group work, coursework, revision and research. As well as history, the site can be used to teach and reinforce literacy and ICT skills.
History
All Learning Curve materials are relevant to the history National Curriculum. Looking at primary sources allows pupils to critically evaluate them in an historical context, and discover what the sources reveal about the people and times that created them.
Literacy
Established readers can learn to read a range of texts, build their vocabulary and carry out information retrieval. Established writers can learn to redraft and provide narrative structure to their work. Some snapshots are designed specifically for literacy.
Learning Curve provides opportunities to contribute to the curriculum requirement for ICT.
What’s on Learning Curve?
Snapshots are lesson-sized activities, usually an inquiry with questions or tasks based on one or two individual sources. They can be used online or printed out for classroom use.
Focus On… investigations encourage skills in handling different types of historical sources, including cartoons, documents, census material and film. Focus On Census also supports the National Curriculum element for local history study. These investigations are interactive and some include quizzes.
Exhibitions provide in-depth information on a topic, organised into galleries and case studies that investigate a particular question or theme. Pupils are given guided access to primary sources and encouraged to reach wider conclusions. They learn how to construct an argument and to support it with appropriate evidence.
The exhibitions include interactive tasks, games, worksheets, background information, notes on sources, timelines, glossaries and teacher's notes. Where the original source is difficult to read, we provide transcripts.
It isn’t necessary to work through a whole exhibition – you can use individual galleries, case studies or selected sources for stand-alone activities in the classroom.
You can download the Microsoft Word version of the Learning Curve Teacher’s booklet, or order a free copy from us.
Other websites you may find helpful for teaching history.
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