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  #1 Trevor Gesinghaus on 18 Nov 11

   

  This short article suggests that history is often perceived as boring for the students and for the teacher trying to convey the information. The author suggests that history needs to be made 'fun' and an attempt to avoid memorization made in order to maintain the engagement of the students.
  This article lists six steps to consider while teaching history in an effort to make it fun for students. The instructions for teaching history more effectively are as described as follows: try and teach history as a story to captivate your learners, use flashcards to test students on certain historical facts as students are intrigued by competition and games, try creating a board game based on historical information, collect, create or purchase tokens that will represent characters for the game, use the flashcards already created and used for practice as the basis for the game, and finally, as time progresses mix flashcards in from previous topics to help students retain the information.
  I personally think the idea of creating a board game for a history class is an excellent idea. The steps suggested, with teaching the information as a story, giving the students the opportunity to practice and learn the information with flashcards, and then further the learning through playing a board game would have high success. Students love board games and using a game as a teaching strategy would help disguise the educational purpose so that students are more willing to learn through a fun activity.
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  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This short article suggests that history is often perceived as boring for the students and for the teacher trying to convey the information. The author suggests that history needs to be made 'fun' and an attempt to avoid memorization made in order to maintain the engagement of the students. <br /> This article lists six steps to consider while teaching history in an effort to make it fun for students. The instructions for teaching history more effectively are as described as follows: try and teach history as a story to captivate your learners, use flashcards to test students on certain historical facts as students are intrigued by competition and games, try creating a board game based on historical information, collect, create or purchase tokens that will represent characters for the game, use the flashcards already created and used for practice as the basis for the game, and finally, as time progresses mix flashcards in from previous topics to help students retain the information. <br /> I personally think the idea of creating a board game for a history class is an excellent idea. The steps suggested, with teaching the information as a story, giving the students the opportunity to practice and learn the information with flashcards, and then further the learning through playing a board game would have high success. Students love board games and using a game as a teaching strategy would help disguise the educational purpose so that students are more willing to learn through a fun activity. <br /> <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2168018_teach-history-facts-fun-way.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ehow.com/how_2168018_teach-history-facts-fun-way.html</a></div>

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