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Use this page as your guide to the best for revision and help with your GCSE & IGCSE history course. Of the many GCSE/IGCSE revision sites on the web, these are amongst the most useful. Here they are, in one easy to find place!

revision GCSE site

Interactive powerpoints made with flash about germany, hitler, world war 2. Very useful for students, they can use it to revise for world war 2.

Interactive powerpoints made with flash about germany, hitler, world war 2. Very useful for students, they can use it to revise.

A Google site featuring ideas and strategies for inspiring young writers. This site has been developed to accompany a revised edition of Kids Have All the Write Stuff by Sharon Edwards, Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)

A Google site featuring ideas and strategies for inspiring young writers. This site has been developed to accompany a revised edition of Kids Have All the Write Stuff by Sharon Edwards, Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)

Excellent source for American culture in the late 30's.

These life histories were compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history.

GCSE Revision site

Open up a world of imagination and learning for children when you encourage the expression of ideas through writing. Kids Have All the Write Stuff: Revised and Updated for a Digital Age shows you how to support children's development as confident writers and communicators, offering hundreds of creative ways to integrate writing into the lives of toddlers, preschoolers,

A long and very comprehensive list of primary sources regarding colonial and revolutionary American history--which means it also includes some sources on early modern European history, esp. English history

All new history is revisionist history. This only gets dicey with the Holocaust since Survivors use the term "revisionist" for deniers or justifiers of the Holocaust. As this definition shows, communist historians can be revisionists and right-wing historians can be revisionist. All historians should aim to be revisionist if they are writing for academics (i.e. journals) and not the general public, if not there really is no reason to publish and no reason why the historian's work should be published since it is not new and not "revising" what we already know.

Look like a useful tool for helping students consolidate their knowledge on historical topics. Perhaps you could organise the students into groups and go through it on the screen? Could be the recipe for a fun lesson...

home page of casahistoria for modern history links

Good example of using an LMS (Learning Management System [cool jargon to know!]) for a class. My school uses Moodle and BlackBoard is popular at Australian universities. I organise mine by lesson and direct the students to go through the materials before the lesson, usually podcasts, PowerPoints, links to a source site, etc, depending on what materials I'm using for the lesson. After the lesson I put the podcast of it up there for the students to use for revision, along with the notes they've taken during that lesson. Much more effective than a textbook, I reckon!

The British School at Rome Archive (BSR) thanks to the Getty Foundation, made freely available digital copies of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. A website of the "BSR digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts". But "the majority of the digital images displayed on the website are represented by the photographic prints and negatives from unique historic collections, including calotypes, glass and film negatives, slides and lantern slides."

Seems to focus more on the history of the British School at Rome rather than Roman history. Should revise the tags at this point but this summer heat here in Queensland is making me lazy...

This site has some good Web 2.0 based resources, including ready-made Google Earth flyovers, overlays and 3-D models.