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Victorian themed days

The clock will be turned back to Victorian times again at the Museum of Kent Life in October. Children will take part in a carousel of 6 workshops with a Victorian theme. This year's workshops are The Victorian Dinnertable, Meet the Toymaker, Victorian Schoolroom, See the Blacksmith at work, What...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 07-15-2008
Free British Pathe Film Archive to Schools ending this Summer

From 31 July 2008 the national contract which provides the British Pathe film archive to schools at zero cost will end. Schools may continue to use downloaded film material to the end of August 2009. After that date such material will have to be deleted. The low resolution film material will still be...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 07-15-2008
Kent Websites

Here are some useful websites on Kent Kent TV Contains historical videos as we as other Kent interests http://www.kenttv.com Heres Hstory Kent An archive of historical material relating to Kent Parishes and Towns. Contains old photographs and maps which can be used for educational use. http://www.hereshistorykent...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-24-2008
Learn about the Victorians

The West Sussex 'Learn about the Victorians' website provides 'classroom-ready' learning activities for teachers of History Key Stage 2 based on two QCA Schemes of Work: Unit 11 'What Was it like for children living in Victorian times?' Unit 12 'How did life change in our...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-03-2008
BBC - History - Stonehenge Dig 2008

Stonehenge a hospital? A team for the BBC series Timewatch has begun the first excavation inside the ring at Stonehenge for more than forty years. You can follow the once-in-a-lifetime archaeological dig on the BBC website right now. www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/stonehenge/

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-02-2008
How reliable is the internet?

Today, I would like to bring your attention to fantastic webquest that helps pupils understand the pitfalls of the intenet. The website looks, at first, to be fairly well put together and seems to be the ideal site to find out about Explorers. However, on closer inspection, pupils will hopefully spot...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-10-2008
Screenonline

Dull Literacy and History lessons! Why not bring in some film clips to your lesson. Screenonline provides short video clips of films. These can only be viewed in school through the regional broadband connection (KCN)- for Kent schools). Be aware to check content is suitable for your year group as the...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-31-2008
Finding timelines with Google

If pupils are doing to research on a person or any topic that has chronological elements, such as a historical event, an arts movement, a biography, an author, etc, add view:timeline as an additional search term in google: eg Type in ' victorians view:timeline ' in the search box For peoople type the...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 07-09-2007
Roman and other Resources

Diana Marsden has found these resources on the internet: "I found these sites quite bizarrely this evening! http://www.exeter.gov.uk/timetrail/dress_the_soldier/roman_legionary.htm Other dress soldiers activities http://www.exeter.gov.uk/timetrail/dress_the_soldier/civil_war.htm Also found, along the...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-05-2007
New Roman videoconferencing workshop

Heather Pettitt writes: There is a new and exciting history videoconferencing workshop on offer from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter. It is a session on the Romans (KS2) and is running on Wednesdays this term and next. Please see our web site for more details: http://www.segfl.org.uk/projects...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-15-2007

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