Introduction

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 * How do you plan to engage students in their first week of history?
 * How will you find out what students hope to gain from this year?
 * Are students aware of the set of skills history develops?
 * How will you present an overview of the year's topics?
 * Will you discuss NCEA from the outset?
 * Are students indicating their topics of interest?

See 'Useful Templates' for a planning calendar 2011.

Message in a Bottle - 5Ps and a WC - brainstorm
Supply about six bottles with a message/secondary resource in it. In six groups students decipher what the information relates to. Report back on their findings. Brainstorm what questions did you ask? What was difficult? Where did you go to find information? Can you make a generalisatino based on your one resource?

On my Birthday
This activity requires access to computers and aims to build on the relationships between teacher and students as well as introducing subject matter. Students visit BBC and look up their birthdate. Record as bullet points all events and people of the day. Students select one to research further from hyperlinks provided on the website. Students collect seven brick templates. On each brick an answer to one of the seven questions is recorded: 1.When? (Note the date) 2. Where? (Note the location) 3. Who/what is the event or person? 4. What happened? (for event) Why is this person important/significant? 5. List something interesting (a fact or quote) 6. Draw a basic explanatory image (could be a caricature or map). 7. Write your name. Display on the wall to replicate a brick wall in chronological order (oldest at the bottom). Display answers 1-7 from left to right.

Posters
Posters for schools, advertising history will soon be available from NZHTA. For a large variety of other posters go to All Posters.