SHP History Year 8

By Chris Culpinet al.
June 2009
Hodder Education
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9780340907368
232 pages, Illustrated
$36.50 Paper Original
Grade 8

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Summary: SHP History is a major new book-per-year course for Key Stage 3 History. It takes the best of the old and the best of the new to create a dynamic and coherent course for a new generation of history pupils.

This is the second book in the series and provides a course for Y8 continuing the big stories of Empire, Movement and Settlement, Conflict, Power and Everyday Life that run throughout the course, and providing in depth enquiries on the key aspects of early modern England, industrialisation, popular protest, as well as the Spanish Empires in the New World, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

* A major new course for National Curriculum history from the leading body for history curriculum development.
* Overviews and big stories: innovative strategies to build the big pictures across Key Stage 3, to link the whole course together and develop pupils conceptual framework.
* Doing History feature highlights the skills and processes involved in getting better at history and enables step by step progression across the years of Key Stage 3.
* eLearning: dynamic use of ICT from one-off mini tasks for the whiteboard or networked PCs through to sustained ICT-based lesson sequences.
* 'How to...' activities help pupils strengthen their skills and improve their own performance.
* Active-learning using a wide variety of learning styles to suit all abilities and interests.
* Plus all the features you would expect from the Schools History Project: intriguing content, in-depth historical investigation, meaningful tasks, and a wealth of source material

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