My #DistHist trick for tomorrow - using Google Forms for Because, But, So during my live lesson with Year 10. Get them to finish the sentence and then it will collate them all in one place and I can share the anonymised responses with students for immediate live feedback.
This is an example of what it looked like doing some retrieval with Year 7 on the Normans this morning. Share the screen then I can go through responses picking up misconceptions but in a way that doesn't name and shame anyone.
OK - so how did it go? Well, not bad. Varying standard of responses but an interesting experiment. These are 'becauses' (we were looking at Hitler's early life)
The 'buts'
and the "so's"
We also did some inference work in this lesson via Forms. Looking at a source on the Spartacists - this was their first attempt at this type of question. I scrolled through individual (anonymised) responses and provided live feedback on where marks would have been gained.

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A thread on how I'm teaching the blasted #edexcelhistory interpretations for Germany. This is very much about navigating through the vagaries of this paper rather than ethically pure teaching of interpretations so if you're looking for that, then soz.
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