Just sharing some materials from a lesson which worked well today. It’s on Italian Foreign Policy 1919 – 1940 but the activities can be tailored to any other topic.
- The events to plot on the graph are taken from this Quizlet (created by students). Here is the student handout to cut out the separate events: key-events-italian-foreign-pol-from-quizlet
- The graph activity is based on this idea: the-state-of-italian-foreign-relations-diagram_student-handout
I split the students in two groups. Group 1 created one graph to plot the German – Italian relationship and the other group created one graph for the French/UK – Italian relationship.
- One group created their graph on the window, using a liquid chalk marker
- Hard to see, but here’s the graph.
- The other group created their graph on the whiteboard.
- The events have small bits of magnet strip on the back, from old advertising fridge magnets. The Y axis of the graph is “Very good, neutral, very bad”, the x axis is the years, from 1919 – 1940. Title of graph: Italian-German relations 1919 – 1940.
- Lots of debate about the location of the events. Groups looked at eachother’s graphs and discussed.
I also used Google Tour Builder to create a location based overview of the key events. Continue reading