Departments
History
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Apr 7, 2006 - 2:44:00 PM

Penicuik High School History Department

Mr D. Hayes, Head of History

Miss S. Fleming

Ms W. Muir***image2***

Courses offered:

S1/2     mixed ability   S1

• What is History?
• Archaeological techniques    
• Human history from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages including Prehistoric Stone Age people (e.g. Skara Brae),
• Were the Romans civilised?
• History of Exploration.

                                    Investigating skills

S2

• How did Medicine change?
• How do we find out about Penicuik in Victorian Times?
• What do films tell us about the Second World War?
• How was slavery abolished?

S3/4                             Standard Grade (course summary attached below)

Unit 1B ? Changing Life in Scotland and Britain, 1830s ? 1930s.

                                    Unit 2B ? International Cooperation and Conflict, 1890s ? 1920s.

                                    Unit 3D ? People and Power, Germany, 1918 ? 39

S5/6                             Higher Level (course summary attached below)

                                    Britain, 1850 ? 1979

                                    Russia, 1880 ? 1921

                                    Ireland, 1900 ? 1979 (Revision summary attached below)

                                    Intermediate 2 (course summary attached below)

                                    Ireland ? a time of troubles, 1900 ? 23

                                    The Cold War

                                    Wallace and Bruce

S6                                Advanced Higher

 A self study course based  on a choice of some thirteen different topics.

   

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Some recommended web sites

Search engines:
Yahoo	www.yahoo.com
Altavista	www.altavista.com
Google (the best!)	www.google.com
Hotbot	www.hotbot.com
Excite	www.excite.com
General Educational
Schoolsnet -range of resources including good revision on
League of Nations	www.schoolsnet.com
The Guardian - Revision	www.learn.co.uk
The Guardian - education	www.educationunlimited.co.uk
BBC education	www.bbc.co.uk/education
Channel 4 Homework	www.homeworkhigh.co.uk
A dictionary	www.dictionary.com
Museums, etc.:
Historic Scotland	www.historic-Scotland.gov.uk
Public Record Office	http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk
National Maritime Museum	www.nmm.ac.uk/education
Archives in your area	www.archives.org.uk/education
Angus: local history	www.angus.gov.uk
General historical:	(usually include info. on a wide range of historical topics)
The History Channel	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk
Spartacus	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
Free educational resources	www.schoolzone.co.uk
Satellite TV channel	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk
History on Line (charges)	www.historyonline.co.uk
Channel 4 education	www.4learning.co.uk
History Channel studyline	www.historystudystop.co.uk
Film education	www.filmeducation.org
Useful but unclassifiable:
A large bookstore	www.Barnesandnoble.com
The Liberal Democrats	www.libdems.org.com
University Of Oxford	www.ox.ac.uk/index.html
Search for maps in UK	http://uk8.multimap.com
Search for streetmaps	www.streetmap.co.uk
Answering your questions	www.allexperts.com
First World War:
Public Record Office	http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/greatwar/trench/
	www.worldwar1.com
	www.schoolshistory.org.uk/wardiaries.htm
Military Communications and Electronics Museumof Canada	www.c-and-e-museum.org
Canadian war history	http://collections.ic.gc.ca/E/SL_canadaatwar.asp
Exploration:
National Maritime Museum	www.nmm.ac.uk/education/factfiles/fact_drake.html
Highland Clearances:
	www.electricscotland.com/history/hclearances.html
	www.scottishhistory.com/clearce.htm

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