Product Description

This updated, expanded and comprehensively revised new edition retains the popular narrative approach and lively, humorous story-telling style of the authors with an additional number of key learning features to improve teaching and learning using the bestselling KS3 Folens History series. It includes a focus on specific history skills clearly signposted within topics and activities; overviews explaining key concepts and processes; an introduction of recurring themes within the series; improved features to help students study change over time; increased literacy focus throughout text and activities; and a greater emphasis on learning the importance of chronology in history. The accompanying Teacher CD-ROM (978-1-85008-349-8) includes interactive activities, film clips, starter or plenary ideas, voting or quiz activities, audio/video sources, animations to complement and extend on from the learning in the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43064 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review
The book is an easy read with mission objectives clearly set out, sections which reinforce the key words and information, it also shows the gory stuff too, children love that. I liked the fact that analytical skills are greatly encouraged throughout, I learned one or two things along the way too, the information is presented in a colourful, exciting, easy to imagine yourself there, manner. Overall I feel that it would be a useful tool for the teaching of the 11 to 14 year old history student and a useful book to take home for all the family to refer to... --TES, January 2009

About the Author
Aaron Wilkes is an experienced author and history teacher at Castle High School, Dudley. James Ball is an ex-journalist and retrained history teacher based in the West Midlands.

Customer Reviews

Makes history interesting
This is a fabulous, child-friendly history book. It is my 11-yr old's school history text book and she loves it so much that I bought her a copy of her own and intend to build up the range for her. The facts are all in there but presented in a fun, light-hearted manner with great diagrams - the gruesome after-effects of the beauty treatments of the day are a particular favourite!