I saw a class full of students,
praying to God, “Almighty God, please save us all from World War III”
I was touched by their nobility of
thought and compassion for humanity. I went to a kid, sat on my knees, praised
him and asked who inspired such noble thoughts in them.
He said, “What noble thoughts! We
are praying because we are already struggling with history of 2 world wars, can’t
afford to add a third one to our curriculums!”
I am sure many of us would be able
to relate to this. History has always been HIS-STORY 😊
Not that understanding our own lives
was easier, that we need to understand about other’s lives. Not that Math and Matter was enough, that we have to now learn about Men. But that’s history
for you. You may like it, despise it; but you can’t ignore it. The beauty of
the subject is that It gives us a larger perspective to look at life; the
bigger picture. And it helps us out in real life when we least expect it or
even without us realizing how it has added to our thought process and
perspective of life.
However, coming to our immediate concern
of how to engage students for history. How to make learning history fun for them. Here is the latest addition in my series
of blogs on free resources for various subjects. Below is the list of various
sites which offer online videos, games, interactive quizzes and other resources
for the study of Indian History.
1) https://www.neok12.com/History-of-India.htm
NeoK12, as the name suggest is the
ONE site that you need to visit for all your K12 needs. The site not only
contains content for History, but also has a lot of content for subjects like
Maths, Science, English etc. I didn’t discover this earlier, but this site is a
definite addition to all my previous blogs on free resources for Maths, Scienceand English. The content is also richly covered using Interactive diagrams,
flow chart games, vocabulary games, jigsaw puzzles, slide puzzles and lots of
brain games.
Coming to history, the site majorly
has collection of videos. The topics are ranging from ancient to medieval to
modern history and the video quality and depth are reasonably good. All major
dynasties and kingdoms are covered in the site along with some videos on
prominent mathematicians of ancient India.
The website offers a variety of
content in form of games, videos, worksheets, quizzes and activities to teach various topics of English grammar. Fun Stuff zone is a small collection of very
engagingly designed activities to make grammar learning fun. The coverage is
not very exhaustive though.
India Quiz is a hard core quiz site.
It has a quiz on history and along with that on a variety of topics. The depth
in history is lacking and is surely not linked to any school curriculum. But it
is interesting to test your history knowledge and explore. The other topics covered via quizzes are science, gk, culture, know india photo quiz, religion,
geography, Indian states etc. It has a film quiz too for parents/teachers to relieve
their exhaustion after attending to their kid’s history lessons 😊
Mrdonn.org is a very useful website
to study History. In addition to world and American history, it has a special
section on Indian history. It covers a variety of topic from Indus valley
civilization to Indian scriptures and caste system. The majority of the focus
is on ancient history. The content is provided as text to be read by students
in question answer format and some online quizzes and games too.
For history teachers (and parents
can also use it for home schooling), there are lot of resources like lesson
plans, free clipart, interactive games and ready-made power point presentations
on Indian history.
4) https://www.studenthandouts.com/study-games/world-history/
Studenthandouts.com is a good site
with a lot of resources. The history of world section of the site is
particularly interesting for students who want to understand the world history.
Although many topics covered may not be part of state board curriculums, but
this site is a definite visit site if history is what interests you. The games
do not have very high quality graphics; most of them are straightforward fill
in the blanks or MCQ kind of questions but it gives a good coverage and allows
to revise and understand world history in context.
Aside, the site also has resourceson maths, science in terms of games and printables. This also becomes a worthy
addition to my previous blogs on online resources for maths and science. Hope
you have checked those blogs !
5) https://besthistorysites.net/
Now this one has a catch!
This is not a site with content, but
this is a site which has links to almost 1200 history sites. The coverage is
very very very exhaustive and covers a lot of world history. There are specific
sections for History related to India. I won’t be able to guide you through
this or comment on this, but if you are a real history freak, then you can
explore endlessly. Happy exploring buddy!!
I hope these resources will help you
to engage your kids for study of history. If you like this then please do check
out my other blogs on resources for English, maths and science.
Also kindly share this with other
parents, students and educators.
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motivator 😊
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