The History in Practice series provides professional development for history teachers.

This volume provides practical guidance on how to use visual sources to build better lessons in KS3 and GCSE History.

It draws on popular content and iconic visuals, such as the Bayeux Tapestry, to challenge current practice and tackle key issues facing the teacher using historical pictures:
- the importance of background knowledge in understanding and using pictures in the history classroom
- techniques to encourage pupils to observe closely - to look beyond the obvious
- how to design effective questions that take pupils on a voyage of exploration
- how to help pupils understand political cartoons
- how to use pictures to explore interpretations of history

Key features:
- Ready-to-use well-trialled classroom activities complete with photocopiable resource sheets
- Clear explanation of flexible techniques that can be applied across the history curriculum
- Provocative analysis of the agenda facing history teaching in Key Stage 3 and GCSE
- Exploration of the relationship between visual literacy and historical knowledge and understanding

This book is part of a book series called History in Practice .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 120 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Hodder Education .

Jane Card was formerly Head of History at Didcot Girls' School, an 11-18 comprehensive school in Oxfordshire

This book has the following chapters: Introduction: Why this book? Chapter 1: Every picture tells a story: the importance of background knowledge Activity 1. 1: Lord Cobham and His Family Activity 1. 2: Seeing is disbelieving: how does the Bayeux Tapestry show Harold Godwinson? Chapter 2: 'Take a good look. ': the importance of looking closely Activity 2. 1: Supporting pupils' observation: making meaning out of twentieth-century propaganda (The Class of 1940 and Hitler and Hindenburg) Activity 2. 2: Practising close observation using Hogarth's engravings (Gin Lane and Beer Street) Activity 2. 3: Searching the crowd: William Powell Frith's 'Derby Day' Chapter 3: The quizzing glass - the importance of precise questions Activity 3. 2: The Saltonstall Portrait Activity 3. 3: Picturing the Black Death Chapter 4: 'I can't see the joke' - Dealing with political cartoons. Activity 4. 1: Unnatural women: understanding anti-Suffragette propaganda Activity 4. 2: Prison, house or church? Getting to grips with Suffragette propaganda Activity 4. 3: British attitudes, Punch and the Russian Revolution Activity 4. 4: The Cold War gets colder: Kruschchev and the Six Bears Chapter 5: Double vision - Using pictures to explore interpretations of history Activity 5. 1: Seeing double (1): the Victorians and Lady Jane Grey Activity 5. 2: Seeing double (2): the Victorians and Cromwell