Bitesize............

Increase your chances of doing wlel in the history exams with these exam tips from the wonderful bitesize bbc people type thing! click on the picture of dinner to get going!

Struggling with sources? Ketchup with this...(see what i did there?)

Not that type of sauce......but the type that you will have deal with on your GCSE exam. Yes, source work forms a large dollop of your examinations and as you will know because you are all dedicated students, it is the basis of paper two.

To help you understand source based questions and provide you with tips on how to answer them a handy booklet has been put together. Giving this booklet a good read through will provide you with the skills you need to answer a major part of your course! If you haven't read this you haven't revised....just click on the picture and see for yourself.

Game for some revision???

Here's the site that we have mentioned with alol the history games, 'Fling the Teacher' (no representations of yours truely please), 'Walk the Plank,' and of course 'Penalty shootout'!!

Click the picture to get connected! The monkey has no relevance other than i like the image....no monkeys...sorry chimps were harmed during the production of this post!

Have fun!

Blog off!

Check out this history blog created by General History and featuring general history. Bits and bobs about history, a sure favourite for anyone who is interested ini all things historic.
generalhistory.blogspot.com

Grizzly Adams and Ben!

A bit of Mountain man fun...

I aint mountain no horse!

Mountain men, lone men going into the woods in search of beavers to trap and trade back at the rendezvous. Strong smelling, big drinking, grizzly fighting, cannibalistic men of the wild. Click the picture for all your Mr Mountain needs!

Bigfoot and friends

No not that Bigfoot, but Chief Bigfoot! Visit this great site to learn all about him and the massacre that occured at wounded knee.
http://www.woundedkneemuseum.org/index.htm

Call my Buff......alo!

A clip of a buffalo hunt, it feels like you are watching it through a letter box, but hey it is all good fun!

Placebo? I think not. This stuff actually helps!

A site about a poor 'rock' band? No, it's the BBC bitesize revision site to help with medicine through time, and the american west. It will also give links and exam tips. A site that will leave you much better off...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/shp/index.shtml

Struggling for western puns at this point...help!

The story of the American West told by people who were actually there...well that's what it says on the site. A collection of primary sources on everything from a buffalo hunt to a wounded knee. A must see site.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/owfrm.htm

Yawl say CHEESE now..

Not much cheese at all really, just lots of American West images.
http://www.treasurenet.com/images/

The West

A site that accompanies 'The West' documentary series, with information about the rsearch of the program, timelines, pictures and loads more...ask someone nicely and they may even let you see the program.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/

The Ronseal Factor

http://www.americanwest.com/ ...does exactly what it 'sez' on the tin!

Bravestarr...

Too young for a half Indian cowboy from space; who shoots lasers at bad guys, with the aid of his bazooka totting, talking, robot horse? You will just have to settle for the real American West and look at this detailed collection of timelines....twice as thrilling.

http://www.hanksville.org/daniel/timeline2.html

Don't beat about the Bush......well go on then, but only if your quick!

Looking for a president? Check out the Whitehouse's biographies on all your favourite American leaders.......and your not-so-favourite leaders.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

Photo-hontas.....

Thousands upon thousands of original photographs, on literally thousands upon thousands of American West related topics. If you cant find it here it does not exist.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawpsubjindex1.html

Dont have your head in the Red Clouds!

www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/firstnations/
Loads of information about the Native Americans, it may just come in useful for that revision thingy that you will need to do soon.

In To The West.

The website for this awesome programme offers pictures, games, and information. You can even learn the lakota language....well, a small portion of it!

http://alt.tnt.tv/itw/#