This week Grade 11 students were handed a pile of paper strips, each one printed with a detail about Benito Mussolini’s foreign policy. Their goal was to make sense of these details and arrange them in categories and chronologically.
This type of exercise–to introduce a topic or revise it–is fantastic in IB History, where control of the details is vital to scoring high in the essay writing. And moving around the pieces like a puzzle helps many students see how they all fit together.