See it.
- Watch the video at the top of the page and look at the photos on the left.
- Download the summary of the day here.
- See the screengrabs the students collected here.
- See the news reports the students created here.
- Hear the interviews the students made with Phil here.
- Icknield Community College’s history faculty is here.
Do it.
Resources:
Overview
You can download the teacher notes here.
Activity 01
- Name Badges - you can download a template for the name badges, including all the different factions here.
- Flags - we bought our British and Irish flags from Flags of the World for less than £10 – here. We simply attached each to a two-metre length of 25mm dowel.
- Video - you can see the video we showed the students at the start of the day here.
Activity 02
- Co-ordinates: download a list of locations and reference websites for the GoogleEarth virtual tour here.
- Screengrabs of these locations are here.
Activity 03
- Backdrops: download images to use for the greenscreen backdrops here.
- You can download the text from contemporary newspapers here.
Activity 04
- The Peace Centre in Warrington website is here. The Peace Centre is run by the Tim Parry Jonathan Ball Foundation for Peace.
Other useful sources of information we came across researching the day include:
- The CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) site contains information and source material on the Troubles and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present here.
- The BBC website here.
- A map of peace lines in Belfast here (the source of this map – USA Today – is interesting in its own right)
- An animated map of the route of the Bloody Sunday march here.
- Photographs of murals in Belfast here.
- The Museum of Free Derry website here.
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