History ← Storyline Scotland

News from Finn Mosegaard

Mar

2012

Lem, Denmark As most of us know, Finn is a prolific Storyline designer with many books to his name but over the last five months he has been working on a very special project which he explains here – Jens Væver was born in 1822. He and his family were mainly fishermen but from time ...

The Story of a School

Sep

2010

Ox Close Primary School, Spennymoor, Durham “Spennymoor Ox” was a community celebration of the history and contemporary use of Ox Close Community Garden adjacent to the primary school. It was designed to offer a lyrical evocation of the relatively recent but easily forgotten past and provide a permanent link to it. The Grand Opening took ...

Centenary Storyline

Jun

2007

Grange Primary School, Falkirk Council Yvonne MacBlain Grange Primary School in the Scottish town of Bo’ness is celebrating its centenary this year. To enable pupils to appreciate and participate in this event more fully, from September 2006 until June 2007, they worked on a special project using the Storyline method. This project was co-ordinated by ...

Storyline and Sami (Lapp) History

Jun

2005

Norrbottens Museum (Norrbotten is a region in the north of Sweden) working together with Sanna Ranweg, a Storyline teacher, have developed a Storyline on Sami History. Since 2004 schools in Norrbotten have been using Storyline with good results. Teachers in Överkalix, Luleå and Vittangi have worked with Storyline in their classes.

Interesting Video

Jun

2004

On a recent visit to Sweden I was shown this video made by Sveriges Utbildningsradio, Swedish Educational Radio. It shows a cleverly animated visual representation of children’s work illustrating five distinct periods in the history of Stockholm. Eva Anderberg and Elisabeth Åkerman, two teachers from Södermalmsskolan in Stockholm who were attending the Storyline course, were ...

Norwegian Teachers visit American Community School, Cobham, England

Apr

2004

On Wednesday, the 14th of April, 35 Norwegian educators from Askollen skole, Drammen, Norway visited the American Community School, Cobham, England. The purpose of their visit was to learn about effective teaching strategies including Storyline. Rebecca Plaskitt hosted their visit sharing about a current historical Storyline, multiple uses of math manipulatives, and ideas for teaching ...

Dutch East India Company Storyline

Jun

2003

Jan Greven & Jos Letschert of the SLO (Institute for Curriculum Development in The Netherlands) have designed a new historical Storyline on the Dutch East India Company (VOC in Dutch). This publication was presented by Jan at the recent Golden Circle Seminar. There was a lively discussion on this very interesting topic and especially about ...

Freja and Eskil – New Danish Reading System

Jun

2003

Once again Jørgen Frost introduces a new reading system for the introductory period of school. Taking his starting point in Nils Hartmanns novel about two children from the Danish Middle Ages, and in the principles of Comprehensive reading, he offers a refreshingly new approach for tomorrow’s balanced teaching in reading. A beautiful book for reading ...

Class 8.c working on The International Storyline Conference 2 in Elsinore

Jun

2002

During The 2nd International Storyline Conference in Elsinore the students of Class 8.c (14-15 years old) from Rosenlundskolen, Denmark, were working at the conference with their Storyline “The Negotiation Policy in occupied Denmark during the 2nd World War”, written by their teacher Simon Fougt. The pupils’ characters are met with the historical German demands to ...