History learning for upper ks2

[fairyfingers]

I've asked DDs what they'd like to learn about outside of the core bits set by school and she wants to focus on history.

She's y5 but works at y6 level, v good at independent learning but no level at all of any sort of artistic skill so anything which involves drawing posters or making models is not what we are looking for.

Signed up to a couple of podcasts but wondered if there are any good homeschool type resource that might set her a 'project' kind of thing. She does like kings and queens sort of history rather than social history - she likes learning about specific people, especially feisty women.

Maybe her project could be to design a game based on Famous female leaders?

Her project would be to design the game, research the information to make the game, make it and then play it with you. She would have to bear in mind that whoever plays the game may know nothing about the famous women, that limits how the game can operate.

You could help her think what games would work - it could be Brainbox-style (that memory game, she would have to make cards for each of the famous women) or Guess-Who style with a crib sheet for each famous woman (there are already lots of examples if this online in fact), or a board game of some kind. Creative without needing to be artistic.

Make top trumps cards for historical figures. She could research lots of them and you'd be able to see her areas of interest too.

If she likes feisty women maybe have a look at the civil wars (British, not American). There are lots of really interesting women there - the Levellers, women who defended castles, women who petitioned parliament, women writing at a time when they weren't supposed to.