Learning and Teaching guide

Guide for Students and Teachers: Paper 2

This video explains the composition of Paper 2, including the provision of sources and the expectations with regard to answering questions.

Guide for Students and Teachers: Source Comparison Questions

This video explains source comparison questions and the best technique for answering them by providing commentary and analysis on points of agreement or disagreement.

Guide for Students and Teachers: Source Contextualisation Questions

This video introduces source contextualisation questions and the best technique for answering them with emphasis on interpretation, analysis and recall.

Guide for Students and Teachers: Source Evaluation Questions

This video describes source evaluation questions and the best technique for answering them through use of critical analysis and relevant recall.

Practitioner's guide

This guide to the subject delivery of the revised Higher History course (published December 2008) is designed to offer some strategies for the teaching of the new Higher History arrangements, specifically for the compulsory Paper 2 Scottish History unit.

Word file: History - Higher - Paper 2 - Practitioner's Guide (947 KB)

Examples of sources

This presentation explains the use of primary and secondary sources in the Paper 2 exam paper and provides guidance for answering source-based questions.

PowerPoint file: Higher History - Examples of Sources (387 KB)

Learning experiences

The presentation provides strategies for facilitating learners’ six essential learning experiences as detailed in SQA arrangements document.

PowerPoint file: Higher History - Essential Learning Experiences (117 KB)

Guide to source questions

The following documents describe the different types of source questions and the techniques for answering them.

Word file: History - Higher - Success guide to source questions (48 KB)

Word file: History - Higher - Evaluating Sources (40 KB)