Visit http://www.kar2ouche.com/imed/ for a much fuller description of the products on offer and how Kar2ouche may be used in the classroom.

Kar2ouche includes a significant number of titles with an excellent collection of images, sound clips and editable texts and much more. Purchase a title and use the prepared storyboards to set the scene, to introduce a topic in a new, media-rich environment and encourage pupils to create or modify scenes to describe a process or reconstruct a historical event.

Kar2ouche helps students to develop contextual understanding, critical interpretation and individual expression through a wide range of cross-curricular creative activities including interactive role-play, picture-making, storyboarding, animation, publishing and movie-making.

The company's catalogue (available as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat file) offers a good reason:

Earth and the Environment

The structure of the Earth has been unknown until relatively recently and Earth and the Environment looks at the development of geology as a science, in particular the work of Alfred Wegener and how his ideas were initially rejected. The story then continues to cover the development of the modern theory of plate tectonics. It then moves on to look at the ways we gather information about the planet we live on and the difficulties of predicting geological events such as earthquakes. The second part of the CD looks at the many environmental issues that confront us: for example, global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer.

Normans

Normans is mapped to the Key Stage 3 history curriculum and helps students to understand and interpret life in Norman times. The activities and pre-made storyboards provided in Normans encourage students to examine themes such as the claimants to the throne in 1066 and an examination of why William won the Battle of Hastings.
Students can then use the wide range of characters, backgrounds, props, text and audio to produce their own storyboard version of the Bayeux Tapestry from the Normans landing at Pevensey to the death of Harold.
Other activities include an examination of how the Domesday survey was carried out, what information it gathered and how valuable that information still is today and completing a storyboard to show their understanding of why Thomas Becket was murdered.

Other History titles, mostly designed for the 7 - 11 age group include:

Tudors, Romans, Vikings, Egyptians

Local Democracy is aimed at Key Stage 2, and helps students to explore the importance of democracy and how it works.

A series of interactive storyboards and activities encourage students to produce their own election manifesto representing their views, produce a poster showing the differences between what you want and your rights and needs and investigating why rules and laws are necessary and why people commit crime.
The activities are divided into four main units that are linked with the Key Stage 2 National Curriculum for PSHE and Citizenship. All the activities can be adapted and tailored to meet your particular requirements, while the wide range of characters, backgrounds and props can be used to create your own storyboards, activities and role-plays.