This lesson looks at the role of women during the war, it looks at how the suffrage movement, middle class and working class women played a role. This lesson includes a GCSE styled question, with sentence starters and a model answer. There is also a chance for group work or solo work and lots of discussion.
This lesson was created for a mixed ability Year 9 group studying the new AQA Paper 1D Specification, Conflict and Tension 1894-1918. It could very easily be adapted for other age or ability groups and alternate exam specifications.
Please note - there is a clip from YouTube embedded within the PowerPoint for this lesson - I do not own the rights to this clip or any of the information contained within.
Full unit of First World War. Created for Y9 in preparation for GCSE including assessment.
L1. What was the Alliance System of the First World War?
L2. What were the M.A.I.N. causes of the First World War
L3. Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
L4. Assassination of Franz Ferdinand Source Question
L5. Why did the First World War start?
L6. What was the Schlieffen Plan?
L7. What was life like in the Trenches?
L8. ASSESSMENT First World War Source?
L9. Why did people volunteer to join the army
L10. What is Propaganda?
L11. Why were so many lives lost at the Battle of the Somme?
L12. What was life like on the Home Front during the First World War?
L13. Role of Women?
L14. How did the First World War end Exit Russia, Enter America?
L15 What was the Treaty of Versailles?
L16 What do these sources tell us about Treaty of Versailles?
L17. End of Unit Assessment
L18. Remembrance
Normal price £54 if bought separately .
Presentation and worksheets on the major causes of the First World War for KS3.
Objectives are to help pupils in year 9 identify and understand the major causes of the outbreak of the war in 1914; identify both long and short term causes; evaluate most important cause and explain their reasoning.
The PowerPoint is accompanied by a worksheet booklet and there is an additional task to chart the final stages from July to August 1914 that led to the war itself.
There is an assessment in the form of a homework task and this can be edited for lower ability pupils.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
LO: To be able to explain what the Treaty of Versailles was and its significance.
Know what the Treaty of Versailles is and what its demands were.
Be able to explain what the three main countries, England, France and America, wanted from the Treaty of Versailles.
Explain the main demands of the treat were, and suggest their significance and impact on world peace.
With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created a set of resources for ‘the challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day’ which focus on the First World War and the Peace Settlement.
The aims of this bundle are to know and understand how frightening World War 1 was from its inception with the alliance system and the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand to the battlefields on the Western Front and how industrialisation changed the fighting into a static war of attrition.
I have created , readapted and used these lessons to challenge and engage students, but also to show how much fun learning about this part of history really is.
Students will learn and understand key historical skills throughout such as the continuity and change in the recruitment of men for Kitchener’s army, the causes of the war and the consequences which followed, the similarities and differences of the weapons used on the battlefields, the significance of women on the Home Front and Empire soldiers in the trenches and interpretations about whether it is fair to call Field Marshall Haig as the ‘Butcher of the Somme.’
Each lesson comes with retrieval practice activities, suggested teaching and learning strategies and are linked to the latest historical interpretations and debate from the BBC and other sources. The lessons are fully adaptable and can be changed to suit.
The 14 lessons are broken down into the following:
L1 The long term causes of WWI
L2 The short term causes of WWI
L3 Recruitment in WWI
L4 Why build trenches?
L5 Was life in the trenches all bad?
L6 Is it fair to call Haig ‘the Butcher of the Somme’?
L7 Cowardice in WWI
L8 War in the Air
L9 Weapons of WWI
L10 The role of women in WWI
L11 Conscientious Objectors
L12 The end of WWI and the Armistice
L13 The Treaty of Versailles
L14 Empire Soldiers
Key Word Literacy Display included
All the resources come in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.
The lessons also include differentiated materials and suggested teaching strategies.
A full week/two weeks of resources for teaching the Battle of Gallipoli during of the First World War to Year 9 (could also be adapted for a more-able Year 8 class, if pursuing a three-year GCSE course).
Included is a lesson packs covering this aspect of the First World War (other lesson packs available on my shop!) Each lesson pack includes a PowerPoint (with integrated videos, worksheet screenshots and activities), individual worksheets and contemporary sources (where required)
These resources were originally designed for paperless teaching on OneNote; however, it will work perfectly for exercise book teaching (simply replace ‘on OneNote’ with ‘in your exercise books’ on the slides).
No textbooks needed!
This is a lesson for Key Stage 3, looking at the events of the First World War. It is designed for near the end of a module on the First World War.
Students place events on a timeline and decide whether each event was a victory for the Allies or Germany. They reach an understanding of how the war unfolded and why it did so. They are challenged to think of a turning point.
Students then look at a range of memorials, and think about why they are developed in such a way - location, design etc. They can then design their own memorial.
This lesson has been designed to help students understand the impact of the First World War on both the Allies and Germany as a prelude to studying the aims of the peacemakers and the Treaty of Versailles, 1919. The PowerPoint is designed to work with both worksheets which can be mixed and matched depending upon the ability of your students. The first was designed for KS4, whilst the second worksheet was designed for KS3, but they both are appropriate and accessible for the full ability range. Please note that these lessons can be purchased at a discounted rate via my bundle on the Treaty of Versailles.
When you purchase this resource you will be able to download two worksheets on this topic and a PowerPoint Presentation that has been designed to help facilitate the lesson. The worksheets include information and sources about the impact of the First World War as well as tasks and activities. Both worksheets are two pages long and can be mixed and matched to suit your learners. The seventeen slide PowerPoint includes aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes,starters, plenaries, tasks, activities, summary diagrams and historical sources to support both worksheets. For more information, please view the preview.
The aims and objectives of this lesson are:
Theme: How fair was the Treaty of Versailles, 1919?
Know: What impact did the First World War have on Germany and the allies?
Understand: What sort of peace treaty would each country want to achieve?
Evaluate: Why did some of the peacemakers want revenge on Germany?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence & Collaboration
WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Identify & describe: The impact of the First World War on Germany and the Allies.
Explain: What sort of peace treaty would each country want to achieve?
Analyse: Why did some of the peacemakers want revenge on Germany?
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WAR WRITING LESSON - a series of activities to improve use of punctuation. Includes a range of illustrations about the navy at Scapa Flow and letters and eye witness accounts to help students understand the context behind the sources.
Written for KS3 Year 9 Middle ability - but easily adapted for a range of classes to complement any scheme of work centered upon the First World War. Explores the often ignored naval contributions.
KS4 History AQA GCSE History Unit 1 Section A Germany, 1890-1945 - Part 1 Germany and the growth of democracy after 1890 - Germany and the First World War.
This assembly script is written for 25 or more performers.
The script follows two evacuee children from when they first listen to the declaration of war on the radio, through their evacuation and eventual return home after the war. They are taken in by an elderly couple who teach them about make do and mend and then they join in a summer fete with a Bake Off twist!
Props are kept to a minimum and there are a couple of sound effects e.g. air raid sirens, train guards whistle.
Suggested songs could be any traditional war time songs e.g. We’ll meet again or White Cliffs of Dover.
A lesson on the weapons used within the First World War.
Artillery, machine guns, grenades, aircraft, rifles all mentioned amongst other things.
Best way to teach this lesson is a carousel/information hunt where you print off the weapons and the students discover their impact on life in the trenches.
World War I
The aim of this lesson is to question how much Britain valued its Empire soldiers in World War 1.
This subject is very topical at present as historians such as David Olusoga are putting cultural diversity at the forefront of our British history curriculum.
The starting point of the lesson is to analyse the story of Private Johnson Beharry, focusing on his background and the reasons why he was awarded a Victoria Cross, through source or video evidence.
Students will then link his story to World War 1, where they will learn how more V.C.’s were awarded to Empire soldiers than anyone else and discover which parts of the Empire contributed to the war effort and why.
There are case studies in the lesson focused on troops from the Punjab and the West Indies.
The main task students face is to judge how valued Empire soldiers were at the time and if not, how and why they were viewed differently. Ultimately they will need to clarify why this varied widely according to country and race.
They will also be required to write an extended answer using their own opinions, with argument words and scaffolding given if required.
There is a plethora of video evidence to accompany this lesson, with brilliant clips from the BBC and other sources.
Students will finally consolidate their learning by creating sentences from
‘fragments’ and a retrieval task.
The lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited throughout to show the progress of learning.
The resource includes suggested teaching strategies and differentiated materials, and comes in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.
This resource explores some of the causes of the First World War. It contains a lesson plan & some worksheets on Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism. A great resource that would work well as a one off introduction to the First World War or as part of a series of lessons on the First World War.
Hope you enjoy!