This bundle includes 4 lessons to be taught in this order.
Red Sun Rampant
Carrier battles and island hopping
Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Consequences of nuclear weapons.
Please see individual lesson descriptions for an idea of what is included within each lesson.
Part one of a two part lesson looking at Spain. This lesson will explore Spanish culture, religion, geography and the Reconquista. Students will do this by collecting information and summarizing on a worksheet. To demonstrate this knowledge students will complete a two keys features question.
A lesson that explores the development of aerial warfare throughout the 20th century. Initially you will go through a brief history of flight and warfare, some key terms and a few videos to show them what they will be looking at in the lesson. The main activity involves there being a number of A3 information sheets spread around the room, students will use the table sheet to collect information. To finalise they will summarise the development of aerial warfare into a paragraph.
This lesson will provide a brief summary of naval warfare through the 20th century and how it has developed. Students will start by looking at a brief history of naval warfare by completing a word fill and chronology task. The main task involves them reading about naval warfare during WWI, WWII, the Cold War and the First Gulf War. To record their finding they will be drawing pictures which by the end will show the evolution of naval warfare. To end they will explain briefly how naval warfare development over the course of the 20th century.
This secondary school resource will take students through the successful Japanese conquest through the Pacific.
Students will learn some context surrounding the Japanese empire and her emperor. They will then watch this early part of the Pacific campaign unfold in a 22 min section of World War II in colour to get an in depth and entertaining overview of events (they will have questions to answer whilst doing so).
The main task is teacher led whereby you go through the key details of the Pearl Harbour attack, Malayan campaign and Philippines campaign. This will be done using dual coding whereby students create a mind map using text and imagery. This lesson will complete the first of three branches on the mind map, with the subsequent two lessons completing it.
They will finish by explaining two similarities of the German and Japanese conquests at the beginning of the Second World War.
This is the first lesson in a 3 lesson series focusing on the war in the Pacific.
ATTENTION - You will need access to Netflix or World War 2 in colour to make full use of this resource.
This secondary school resource will take students through the reversal of Japanese fortunes with the huge carrier battles and successful Allied island hoping campaign.
Students will watch the carrier action unfold in a 19 min section of World War II in colour to get an in depth and entertaining overview of events (they will have questions to answer whilst doing so).
The main task is teacher led whereby you go through the key details of two carrier battles. This is a continuation of the previous lesson (adding to their mindmap). You may then choose to show another segment of the island hopping campaign from WW2 in colour before completing those strands of the mindmap. This lesson will complete the second of three branches on the mind map, with the subsequent lesson seeing it through to completion.
They will finish by describing two key features of the war in the Pacific.
This is the first lesson in a 3 lesson series focusing on the war in the Pacific.
ATTENTION - You will need access to Netflix or World War 2 in colour to make full use of this resource.
Students will create a fact file on the consequences of Nuclear Weapons. They may do this in the best way they seem fit.
This will focus on:
The effects on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Cold War and M.A.D.
Nuclear Testing
Nuclear weapons today
Student will then watch a video showing a simulation of a nuclear blast on a major city.
Lastly students will examine two sources and complete a how useful are source A and B enquiry question.
How useful are sources A and B for an enquiry into the devastation caused by the nuclear bombing of Japan?
Homework - 1. Use your fact file and research further facts about the destructive power of modern thermonuclear weapons and the consequences of there use. I have provided you with a sheet detailing the likely affects of a thermonuclear war ( you may use some of these points in your argument).
Write a letter to the UN Secretary General explaining why Nuclear Weapons must never be allowed to be used again.
This letter must be at least 2 paragraphs long and include specific factual detail (for example the devastation a modern weapon would cause if used).
This secondary level resource teaches students about the crucial Battle of the Atlantic fought during the Second World War. Student will leave with an appreciation of the conditions, the weaponry, the developments that led to an Allied victory and finish by writing an exam style narrative account of the battle.
This lesson is aimed primarily at secondary level students. Students will learn about Hitlers actions before the start of Second World War and evaluate his and the Allied powers culpability to the outbreak of hostilities.
This is the first in a series of lesson on the Second World War.