League of Nations: successes in the 1920s

The focus of this lesson is to build upon the Aims of the structure of the LON and fits into the bigger picture of ‘To What Extent Was The League of Nations a Success’? The lesson’s purpose is to introduce the league’s successes in the 1920’s and to judge the most significant through a series of student led (less teacher talk) tasks.

**Hook: **students are handed hook sheet as they enter to instantly complete focusing around recalling 5 key facts about the origins of the LON and source evaluation . Teacher introduces the lessons intention.

**Starter: ** After watching an introduction video about the League in the 1920s ( embedded into the PP) Students then answer a series of quick fire questions about the views people had of its aims.

Main task 1: Student competition task: Teacher to display the success on the board and students to remember as many as they can (timer included) - teacher challenges students to fill out the differentiated proforma to see how many they can remember (prizes for most completed sheet) students then to mix-pair-share to assist each other in completing their sheet.

Main Task 2: students are then to arrange their card sort of successes into an arrow of significance and to form a judgment on the most significant success in the bigger picture on their worksheet.

Plenary: Students break into small groups who have selected the same ‘most significant success’ they coach each other and then nominate a representative to go ‘Head-To-Head’ with another student with a differing opinion to argue out their opinion. Teacher decided on the most convincing / articulate reasoning and awards points.

**All videos embedded / descriptions an prompts included in the PP description. **