Students write from the perspective of a person in a Victorian photograph. All included. Warning: Can be very moving.

lesson suitable for most year groups. A brief clip on the origins of WW1 and a song to complete plus discussion.

Template to help students keeps a daily tab on their lives throughout this defining moment in our modern history. Lesson to accompany this journal. Students simply add as they progress and can copy and paste items they think will be of interest in the future.

Slides from POWERPOINT for the creation of a FAMILY TREE. Keeps them busy and fosters conversation with fellow isolators.

Students organise and date various things along a river of time in the classroom. You could bring in quite a lot of the objects yourself or simply print the pictures. For each object there is an info slide which reveals the date at the end. Date cards are also ready for you on the last slide. This will be the best lesson you teach in a long while.