Remembrance Day World war 1 History Teaching Materials Plans Resources KS2 History

I’m now retired from teaching after decades in the classroom.

I’d like to help the younger generation.

One aspect I don’t miss is Sundays. Trying to fill in planning grids that were rarely used or looked at. What a nightmare!

So I’ve put together my teaching plans, powerpoints, adobe pdf files etc from the various schools I was in.

Feel free to adapt for your planning grid.

In it are lesson plans, powerpoints, questions etc.

You get:

9 pdf files 19 powerpoints 16 word files

example text in pp
Remembrance Day 2010
LO: Understand why and what we remember.
Recognise how important Year 5’s job is.
Examine some sources of information about the first and second world wars.
Each year the nation expresses its unequivocal support for The Royal British Legion’s charity work through the Poppy Appeal.
The emphasis this year is the need to help the Afghan generation of the Armed Forces and their families - today and for the rest of their lives.
What is the Poppy Appeal?

What is Remembrance Sunday?
The Sunday nearest to November 11 when those who died in World War I and World War II are commemorated.
In 1900 (how many years ago?) there were
five great, powerful nations in Europe:
Britain France RussiaAustria-Hungary Germany
These countries had empires and armies.
Between 1900 and 1914 tension and arguments began to cause trouble.
The five main countries began an ‘arms race’, they were trying to amass troops, weapons and war ships.
Remember that powerful country called Austria-Hungary? The heir to the Austrian Hungarian throne was a man called Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated – this caused lots of trouble between the five rival nations.
Britain declared war on 4th August
1914.
Article on the assassination of the Archduke.
The total number of casualties, both military and civilian, were about 37 million. 16 million deaths. 21 million wounded. About 1.1million British troops died.
Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
Lest we forget…