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WW2 Home Front - The Blitz
A colourful, well-presented, and creative resource. Includes worksheets and embedded links, ideas and activities.
Main contents … ( 67 pages in total )
1 - Simple key word and vocabulary starter, matching activity. Extension, differentiation option included.
2 - Background and overview gap fill exercise.
3 - Source study ( all sources included ) and template worksheet. The focus here is … Air Raid Warden / Precaution / Children of the Blitz / Blitz Spirit / Impact / effect of bombing on civilians. Students can colour code, categorise then summarize the key information discovered into a neat template.
4 - Source Skills / type activity - understanding primary, secondary and tertiary sources via Blitz source type examples.
5 - Air Raid Warden / Precaution focus. This included well-presented information worksheets, primary sources and a summary /via a fun, diverse differentiated literacy activity to consolidate learning.
6 - The Blitz Spirit - Four focus sources and supporting worksheet template that consider the idea of The Blitz Spirit.
Extension - Creative exercise gives students examples of Blitz propaganda and option to create their own piece of propaganda.
7 - Take Shelter - Covers the various ways people tried to escape the bombs. Morrison and Anderson shelters, London Underground, communal shelters, and countryside evacuations for children. There are two activities here - one allows students to match the group to the shelter, the second is a simple table summary.
8 - Strike Back - This is a very interactive activity that covers RAF Bomber Command and British response to German bombing. Students can be put into teams and make decisions based on their given team role / perspective. Cross curricular links here with - Math / e.g., using statistics - ethics / moral decision making. This activity also looks at D-Day, Dam Buster Raid and the Battle of Britain - albeit in brief.
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