British Home Front: What impact did the Second World War have on women?

This fun and interactive lesson has been designed to help students to understand the different roles played by women during the Second World War and evaluate how important they were in helping Britain defeat Germany

The tasks and activities have been written to appeal to the full spectrum of ability and have been set up around the market place activity where the key slides in the PP are printed off and either pinned on the classroom walls or set out on the tables so that students move around and fill in their information on the summary sheet. This is a very proactive lesson designed to get students up, moving around, sharing and working collaboratively. I have provided additional differentiation by ‘ragging’ or grading the difficulty of the slides so that the learners can chose their level of challenge.

When you purchase this resource you will receive a 34 slide PowerPoint which includes two starters, information slides for the market place activity and a plenary. The information slides for the market place activity looks at the roles women played as in the land army, working in factories, as secret agents or as volunteers for WAAF, ATS, WVS and the WRNS (WRENS). The resource also includes aims, objectives, differentiated outcomes, a homework, a continuum exercise, heads and tails, word search, templates and writing frames to support students writing an extended answer on: ‘How important were the different roles that women played in helping Britain to win the World War II.’

The aims and objectives for these resources are:

Theme: The Home Front
Know: Why was there a shortage of ‘manpower’ during the war?
Understand: What roles women played during the Second World War?
Evaluate: How important were these roles in helping to win the war?

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: Why was there a shortage of ‘manpower’ during the war?
Can You Explain: What roles women played during the Second World War?
Can You Analyse: How important were these roles in helping to win the war?

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