Social Change in the Weimar Republic, 1924-29

This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate.

Aims and Objectives:

• To understand changes in the standard of living, including wages, housing, unemployment insurance.
• To understand changes in the position of women in work, politics and leisure.
• To understand cultural changes: developments in architecture, art and the cinema.

The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. Activities include an inference starter on living conditions, summarising/condensing information on changes in living standards, source comparison of women in early 1900s and 1920s, categorising evidence to show how society did and did not change for women, an extension diary entry for a young German woman (possible homework), defining key artistic terms and identifying examples of these artistic trends in a range of sources including art, architecture and film, analysing areas of art that might have come under criticism from the left and right-wing, a four mark interpretation source question and a final Weimar Republic revision quiz.