The Blitz Activity Pack

The Blitz World War Two Activity Pack

1. What was the Blitz Handout

2. Eyewitness Account Handout

3. London Blitz Crossword

4. London Blitz Word Search

5. The Blitz Graphic Organizer KWL

6. 2 Solve the message puzzle activities

7. What was the Blitz Source Analysis Activity

8. V2 Rocket Word Search

9. 21 question PP quiz on the Blitz.

10. V1 Flying Bomb Word Search

11. Battle of Britain Word Search

12. The Blitz Comic Strip and Storyboard

13 War Walks Video Documentary and link Guide - The Blitz

1. Rip the Blitz rescue dog The PDSA Dickin Medal Handout

Teacher Notes

This is an excellent activity/game/plenary to further improve student’s work and knowledge.

I split the class into two teams (in one class I have girls against boys but in another class I have just divided the room down the middle) and when we play the game each side decides on a volunteer to come to the front, facing the class so they can’t see the board (one team at a time).

A word is shown on the IWB and each time the word is answered correctly I display another.

The Blitz (shortened from German ‘Blitzkrieg’, “lightning war”) was the period of sustained strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

Between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941 there were major aerial raids (attacks in which more than 100 tonnes of high explosives were dropped) on 16 British cities. Over a period of 267 days (almost 37 weeks), London was attacked 71 times, Birmingham, Liverpool and Plymouth eight times, Bristol six, Glasgow five, Southampton four, Portsmouth and Hull three, and there was also at least one large raid on another eight cities.This was a result of a rapid escalation starting on 24 August 1940, when night bombers aiming for RAF airfields drifted off course and accidentally destroyed several London homes, killing civilians, combined with the UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s immediate response of bombing Berlin on the following night.