Intro to the Ideologies of the Cold War: Communism and Capitalism

Designed for KS3, the HA resources are appropriate for KS4, with an additional research task this could be adapted for KS5. This lesson considers the ideologies separate from their historical contexts so it is a great introduction, but also provides space for debate that would be appropriate to a politics or citizenship lesson.

Tasks: a vocab based starter, a main that encourages group work with speaking and listening the main method of learning, a class vote as to which ideology is best and a plenary that sneakily uses group work to consolidate learning.

Learning Outcomes for this lesson:
To be able to identify differences between ideologies
To describe one ideology and give a way in which the other ideology is different
To explain the differences between the ideologies and why they appeal to people
To analyse the pros and cons of the ideologies to understand how they would work in practice

Please note this is a self contained lesson with all necessary materials included (unless you want to adapt for KS5), no textbooks needed and no potentially problematic youtube clips to play.

Whether you love it or you hate it, please review below so I can keep adjusting these resources to suit!
Many thanks,
Ruth