KS4 - Poetry - Conflict - Bayonet Charge - Resource Station Varied Activities - Fun, Engaging

This is a fun way of offering further exploration of Bayonet Charge by appealing to students' different strengths and skills, e.g. artistic, creative, visual, mathematical or social. This is an engaging, outstanding lesson, and was designed with Garner's Multiple Intelligences in mind.

You will need to prepare for this lesson beforehand by creating the 'resource stations':
Resource Station 1: Visual – Saving Private Ryan Clip, available on YouTube, lined paper (x5), instructions
Resource Station 2: Creative – activity (x5), lined paper (x5), instructions
Resource Station 3: Social – activity, instructions
Resource Station 4: Artistic – plain A4 paper, activity, instructions
Resource Station 5: Mathematical – activity (x5), instructions

Lesson Plan:
Ensure that students are sat in groups of five. Tell them that the group they’re sat with is their ‘home group’. Show students the ‘resource stations’ slide. Explain to students that they’ll see five different resource stations around the room. Explain the activity at each resource station. Explain that each group will send one group member to each resource station to complete the activity. After 20 minutes, all group members will return to their home group and feedback what they’ve learnt. Give groups one minute to decide which group member will go to each resource station. If they cannot decide, then they’ll be randomly numbered one-five and will go to the corresponding station. Check students’ understanding by using ‘thumbs-up’. Ask a student to re-explain if there’s misunderstanding.

Allow students to move to their designated resource station to start their activity. Instructions and resources will be ready at each station.

Teacher facilitates, circulates, ask students questions to deepen their learning.

After 20 minutes, students are to return to their ‘home groups’ to feedback. Tell them that they have 10 minutes and they should hear from everybody.

Ask students in their books to write down three things they feel they’ve learnt from other people about Bayonet Charge.