This Causes of World War I lesson investigates what happened after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914. It aims to show how the main causes of WWI, including the alliance system and nationalism, led to a chain reaction that sparked the war.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information conversion to storyboard activity, think pair share causes linking activity, a consolidation ‘useful’ source question with MODEL ANSWERS and a pictionary type plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
This lesson can be used as a standalone lesson but it is also a perfect follow on lesson to our Assassination of Franz Ferdinand lesson, which is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12939437
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