Battle of the Somme

Lesson plan and resources for Key Stage 3 History lesson on fighting in the trenches (although it could easily be adapted for Key Stage 4). This lesson takes the National Army Museum poll on Britain’s greatest ever military leaders as its starting point and requires students to study Haig and the Battle of the Somme and make a decision on whether or not he did a good job. Students must then decide which of the comments left on the National Army Museum website they agree with the most. The lesson then models GCSE source analysis question technique and requires students to have a go at source analysis themselves.