Key stage 2/3 Full Year Scheme of Work - WW2

A full years scheme of work aimed at a Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3 class based around WW2. It includes key questions and areas of focus, that are broken down into the skills of describe, explain, analyse and source analysis.

• Skills focus within increasing difficulty as year progresses
• Assessment activities to test understanding
• Second order concepts built in to match knowledge acquisition and skills
• Extensions and differentiation included to allow for maximum pupil engagement.
• Basic vocabulary lists

Topics:

• Causes of war
• Treaty of Versailles
• Wall Street Crash
• Causes of WW2 (short term and long term)
• The Blitz
• Turning Points of WW2 (Battle of Britain, Battle of Stalingrad, Pearl Harbour, DDay)
• Propaganda use in Britain and Germany
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• The Holocaust
• Long term impacts of WW2 on Britain, Europe and the World