KS3 - Explaining the Causes of WW1

Material for a complete set of lessons on the causes of WW1. Ideal for KS3 and as context for (I)GCSE students studying the Paris peace treaties.

Easy to adapt to the specific needs of your class with both differentiated reading and tasks that enable as well as test learning. You will find it both stretches and challenges students, enabling them to make analyses and evaluate whilst keeping them fully engaged in their lessons.

What is included?

• Alternative introductory PowerPoints
• A narrative accessible at two levels, broken up with things for students to THINK about and used as discussion points, as well as exercises, so the reading can be broken up across a number of lessons
• A variety of exercises
• A timeline exercise incorporating, for the more able students, a chance to evaluate the significance of events
• Further differentiated tasks turning narrative into analyses, both of which are supported by note frameworks
• A focus on countries
• A focus on imperialism and nationalism as well as alliances
• A chance to consider a third perspective – significant individuals - through sources with a further differentiated task that sets out to analyse a specific source
• Three-source-based exercises
• A focus on significant individuals
• An extension task that looks at different ways the same source can be interpreted
• A PowerPoint that uses war time posters to analyse the reasons Britain and Germany presented to the public for going to war
• A fun task concerning the Balkans
• An exercise that focuses specifically on the July Crisis
• A crossword to test knowledge
• A choice of two essay titles