Market Place Activity - First World War Home Front

If you are looking for a lesson which ticks all the boxes on collaborative learning then this beautifully illustrated market place activity on the Home Front during the First World War is designed to help students assess both its significance as well as how civilians were affected by the war. This is a great engaging lesson which will help to enhance your teachers toolkit and get your students talking for weeks and doing extra projects.

As you can see from the detailed preview slides, the tasks and activities have been written to appeal to the full spectrum of ability and have been set up around the market place activity where the key slides in the PP are printed off and either pinned on the classroom walls or set out on the tables so that students move around and fill in their information on the summary sheet. This is a very proactive lesson designed to get students up, moving around, sharing and working collaboratively. As an additional layer of differentiation, I have ragged or traffic lighted the information slides to help direct students. Once students have gathered the information together they can either share it in a class discussion or answer a series of question, create a mind map or attempt an extended writing task.

When you purchase this resource you will receive a twenty one slide PowerPoint which includes an optional ‘snowballing’ or a ‘buzz and go starter’, introduction, the market place activity and information slides on the Home Front. You can then choose to consolidate what your students have learnt through a class discussion, heads and tails quiz or a post-it note continuum exercise. The extra resources section includes templates and writing frames to support an extended writing tasks on: ‘How important were the different roles that women played in helping Britain to win the World War II?’ We have also included a homework and word search activity. Everything has also been uploaded as a PDF file and a Microsoft Office file so that you can easily sequence and edit the lesson to suit your students and the context of your school

The aims and objectives for these resources are as follows:

Theme: The Home Front
Know: Why was there a shortage of ‘manpower’ during the war?
Understand: What roles women played during the Second World War?
Evaluate: How important were these roles in helping to win the war?

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Can You Describe: Why was there a shortage of ‘manpower’ during the war?
Can You Explain: What roles women played during the Second World War?
Can You Analyse: How important were these roles in helping to win the war?