Queen Elizabeth II - The Early Years

In this lesson, students will investigate the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s life by looking through her family tree, starting at the first royal in the House Windsor King George V. After this students will see how her family dealt with the challenges of WW1 &2 along with abdication. Finally, students will investigate her early life and her contributions to WW2.

Task 1: Starter: Knowledge Dump - Write down everything you know about Queen Elizabeth II.
Task 2: Match up the key terms to their definitions
Task 3: Create the House of Windsor family tree
Task 4: How would Edward VIII feel about abdication?
Task 5: Watch the YouTube clip about Elizabeth’s first radio broadcast and explain why this was significant
Task 6: Re-complete to knowledge dump from the start but with a green pen and show what you have learnt.
Task 7: Plenary: 3,2,1 - Give me 3 things you learnt today 2 things that interested you, and 1 thing you want to know more about.

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