Year 9 History Lesson - The Schlieffen Plan

Lesson which works for all abilities of year 9 pupils - looks at the Schlieffen Plan, giving the students an understanding of WHY the plan was needed, WHAT the plan was and WHY it failed. Uses a mixture of paired work, video clips and textbook work to achieve the following objectives:

To understand why Britain became involved in WW1
To be able to describe the Schlieffen Plan and how and why the plan failed.

Lesson finishes with an introduction to trench warfare which can then be focussed on in the following lesson.

Lesson makes use of Aaron Wilkes: Technology, War and Identities (Folens)but this can be easily changed to suit resources available.