Year 9 - The Battle of Britain

Lesson begins by linking to previous knowledge of Dunkirk before moving on to look at the threat to Britain. Pupils learn via video and subsequent teacher consolidation/class discussion the basics of Operation Sealion and the attempts made by Britain to defend itself.

Class then watch a second clip which looks at the events of the Battle of Britain itself. They need to focus on the events but also the reasons why Britain was able to win/Germany lost.

This is then consolidated with a written task on the PPt and then further via a cardsort/shading exercise (which I often set for homework)

PPt and cardsort/shading task are included and the links to the videos are embedded. (First clip only needs to be watched for around 10 minutes).

I have updated the link to the second clip with a new version as the old video was removed from Youtube. If this happens again, the clip is from World War II in colour, Episode 3