Resources used for a lesson examining different interpretations of the Munich Agreement - developing skills of source analysis

Lesson examining terror and intimidation in Nazi Germany comparing Germany to a police state. How did Hitler maintain control of people?

Lesson examining economic disaster and hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic encouraging pupils to examine source evidence to explain the impact of hyperinflation on German society.

Lesson examining the Battle of Stalingrad and what we can learn from source evidence (photographs) about how the battle was fought. Includes caption competition plenary.

Lesson examining what life was like for women and children in Nazi Germany including education in schools, curriculum etc and the expectations for women.

Lesson examining Operation Barbarossa asking to pupils to 'flesh out' the reasons why Hitler invaded Russia and the implications of his mistakes. Plenary as caption competition for cartoons depicting operation barbarossa.

Lesson examining life in Nazi Germany for young people examining both boys and girls and the types of activities they would complete. Pupils can be challenged to hyptothesise about what this might mean in the future e.g. what age would these people be by the time WW2 breaks out?

Lesson examining the original 13 colonies and the road to revolution including the Boston Tea Party (delivered as part of an American History SOW designed to give pupils an overview of American History).

Lesson examining Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland asking pupils to use textbooks to gather information and then apply to exam style question interpreting cartoon (Goose Step) with indiciative content/model answer for pupils to examine.

Lesson introducing the Holocaust

Lesson examining the constitution and government of the Weimar Republic including comparison activity for Germany in 1914 and 1919, and explanation of proportional representation.

Lesson examining the outbreak of WW2 with American newsreel footage and British radio address from Chamberlain - pupils can examine the differences between the two, in addition to examining how Britain prepared for WW2.

Lesson examining the impact and influence of Gustav Stresemann during the Weimar Republic. Delivered as part of SOW for OCR Modern World GCSE Germany Depth Study.

Lesson examining Czechoslovakia and Nazi-Soviet Pact explaining why Stalin chose to sign the Nazi Soviet Pact - in addition to interpreting cartoons and catchphrase plenary.

Spanish Civil War, Anti-Comintern Pact and Anschluss with skills focusing on interpreting cartoons - making inferences from sources.

Lesson examining Einsatzgruppen activity focusing on eye witness testimony from both a survivor and a perpetrator taken from the Nuremberg trials.

Lesson examining blitzkrieg warfare - lesson delivered to all boys class and card sort worked well and drew on knowledge pupils had from video games like COD and MW.

Lesson examining the Sudeten Crisis and British reaction through British Cabinet dialgoic learning activity, in addition to cartoon interpretation (making inferences)

Exam Preparation Lesson using source analysis sheet to structure a 70 mark essay answer

Lesson introducing the forum in Roman life - part of the Roman civilisation aspect of KS3 Latin