This bundle includes 4 lessons to be taught in this order.
Red Sun Rampant
Carrier battles and island hopping
Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Consequences of nuclear weapons.
Please see individual lesson descriptions for an idea of what is included within each lesson.
Part one of a two part lesson looking at Spain. This lesson will explore Spanish culture, religion, geography and the Reconquista. Students will do this by collecting information and summarizing on a worksheet. To demonstrate this knowledge students will complete a two keys features question.
A lesson that explores the development of aerial warfare throughout the 20th century. Initially you will go through a brief history of flight and warfare, some key terms and a few videos to show them what they will be looking at in the lesson. The main activity involves there being a number of A3 information sheets spread around the room, students will use the table sheet to collect information. To finalise they will summarise the development of aerial warfare into a paragraph.
This lesson will provide a brief summary of naval warfare through the 20th century and how it has developed. Students will start by looking at a brief history of naval warfare by completing a word fill and chronology task. The main task involves them reading about naval warfare during WWI, WWII, the Cold War and the First Gulf War. To record their finding they will be drawing pictures which by the end will show the evolution of naval warfare. To end they will explain briefly how naval warfare development over the course of the 20th century.
This secondary school resource will take students through the successful Japanese conquest through the Pacific.
Students will learn some context surrounding the Japanese empire and her emperor. They will then watch this early part of the Pacific campaign unfold in a 22 min section of World War II in colour to get an in depth and entertaining overview of events (they will have questions to answer whilst doing so).
The main task is teacher led whereby you go through the key details of the Pearl Harbour attack, Malayan campaign and Philippines campaign. This will be done using dual coding whereby students create a mind map using text and imagery. This lesson will complete the first of three branches on the mind map, with the subsequent two lessons completing it.
They will finish by explaining two similarities of the German and Japanese conquests at the beginning of the Second World War.
This is the first lesson in a 3 lesson series focusing on the war in the Pacific.
ATTENTION - You will need access to Netflix or World War 2 in colour to make full use of this resource.
This secondary school resource will take students through the reversal of Japanese fortunes with the huge carrier battles and successful Allied island hoping campaign.
Students will watch the carrier action unfold in a 19 min section of World War II in colour to get an in depth and entertaining overview of events (they will have questions to answer whilst doing so).
The main task is teacher led whereby you go through the key details of two carrier battles. This is a continuation of the previous lesson (adding to their mindmap). You may then choose to show another segment of the island hopping campaign from WW2 in colour before completing those strands of the mindmap. This lesson will complete the second of three branches on the mind map, with the subsequent lesson seeing it through to completion.
They will finish by describing two key features of the war in the Pacific.
This is the first lesson in a 3 lesson series focusing on the war in the Pacific.
ATTENTION - You will need access to Netflix or World War 2 in colour to make full use of this resource.
A lesson looking at the consequences of the Second World War.
This involves looking at and filling in an A3 sheet on the following events:
Germany divided (occupation zones)
Cold War
Marshall Plan
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
The far right in Europe
Decolonisation
European colonisation
Students will then use this information to complete an two consequences exam question. Explain two consequences of the Allied victory in World War Two.
Finally students will read about the policies of the Soviet Union and the West, with this information they will create a logo that best represents both ideologies.
This secondary level resource teaches students about the crucial Battle of the Atlantic fought during the Second World War. Student will leave with an appreciation of the conditions, the weaponry, the developments that led to an Allied victory and finish by writing an exam style narrative account of the battle.
This lesson is aimed primarily at secondary level students. Students will learn about Hitlers actions before the start of Second World War and evaluate his and the Allied powers culpability to the outbreak of hostilities.
This is the first in a series of lesson on the Second World War.
This is the first of a two part series looking at the Inca civilisation before and as the Spanish arrived. This lesson is designed to follow on from the two lessons I have available on Spain (if not these can be easily edited). Students will look at the hierarchy of Inca society before watching a 20 minute video at wider Inca culture and history. To finish students will write two key features of the Inca empire.
A quick tour through these 3 events which ends with a source based activity on the success of Dunkirk. This lesson begins a scheme of work that will end with students answering an assessment question ‘The outcome of the Second World War was decided more by the failure of the Axis powers than the success of the Allied powers. How far do you agree?’