Using rich resources that encourage children's empathy skills can make all the difference in teaching about WWII. This collection has detailed lesson plans, sources of information, emotive images, audio interviews, film footage and display materials.
The card sort features the career of Cortes. The information about Cortes has to be placed on a living graph and using the information pupils can assess whether Cortes was a great hero or not
This pack contains source material from industrial strikes through the 20th Century (incl General Strike and Miner's Strike). It illustrates the role of unions, the struggle for better working conditions through worker and community campaigning, and provides a platform for comparing / discussing More…
Farm themed group excel activity which demonstrates the interaction between supply of a product and price. Easily modified for KS4 or 6th form. Seems to work well!
Uses the product of Cadbury Dairy Milk (close to many people's hearts!) to get students to draw supply and demand curves. Also requires them to shift lines and considers the idea of a market not being in equilibrium. Also includes 2 short homework questions on a similar theme.
Discussions of propaganda are great ones to have. Here you can see quite an assortment of World War 2 propaganda. Right now in the UK they are observing remembrance day so a lot of resources are being shared that we can use on this topic. It would be interesting to have students look for modern day propaganda? How about looking at US elections - do we have propaganda there? Just discussing that topic would be interesting.
History teachers will like these resources for showing what it was like for children to live in the second world war. There are 12 lesson plans and quite a few resources that go with it.