World War One Term Planning: Sample
Session
Learning objectives
Teaching and Activities
Resources
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WALT: Investigate (context –
World War One introduction)
Talk to children about the wars in
general, e.g. WW1 called the
Great War, the fact we have not
ever had any more global wars.
Ask if children remember any key
events, or dates? Explain they will
be arranging them on a timeline
today. What is a timeline? What
does it show? Events in
chronological order.
Show some examples with
children.
Children to sort given events on a
timeline in a group and complete
on wallpaper rolls to display.
Extension: to lookup using
research books any events they
have found interesting to find out
more about WW1.
Timeline cards
wallpaper
To research in order to write a
detailed Newspaper report in the
past tense imaging they are
reporting about the assassination
of Archduke Ferdinand.
Video of
Archduke Franz
Ferdinand (Horrible Histories)
-Newspaper
Outline and
To sequence events in WW1 and
WW2
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WALT: Identify structure of texts
(context – Archduke Ferdinand
newspaper)
WALT: Write with purpose
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World War One Term Planning: Sample
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(newspaper article)
Explain to the child that they will
be looking at WWI. Explain today
they are going to talk, read and
gather information to write a
newspaper.
Recap key features of
Newspapers. Children to read a
variety of newspaper articles as
immersion into text type.
Children to read 'Assassination of
Ferdinand' and note take, using a
highlighter pen.
Children to have differentiated
work. By outcome: to create a
newspaper article about the
assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Guided/shared writing
Introduce the war for the class.
Using maps, get the children to
colour in the two sides of the
conflict.
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WALT: who was fighting in the war
and the impact on the geography
of Europe.
Resources
Check list
-Information
sheet on Archduke Franz
Ferdinand
Maps of Europe in 1914 1918
Use maps of 1914 and 1918
Europe. Label the maps and note
down the differences before and
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World War One Term Planning: Sample
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after. Compare it to the modern
day.
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WALT: how people experienced
the war with a focus on
Merseyside; how was Merseyside
and its population involved?
Talk to the class about the First
World War as a national,
international and local conflict.
Show them a map of Merseyside
and talk about the area in 1914.
Using Merseyside at War website,
get pupils to research either the
home front or the battlefront as it
was experienced by local people
in the area. They will produce a
letter home, either from the
trenches or from the home front.
A map of Merseyside c.1914
(http://www.alangodfreymaps.co
.uk/lancashire.htm)
Access to PCs
Letter template for display
Extension activity: ask pupils to
research their family's
involvement in the First World
War.
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World War One Term Planning: Sample
Session
Learning objectives
Teaching and Activities
9-10
WALT: The IWW as a turning point
Explain to the class that the First
World War changed many things
for British people. Discuss these
changes and get the class to
illustrate these changes for
display. Link to Merseyside where
possible. Ask the pupils to
consider which of the changes
were the most significant.
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WALT: How the war was
expressed through sketching and
painting
Focus on art of the First World
War looking specifically at the
work of Liverpool artist Gilbert
Rogers and in particular, his 1919
painting of RAMC stretcher
bearers. Explore with the class
what this painting can tell us
about the First World War
Resources
Rolled paper and resources for
illustrating the changes.
Painting of stretcher bearers
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourp
aintings/paintings/first-world-warstretcher-bearers-of-the-royalarmy-medic126200) and a
selection of other images. Pupils
might also explore different
genres; Bruce Bairnsfather
(1887-1959) for example.
Explain how servicemen recorded
the war using sketchbooks.
Children will create their own First
World War sketch book. Use
Resources to make sketch
books.
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World War One Term Planning: Sample
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ageing techniques to make it look
authentic.
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WALT: How soldiers in the
trenches communicated
Explain the different means of
communication that men in the
trenches used to communicate
with one another.
Pupils make a simple telegraph
system: a battery-powered electric
circuit with a bulb or buzzer and a
gap in the wires which can be
bridged by tapping on a paper
clip.
Resources for the circuits.
http://www.w1tp.com/perbuild.ht
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