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A complete mini-unit designed for Year 8 on the Long-Term causes of the First World War.

This unit is fully resourced for each lesson, including clearly chunked activities and assessment points at the end of each unit based around a central question.

The following lessons are included (each roughly 1hr to deliver):

1. The unification of Germany and Italy
2. The First Moroccan Crisis
3. The Bosnian Crisis
4. The Second Moroccan Crisis

THIS IS DESIGNED TO SHOW THE ESCALATION OF TENSIONS.

All units focus on the core skills of history (chronology, causation, change and continuity, historiography, source-analysis and judgement making), and are part of an overall theme for the year (For Year 7 this is ‘The Changing Nature of Power’, for Year 8 it is ‘Progress vs Regress’ and for Year 9 it is ‘Conflict’).

Each unit is also designed to focus on inclusive, social, history where possible. This aims to include the experiences of black people, disabled, LGBT and other minority groups throughout history. This innovative approach is in line with Ofsted’s framework regarding inclusivity in the curriculum and avoids the issue of tokenism within history.

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Note 2: this unit is designed to be delivered if space in the curriculum allows, and would best suit a high-ability group. It also does not include a full evaluation of the alliances as this is delivered as part of the main ‘First World War’ unit delivered in Year 9.