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** Students examine how the Nazi regime indoctrinated and controlled young people through the use of education including a study of the changes to teaching and school curriculum.**

UPDATED & RE-VAMPED CONTENT IN LINE WITH THE 2026 SPEC

The 27 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Lesson key questions
• Slide 3: ‘As You Enter’ discussion question
• Slide 4: Starter 1 - What are these? Students look at 2 examples of cardboard cuts outs of Hitler Youth members and have to work out what they are and what they were used for.
• Slide 5: Hitler Youth recap - open ended sentence fill activity.
• Side 6: Starter 2 - Students to briefly outline their modern day timetable to get an idea of how different the school day would be in Nazi Germany.
• Slide 7: Background information and discussion questions about a typical school day in Nazi Germany.
• Slide 8-13: Background information and discussion tasks about education in Nazi Germany including examples of anti-semitic illustrations and content.
• Slide 14-16: Task 1 - Students are given five sources based on maths questions in Nazi Germany. They need to infer what the underlying messages of the questions were.
• Slide 17-18: Task 2 - Students use a printable worksheet to describe a typical day or prospectus of a school in Nazi Germany.
• Slide 19-20: Task 3 - A bonus comprehension question sheet with questions about an extract from The Poisonous Mushroom. Printable resource included.
• Slide 21: Follow up challenge questions
• Slide 22-23: EXAM FOCUS - Two examples of the ‘Source Inference’ questions on printable answer sheets.
• Slide 24: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question sheet.
• Slide 25: Learning Review Big Question
• Slide 26: Lesson Fact Sheet
• Slide 27: More from RA Resources

This lesson has been updated in line with the amended specification and exam questions ready for the 2025/6 examinations.

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