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Students examine how far the role and status of women changed in Weimar Germany.

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

The 29 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 Warm Up’ - How would students define the traditional role of women in society? Sources to help ans answers
• Slide 4-5: Previous lesson recap - 7 questions based on Stresemann’s economic policies and the improvement in the standard of living in Weimar Germany. Includes answers.
• Slide 6-7: Starter Activity - Students annotate a source to outline the differences between the ‘woman of the past’ and the ‘woman of today’. Includes printable worksheet.
• Slide 8-10: Background and photographic information about the New Women of Weimar Germany.
• Slide 11-12: Written and visual sources to highlight the lifestyle of cabaret and the vote for women - includes prompt questions.
• Slide 13: 4 historical interpretations about women in Weimar Germany which can be given out to students to analyse.
• Slide 14-15: Task 1 - A table fill and evaluation worksheet with instructions and printable copy of the worksheet. This covers the changes women experienced in Weimar Germany.
• Slide 16-17: Task 2 - A sort task to identify the attitudes in Weimar Germany towards the changing role of women. Printable worksheet included. Includes answers
• Slide 18: Challenge questions
• Slide 19: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 4 mark ‘Inference’ question on a printable answer sheet.
• Slide 20: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question.
• Slide 21-24: EXAM FOCUS - 2 examples of a ‘How useful’ question with suggested structure and model answer.
• Slide 25: EXAM FOCUS - An example of the first 4 mark ‘Interpretation’ question with sentence starters.
• Slide 26: EXAM FOCUS - An example of the 16 mark ‘How far do you agree’ question.
• Slide 27: Learning Review Pyramid
• Slide 28: Lesson Fact Sheet
• Slide 29: 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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