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Students examine how living standards improved in Germany between 1924-29 with a focus on housing, wages, unemployment insurance, education and pensions.

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

The 17 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 - What would you class as a high standard of living nowadays?
• Slide 4-5: Recap - Students recap how Stresemann helped improve Germany’s economy and relations with foreign countries. Answers provided.
• Slide 6: Starter Activity - Students given 4 sets of statistics and have to discuss what they can infer from them about living standards in Weimar Germany by 1929.
• Slide 7: Task 1 - Why did the Weimar government focus on improving the lives of workers? Answers provided.
• Slide 8: Task 2 - Which groups in society did not see an improvement? Students provided with a historical interpretation to help them.
• Slide 9: Task 3 - A printable worksheet/table on which students note down the ways that living standards improved.
• Slide 10: Task 4 - Challenge questions
• Slide 11: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 4 mark ‘Inference’ question on a printable answer sheet.
• Slide 12: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 4 mark ‘Interpretation’ question on a printable answer sheet with suggested sentence starters.
• Slide 13-15: Learning Review - Students match the statistics to the facts, includes a printable worksheet and answers.
• Slide 16: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 17: 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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