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A complete unit designed for Year 9 on 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. Long-term causes of the First World War
2. The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
3. Recruitment and Propaganda: how did they convince young men to fight?
4. What was Trench Warfare?
5. What were battles like in the First World War?
6. Weapon developments of the First World War
7. The role of women in the First World War
8. How were Conscientious Objectors treated?
9. How significant was The Home Front?
10. How significant was poetry during the First World War?
11. Why did Russia leave the war and why did American join?
12. How important was the Empire during the First World War?
13. Armistice: why did the war end?

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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