The Schlieffen Plan

This FREE Causes of World War I lesson investigates what the Schlieffen Plan was and how it led to WWI. Students will listen to and read about the plan to make judgements on it’s strengths and weaknesses as well as it how led to war.

This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheets with questions, mini-plenaries, a consolidation explanation question and a plenary.

Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.

We have lots more WWI lessons in our TES shop including several great value bundles:

• a ‘Causes of WWI’ bundle which includes 2 x Assassination in Sarajevo, Alliance System & Militarism, Imperialism and Nationalism lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/causes-of-world-war-one-12924566

• a big WWI bundle which includes causess, fighting in the trenches and end of war: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-one-12942317

• a home, land and sea WWI bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wwi-home-land-and-sea-12950791

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