The Second World War - Year 9 scheme of learning

A complete unit designed for Year 9 on the Second 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. Rising tensions - the road to World War
2. The Blitzkrieg
3. Dunkirk: success or failure?
4. The Blitz
5. The role of the Home Front
6. How important was the empire?
7. What was it like to live under the Nazis?
8. How significant was Charles de Gaulle?
9. How significant was Alan Turing?
10. D-Day
11. Pearl Harbour: why did America join the war?
12. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: should America have dropped the atomic bomb?

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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