KS3 History: World War 2 Complete Bundle - 23 Fully Resourced Lessons

This bundle covers the key events, experiences and turning points of the Second World War. It explores the causes of the war, major military campaigns and the impact of conflict on civilians in Britain and across the world.

Students develop a secure understanding of significant events such as the invasion of Poland, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombings of Japan. Alongside this, they examine key themes including appeasement, propaganda, rationing, evacuation, and leadership under Winston Churchill.

The lessons are fully resourced and include:

• source analysis
• differentiation
• retrieval practice
• editable PowerPoints
• discussion tasks
• historical interpretations

In the first 12 lessons, students will learn and understand key historical skills throughout such as continuity and change in the role and use of propaganda in World War 2, the causes and consequences of the policy of appeasement, breaking the Enigma Code or the evacuation of children, the similarities and differences of life on the Home Front, the significance of Winston Churchill and VE Day and interpretations about whether there really was a Blitz spirit.

In lessons 13 to 23 students will learn and understand key historical skills throughout such as change and continuity in the types of warfare used, the causes and consequences of the evacuation of Dunkirk and the similarities and differences of Hitler’s invasion of Russia as compared to Napoleon. They will also learn about the significance of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, refugees in World War 2 as well as interpretations as to whether Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris should be considered a war hero or not.

I have created and used these lessons on the Second World War to challenge and engage students, but also to show how much fun learning about this part of history really is.

The lessons are as follows:

L1 Causes of World War 2
L2 Appeasement
L3 Winston Churchill
L4 The Home Front - preparations
L5 The Home Front - propaganda
L6 The Home Front - rationing
L7 The Home Front - women (free lesson)
L8 Evacuation of children
L9 The Blitz
L10 The Enigma Code
L11 Prisoners of war (free lesson)
L12 VE Day
L13 Overview of World War 2 (free lesson)
L14 Invasion of Poland
L15 Evacuation of Dunkirk
L16 The Battle of Britain (free lesson)
L17 The Battle of the Atlantic
L18 Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union
L19 Sir Arthur Bomber Harris
L20 D-Day landings
L21 The attack of Pearl Harbour
L22 Dropping the of Atomic Bombs on Japan
L23 Refugees in World War 2

Unfortunately due to TES restricting bundles to 20 resources, the free lessons of 7, 11, and 16 on World War 2 will need to be downloaded separately.

Please review this resource to aid my planning with future bundles.