This activity is taken from MY UNCLE'S DUNKIRK by Mick Manning and Brita Granström (published by Franklin Watts in association with the Imperial War Museum). It explores the events at Dunkirk by comparing a holiday beach scene with a war zone. There is opportunity for plenty of cross curricular work, including history, geography and PSHE, as well as two worksheets to support the Pupils Writing Targets at Y 2, 3, 4 and 5.

This can be used either as a teaching aid to help with the chronology, or printed off and laminated as a display. I have it hanging on a washing line from my ceiling and the children refer to it quite regularly. Hope it's useful.

Introductory lesson about the causes of World War 2.

2 Second World War timelines for Yr 5 and 6 outlining events, personalitites and the Home Front.

A set of teaching resources published and made freely available by by the Martin Luther King Peace Committee (Newcastle University) to commemorate the centenary of the first Christmas Truce of World War One. The resources include materials on a variety of topics within the First World War - including ideas for cross-curricular schemes of work. For more information, see the link below: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/martinlutherking/activities/worldwaronechristmastrucecommemorations/

Children sorted some of the key events and then created a timeline.

Includes information on Axis and Allied countries, their leaders (German, Japanese, Italian, Nazi's, British, Royal Family, American, French and Russian). Presentation would be suitable for note taking activity or just a simple introduction to who was involved in World War II and some interesting facts.

A short story about evacuation. Used as a 'good' example of story writing for children in Year 6.

A few resources we used when writing a newspaper report based on a V1 incident in Lewisham High Street in 1944. There's an example newspaper front page about the declaration of war, some background information on the V1 incident & prompt cards for witnesses to interview and finally a boxed up planning sheet for the children to use when structuring their report.

Grids illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols. Grids give practice with vocabulary, reading for meaning, and coordinates. The worksheets include extra questions including fill the blanks which can be completed by copying text or cut-and-paste labels.

Something for everyone in the suggested groups, or EAL. Picture and/or word match; spot the difference; Numicon shapes counting; odd one out; draw and colour; copy words to blanks in text. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.

This lesson involved looking at historical sources and deciding which were helpful in providing evidence in historical enquiry. The children also carried out some reseacrh using the bbc evacuees page and then created a fact page about evacuation.

Find out how the act of Remembrance developed during the First World War and download a selection of objects from IWM. This resource is free for you to use in your classroom. All the images are available to download together as a PowerPoint. For ideas of how you might be able to use these objects, take a look at our Suggested Activities. Visit the link to find out more with IWMs free online learning resource.

This was developed for a local primary school and used to support an Art project. 45 pages in total, each section has information sheet(s) and a question sheet. The class was split in to groups of 4-6 students - each group working on a different section and then sharing information, and developing posters and ceramic work.

This Knowledge Organiser (KO) was designed with a mixed Year 5/6 class in mind when teaching the a history unit with a focus on the Second World War whilst also looking at 20th Century History more broadly. The accompanying 20th Century History Knowledge Organiser can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/20th-century-history-knowledge-organiser-12047135 UPDATE: Now including retrieval quizzes. With special thanks to @TCafferky for inspiring this KO and providing his KO as a starting point! Disclaimer: this KO does have a British slant to it and focuses more on the war in Europe than elsewhere. Images were gained from a Google Image search - if I have inadvertently used one of your images without crediting you, please let me know so that I can attribute it (I made these KOs before I had any intentions of sharing them!).

A detailed chapter-by-chapter scheme of work for the Michael Morpugo novel 'Private Peaceful'. The scheme of work (120 slide PPT) includes a starter, plenary and a choice of three activities per chapter. This allows teachers to choose/adapt the lesson ideas depending on their group. The scheme of work comes with corresponding worksheets and includes links to videos and other interactive resources. Feedback appreciated :)

A termly planning sequence with detailed individual sessions and objectives for the year 3 topic, The Second World War.

These worksheets reveal how rationing functioning during the Second World War: They include: - Details of one week’s rations for an adult - Sample rationing recipes - A WW2 menu chart - Two Maths quiz sheets focusing on the amounts of rations received - One comprehension question sheet

This weekly Literacy/ History plan was used for rememberance day to develop non- fiction writing skills as well as teaching WWI at the same time. Children became very interested in the topic and were very receptive to the information they were looking at. It led to some interesting conversations and debates about the war.

MT plan and resources for passport to the world topic - looking at France, Somalia and Australia. If you find these resources helpful then please take a second to leave feedback.

Two of Vera Lynn's most popular songs ' We'll meet again ' and 'White Cliffs of Dover ' put together in a medley Sound will play when in Slide Mode. View in normal mode if you wish to view words only. Backing track included. Lyrics and chords on the PowerPoint.