(I)GCSE - The League of Nations

A wide-ranging collection of purposeful and adaptable lessons covering six different sub-topics on the League of Nations helping to enable all students to maximise their potential.

1. A power point to introduce the topic.
2. An exercise to raise awareness of the League’s aims and enable them to place the League’s work in context so that from the outset your students can appreciate the scale of the work that the League faced and are able to relate it to problems coming out of the war and the Paris Peace Conference as well as problems like sovereignty.
3. A simple but useful notes framework covering the League’s organisation coupled with an interesting task that gets students thinking like a diplomat.
4. Keeping the peace in the 1920s – a power point to introduce the topic and a notes framework with reading that covers more of the League’s work than you will find in textbooks. And with an exercise to check the usefulness of notes made against possible exam questions.
5. The League in the 1930s – an exercise that will complement the work you will do regarding Manchuria, disarmament and Abyssinia, focusing on the context to the 1930s and why it might have contributed to the crises the League faced as well as why the League failed to deal with them well.
6. The League’s Humanitarian Work – a fun exercise in which pairs or small group of students will prepare a three-minute speech as to why one of the League’s commissions should be considered as important. Fully supported with reading and help in forming their notes. And there is a plenary exercise looking at possible exam questions.
7. A fun exercise to consolidate what has been learned about the work of the League with the students producing tv documentaries and another exercise that looks at possible exam questions, this time suggesting approaches to answering them in a way that gets them thinking.
8. An exercise that teaches students how to approach the “message” question when the message is in a cartoon.