Second World War - Operation Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost The War

A fully resourced lesson which looks at everything needed for a thorough study of Operation Barbarossa. Learning episodes are as follows:

1. Molotov - Ribbentrop recap/discussion
2. Key stats match up activity
3. Video activity
4. Guided Reading (Extended Reading Article with tools to break it down).
5. Fortunes Graph - plot the events of the battle on a time/fortune graph to show the shift in the battle)
6. Factors sort activity (two ways - long/short - Nazi/Soviet)
7. Image source to factor match up activity.
8. Writing Task - with structure plan, PEEL paragraph sentence starters and an example paragraph broken down and analysed. Focus on appositive sentences to improve literacy.
9. Peer Assessment
10. Extended task - blog reading
11. Video plenary task.

It has been used effectively in high schools over a number of years and I have recently updated it.

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Hope it helps.