The Miners' Strike 1984-85 KS3, Lesson 4 - Why did the Strike Fail?

The final lesson in a unit on the 1984-85 miners’ strike designed for more able year 8 students. This is based upon the old style Edexcel B Unit 3 ‘Protest, law and order in the twentieth century’ and was meant as an introduction to GCSE studies. A source inference question to start, followed by a sorting activity where the students are required to highlight the category that each reason for failure falls into. Students are then provided with a writing frame for their explanation on the failure of the strike. This can be used as the final assessment for the unit. Highlighters are useful when delivering this lesson. There is an excellent documentary on Channel 4 entitled ‘When Britain Went to War’ which proved very useful to use alongside the PowerPoints https://www.channel4.com/programmes/when-britain-went-to-war/on-demand/36247-001