Weimar Constitution 1919: Strengths, Weaknesses & Was It Built to Fail? – GCSE Lesson

Early Weimar Germany 1918–23: Six Complete Enquiry Lessons on Crises, Extremism & Hyperinflation

A complete set of six high-quality enquiry lessons exploring the dramatic early years of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1923. Students investigate how Germany moved from defeat and revolution to political extremism and economic collapse — and whether these crises were survivable or signs of deeper weaknesses in the new democracy. Each lesson uses the distinctive Asa Merrin approach: enquiry-led learning, immersive activities, inference-rich tasks, clear modelling, and structured evaluation. This bundle provides everything needed to build deep understanding and strong GCSE-level historical thinking. The six lessons include: • How six politicians saved Germany (1918–19) — WWYD crisis simulations on the creation of Weimar • Hyperinflation 1923 — decision-making enquiry, character match-up, headline evaluation • The Kaiser’s Abdication — dramatic narrative enquiry exploring November 1918 • Treaty of Versailles — why Germans hated the settlement & how it shaped early instability • The Weimar Constitution — strengths, weaknesses and whether it was built to fail • Weimar Republic 1919–22 — extremism, uprisings and the struggle for stability (full enquiry) Each lesson features: • A clear enquiry question with conceptual depth • Engaging starters (image inference, metaphors, recap quizzes, WWYD choices) • Highly structured modelling and guided reasoning • Inference, explanation and evaluation tasks • Challenge & Support differentiation on every slide • Full teacher notes (Purpose, Guidance, Insight, Differentiation) • Professional, consistent visuals across the series Designed for Edexcel GCSE (Weimar & Nazi Germany) but easily adaptable for AQA, OCR and Eduqas. Ideal for teachers who want a ready-made sequence that builds powerful thinking skills while helping students truly understand why early Weimar Germany was so unstable.