History at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 3/4)

Unit 9: What was it like for children in the Second World War?
Section 6: In what other ways might the war have affected people?

Objectives

Children should learn:

an overview of how the war affected people's everyday lives
about the restrictions on people, how they suffered during the war, their courage and resilience

Activities

Outcomes

Children:

Give the children selected sources, eg photographs of soldiers, women at work, the home guard, a funeral, newspaper headlines.

Work with the children to list what the pictures show. Consider what can be inferred about the effects of the war on people's lives, and about the qualities people needed to survive.

Ask the children to write captions for one or more of the pictures.

list some of the effects of war on everyday life
suggest ways in which people suffered

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	1. What was the Second World War? When and where did it take place?
	2. What was the Blitz?
	3. Why were children evacuated?
	4. What was it like to be an evacuee?
	5. What did people eat during the war?
	6. In what other ways might the war have affected people?
	7. What were children's experiences of the war?
	8. What it was like to be a child living in this area in World War II?
	9. How did the Second World War affect children who lived in this locality?
	10. What has been done since to prevent another world war?