History at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 3/4)
Unit 9: What was it like for children in the Second World War?
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Section 1: What was the Second World War? When and where did it take place?
Children:
- suggest why it is called a 'world war'
- know and use the names of leaders, key events and dates
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Section 2: What was the Blitz?
Children:
- suggest reasons why some areas of a city were more likely to be bombed than others
- suggest how the bombing could be stopped
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Section 3: Why were children evacuated?
Children:
- suggest how people could have been protected in the war
- suggest why evacuation was used as one strategy to protect children
- explain the effects of bomb damage
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Section 4: What was it like to be an evacuee?
Children:
- describe some likely feelings and experiences of an evacuee
- use words associated with evacuation accurately and appropriately
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Section 5: What did people eat during the war?
Children:
- infer causes of rationing
- identify some similarities and differences between foods available during the war and today
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Section 6: In what other ways might the war have affected people?
Children:
- list some of the effects of war on everyday life
- suggest ways in which people suffered
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Section 7: What were children's experiences of the war?
Children:
- describe different experiences that children had of the war
- suggest some reasons for these differences
- retell the story of Anne Frank
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Section 8: What it was like to be a child living in this area in World War II?
Children:
- suggest appropriate questions to ask about the war in the locality
- record information about the war in the locality
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Section 9: How did the Second World War affect children who lived in this locality?
Children:
- show knowledge and understanding of how the war affected people living in their locality
- select information from a range of sources to find out about their locality during the war
- identify similarities and differences between the effects of the war locally and nationally
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Section 10: What has been done since to prevent another world war?
Children:
- suggest conflicts happening in the world today
- suggest reasons why the world is/is not better today than during WWII
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