Lesson Plan

Date: Class/Group: Time: P1 & 2

15 June 2017 HASS History - Year 9 (3/11) Room: 115
Subject: The making of the modern world.
Topic: Depth study 2: Investigating World War I (19141918).
Lesson content: Continue lesson from Tuesday on Sergeant Brookes lessons.
Curriculum links: Specific Objectives/Learning Goals:
The causes of World War I and the Students will:
reasons that men enlisted to fight in the Empathise with soldiers on the front line be
war (ACDSEH021). analyzing their diary notes.
General Capabilities: Students to write a final letter home as if they
Literacy were going to war.
Critical and creative thinking
Ethical Understanding

Cross-curriculum priorities:

Skills Student Diversity:

Questioning and Researching
Analysing
Evaluating
Communicating and Reflecting
Prior Learning:
Students have spent the previous 6
weeks of Term 2 learning about
World War 1 and have completed 2
Summative Assessments (CATs).
Each class of Year 9s (3 & 11) have students with
learning and/or behavioral difficulties. The implication
of this is that more attention and scaffolding is required
for these students. The teacher must be careful not to
pay too much attention to the detriment of the other
students.
Resources/Materials required:
My Laptop and wireless mouse
Internet via WIFI

Teacher resources:
Worksheets

Student resources:

Students have displayed that they are distracted and distracting by iPads so I have limited their use in
class.

www.firstworldwar.com

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Lesson Steps
Time: Procedure Comment
Pre- Turn on projector
lesson Plug in laptop
Arrange desks as needed
Lay out resources as needed

5 mins Welcome and Roll Wait until there is quiet

Discuss learning objectives Remind students of the

Class rules. Emphasise
that no one has the right to
5 mins Teacher input Review the learning so far on the war and stop you from learning.
introduce the activity.

5 mins Activity Hand out Worksheet 1.2 Similarities & Differences

between soldiers.
Walk around the class and
Q: What are the main differences? The Main similarities? How check on progress and
young do they look? give help where required.

15 Activity Hand out Worksheet 2.4 Rifleman Harry Brown.

mins Students to read the cover page and then answer the
questions.

Review answers with students.

15 Activity Hand out Worksheet 2.7 Post Office Rifle William Walk around the class and
mins Newman. Students to read the cover page and then write a read responses and
last letter home as if they were going to war themselves. suggest content Who,
What, Why.

5 mins Review the lesson objectives.

10 Start watching The Lighthorsemen to be completed by the

mins end of term.
Evaluation of Student Learning:
1. Were the students engaged during the lesson?
2. Were the objectives met? If not, why not?
3. Were they able to successfully create their own Excel spreadsheet?
4. Was there sufficient scaffolding leading up to the lesson, i.e. were the students in the ZPD?
5. What was the feedback from the students? Did they enjoy it - was it fun?

Self-Evaluation/Reflection:
1. How did the overall lesson seem to go?
2. Did I stay on time?
3. What was the feedback from the students? Did they enjoy it - was it fun?
4. Did any students struggle to meet the objectives?
5. What would I do differently next time?

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