Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how the roles of women changed during the Second World War, a template to record notes about a job performed by women during this period in British history and a worksheet to write an advert to persuade women to take on a new role during the Second World War.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how the roles of women in Britain changed and developed during the Second World War.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record the impact of the Second World War on Britain and how the conflict changed family life at this time in world history. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.