Lesson Four – Make Do and Mend
This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and explain how families responded to some of the shortages that occurred during the Second World War by reusing and repurposing different materials.
The class can identify and record how families could reuse different materials to overcome shortages during this period in history to repair and produce objects.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and explain how families responded to some of the shortages that occurred during the Second World War by reusing and repurposing different materials
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how families responded to some of the shortages that occurred during the Second World War and a worksheet to suggest different ways of reusing materials in response to the shortages that occurred during this period in history.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how families responded to some of the shortages that occurred 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.
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