Learning objective
- To infer the thoughts and feelings of evacuees using different sources.
Success criteria
- I can explain why children were evacuated during
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National curriculum
History
Pupils should be
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Cross-curricular links
English
Reading comprehension
Pupils should
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Display the Presentation: In the spotlight, showing a memorial in the National Memorial Arboretum.
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could use the ideas generated on the flipchart as prompts for their own inferences during the Main event; could infer only the feelings during the Main event; should use the Knowledge organiser for vocabulary support.
Pupils working at greater depth
Could discuss what the labels and items of an evacuee suggest about life during World War 2 in the Attention grabber; could create a caption for each photograph describing what it shows after the matching activity in the Main event.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: explaining what evacuation was
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Vocabulary definitions
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evacuation
Moving people from a dangerous place to a safer place.
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evacuee
A person who moves away from a place of danger.
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In this unit
Assessment - History Y4: How have children's lives changed?
Lesson 1: What do sources tell us about how children's lives have changed?
Lesson 2: Why did Tudor children work and what was it like?
Lesson 3: What were children's jobs like in Victorian England?
Lesson 4: How did Lord Shaftesbury help to change the lives of children?
Lesson 5: How and why has children's leisure time changed?
Lesson 6: What were the diseases children caught and how were they treated?
Optional Remembrance lesson: How can we remember the children who were affected by war?
