Key Stage: 2

Description

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NB: This episode is also available as part of boxed set "BD0002 World War 1". Search for "BD0002" to see a full list of contents and to request this resource.

Duration: 1 hour

Aimed at primary school-aged children, this is a compilation of films each looking at a diffrerent aspect of World War I. Using a mixture of children's research, artefacts and archive from the time, the films centre around personal testimony monologues. Although fictional, the stories are based on primary sources and highlight the diversity of the people affected by the war.

Curriculum links - History: understand methods of historical enquiry; changes within living memory; British history beyond 1066.

Topics covered include:

Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

Battalions

Conscription

Diary

Empire

Food

Gas

Home Front

In Flanders Fields

Jutland Jac

Keep the Home Fires Burning

Lusitania

Medicine

Nurses

Owen, Wilfred

Post Office

Quartermaster

Remembrance

Shrapnel

Trenches

Unsung Heroes

Victory

Women

Xmas Truce

Your Country Needs You

Zeppelin

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