Teacher Support

This part of the site is designed to provide teachers with lesson plans, resources and reference material covering our are of expertise within the scope of the National Curriculum and the history syllabi of the principal examination boards of England and Wales. The emphasis throughout will be to the experience of soldiers and people of Devon and Dorset.

Education Packs

WWI – Trench Warfare on the Western Front (KS3)

Click here to download a zip file containing the entire Pack (approx 55MB)

Alternatively, zip files containing the individual lessons can be downloaded below (please note that the Lesson 1 zip file includes documents relating to the entire pack):

Lesson 1 (approx 17MB)	- What were the causes of WWI from a global and a local perspective?
Lesson 2 (approx 8MB)	- Why did Devon and Dorset men join up?
Lesson 3 (approx 4MB)	- What was Trench warfare?
Lesson 4 (approx 6MB)	- What was it like in the trenches?
Lesson 5 (approx 9MB)	- What was the fighting like in WWI?
Lesson 6 (approx 3MB)	- What happened in the major battles of WWI?
Lesson 6a (approx 5MB)	- What happened on the First day of the Somme?
Lesson 7 (approx 2MB)	- How did the Allies break the stalemate?
Lesson 7a (approx 1MB)	- What was the impact of the Tank on the Western Front?
Lesson 8 (approx 2MB)	- What was life like on the Home Front?
Lesson 9 (approx 2MB)	- Why did Germany lose WWI?
Lesson 10 (approx 1MB)	- How has the First World War been remembered and portrayed?

WWII - The Dorset Home Front (KS2)

Click here to download a zip file containing the entire Pack (approx 350MB)

Alternatively, zip files containing the individual lessons can be downloaded below (please note that the Lesson 1 zip file includes documents relating to the entire pack):

Lesson 1 (approx 8MB)	- What was the Second World War? When and where did it take place?
Lesson 2 (approx 28MB)	- What was the Blitz?
Lesson 3 (approx 5MB)	- Why were children evacuated?
Lesson 4 (approx 46MB)	- What was it like to be an evacuee?
Lesson 5 (approx 54MB)	- What did people eat during the war?
Lesson 6 (approx 86MB)	- In what other ways might the war have affected people?
Lesson 7 (approx 2MB)	- What were children's experiences of the war?
Lesson 8 (approx 39MB)	- What was it like to be a child living in this area in World War II?
Lesson 9 (approx 75MB)	- How did the Second World War affect children who lived in this locality?
Lesson 10 (approx 13MB)	- What has been done to prevent another world war?

Additional resources and a simple KS3 Education Pack can be found within the Education section of our Home Front Virtual Gallery.