Title:
A British Society in the Past
Entry Code:
6250/E2
6250/E3
Level;
Entry 2/3
Credit Value:
4
Unit Aim:
This unit aims to help learners to understand the key features that affected people's lives in Britain in the past.
This will be through a study of a short period of British history. In particular learners will be taught about
similarities and differences between past and present and the use of historical sources.
Learning
Objective
Assessment Criteria E2
LO1
AC1.1
know features of a identify features connected with
particular British
this British society in the past
society in the past
THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918
Assessment Criteria E3
Programme of study
AC1.1
What was life like in Britain in 1900?
describe features of a British society
in the past
What was Europe like in 1900?
How did the war begin?
Why did men join up? Conscription, Propaganda
The Western Front
How/Why did Trench warfare start?
How did technology contribute to Trench warfare?
What was life like in the trenches?
What was the fighting like in the trenches?
The Battle of the Somme
The war in the air
Naval warfare U-boats.
The Home Front; Rationing, Women
How did the war end?
AC1.2
identify people from this British
society in the past
AC1.2
describe the importance of certain
people in this British society in the
past
know similarities
and differences
between a
particular British
society in the past
and their own
society
AC2.1
show how people's lives in this
British society were similar to life
today
AC2.1
describe similarities between this
British society and their own times
LO3
be able to use
historical sources to
find out about a
particular British
society in the past
AC3.1
identify different types of historical
sources
AC3.1
categorise different types of historical
sources
AC3.1
select information from historical
sources
AC3.2
use historical sources to make
Visual – pictures, photographs, paintings, posters,
observations about a British society in
cartoons, maps, films from the time
the past
Artefacts – gas masks, weapons, tools, medals,
household items, clothes, shoes
LO2
AC2.2
show how people’s lives in this
British society were different from
life today
AC2.2
describe how people's lives were
different in this British society in the
past from lives today
Kaiser Wilhelm ll
Lord Kitchener
General Haig
Lloyd George
Houses, home/social life ,clothes, food,
Transport
Weapons, warfare
Attitudes – to country, women,
Work
Written – letters, diaries, newspapers,
Oral – eye witness recordings/memories used in
radio/television/CDs/ DVDs, music
Sites - war memorials, battlefields, headstones, houses
Module
Entry 2
Introduction
List some features of everyday life
in 1900 and features of life today
What was life like
Produce poster illustrating some
in 1900
features of everyday life in1900
and some features of life today
Module
Entry 2
Entry 3
Produce poster illustrating with
descriptions features of life in 1900
and comparing them to life today
Produce power point describing
features of life in 1900 with
comparisons to life today
Entry 3
Show film footage from the time -everyday life in
1900; or fictional TV programme.
Use small display of everyday household articles
from early 20th century
Worksheets; True/False – Had/Did not have
Discussion of similarities and differences – life in
1900 and life today