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 * __Yr10 History: Unit 1 World War 2 Lesson 4, Battle of Britain Lesson Plan__**

In this lesson students will look at what is known as the turning point of the War, the Battle of Britain and famously coined by Winston Churchill. Students will access the class online learning space (‘educentral’ wikispaces page) and will be required to download a podcast titled “Battle of Britain – 175 Shot Down” to their iPod / computer / phone or other listening device and then complete a series of question relating to it. Extension of this task will be to discuss some of those questions with their peers in the discussion area of the ‘educentral’ page as well as begin working on their own podcast recorded response to the podcast “Battle of Britain – 175 Shot Down”.


 * ** Run Down of lesson (In stages) ** ||
 * ** Resources ** ||
 * * Wikipedia page “Lesson 4: Battle of Britain” Educentral Wikispace
 * Computers or laptops
 * Students to bring own iPods / iPads / listening devices ||
 * ** Finish Prior Work ** ||
 * * Finish work from prior lesson, estimated time of 15-20mins ||
 * ** Introduction ** ||
 * * Explain what the battle of Britain was, and why it is significant. Considered the turning point of the war. The battle of Britain was the first major military campaign in history to be fought entirely by air forces. Introduce the students to the class wiki-page and go over the page and some of the elements and links within in it. Remind students that the wiki-page will have information about current and upcoming homework, in case they forget to write it down elsewhere. Also has a place to discuss questions either put up by the teacher of their peers.
 * Lesson 4 Battle of Britain ||
 * **Activity** ||
 * * Listen to podcast taken from an English midnight radio show during the Battle of Britain. Answer questions about this pod cast.
 * Found here : World War 2 Podcasts note Podcast 11


 * Does the radio presenter sound like he is giving good or bad news?
 * Do you think the statistics the radio presenter are correct? Why/why not?
 * Why might the presenter want to lie about such information?
 * Using other historical sources can you work out what was a more likely run down of events from the 15 th  September 1940?
 * Give 3 reasons why primary history sources may not always be accurate.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In what ways are this podcast and the one by Winston Churchill similar?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is propaganda?]

The benefit of such a resource as the podcast when mixed with the above questions is requires students to look more critically at primary sources which are traditionally harder to obtain. The activity requires students to explain the benefits and weaknesses of primary sources, further helping them to develop their historical research skills and their ability to develop strong historical opinions on events of the past. || ||
 * ** Assessment **
 * * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Part one: Select three of the questions to create as a discussion point on the wikispaces page, every student must make at least one post on each discussion minimum 50words.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Part two: Students must use the data uncovered from answering the questions to create a response to the English midnight radio podcast, from the perspective of the Axis (German) forces, which uses effective propaganda that would convince German people that the raid was a success.

The second assessment task works on multiple levels it requires students to draw upon past knowledge as well as study and conceptualise an alternative view of the Battle of Britain from the Axis perspective. The task also requires them to think creatively about how they would express the views and allows them to harness the power of new technologies such as podcasts in an attempt to make them more comfortable in the use of such technology. ||
 * ** Homework ** ||
 * * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Write this in your diaries!


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student must complete discussion questions on Wikispaces page by next lesson.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students are to begin writing out a transcript for their podcast, get creative! Will arrange times next week to start recording podcasts. ||