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7. Resources for teachers

National Curriculum

The Zeppelin raid theme relates to Scheme of Work for History, Key Stage 3, Unit 18: 'Hot war, cold war why did the major twentieth-century conflicts affect so many people?'.

Pupils could read and study the theme online for themselves, or through the worksheets and approaches below the theme could be studied in the classroom.

Worksheets

The following worksheets provide a selection of the primary sources and pose questions about the evidence on the Zeppelin raids. As with all the worksheets on Routes to Roots, these pages are 'printer-friendly', meaning they will print out without unnecessary links or logos and can be easily distributed to a class:

• Newspaper reports (Opens in a new window). Pupils study four newspaper reports and answer questions about the way raids were reported and censored.
• Personal Letters (Opens in a new window). Following on from the newspaper reports, pupils read letters and compare their tone and reporting of the Zeppelin raids. Pupils decide how great an impact the Zeppelin raids had on the population of Britain.

Approaches

As well as using the prepared worksheets, you may also like to use the following suggestions as a starting point for using the theme:

• Ask pupils to read through the theme online, and pose an extended essay question asking pupils to use their own judgement on whether the raids were a success or failure. Alternatively, present the theme on an interactive whiteboard and discuss the impact of the Zeppelin raids as a group.
• Ask pupils to read about the Wednesbury bombing and do a piece of creative writing or newspaper report.
• Use any of the Sources and pose your own source questions about them.
• Combine this theme with other themes such as Aircraft crashes theme. Encourage pupils to compare the impact of the airborne weapons of World War One with the more sophisticated and co-ordinated bombing campaign of World War Two.

The National Archives' Learning Curve Snapshot focusing on Zeppelin raids, may also be of interest: The Zeppelin raids: How did First World War Zeppelin air-raids affect British civillians? (Opens in a new window)

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