Year: WW1 WW1 Long Term Causes Lesson: History Subject: CONNECT & ENGAGE ACTIVATE DEMONSTRATE REVIEW & EVALUATE ACADEMY LEARNING CYCLE 8 Unit:
Mar 13, 2016
Year:
WW1
WW1 Long Term Causes Lesson:
HistorySubject:
CONNECT & ENGAGE
ACTIVATEDEMONSTRATE
REVIEW & EVALUATE
ACADEMY LEARNING CYCLE
8
Unit:
REVIEW & EVALUATE
ACTIVATE(Explicit Teaching)
DEMONSTRATE(Student Constructs)
CONNECT & ENGAGE
The Big Picture
Why did so many countries go to war in 1914?
LO:• To understand the long term causes of
WW1• To be able to explain how these made
war likely in Europe
The Big Picture
Algernon the toad lived in a zoo, but he had long dreamed of freedom. His keeper was a man named Frank. Frank had not had a good month. Firstly, his old neighbours had moved out, and some new people had moved in. He missed his friends. The new neighbours played loud music every night of the week, and had cut down his favourite hedge carved like a toad, and he hadn’t had a good nights sleep in ages! In was perhaps because of this that on Monday night, after eating a banana, Frank dropped the skin not in the bin, but on the floor, before heading for home.All of this meant that when Frank turned up on Tuesday morning, yawning his way into the room, he slipped on the banana skin, slid across the floor, banged into the table and knocked Algernon’s cage onto the floor, where the lid sprang open. “At last!” Algernon thought “freedom!” and he hopped into the sunlight and had many strange and wonderful adventures.
Countries build up empires by conquering and controlling other countries. This gives them wealth and power.
In 1900, Britain and France had big empires. Germany and Italy wanted empires, but there wasn’t much land left to
conquer.
Fuse One: Empire
Fuse Two: Arms Race
When countries compete to have the biggest and best military equipment, they are having an arms
race.
In 1900 Britain had the largest navy in the world, but Germany wanted to change this. The two
countries competed to build dreadnoughts, a type of ship.
Countries began to spend huge amounts of money on their armies to prepare for war.
Fuse Two: Arms Race
Fuse Three: AlliancesAs countries increased the size of their armies,
war seemed more likely.
Groups of countries in Europe made
agreements to protect each other.
There were two main alliances in Europe: The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance
Working in pairs, RECALL the knowledge you have learnt and try to fill in the
spaces.
Write in pencil to begin with.
DEMONSTRATE(Student Constructs)