The Lesson
Whole Class Teaching
Teacher uses the PowerPoint
presentation to introduce the effects of air raids and their impact
on children.
Slide 2
Q What do you think is happening?
Q Why are they having to do this?
People are filling sandbags to protect the windows in case of an air raid.
Slide 3
Q What do you think is happening here?
People are sheltering in an underground station during an air raid.
The air raid warden is patrolling the platform - you can see him with
his band.
Q How do you think these people feel?
Initially this was different and quite exciting, but also scary or frightening.
Slide 4
Q What is happening here?
This is a mother with three children sheltering from an air raid in an
Anderson Shelter at the bottom of their garden. (Named after John Anderson,
Home Secretary at the time.)
Q Who is missing?
There are no men. Can the pupils offer reasons why? They may have enlisted
in the armed services or they may be working in some protected industry
e.g. munitions, mining etc.
Slide 5
Q What is involved in making an Anderson Shelter?
Corrugated iron sheets placed over a small excavation and covered with
earth. Quite frequently vegetables were then later planted in the earth
covering the shelter.
Q What would it be like to have to spend many nights in here?
Q How do you think your family would feel if you had to go into an air
raid shelter?
It is very small for a family. It will be dirty, cold, damp, crowded,
dark - candles or lanterns.
Slide 6
These are just examples of gas masks. Point out to the pupils that everyone
was expected to carry their gas masks all the time. If you didn't and
the air raid warden spotted you - you were in trouble.
Q How do you think these young parents felt?
Slide 7
Q What is happening here?
Children being evacuated. The teacher will need to explain that one of
the consequences of the air raids was that many children were evacuated
to the countryside, without their parents and in some cases for several
years. It would be useful to point out that the children were wearing
labels. Note the adults supervising the evacuation; the woman in the right
foreground has a box with a gas mask - do the pupils notice this?
Q What would it feel like if you were standing on this platform?
Obviously there are crowds of people, a lot of noise, confusion etc.
Children didn't know where they were going, what they would find, how
they would be treated at the other end.
Slide 8
The final slide of the PowerPoint presentation introduces the task for
the main activity.
Main Activity
Teacher now explains the pupils' task, they will add text to the speech
bubbles to one or two photographs of evacuees demonstrating their understanding
of how the evacuees would have felt in various situations.
Teacher needs to demonstrate adding text to a speech bubble. Teacher opens
one of the example files e.g. Evacuees1.
Shows pupils how to click inside a callout box and add some text. If the
pupil wishes to write more text than will fit into the speech bubble,
teacher should demonstrate how to extend the bubble by grabbing the handles
and dragging; alternatively the pupil can be encouraged to write beneath
the photograph.
Teacher interactions should be focused on ensuring that pupils are writing
how the evacuees would have felt rather than describing the scene.
Right click on any unused speech bubbles and select cut to remove.
Plenary
Encourage two or three pupils to print out their examples. Using a flip
chart record a list of the different emotions or feelings experienced
by the evacuees.
Why use ICT?
ICT has enabled the teacher to provide every pupil in the class with
original digital images, to develop their empathy with children who were
evacuated.
As this is a generic activity teachers could adapt it to other subjects
and contexts.
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