The
Lesson
Whole
Class
Teaching
Show slide 1 of the PowerPoint Remembrance
Day.ppt at the start of the session and explain that pupils are going
to learn about Remembrance Day by using a series of photographs.
Show slide 2 - a video clip of a remembrance ceremony, by clicking
on the black rectangle. The video is quite silent to begin with. The video
clip is from 1948; tell pupils that remembrance ceremony is not a recent
development.
Q Has anyone ever seen or taken part in a ceremony like this?
Q How does it make you feel when you are listening to this?
Draw from the pupils their experiences, cubs and brownies may have participated
in local remembrance ceremonies.
Q What words would you use to describe this to someone who hasn't seen
it?
sad, serious, unhappy, poppies, wreaths, dark clothes, uniforms, music,
trumpet, marching, silence
Q What special events do you remember every year?
Pupils may suggest birthdays, Mother's Day, Hanukah, Divali, Christmas,
Holi etc. - use these to establish that they happen on the same date each
year.
Q What sort of things remind you of these special days?
Cards in the shop, advertisements, the rabbi, decorations go up in the
home/town etc.
Show slide 3 of different types of war memorials.
Explain to the pupils that memorials such as these can be found all over
the country. They come in a whole variety of shapes and sizes.
Q Have you seen anything similar to this anywhere?
Click on each memorial in turn for a close up of the photograph illustrating
different features. Click the back button, the poppy, to return to the
original slide.
For each image:
Q What do you see?
The teacher may wish to record notes of pupils' suggestions. Dates, names,
wreaths, inscriptions, flowers, cross etc.
Q Some of these are symbolic. What do they mean?
A torch for eternal life with God, cross for Christianity, poppies are
a symbol used to commemorate people who died in the first World War in
Flanders and now are sold to raise funds to support former soldiers and
their families, including those who fought in recent conflicts. Poppies
represent both loss and hope.
Q Why do you think that people wanted to build a war memorial?
Q Why are there lists of names?
To remember those in the town or village who lost their lives in conflict.
Draw pupils' attention to the forenames on the memorial, one of which
is a woman.
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Main Activity
The main activity can take place at another time as a follow up to this
introductory session. Arrange a visit to the local war memorial. Encourage
the pupils to describe what they can see and to take digital photographs.
The teacher will need to transfer these photographs to the computer and
create a presentation or word document containing some images and leaving
space for pupils to add their observations. Pupils could do this with
a partner in a computer room.
Homework
The pupils could interview veterans or elderly people in the local area
who lived through the war.
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Plenary
Using a couple of examples of pupils' work compare their observations
with features shown on the war memorials seen in the introductory PowerPoint.
Why use ICT
Accessing and analysing: ICT allows access to information on the
Internet that provides the teacher with a wealth of first hand material
for pupils to analyse and interrogate, in this case historical footage
from a memorial ceremony, otherwise not available to teachers or pupils.
The use of digital photographs of a number of memorials in the area allows
quick access to a far wider range of features of memorials than would
normally be available by visiting a local town. The availability of this
number of memorials encourages higher levels of interrogation analysis.
Presenting, re-presenting and communicating: The ability to use
a multimedia presentation with video clips of first hand historical evidence
plus digital images of a number of memorials (either those provided or
replaced with images of local memorials), selected to meet the specific
learning objectives of this unit, provides the teacher with a wealth of
resources previously unavailable in the classroom. In this case the ready
made presentation provides the teacher with an easy to manage resource
containing embedded video clips as a starting point of first hand evidence
for the session. A presentation, particularly one with the use of a data
projector, allows the pupils to view the same image simultaneously. Once
the presentation is created it forms a reusable resource that can be shared
with colleagues.
Testing and confirming:
The digital camera allows speedy access to information. By encouraging
pupils to take their own digital photographs of memorials, to add to the
collection of memorials already available, it deepens their level of enquiry
and allows pupils to generate their own questions and hypothesis which
they can then easily test and confirm.
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