Lesson Planning

Young men lied about their age to fight on the front line, and many soldiers travelled a long way from across the British Empire to join the fighting. From various sources find out about what it was like when they got there. Make a trench in the classroom with tables, and get chn to record their thoughts and write a poem in a diary while sitting in 'trenches'.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To explore the different sources about what life was like at the Western Front.
• Write a diary about life in the trenches.

Children will:

• Use sources to make a recreation of a trench more accurate.
• Make a collaborative design for a trench constrained by resources and space.
• Make a booklet out of folded paper.
• Do some creative writing about life in the trenches.