Britain is saved from invasion

Complete your large 3D display of The Battle of Britain by wiring your planes with electrical circuits that power their propellers. Set them in dogfight scenarios in your landscape and reflect on Churchill’s famous words “Never … was so much owed by so many to so few”.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To begin to understand the significance of The Battle of Britain as our first victory in WW2.
• To learn techniques of modelling with recycled materials and use an electrical circuit to drive a propeller inside a model Battle of Britain fighter plane.

Children will:

• Wire up their model planes with electrical circuits containing a switch and power a propeller.
• Arrange the Spitfires and Messerschmitts planes in the model of the Kent coastline as a Battle of Britain scene.
• Hear Churchill’s famous words and reflect on the bravery and sacrifice of the RAF Battle of Britain pilots.

• Task Sheet
• How to power your planes
• The Battle of Britain: session 4

• A large sewing needle
• A knitting needle
• Black masking tape
• Propeller, a battery, a motor, a switch
• A reel of insulated electrical copper wire
• Wire strippers
• Barbeque skewers
• Sticky tack

A short clip of Churchill’s famous speech from bbc.co.uk