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Bomb shelters and The Blitz

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of World War 2: A Child's Eye View from the Home Front WW2: How it began

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Objectives

History

  • Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British and World history.
  • Address historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity, difference and significance.

Lesson Planning

Discover why people needed bomb shelters in World War 2 and what it was like to experience an air raid during the Blitz.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To learn about the preparations that were made to protect people from enemy bombing and what it was like to take shelter during the Blitz.

Children will:

  • Find out about bomb shelters and The Blitz.
  • Role play an air raid in the classroom using sound effects, tables made into bomb shelters and the teacher in role.
  • Make a cardboard Anderson shelter and design the inside to prepare for aid raids.

You Will Need

  • Several large cloths
  • Silver corrugated card
  • A sheet of A4 card
  • Shelter template on card
  • An A5 sized template of an Anderson shelter with door

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