Year 8 modules

Year 8, ages 12 to 13. Aotearoa NZ Histories, Years 7 and 8 phase. Social Sciences.

Focus: The whole story, 1914 to Anzac Day today, and what a record can tell us.

Care Medium. Some students will find a relative died. Prepare them first. Give a quiet way out.

Year 8, ages 12 to 13. Time: 1 x 50 minutes.

Learning intentions

• I can explain the plan and two reasons it went wrong.

Key questions

• Why Gallipoli?
• Why did the plan fail?

Activities

• Lesson 2 sheet.
• Draw the plan, then mark what happened.
• Present Ottoman soldiers as people defending their home.

Source material

• Sheet 2: The landing

Success criteria

• Gives two reasons for failure with evidence.

Year 8, ages 12 to 13. Time: 2 x 50 minutes.

Learning intentions

• I can read a real service record.
• I can tell what a record shows and what it leaves out.

Key questions

• What can one record tell us about a life?
• What is missing?

Activities

• Open a soldier from the class roll.
• Fill a record card: number, unit, ship, date, fate.
• Write one question the record cannot answer.

Source material

• Sheet 4: Coming home
• Eric Meadowcroft, one record told in full

Success criteria

• Records five fields correctly.
• Names one gap in the record.

Year 8, ages 12 to 13. Time: Half day.

Learning intentions

• I can find and record a WW1 grave respectfully.

Key questions

• Who is buried near us, and how are they remembered?

Activities

• Use the cemetery directory to plan.
• Field-trip sheet on site.
• Back in class, match one grave to its record.

Source material

• Field-trip sheet
• Cemetery directory

Success criteria

• Records name, dates and inscription accurately.
• Behaves with respect on site.