5–14 Environmental Studies
The resources in this education pack have been produced to encourage development in skills, knowledge and understanding for pupils at levels D–F of the 5–14 Environmental Studies; Social Subjects Guidelines.
These education packs can be used in the classroom, at home or at the exhibition. They inspire individual as well as group work and include suggestions for further fun, engaging activities.
This resource pack contains:
- Sweet Dreams
Fun, interactive trivia game to develop your pupils' ICT skills and encourage reiterative assessment of their knowledge and understanding. A patient is lying in bed and trying to sleep by counting sheep. Your pupils have to answer questions on Craiglockhart, the First World War and shell shock. If they get an answer wrong, the patient wakes up with shell-shock nightmares, if they get an answer right, the patient counts sheep and sleeps soundly. - AWOL
Interactive letter game to develop your pupils' ICT skills and encourage empathy for people in the past. Some of the words in a letter about a soldier's experiences during the Great War are ‘absent without leave'. Pupils have to select the correct words from the ‘word trench' and drop them into the correct spaces to complete the letter. - Writing Home – 1
PDF worksheet where your pupils look closely at a letter written by an actual soldier on the front, home to his family. Your pupils have to first answer some questions, based on a close reading of the letter, then putting themselves in the soggy boots of the soldier, they have to try and write his next letter home, trying to stay cheery despite the uncomfortable conditions in the trenches. - Writing Home – 2
PDF worksheet for your pupils to complete alone or in a group. Looking closely at real letters written by a soldier on the front to his family, back at Craiglockhart, your pupils have to answer questions and then empathise with the soldier's situation and help him write a postcard home. - Teachers' Notes
A PDF containing notes for teachers with clearly-marked objectives for attainment in knowledge and understanding and skills, including suggestions for lesson plans and additional fun, interesting or challenging activities.
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