Year:

WW1

WW1 Long Term Causes Lesson:

HistorySubject:

CONNECT & ENGAGE

ACTIVATEDEMONSTRATE

REVIEW & EVALUATE

ACADEMY LEARNING CYCLE

8

Unit:

REVIEW & EVALUATE

ACTIVATE(Explicit Teaching)

DEMONSTRATE(Student Constructs)

CONNECT & ENGAGE

The Big Picture

In two minutes think of as many words as you can to describe these pictures…

CONNECT & ENGAGE

Why did so many countries go to war in 1914?

LO:• To understand the long term causes of

WW1• To be able to explain how these made

war likely in Europe

The Big Picture

Algernon the toad lived in a zoo, but he had long dreamed of freedom. His keeper was a man named Frank. Frank had not had a good month. Firstly, his old neighbours had moved out, and some new people had moved in. He missed his friends. The new neighbours played loud music every night of the week, and had cut down his favourite hedge carved like a toad, and he hadn’t had a good nights sleep in ages! In was perhaps because of this that on Monday night, after eating a banana, Frank dropped the skin not in the bin, but on the floor, before heading for home.All of this meant that when Frank turned up on Tuesday morning, yawning his way into the room, he slipped on the banana skin, slid across the floor, banged into the table and knocked Algernon’s cage onto the floor, where the lid sprang open. “At last!” Algernon thought “freedom!” and he hopped into the sunlight and had many strange and wonderful adventures.

Long Term Cause….

Short Term Cause…

ACTIVATE(Explicit Teaching)

Countries build up empires by conquering and controlling other countries. This gives them wealth and power.

In 1900, Britain and France had big empires. Germany and Italy wanted empires, but there wasn’t much land left to

conquer.

Fuse One: Empire

Fuse Two: Arms Race

When countries compete to have the biggest and best military equipment, they are having an arms

race.

In 1900 Britain had the largest navy in the world, but Germany wanted to change this. The two

countries competed to build dreadnoughts, a type of ship.

Countries began to spend huge amounts of money on their armies to prepare for war.

Fuse Two: Arms Race

Fuse Three: AlliancesAs countries increased the size of their armies,

war seemed more likely.

Groups of countries in Europe made

agreements to protect each other.

There were two main alliances in Europe: The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance

Working in pairs, RECALL the knowledge you have learnt and try to fill in the

spaces.

Write in pencil to begin with.

DEMONSTRATE(Student Constructs)

Vote with your feet

Which long term cause do you think was the most important? Be prepared to JUSTIFY!

REVIEW