Hi Year 5

Geography continues with areas of significance linked with WW2.

Today we are looking at the UK and radar linked with the Battle of Britain, which we covered in our last History lesson.

Miss Stimson & Miss Watson

Tuesday 19th May 2020

L.O To become familiar with the location of the Channel, the South East coast of England and some Luftwaffe targets in the UK.

Operation Sea LionFollowing the collapse of France on June 18th 1940, Hitler ordered plans for an invasion of Britain.

The success of the plan would depend on the Luftwaffe’s ability to destroy the RAF.

The Luftwaffe had 4 times as many aircraft as the RAF, and so Hitler believed this could be easily achieved.

On the 10th July 1940, the Luftwaffe made their first bomber attack of British ships in the English Channel. This is the sea that is between the UK and France.

Label the English Channel

on your UK map.

This map shows the German plan for invading Britain. The area shaded red is where the German army planned to land troops in south east England. This was known as phase 1.

To your map, add the following locations to the south east coast and shade the area in orange (create a key):

RamsgateDoverBexhillBrightonPortsmouth

As we know, it wasn’t as

straight forward as Hitler had

planned. Britain had a very

sophisticated RADAR system.

The high level system’s range

(shown in red) reached all the

way across the Channel.

Why do you think this helped

Britain?

Draw the high level RADAR

system’s range on your map

Note:

Add this to your key.

As well as high level RADAR,

Britain also had low level

RADAR.

(Shown in blue)

Add the low level RADAR

system’s range on your map

Note:

Add this to your key.

Look at all the RADAR stations in the UK!

(These are shown in blue)

No wonder Britain had such a good coverage!

In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began phase 2, the mass bomber attacks on British airfields, harbours, aircraft factories and RADAR stations.

Phase 3 saw mass attacks begin against London and other major towns and cities as well as aircraft factories and other strategic targets.

Find out more about the blitz around Britain by visiting the Imperial War Museum website here:https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-blitz-around-britain

Add the following cities, that were targeted by the Luftwaffe, to your UK map.

London, Coventry, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Plymouth, Cardiff and Belfast.

Use an atlas or the UK map I’ve included to help you. If you don’t have access to a printer, use the map to locate the targeted cities

Now compare you map against mine in the answers section.

How accurate were you?