Evacuees: Children during World War II

Children in a trench. Photo © Topfoto This was a series of three lessons completed in the middle of a term's study of the effects of World War II on the lives of children. Previous work had covered key events, dates, information about the main leaders and finding out about the Blitz and air raids, leading to the idea that some children were evacuated from their homes.

The children studied documents and pictures, imagined what it might be like to be evacuated, and wrote a letter home.

This lesson used the BBC Resource Pack 'Children in the Second World War'. See also the picture which you can download from the 'Questioning a photograph' exemplar on the right.

by Jayne Naden