Lesson video

Hi everyone, and welcome to a history lesson with me Miss Emms, I'm really excited to teach you this unit.

I hope you're looking forward to learning with me.

Let's get started straight away and see what we're going to do in today's lesson.

The lesson question for today is why do we celebrate Remembrance Day? And this is lesson one of three lessons in total, and you are learning with me Miss Emms. So first things first, let's have a look at our lesson agenda.

This is what we're going to be doing today.

We're going to start off with some star words.

So some important words that we need to understand the meaning of.

Then we're going to think about the World Wars, and what happened during these Wars.

Before moving on to thinking about why we celebrate Remembrance Day? And finally, there will be an end of lesson quiz, and that's a chance for you to see, how much you've been able to remember from today's learning.

You're going to need three things in this lesson, some paper, a pencil, and your brain.

Now your brain is already there ready to go.

So if you need to pause the video to go and get your paper and your pencil, and can you pause the video now.

Great, well done.

Welcome back, let's get started.

Let's have a look at our star words, are you ready? You're going to say it after me.

Star words, star words, star words.

Great, star words is World War I, your turn.

So this was the first World War.

Our next star word is World War II.

Your turn.

The second World War Our next star word is commemorate, commemorate.

Now we're going to learn what the word commemorate means later on in the lesson, it's a really important word for this unit.

We are learning about how we commemorate those people who died in both of the World Wars.

And finally Remembrance Day, your turn.

We're going to learn what Remembrance Day is and why and how we celebrate it.

So, let's have a think about the two World Wars.

There are two World Wars that have happened the first is called World War I, and the second is called World War II.

World War I as you might have guessed came before World War II.

They're called World Wars because lots of countries in the world were involved in World War I, and lots of countries across the world, we're involved in World War II.

Have a look at this timeline, and this helps you get a sense of when these Wars happened.

If we have a look over here, we've got today, we're in the year 2020.

Here we've got 2000.

This is when I was born, when Miss Emms was born around about here.

And then you can see in purple, I've got when my granny was born 1900.

And you can see where the two World Wars happened.

World War I was first between 1914 and 1918, and World War II was second between 1939 and 1945.

So for example, my granny was born after the first World War, but before the second World War.

World War I it went from 1914 to 1918.

When did it start? 1914.

When did it end? 1918.

Well done.

And there were two groups of countries that fought against each other.

Two groups of countries.

Lots of people on both sides.

So in both groups of countries, died whilst they were fighting for their country.

Now these are not all the countries, but to give you an idea.

On one side there was Germany and Austria-Hungary at the time.

And some other countries as well.

And on the other side of the wall, that was Britain, France, Italy, the USA, and some other countries too.

So these were the two sides of World War I, each group of countries fought against each other.

So Germany, Austria-Hungary, and some other countries.

Against Britain, France, Italy, the USA, and some other countries.

World War II remember was after World War I, and went from 1939 to 1945.

When did it start? In 1939.

Good job, and when did it end? 1945.

Good job.

Again, two groups of countries fought against each other.

And lots of people again, on both sides died whilst fighting for their country.

So in World War II again two groups of countries fought against each other.

So on one side, there was Germany, Italy, Japan, and some other countries.

And on the other side, there was Britain, France, the USA, the Soviet Union, and some other countries.

I wonder if you can complete this task now, can you pause the video to complete the task.

Let me talk you through it.

You need to match the World War to when it happened.

So on the left hand side, you've got World War I and World War II, which happened between 1939 and 1945, and which happened between 1914 and 1918.

On a piece of paper, can you match the World War to when it happened? Off you go pause now.

Great, well done.

Hopefully you got World War I between 1914 and 1918, and World War II between 1939 and 1945.

After World War I.

Pause the video now, if you need to tick or fix your answer.

And as with any of my lessons and any of the lessons that you do, it's never a problem if you need to fix an answer.

You shouldn't feel sad about making a mistake.

They help your brain to grow.

They help you learn.

Make sure you've ticked or fixed your answer, and let's move on.

What happened in these Wars? So in both of the World Wars, lots of young men died whilst fighting for their countries.

So not just in one country, in each country that was fighting in the war.

Lots of young men sadly died while they were fighting for their countries.

And in both World Wars, women worked hard on the land and in factories.

So let's have a look at some examples of what women did in both of the World Wars.

They worked on the land, they worked in transport.

They worked in hospitals, they worked in engineering, and they worked in industry.

Now we need to have a look at the meaning of this keyword casualty, your turn.

One more time, casualty, your turn.

Great, well done.

What does casualty mean? A casualty is a person killed or injured in a war or in an accident.

I'm going to say that again.

And then I'm going to ask you if you can remember.

So listen carefully.

A casualty is a person killed or injured in a war or in an accident.

A person killed or injured in a war or in an accident.

What is a casualty? Casualty means.

can you write down what you can remember? Casualty means.

Pause the video and write it down, off you go.

Great, hopefully you got, casualty is a person killed or injured, you might not have had injured as well, but killed or injured in a war or in an accident.

We celebrate Remembrance Sunday, and Remembrance Day in general for lots of different reasons.

The main reason is that we want to commemorate the people who died in the World Wars.

And commemorate is a really important word.

It means to mark or celebrate an event or person by doing something.

Or to recall or show respect for something or someone.

So commemorate means to mark or celebrate an event or person by doing something.

To recall and show respect for something or someone.

Can you write down or tell your screen, what does commemorate mean? Don't worry if you can't remember the whole definition, but in your own words, what does commemorate mean? Commemorate means.

pause the video, write it down.

Great, so you should of had something like commemorate means to mark, or celebrate an event by doing something.

And you're showing respect for something or someone.

We celebrate something called Remembrance Day, and you might already be thinking, remembrance, remember, commemorate, these words link together.

On Remembrance Day we are commemorating those who lost their lives in both World Wars.

So Remembrance Day is on the 11th of November.

When's Remembrance Day, on the? And it's celebrated on the 11th of November each year, to commemorate those who lost their lives in both World Wars.

Let's have a look again at the meaning of commemorate and see how that fits here.

So to commemorate is to mark or celebrate an event or person by doing something.

Recall and show respect for something or someone.

Tell your screen, who are commemorating on Remembrance Day.

We are commemorating.

Great, well done.

We are commemorating those who lost their lives in both World Wars, we are remembering them.

We're doing something, marking the day to show our respect.

When is Remembrance Day celebrated? Can you remember? Is it the 11th of October? the 11th of November, or the 11th of December? Can you point to the option that you think is correct? Well done, did you put your finger on the 11th of November, option two? If you didn't, don't worry, but it's important that we remember now that Remembrance Day is celebrated on the 11th of November.

I now want you to use the following words in an answer, and you're going to answer this question.

Why do we celebrate Remembrance Day? I want you to use these words, Remembrance Day, Say them after me.

Remembrance Day, celebrated, commemorates, World Wars.

That's not a full sentence, that doesn't tell me why we celebrate Remembrance Day.

You need to tell me by writing it in a sentence.

Off you go pause the video now.

Fantastic.

Hopefully you should have got something like, Remembrance Day is celebrated, you might then have remember the date on the 11th of November to commemorate those who lost their lives or died in the World Wars.

Pause the video if you need to go back listen to me say that again, and tick or fix your answer.

Maybe you need to redraft it.

If you didn't quite use all the words, off you go.

Great, well done.

And now it's going to be time for the end of lesson quiz.

So in the next activity, after the video, you can take the quiz to see what you've remembered from this lesson today.

You've done a really good job.

You've tried really hard.

You've been a great historian, and I'm really proud of you.

Well done.

Shall we have a special cheer for our hard work.

Let's have an awesome cheer, it goes like this let me show you.

Awesome, three, two, one, awesome.

Well done everyone.

I'll see you next time, bye.