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Activities / Resources

• Create a map of their school using the skills learned about grid references.​
• Plant a garden at school to grow some food.
• Write a diary entry as a British Solider during World War 2 using what they've learnt.
• Start a Recycling Club at school, where they adhere to the reuse and re-purpose mentality.
• Just as in times of 'make do and mend' in wartime, get creative with reusing and re-purposing everyday items: ​https://www.52climateactions.com/buy-less-make-more/full

World War 2  
KS3

This activity offers a chance to explore the local history of The Sustainability Centre site, particularly its use as a Naval Communications Base during WW2. 

Students will have a chance to explore the location themselves, by navigating their way around site, using maps in groups with their school leaders. They will discover how the land has changed over the past 100 years and learn to relate this to human impact, resources and settlement on this former Naval site.
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​Students will use a compass to set their ordnance survey map and practice 6 grid references, before using a simpler map with symbols to undertake the explorer trail. This is a fun, challenging and hands-on set of activities, which are focused on the many ways in which humans use the earth’s resources and change the land.

For the final activity students will handle artefacts and replicas from the WW2 period in a fascinating and personal show and tell experience. They will learn about secret coded messages and discover the amounts of food you would get in your wartime ration. 

Curriculum Links

• KS3 History - Pupils should be taught about challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day. 
  
• KS3 History - Pupils should be taught about a local history study.
  
• KS3 Geography - Geographical Skills and Fieldwork - interpret Ordnance Survey maps in the classroom and the field, including using grid references and scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs.