World War 2 (Lower KS2) Topic Enrichment Pack

Dive into the dramatic events of World War Two with this cross-curricular pack designed to spark curiosity and creativity across your Year 3/4 classroom. The WW2 Topic Enrichment Pack for lower KS2 offers seven engaging lessons spanning Art, Music, Geography and DT, all carefully crafted to complement your History teaching while developing key skills across the curriculum.

Your class will:

• Get creative in Art, exploring WW2 aircrafts posters and blackout Blitz silhouettes
• Design and make in DT, as pupils recreate wartime recipes and develop working Morse code keys
• Sing WW2 songs in the Music lesson, and consider the impact on music on morale
• Map out the geography of WW2 with two rich Geography lessons that focus on locating the countries of the Allies and Axis powers, and how time zones affected military operations.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing WW2 topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

WW2 Aircraft

This lesson gives children the opportunity to sketch an aeroplane flown in World War Two, using the grid method to ensure that their aircraft is sketched out accurately, and in proportion.

Children will experiment with a range of sketching and shading techniques to create different tones and textures before applying these skills to their own sketches.

This lesson pack comes with everything you need to support your children's learning, including a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides and printable resources.

Blitz Skylines

In this lesson, children learn how to use a stencil and different tones of chalk pastel to create a Blitz image - like the photograph of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, surrounded by fire, smoke and damaged buildings.

First, children will analyse a series of photographs, discussing tone, contrast and composition. Then, they will make stencils for their building’s silhouette and discover how to layer and blend chalk pastels before creating their own image.

This lesson pack comes with everything you need to support your children's learning, including a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides and printable resources.

Making a WW2 Recipe

Children will learn about the food restrictions people experienced during the war due to rationing and explore some of the recipes from the time.

They will discover just how creative people became with the ingredients they could obtain and enjoy cooking some recipes for themselves. Will they try fruity buns, carrot biscuits or beetroot pudding? Or perhaps they would like to try out some of the suggestions on the helpful ideas released by the Ministry for Food about what to serve at a wartime party!

This lesson pack comes with everything you need to support your children's learning, including a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides and printable resources.

Create a Morse Code Key

After learning about Morse code and the role it played in communications during the war, the children are challenged to construct an electrical circuit to create their own Morse code key to use when sending a message.

They will need to work out how to produce the 'dits' and 'dahs' in the code as well as how to make a working switch.

This lesson pack comes with everything you need to support your children's learning, including a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides and printable resources.

The Music of WW2

Children will reflect on how music was used during the war to keep up morale for the soldiers and for the people at home.

They will be introduced to Vera Lynn and how her songs inspired hope for people during the war. The children have the opportunity to listen to and appraise the songs and recreate them in the classroom.

This lesson pack comes with everything you need to support your children's learning, including a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides and printable resources.

Maps of WW2

Children will learn about the countries which fought in the Allied and Axis alliances during World War Two. They will learn how to use an atlas or a geographical information system to locate these countries before applying their skills independently.

They will learn how to use an atlas or a geographical information system to locate these countries before applying their skills independently.

This lesson pack comes with everything you need to support your children's learning, including a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides and printable resources.

WW2 Battlegrounds and their Time Zones

In this lesson, children find out what time zones are, why we have them, and the role these played in planning and carrying out military operations during World War Two.

Children practise comparing and calculating the differences in the time of day and night between different key World War Two battlegrounds and locations.

This lesson pack comes with everything you need to support your children's learning, including a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides and printable resources.