History Detectives - discover World War 1 at the County Record Office

Workshop title	History Detectives - Discover World War 1 at the County Record Office
Key stage	2
Delivered at	Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwick
Duration	2 hours
Main focus	History, English
Workshop outline	Investigate original documents from World War 1 at Warwickshire County Record Office and tour the strongrooms where they are stored. A mixed collection of documents are available to be examined allowing for different learning styles and abilities; letters, photographs, newspaper articles and postcards. They cover themes such as: the role of women in the World War 1 conditions on the Front life back home commemorating the fallen Pupils are given guidance on handling the documents and short exercises to help them learn to look and see the details in the source material.
Key skills covered	Chronological understanding Drawing conclusions about life in the past from different sources of information. Interpretation – talk about the types of written, visual and physical evidence that exist in museums and archives to tell us about the past. Historic enquiry – comparing/contrasting information, identifying and analysing evidence. Questioning evidence Group working Empathy with people living at the time of the First World War
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