Contrasting Ypres with Gallipoli

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Viewing Guide

During

Create a table with two headings, Gallipoli and Ypres, or use this example Google Docs to record your observations about the terrain, fighting strategies and conditions including medical services.

Using the information from your table, and additional research, create a series of Venn Diagrams (or use this Google Slides template) to compare the following aspects of fighting at Gallipoli and Ypres:

  • terrain

  • fighting tactics

  • troop training and preparation

  • trenches

  • medical treatment.

Focusing on the sites

Guide students to return to the Google Maps and Google Earth (only works in Chrome browser) links from the introductory video so that they can re-examine the terrain at Ypres. Ask them to use Street View in Google maps to closely examine the terrain at Gallipoli and Ypres. Ask students to think about how far they can see into the distance when exploring the 360 views.

Using the Google files

Use these instructions to help students make their own version of the Google Doc and Slides files.

  • Follow the link to the document.

  • Make sure you are logged in to your Google account.

  • Go to the ‘File’ menu in the top left hand corner and choose the ‘Make a copy’ option.

  • This will add a copy of the document to your Google Drive that you can edit and that is not visible to anyone else.

  • Once you own a copy of the file you can type directly into the document online.

You might like to have students share their completed file with you using the blue Share button in the top right hand side of the window.

Extension activities

Have students turn their Venn diagrams into infographics using Canva or Venngage. These can then be printed as A3 colour posters for the classroom walls or uploaded to your Learning management system as review resources.

Syllabus outcomes

A student:

  • equences and explains the significant patterns of continuity and change in the development of the modern world and Australia (HT5-2)

  • selects and uses appropriate oral, written, visual and digital forms to communicate effectively about the past for different audiences (HT5-10)

The scope and nature of warfare

Students:

  • describe the nature of warfare during the Gallipoli campaign

  • outline and sequence the changing scope and nature of warfare from trenches in World War I to the Holocaust and the use of the atomic bombs to end World War II

  • Continuity and change: reasons for change and continuity in a particular historical context, eg rights and freedoms of groups in Australian society.

  • Cause and effect: intended and unintended causes and consequences of a particular historical event or development.

  • Research

    • identify, locate, select and organise information from a variety of sources, using ICT and other methods

  • Explanation and communication

    • develop historical texts, particularly explanations and historical arguments that use evidence from a range of sources

    • select and use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written and digital) to communicate effectively about the past for different audiences and for different purposes

Videos

Introduction

1. Introduction

The scope and nature of warfare at Ypres

2. The scope and nature of warfare at Ypres

Contrasting Ypres with Gallipoli

3. Contrasting Ypres with Gallipoli

Significance of World War I to Australia

4. Significance of World War I to Australia

Commemoration and the Anzac legend

5. Commemoration and the Anzac legend