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• Three activity suggestions to explore the In addition this workshop can be used to explore
topic with your class citizenship and geography, and can be an
interesting stimulus for literacy and art.
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WW2 Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea
In this lesson, we are going to become marine 1. WW2 Bomber - thought currently to be a
archaeologists. German Dornier, which is lying upside down
with its bomb doors open. This was found off
What do you think an archaeologist is or what the Kent coast.
do you think an archaeologist does?
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WW2 Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea
Children examining pieces of a German WW2 plane that crashed off of the Norfolk coast. This plane was
rediscovered when it was dredged up.
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WW2 Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea
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WW2 Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea
Archaeology is the study of how people have Ask the class to answer the following questions
lived in the past. This activity is designed to (Teachers Notes included):
encourage your pupils to focus on the people
who flew WW2 planes and to give them an Why does the airman have a knife buttoned into
understanding of the danger that airmen faced. a pocket on his leg? What might it have been
Ask the class to label the following important used for? Why is it secured with a button and
parts of the uniform: held by a piece of string?
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WW2 Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea
Teacher's notes
Knife - Jacket -
The knife was intended WW2 planes were unpressurised and temperature
to be used for cutting drops as you go higher. Demonstrate this by
parachute strings (not asking the class if anyone has noticed this whilst,
stabbing someone, cutting for example, standing on high ground, a hill etc.
up sandwiches etc.!) If an Modern jets are pressurised and heated which is
airman had to bail out of the why they are so warm. The jacket would have
plane they would either end been made of sheepskin to keep the airman
up over the land or over the warm.
sea. On land there are many hazards that may
snag the 'chute and suspend the pilot and at sea Map Pocket -
the 'chute would quickly fill with water, dragging The pocket could be used
the airman under. The knife is safely secured to hold directions or a map.
with string and a stud to prevent it being It would be positioned on
misplaced, lost or removed from the suit. Even if the airman's thigh when he
our airman had been using it to cut sandwiches was seated making it easy
at the moment when the plane became for him to see and read the
endangered, it would still have been with him as directions whilst flying.
he leapt out of the plane.
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