Starter Activity

Write down 6 - 8 points of the impact war can have on a country

The Home Front

TASK 2: Group Task

Download the jigsaw template below and read the following instructions to complete the activity.

This is a jigsaw activity using the RetroActive 2 textbook, pages 224-232. You can also use the following website for additional information, as well as your own research.

Create SIX groups of students. Each group is to be allocated ONE impact on Australia's Home Front.

• The changing role of women

• Internees and internment camps

• The War Precautions Act, 1914

• Anti-Germanism

• Changing Economy

• Government control

Each group reads the relevant textbook pages on their impact and becomes the ‘experts’ on that impact on the Home Front. They complete the jigsaw puzzle piece for their allocated impact.

Then reorganise the groups so that there is one expert for each threat in each group. The students teach the others in their new group about their threat. All students in the group should be able to fill out the other jigsaw pieces and therefore have information for every area of the Home Front.