Teacher Cyber-Guide All Quiet on the Western Front.
Cause of the War: How Did One Murder Lead to WWI?
How did the British government use propaganda to build up and maintain civilian support for the war?
The Western Front: Why was the war on the Western Front so terrible?
The Home Front: How were civilians affected by the War?
Life in the Trenches in World War One: A decision-making game: This is a decision-making activity where students play the role of a British soldier in 1914.
World War I: A Soldiers Record - What Can You Tell? This snapshot focuses on a Scottish World War I soldier, Donald Campbell. The main task requires pupils decide whether he was a 'good solider'. This snapshot does not give a broad history of World War I, instead personalizing the conflict by helping pupils find out what happened to one solider.
BBC History: World War I Movies This BBC multimedia production involves contemporary photographs, dramatized diary readings and interviews with veterans exploring key themes of World War One. Each chapter may take a couple of minutes to download the first time you view it, so please be patient.
Western Civilization: The Western Imperium The online study companion to Margaret King's Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History has many features: chapter learning objectives, online quizzes, writing activities, essay questions, web links, built-in search engines, and faculty modules that include PowerPoint outlines, presentation graphics, and lecture hints and activities.
Russian Revolution Lesson Plan in word format. Students will write a one act play about the Russian Revolution.
Course Models: The Russian Revolution: Part of the California History-Social Science content standards and annotated course which include: background information, focus questions, pupil activities and handouts, assessment, and references to books, articles, web sites, literature, audio-video programs, and historic site.
The World's History: The Soviet Union and Japan, 1914-1997: The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic.
Follow the Marx: Learning About Communism In this New York Times lesson, students explore communism from historical and theoretical perspectives to present to fellow classmates at a teach-in.
Images in WWII: Through the use of Images captured in the 1940's, students in grades 6-12 will follow this Teachervision.com lesson plan to learn about the home front.
BBC History: The Fall of France Animation: Follow the progress of the German forces as they cross the border, occupy Belgium and the Netherlands and trap the Allied forces at Dunkirk.
BBC History: The North Africa Campaign Animation: Follow the three years of battles in the North African desert, and see how Axis and Allied forces chased each other across this hostile terrain.
BBC History: Battle of El Alamein: In this BBC animation you follow the battle that signified 'the end of the beginning' of World War Two, as the Allies force the decisive breakthrough in the North African Campaign.
BBC History: Operation Overlord Animation: Follow the Allies as they land on the Normandy coast on 6 June 1944, and then battle their way into Brittany and on to liberate Paris.
BBC History: The Italian Campaign Animation: Follow the Allied forces as they invade Sicily and battle their way into Italy, all the way from Salerno in the south to the Alps in the north.
WWII: A Soldier's View: "Imagine living in a fox hole for three days, praying that you live to see the next day. Wondering whether you will be blown to bits, shot or taken prisoner by the enemy." Internet-based activities help one try to imagine the horror and struggles of warfare in WWII. Topics include Bataan Death March, and D-Day.
Decision to Drop the Bomb: This Web Quest simulates the decision-making process that went into President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Race for the Super Bomb: Research and debate the ethics, policy, and events that led up to Hiroshima. Students will also learn about the dawn of the Cold War, and how the Soviets joined the nuclear arms race.
Course Models: World War II: Part of the California History-Social Science content standards and annotated course which include: background information, focus questions, pupil activities and handouts, assessment, and references to books, articles, web sites, literature, audio-video programs, and historic site.
Teacher's Guide: Total War: In World War II, fire bombs, air raids, and the atomic bomb kill millions of civilians and leave many more injured and homeless. As the fighting grows more fierce and sweeps across nations, ordinary citizens join the war effort, often at great sacrifice. Explore the effects of World War II on civilians.
Was Hitler a Passionate Lunatic?: This exercise is aimed at getting pupils to look at conflicting evidence and assessing their reliability. It can be used as an introduction to looking at the issue of appeasement and the decisions that were made in the run up to the outbreak of the war.
Assassinate Hitler: How Did the British Plan to Kill Hitler?: In 1944 the SOE (Special Operations Executive) drew up some plans to kill Hitler and as Head of SOE it is your job to decide which of two ways of killing Hitler should be given the go-ahead.
Chamberlain
and Hitler, 1938: What was Chamberlain trying to do?:
Chamberlain’s account of his meeting with Hitler over the Sudetenland
crisis of 1938 is the center of this activity. Is it unfair to criticize
Chamberlain for misjudging Hitler? Students could try to construct the case
for Chamberlain.
German Occupation of the Rhineland, 1936: What should Britain do about it?: Documents reveal the motives and attitudes of the British government as they discuss their options. The extracts from the Cabinet minutes also show how little room for maneuver British politicians actually had. A good case-study of British appeasement policy.
Western Civilization: States in Conflict: The online study companion to Margaret King's Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History has many features: chapter learning objectives, online quizzes, writing activities, essay questions, web links, built-in search engines, and faculty modules that include PowerPoint outlines, presentation graphics, and lecture hints and activities.
Voices of the Past: An oral history project for students in grades 6 through 12, students follow oral history processes to contact and interview a World War II veteran or person alive during the World War II era.
Teacher's Guide: Master Race: Study the racial philosophies and ethnic cleansing policies of Nazi Germany through this PBS People's Century teacher's guide.
Drums
of War: Exploring How Politics Shapes American War Policy:
In this New York Times lesson, students will research the political climate
prior to major American wars of the past, then reflect on the current call
for power to confront Iraq. (September 23, 2002)
Interpreting Primary Sources: Digital History provides brief excerpts from primary sources and statistics and questions to think about: World War II.
Prisoners of Another War: In this high school lesson plan students will be able to identify violations of the Geneva Convention in the treatment of American POWs at Berga and understand the role of international bodies in judging war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Home Front 1939-1945: Build a Bomb Shelter: This interactive UK National Archives Learning Curve exhibition examines around life in Britain during Word War II. Sections revolve around essential questions for students to answer and feature diaries, activities, worksheets, a timeline, and video. Try the activity at this page.
Home Front
1939-1945: Help Children Escape the Bombing of the Blitz:
This interactive UK National Archives Learning Curve exhibition examines
around life in Britain during Word War II. Sections revolve around essential
questions for students to answer and feature diaries, activities,
worksheets, a timeline, and video. Try the activity at this page.
War
and Peace: Multiple Choice Quiz, Fill-in-the-Blank, Flashcards, American
History Glossary, American History Appendix:
The Student Resources section of The American Nation companion web site
features introductions to chapters, interactive quizzes, flashcards, web
links, an American History Glossary, and an American History Appendix
World War II in Europe: Blank Map: The companion web site to The American People offers blank maps related to various topics in American history. The maps can be printed or placed in a PowerPoint presentation. Click Blank Map for Quizzes
Identify the World War II Leaders Game: Through these BBC images it is clear that Hitler saw propaganda as a vehicle of political salesmanship in a mass market, and a way of conveying a message to the bulk of the German people.
BBC History: Advertising and Information Posters Gallery: The BBC offers these photos of magazine illustrations, advertisements and government information posters, published during World War Two
Holocaust Lesson Plan: In this two-part assignment, students will first investigate contemporary hate groups and then participate in a debate on tolerating their existence.
A teachers guide to the Holocaust: High School lesson plans: This Florida Center for Instructional Technology page has multiple lesson plans. Lessons analyze all aspects of the Holocaust and urge students to take advantage of primary sources. The lessons come with their own worksheets. These are High School level assignments.
South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust: A teacher's guide to teaching about the Holocaust and it's aftermath. This page has several lesson plans as well as links to background information and printable handouts. Intended for grades 7-12.
Learning Resources Open Hearts/Closed Doors: Teachers guide: This thirteen-page guide contains lesson ideas, discussion questions, extensions and supporting resources that relate directly to the Jewish orphans' narratives and nine different themes. It provides opportunities for individual student and small group work. You must download the file to view it.
Simon
Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance: Teacher's Resources:
Featuring: glossary, timeline, bibliographies, 36 questions and answers
about the Holocaust, and curricular resources for teachers.
The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy (Think Quest): An impressive student-produced site on the Holocaust.
Nazi Designers of Death: Nearly 50 years after the Holocaust, discover how a British historian gathered powerful evidence to show how Nazi death camps were planned and constructed. PBS activity for middle school students.
Teacher's Guide: The Trial of Adolf Eichman: In 1961, the world watched the first televised courtroom trial as a Jerusalem court tried Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann for crimes against the Jewish people. Eichmann's role in deporting the Jews of Europe to concentration camps made him the target of a fifteen-year manhunt by Israeli agents. His defense, like that of other Nazis, was that he was "just following orders." This supplemental PBS site offers discussion questions, vocabulary and an evaluation.
Asylum Talk Show: Role play various real-life persons in the case of the SS St. Louis, a German ship containing Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. PBS.
Anne Frank in the World: Teacher Book: Produced by The Friends of Anne Frank in Utah and the Intermountain West Region the workbook features lesson plans and activities for grades 5-8, lesson plans and activities for grades 7-12, readings and overviews, timelines, and a glossary.