Teaching Themes
World War II: Everything You Need
Eyewitness interviews, lesson plans, and other resources help students discover the history of World War II and the conflict's lasting impact
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Writing Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans and Unit Plans Lesson Ideas to Enrich Student Inquiry into the HolocaustGrades: 3–5 Offers an inquiry-based lesson on author's purpose, current events, strong vocabulary, and the role a bystander plays in conflict. |
Pearl Harbor Web LinksGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Links to Web sites that offer information about the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities, Lesson Plans Hermeneutics: Teaching Students Author's PurposeGrades: 3–5 Students learn how to examine sources. Gives the teacher an opportunity to guide the students through such examination with light literature. |
Author's Notes Where the Action Was Author's NoteGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Why I Wrote Why I Wrote Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II by Penny Colman |
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Articles Growing U.S. Involvement, the Atlantic Charter, and the Arcadia ConferenceGrades: 6–8, 9–12 From the beginning of the war in Europe, the sympathy of the American public was with the Allied cause; most Americans felt that a Nazi triumph... |
Articles Invasion of the USSR, 1941Grades: 6–8, 9–12 Since well before the war Hitler had looked toward the conquest of the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe and the USSR to provide the additional... |
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Articles North Africa and the Russian FrontGrades: 6–8, 9–12 North Africa, 1941-42. Italian reverses in Tripoli led Hitler to send reinforcements in the winter of 1941 -42 to his troops in North Africa. A |
Articles Road to WarGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Territorial aggrandizement by Japan in China, by Fascist Italy in Ethiopia, and by Nazi Germany in central and eastern Europe brought the world to... |
Stauffenberg, Claus, Graf Schenk vonGrades: 9–12 Learn about von Stauffenberg, a leader of the 1944 attempt to overthrow Adolf Hitler. |
Articles The Balkans, the New Order, and CreteGrades: 6–8, 9–12 The Balkans. Following the unexpected quick victory over France, Hitler turned east to the Balkans, a critical area for food and oil supplies. |
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Articles The Collapse of France, Dunkirk Retreat, and Battle of BritianGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Collapse of France. During the winter of 1939-40 the French army and the German Wehrmacht faced one another in what was regarded satirically as |
Articles The Near East, the North African Campaign, and the AtlanticGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Near East. In the Near and Middle East the Allies were faced with the crucial problem of protecting their lifelines. In April 1941, British tro |
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Articles The War In Europe and North Africa: Axis Supremacy, 1939–42Grades: 6–8, 9–12 In the early years of the war Germany swept through western Europe and threatened to encircle the Mediterranean through offensives in North Africa... |
The World at WarGrades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 A brief chronicle of World War II from September, 1939 to August, 1945. |
A World in Flames: World War II FactsGrades: Get a list of facts about the social and economic effects of World War II. |
Writing Activities, Writing Prompts, Extension Activities Hitler's Daughter Extension ActivityGrades: 3–5 When Anna starts her story about Heidi, ten-year-old Mark thinks that it is just going to be another one of Anna's tales. Mark is gripped by the... |
True Stories: Oral History How-to’sGrades: How to capture and preserve the memories of the World War II generation while theyâeuro™re still here to tell their stories. |
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Book Resources, Lesson Plans The Good Fight Lesson PlanGrades: 6–8 Complete with personal eyewitness accounts, black and white photos, and key campaign and battlefield maps, this history brings the horrific and... |
An Interview with Walter Dean Myers about The Journal of Scott Pendleton CollinsGrades: 6–8 Walter Dean Myers was interviewed about The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944, in the My Name is... |
