LESSON PLANS:

The Museum has created these Lesson Plans that you may print out for your classroom use. Each lesson comes complete with directions, enrichment suggestions, and reproducible handouts and incorporate primary sources. Most lessons can be modified for middle or high school level.

Some Preliminary Considerations: Guidelines to consider before teaching about WWII

The National WWII Museum & The Common Core: How the Museum's lesson plans meet Common Core Standards

Key:

	Geography Lesson Plan		Meets Science standards
	Includes Primary Sources		Meets ELA Standards
	Meets Math Standards		Civics Lesson Plan
	Includes an optional Skype Lesson Connection with a Museum educator

The European and Pacific Theaters

Exploring Personal and Collective Responsibility in WWII

Comparing Totalitarianism and Democracy

Analyzing Eisenhower's D-Day Orders

Mapping the Geography of D-Day

Exploring a D-Day Diary

Mapping the War in the Pacific

Analyzing a Letter About the Meaning of the War

Analyzing FDR's Pearl Harbor Address

The Home Front

Exploring the Editorial Cartoon

Propaganda and Popular Opinion from WWII

Analyzing Propaganda Posters

The President and African Americans

African American Soldiers

WWII Poetry of African Americans

Analyzing Political Cartoons

STEM

Learn how blood transfusions saved lives on the battlefield

Analyze primary sources about the challenges of Penicillin production

Charting and Graphing WWII Data

Comparing Prices and Percentages from WWII

WWII Overview

Hands-on Geography Lesson; Send us photos of your students' work!

An Artistic Vocabulary Lesson

A Reading and Writing Assignment

Analyzing WWII Photographs

Producing a D-Day Talkshow

Students use technology to create their own WWII Quiz

Students use technology to create WWII Jeopardy

Ideal for multiple grade levels, students trace the history of WWII using primary sources

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EDUCATION PROJECTS:

Student Travel – WWII Educational Tours
High school and college students, learn the leadership principles that helped win WWII on a trip to France or during a weeklong residential program in New Orleans. College credit is available, and space is limited.

See You Next Year! HS Yearbooks from WWII
Collected from across the United States, the words and pictures of these yearbooks present a new opportunity to experience the many challenges, setbacks and triumphs of the war through the eyes of America’s youth.

The Victory Gardens of WWII
Visit the Classroom Victory Garden Project website to learn about food production during WWII, find lesson plans and activities for elementary students, get tips for starting your own garden and try out simple Victory Garden recipes!

The Science and Technology of WWII
Visit our new interactive website to learn about wartime technical and scientific advances that forever changed our world. Incorporates STEM principles to use in the classroom.

Kids Corner: Fun and Games!
Make your own propaganda posters, test your memory, solve puzzles and more! Learn about World War II and have fun at the same time.