World Wars

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Great Sites For Teaching About: World Wars I and II
http://www.education-world.com/a_sites/sites060.shtml

A World at War: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson208.shtml

World War I
Causes of World War I lessons: http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/wwi/objectives_wwi.html

Lost Poets of the Great War: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/index.html
Rob Ruggenberg, journalist and writer: http://www.ruggenberg.com/index.html

NCTE Resources-Booklists-World War II Era Titles for Young Adults: http://www.ncte.org/elem/resources/booklist-WWII.shtml

Online lessons: The First World War: http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/Lessons/Year9/firstworldwarlessons.htm

What Are We Fighting For Over There? Perspectives on the Great War: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/lincolnm/intro.html

World War I Document Archive: http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/
Search by keyword or browse through official papers, documents by year, personal reminiscences, an image archive, a biographical dictionary, and more.

World War I-Trenches on the Web: http://www.worldwar1.com/

The Great Depression
New Deal Network-The Great Depression, the 1930's, and the Roosevelt Administration: http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm

Dust Bowl Days to Victory Days: 1930s to 1945:
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/MarcoGrams/Jul2003.html

World War II
Atomic Bomb Delivery - Video:
http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/photos&films/0800051/0800051_hi.ram

Atoms for Peace: http://eisenhower.archives.gov/atom1.htm

Man Who Won the War: http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1080327

Revisiting the Birth of the Bomb: http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2003/feb/trinity/index.html

The Holocaust
The Holocaust Project WebQuest:
http://www.haverhill-ma.com/consentino/MsPoltack/holocaust_webquest.htm
The Holocaust WebQuest: http://home.sullivan.k12.il.us/teachers/lawson/webholocaust1.htm
Holocaust-A WebQuest: http://www.greenepa.net/~wgsd/computerlab/Holocaust/Holocaust.html
The Rescuers-A Holocaust WebQuest: http://wapiti.pvs.k12.nm.us/~Computer/rescuers.html
The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem Virtual Cinema Project: http://www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il
One hundred and twelve films have already been digitized and posted on the archive's Internet site. The online titles were divided into five subject groups, such as: - Jewish communities, - the Holocaust, - Pre-state Israel,- Israel since statehood, and - Hebrew University.
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm
Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida
Teaching About the Holocaust: http://www.ushmm.com/education/foreducators/guidelines/
Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: http://www.vhec.org/

Hiroshima
Atomic Bomb-Truman Press Release-August 6, 1945: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/abomb.htm
lesson plans

My A-Bomb Experience: http://www.projectask.org/Hiroshima/story.pdf

Sadako
Japan Online Project Lesson Plans: http://japan.lisd.k12.mi.us/lessons/sadako.pdf

Sadako: Crane for Peace
http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/multirc/pages/Voices/pdfvoices/sadako.pdf

Sadako from Hiroshima: http://www.lca.org.au/whos/whos_pdf/Sadako.pdf
sheet music to a song

Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Powers of Persuasion - Poster Art of World War II: http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion.html

The WWII Oral History Project: http://www.thedropzone.org/

World War II-Suite 101 (Real People Helping Real People): http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/world_war_2
This site has many links, including one to an article entitled Origami Warfare.

This site began in March 1998 and was created by Janet Luch. 
Email to studyplans@yahoo.com.