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World War I Resources

Additional World War I Lesson Plans

• Bisbee Deportation of 1917
  http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/teachers/index.html  
  Developed to assist teachers from grades 6-12 teach about the Bisbee Deportation of 1917 and the related history of labor relations in the copper mining industry in the early twentieth century.
  
• Teaching With Documents: Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans during World War I
  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/369th-infantry/
  
• Teaching With Documents: Sow the Seeds of Victory! Posters from the Food Administration During World War I
  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sow-seeds/
  
• Digital History's World War I Handout and Questions
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us32.cfm
  
• Core Knowledge Lesson Plans - World War I, "The Great War"
  http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/7.htm
  • Washington, D.C.: The Ultimate Core Knowledge Field Trip (2004)
  • The Great War Wasn't Great Enough to End All Wars (2002)
  • America Becomes a World Power (PDF)
    http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/72K_World_Power.pdf
    
• Soldier poets of the First World War
  http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/poetryactivities.htm
  
• The July Crisis: Can you stop the Great War?
  http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/july-crisis/index.html
  
• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: World War I Unit
  http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/ww1/index.html
  Lesson 1 : The Power of the Press
  Lesson 2 : A Question of Honor: The Selective Service
  Lesson 3 : Black Alabamians in World War I
  Lesson 4 : The Home Front: Food Will Win the War
  Lesson 5 : Signing Up For Action and Supporting the Action
  
• 1910's Introduction
  http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/teachpacket/ww1/1910intro.html
  • Life in the Trenches (6-8)
  • WWI Homefront (6-8
    
• Teaching With Documents: The Zimmermann Telegram
  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/zimmermann/
  
• United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology
  http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=471
  Objectives: List important events leading to U.S. involvement in World War I. Take a stand on a hypothesis for U.S. entry into World War I, supported by specific evidence.
  
• The First World War
  http://hti.osu.edu/content/lessonplans/fww.cfm
  Objectives: To help students understand the war from the point of view of soldiers in the trenches through analysis of photographs, war poetry and memoirs. To encourage students to explore the power of visual images, including propaganda posters, political cartoons and postcards, that emphasize how governments and civilians prepared for "total war."
  
• World War I and its Aftermath (9-12)
  http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/ww1/
  Students will discuss what the term nationalism means; research this concept as it relates to the beginning of World War I; and participate in a debate about the pros and cons of nationalism.
  
• TREATY OF VERSAILLES 1919
  http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/sslp/treaty.htm
  Objectives: The students will learn that the delegates at the Treaty of Versailles had conflicting wants and needs due to the pressures from their respective countries. The students will learn that the economies of France, Germany and other countries were ruined after four consecetive years of warfare.
  
• The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles (9-12)
  http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=424
  Objectives: To learn the motives and aims of the Treaty of Versailles. To learn the terms that the Treaty imposed on Germany. To consider how each country's unique wartime experience may have shaped its aims at the Peace Conference; to examine the different motives and aims of the United States and other allies such as France. To learn about Germany's reaction to the Treaty of Versailles. To discuss whether the terms of the Treaty were fair. To discuss whether the Treaty contributed to the rise to power of the Nazi Party in Germany
  
• Paris Peace Conference: Writing a Treaty to End World War I
  http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/paris_peace_conference/
  This problem-based learning unit asks students to assume roles as experts from countries that participated in World War I
  
• The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations (9-12)
  http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=475
  Describe Wilson's concepts for peace and the League of Nations and efforts to foster American support for it. Discuss the opposition to the League in the Senate.
  

Additional Resources

• Maps http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/maps/
  Animated maps dealing with events in WWI
  
• World War I Timeline
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ww1_chron.cfm
  
• Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wilson14.htm
  President Wilson's reasons for entering World War I. A shorter, study guide list can be found at:
  http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module16/tool_is_pop3.html
  
• Bisbee Deportation of 1917
  http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/teachers/index.html  
  Developed to assist teachers from grades 6-12 teach about the Bisbee Deportation of 1917 and the related history of labor relations in the copper mining industry in the early twentieth century.
  
• The Authentic History Center: Has images, political speeches, music, posters and cartoons
  http://www.authentichistory.com/ww1.html
  • "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" [download mp3]
  • "When the Lusitania Went Down" [download mp3]
  • "Over There" [download mp3]
    
• I Did My Bit for Democracy
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/progress/wwone/mybit.htm
  Andrew Johnson was an African-American veteran interviewed in 1938. In the excerpt below, from the Library of Congress' American Life Histories, 1936-1940, he describes some of his experiences serving in the military.
  
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute
  http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module16/index.html
  A good introduction to its significance with links to the 369th Infantry lesson plan and Wilson's 14 points from the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
  
• Digital History - World War I
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/ww1/index.cfm
  Maps, Images, Timelines, Lesson Plans and recommended readings and films.
  
• http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww1.htm
  A long list of websites with descriptive titles about WWI.

Email questions or comments to: Katherine Morrissey