World War II

Students will learn about, and review, different battles of WW2 (WWII) by making trading cards, a cube, or both. They will work with different fronts, cause and effect, significant individuals, and more! Each option balances academics with personal...

Students will review what they learned about the rise of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini (rise of Europe's dictators between the wars) by making trading cards, a cube, or both. Each project balances academic requirements with personal choice and...

Students will review the events, events, operations, battles, and more from the different fronts of WW2 (WWII) by completing a sorting chart of 44 terms and an academic task. Next, they will label 22 images according to the front they are from and will...

Students will review what they have learned about the Tuskegee Airmen by creating a pamphlet and fulfilling 9 academic and creative requirements. A sample layout and points distribution are included. Time permitting, there is an optional extension...

Students will review what they learned about Navajo Code Talkers by creating a pamphlet and fulfilling 9 academic and creative requirements (including writing something using Navajo Code). A sample layout and points distribution are included. This would...

Students will review World War 2 (WW2, WWII) by analyzing the arguments for and against the decisions FDR made regarding the attack at Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, and the internment of Japanese-Americans. They will create a pamphlet...

Students will learn about, or review, the main WW2 (WWII) conferences (Munich, Cairo, Casablanca, Atlantic, Potsdam, Tehran, and Yalta) by completing a research chart, answering two questions, matching primary source quotes to their conferences, and...

Students will review the people and events of World War 2 (WWII, WW2) by creating a timeline out of political cartoons. There is a 2 part written academic portion to this assignment for each cartoon followed by an opinion task. A selection of websites...

Students will compare and contrast the D-Day accounts of an American soldier landing at Normandy and a French civilian from World War 2 (WW2, WWII). They answer 14 questions then compare and contrast the accounts (3 additional questions). The answers are...

This WW2 (WWII) writing activity review asks students to take on the role of news reporter during the war and write a cumulative RAFT. Allowing for suspension of disbelief, the student is moved from unit to unit and must report on Pearl Harbor, the...

Students will play true, false, fix to review the events and people of WW2 (WWII) by reading 45 statements and determining which are true and which are false. They will then complete 3 other tasks with the material. This is best done in pairs or triplets...

Students will read about the liberation of the concentration camp Majdanek during World War 2 from the perspective of a journalist and answer 10 questions of varying degrees of difficulty. Four websites have been included after the reading for students...