ACTIVITIES
Use these enrichment activities and Internet resources to enhance teaching Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.
WORKSHEETS
Have your students read about the Navajo Code Talkers, and explore the related activity to learn more about this…
MAPS
Use these maps to illustrate the German takeover of Europe from 1933-44.
Students read an overview of the Holocaust, and explore the related activities to enhance their understanding.
Connect history and literature with the Boys of Wartime novels by Laurie Calkhoven. Students will experience the Siege…
Famous people, places, and events of World War II are explored.
Study World War II through the true story of young war heroes—led by a fifteen-year-old boy—who helped spark a…
LESSON PLANS
Assuming the role of a fellow athlete, Nazi supporter or African-American, students will write a letter to Jesse Owens…
BOOK GUIDES
Our Teacher Discussion Guide for Librarian of Auschwitz, a novel about a young girl in Auschwitz during the Holocaust,…
This activity reinforces map skills while integrating the importance of geography in a historical understanding of the…
Our teaching guide for Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII contains various activities and…
Learn what key events led to World War II.
Introduce pupils to French general and president Charles de Gaulle and discuss other French leaders with this printable…
REFERENCE
Winston Churchill was the prime minister of Britain during World War II. Read this biography to learn more about this…
Read a historical account of what occurred on the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, December 7, 1941.
Read about Fat Man and Little Boy, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Americans during World War II.
TEACHING RESOURCE
Students read through the sentences about World War II, and then put them in the right order.
A collection of Web Resources for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
These lessons and activities will help expand your students' understanding of World War II and the historical period.…
Learn about the evacuation orders during World War II that resulted in the internment of Americans and Canadians of…
A timeline of the events of WW II.
Students practice brainstorming by creating a semantic web about the Holocaust.
Students pretending to be a newscaster broadcasting from Berlin during the 1940s.
In this worksheet, children will read, research, and write about the German siege of Leningrad during World War II.
