Students will be challenged to discover what life was like for children all over the world during WWII. Students will be asked to compare/contrast and evaluate the childrens' lives and have a better understanding of how WWII impacted children throughout the world.
Content Area and Grade Level
Children of WWII was designed for students in grade 7 and the focus is how WWII impacted children throughout the world.
Standards
United States History Standard 25: Understand the causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the US role in world affairs.
5- Understands the dimensions of Hitler's "final solution" and the Allies' response to the Holocaust and war crimes (e.g., human costs to Nazi genocide, Roosevelt's immigration policy toward Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany).
6- Understands the legacy of World War II (e.g., the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan during World War II, how military experiences fostered American identity and cross-cultural interaction, the purpose and organization of the United Nations).
7- Understands how World War II influenced American society (e.g., how the war fostered cultural exchange and promoted nationalism and American identity, the effects on gender roles and the American family).
8- Understands how minority groups were affected
by World War II (e.g., how minority groups organized to gain access to
wartime jobs and discrimination they faced, factors that led to the internment
of Japanese Americans).
Student Materials
Computer with Internet access (word processor is optional)
Evaluation
Students will be evaluated on the quality, creativity
and accuracy of their thinking found through their written activities.
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rubric
Conclusion
Children of World War II WebQuest will provide students with the opportunity to gain a more insightful understanding of WWII and its effect on children throughout the world.
Resources Used to Create this WebQuest
Baker, Janet. (1996). The children they left behind. Retrieved March 23, 2003 from http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/children.htm.
Colman, Penny. (1995). Rosie the Riveter. Crown Publishers: New York.
Hansen, Laurie. (2003). Equality escaped black soldiers while fighting world war II. Retrieved March 23, 2003 from http://www.post-gazette.com/blackhistorymonth/19990202kids.asp.
Komoto, Reiko Oshima. (1997). Japanese Internment Camps:A Personal Account. Retrieved March 2, 2003 from http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w188/life.htm.
Marrus, M. R. (Ed.). (1989). The “final solution: The implementation of mass murder volume 1. Westport: Meckler.
No author. (2001). Doestic Issues Since World War II. Retrieved February 16, 2003 from http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/nvsageh/hist122/part4/PostWorldWarIIDom.htm.
No author. (2003). Relocation of Japanese Americans. Retrieved March 2, 2003 from http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/relocbook.html.
No author. (2003). Hitler, adolf. Retrieved February 17, 2003 from http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit2.cgi?p=%2Fperl%2Fsearch.pl&word=holocaust.
No author. (2003). Holocaust. Retrieved February 17, 2003 from http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit2.cgi?p=%2Fperl%2Fsearch.pl&word=holocaust.
No author. (2003). Holocaust, American response to the. Retrieved February 17, 2003 from http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit2.cgi?p=%2Fperl%2Fsearch.pl&word=holocaust.
Rubenstein, R.L. & Roth, J.K. (1987). Approaches to Auschwitz the holocaust and its legacy. Atlanta: John Knox Press.
Whitman, Sylvia. (2001). Children of World War II Home
Front. Carolrhoda Books: Minneapolis.
Pictures downloaded from:
www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/record.htm/
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/world_war_2_photos/images/ww2_87.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/world_war_2_photos/images/ww2_28.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/world_war_2_photos/images/ww2_30.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/world_war_2_photos/images/ww2_156.jpg
http://www.lawbuzz.com/tyranny/snow_falling/internment_camps.htm
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauMemorial/
Pictures of Children downloaded from:
http://uk.cambridge.org/assets/elt/ces/CES_parcel_ja_boy.jpg
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/images/0222-01.jpg
http://images.eyewire.com/dspl/rb/photo/bwh/bw_08-3.gif
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dynaweb/calher/jvac/figures/j5BE-712B.jpg
http://www.edith.nl/Rouwen/klas4g/daniellehampsink/margot.jpg
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