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Second World War

1939-1945: A Soldier's War (CBC Archives)
Description: Presents radio clips illustrating life on the battlefields of World War II. Includes reports from the front, dramatizations and messages home from soldiers, as well as educational activities for teachers.
http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/second_world_war/topics/103/

Canada's Role in WWII - CBC Webquest, Gr.11-12
Description: Using a variety of Web-based resources, students identify and use presentation software to create a timeline of major events of the Second World War.
http://archives.cbc.ca/for_teachers/151/

WWII: The War Effort at Home - CBC Introductory Activity, Gr. 6-12
Description: In this introductory activity, students listen to war interviews with soldiers and analyze their effectiveness.
http://archives.cbc.ca/for_teachers/147/

Courageous Canadians Quiz, Gr. 6-12
Description: Have your students test their knowledge of the Second World War with this quiz created by Veterans Affairs Canada.
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/youth/sub.cfm?source=activities/quiz

Colouring Sheets from Veterans Affairs Canada's website, Kindergarten to Gr. 3
Description: Colouring with educational activities featuring the people and places that played important roles in Canada's wartime history.
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/youth/sub.cfm?source=activities/colour

Educational Resource Kits
Description: Veterans Affairs Canada's Public Education Program has created, with the advice and assistance of Canadian educators, teaching resources which bring a uniquely Canadian perspective to the history of 20th century conflicts and Canada's involvement in them.
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/youth/sub.cfm?source=teach_resources/edkits

Heroes Remember
Description: Veterans Affairs Canada has recorded countless hours of video and audio conversations with veterans of the First World War and Second World War and the Korean War. These interviews offer rare and personal memories of those individuals who lived the experience, first-hand. Each interview has a story attached and makes up a bigger picture. Each piece makes it possible to tell a nation's history through the eyes of those who served. Have your students listen and watch these interviews online so they can try to understand what these valiant men and women experienced and so that their stories live on forever.
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/hrp

Through A Lens: Dieppe in photograph and film - Library and Archives Canada (Classroom Resources)
Description: This educational site explores the raid on Dieppe through photographs and films selected from the holdings of the Archives and proposes classroom activities for all ages based on these archival sources.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/dieppe/index-e.html

The Canadian Wartime Experience: The Documentary Legacy of Canada at War
Description: This site is maintained by the University of Manitoba. It provides free access to a collection of several thousand digitised pimary source materials: such as documents, newspaper articles, letters, photographs and prints relating to the experience of Canada and Canadians during various wars from 1899 to 1970. They include the Boer War (1899-1903); First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945); Korean War (1950-1953) and Vietnam War (1957-1975). They cover information relating to military movements, battles and training well as oral history accounts from soldiers and servicemen/women. The site also includes a section for educators with suggested classroom activities. Rights information is available from the web site.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/

Remembrances: Canada and the Second World War (Virtual Museum of Canada)
Description: This bilingual website provides an excellent overview of the role played by Canada in the Second World War. It also provides interactive tools, games and trivia for children.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Militaris/

Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
Description: Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War is the Canadian War Museum's fully searchable digitized collection of 144,000 contemporary newspaper clippings that report on the events of the Second World War as that great conflict unfolded.
http://www.museedelaguerre.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/intro_e.shtml

Second World War Conscription Events Lesson Plan (Library and Archives Canada)
Description: (For grades 9-11 with a lesson plan, timeline, online activities, quizzes, etc.)
Topic: conscription - The following lesson plan can be used to help teach about Canada and the Second World War. The events surrounding conscription are explored. The activities included in this lesson plan will guide students, and prompt them to explore the William Lyon Mackenzie King Diaries.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/king/023011-4050.01-e.html

The Canadian Military History Gateway (CMHG)
Description: The CMHG website offers a wealth of military history information, with more than 7,000 unique links to military history resources on partner sites, including animation, art, artefacts, film, interactive games, music, narratives, photos and scholarly research. Users will find links to every NFB production having to do with conflict and peace.
Teachers are encouraged to visit the website to locate links to interesting websites, lesson plans and other educational resources.
http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/

Canada's Contribution to WWII: History Unit (Queen's Faculty of Education & Canada's Digital Collections
Description: This excellent Grade 10 history unit on Canada in WWII is a useful learning resource for Ontario teachers, as well as teachers in all provinces and territories of Canada. The lessons and activities can easily be adapted to different grade levels to meet curriculum requirements as needed.
http://www.wyattheritage.com/hospitality/main.asp?level1=resources&level2=none&level3=none

The National Film Board of Canada
Description: A site on the 60th anniversary of the D Day landings includes several NFB titles, available for viewing online, on the events of June 6, 1944.
http://www3.nfb.ca/enclasse/dday/dday.html

Britannica Online WWII Study Guide
Description: Encyclopaedia Britannica's World War II Study Guide has six student activities for use by high school history or social studies classes, or by students and parents at home. The activities are self-guided and promote critical thinking. They are also interactive, inviting students to locate, evaluate, and compare sources of information on the Internet. The online encyclopædia offers a wealth of information and resources (maps, weapons & tactics, newsreel footage, photos, war documents including D-Day assault plans, oral histories, published memoirs, interactive) about WWII and the D-Day landings.
http://search.eb.com/dday

1. Activity 1: Fortress Europa - Write a newspaper article describing the war in Europe.
2. Activity 2: Planning Your Assault! - Prepare for and participate in a mock pre-invasion conference.
3. Activity 3: WWII Inventions and Their Impact - Prepare for and debate the use of nuclear weapons.
4. Activity 4: Who Am I? - Write a biography describing contributions to World War II.
5. Activity 5: Cracking the Code - Decode and encode messages; learn about wartime encryption.
6. Activity 6: Be a Historian! - Sequence events in World War II; write historical fiction.

Canadian War Museum - Games & Activities for Children
http://www.museedelaguerre.ca/cwm/education/student-resources/student-resources

Planning game for the preparations for D-Day (Schoolhistory.org.uk)
Description: This online game for students helps them understand the decisions made to prepare for D-Day.
http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/dday/dday2.htm

Historica
Description: Presents Canadian history, heritage, geography, and culture for students, teachers, history activists, and average Canadians. Contains teacher resources, biographies of Canadians, and the acclaimed Canadian Heritage Minutes.
http://www.histori.ca/default.do?page=.index

The Avalon Project: WWII documents (Yale University)
Description: An extensive collection of important primary documents from WWII including agreements, declarations, addresses, and conferences are made availabe on this site. Features a search engine for finding documents not listed on the main page.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp

Hyper War
Description: Hyper War is a "hypertext" history of the Second World War and features diplomatic and political documents. The content is made up, primarily, of "public domain" (non-copyright) materials in English; Official government histories (United States and British Commonwealth/Empire); Source documents (diplomatic messages, Action Reports, logs, diaries, etc.); and Primary references (manuals, glossaries, etc). Wherever possible, hyperlinks between these histories and documents have been included.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/

BBC Online: World War II
Description: Covers various topics of the war such as campaigns and battles, politics, home front, and the holocaust. Multimedia zone offers interactive maps, photographs, animations, interactive games and audio and video clips.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/

Homefront 1939-1945 (British)
Description: This interactive UK National Archives Learning Curve exhibition examines life in Britain during Word War II. Sections revolve around essential questions for students to answer and feature diaries, activities, worksheets, a timeline, and video. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/homefront/default.htm

Open Hearts - Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project (Teachers guide from the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre)
Description: Following World War II, a group of young Jewish orphans immigrated to Canada from the devastation of Europe. Open Hearts - Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project is an online teaching exhibit that chronicles the lives of these orphans as they emerged from the events of the Holocaust into displaced person camps and eventually to new lives in Canda. This multi-media website uses the orphans' own words and artefacts as well as primary documents and photographs to provide students with a powerful learning experience about the Holocaust and the broader history of Canadian immigration during the 20th Century.
The site provides extensive support for students & teachers in middle & secondary school, social studies and language arts classrooms. The teacher's guide, web links, maps, biblio-videographies and pop-up glossary terms can be browsed online or downloaded as printable classroom materials. The bilingual site offers French teachers a valuable new resource for Holocaust Education.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/orphans/english/themes/resources/page1.html

Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Military Personnel Records
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-909.007-e.html

Association of Liberation Children - The Association of Liberation Children, founded in 1984, renders assistance to the descendants of soldiers from the Second World War in the search for their biological father and / or relatives. Apart from searches in the home country the association coordinates searching in countries like the USA, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland and Belgium.
http://www.liberationchildren.org/

Project Roots - Project Roots is a unique, humanitarian Detective Agency that helps find the long-lost Canadian fathers of British and European War Children who were born to single, unwed mothers in the aftermath of World War Two. Project Roots has successfully reunited 2500 War Children with the Canadian fathers who left them behind at the end of World War Two.
http://www.voicesoftheleftbehind.com/

Canadian War Brides - The authoritative source of information on the Canadian war brides of WWII.
The story of the Canadian war brides and their journey to Canada is one of the most fascinating and romantic of World War Two. Why nearly 45,000 British and European women would leave behind everything that was familiar to start a new life in post-war Canada is a story worth telling. This website draws together the various components of the Canadian War Bride story to provide a compelling portrait of the human experience.
http://www.canadianwarbrides.com/

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/

First nations Confederacy of cultural education centres - Nation-wide links to First Nations education centres
http://www.fnccec.com/main_e.asp

First nations culture - by Dominique Wakanda Colas, Art visual artist, specialized in First Nations culture
http://www.amerindien.fr