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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Canada
at War - Teacher's Activity Kit, Gr. 7-12 (Canadian War Museum)
Description: Provides general information on a
comprehensive resource kit that explores Canada's
military role over the course of two world wars
and more than half a century of peacekeeping duty.
Links to order forms in PDF are provided.
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.
1939-1945:
The World at War (The Canadians in the World
Website)
Description: This excellent lesson
plan comes complete with comprehension questions,
essay questions, independent activities, and a
glossary for students.
The Canadians in the World
Web site was created to help students from Canada
and abroad learn about Canada's international
achievements and its involvement in international
affairs.
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.
Museum
of the Regiments
Description: Learn about several
regiments and their participation in various wars.
Testimonies,
photographs, poems and texts provide many ways
to explore the elements of war. Teachers from the
third grade to secondary levels will find educational
resources, lesson plans and material for the classroom.
(available in English only)
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.
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.
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.
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, artifacts,
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.
Courage
Remembered - The War Through Canadian Eyes
Description: This website
was created by Schoolnet Digital Collections and
has
information about
Canadian soldiers
in both world wars.
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.
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.
Britannica
Online WWII Study Guide
Description: Encyclopædia
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.
Activities
included:
- Activity 1: Fortress Europa - Write a newspaper
article describing the war in Europe.
- Activity 2: Planning Your Assault! - Prepare
for and participate in a mock pre-invasion
conference.
- Activity 3: WWII Inventions and Their Impact
- Prepare for and debate the use of nuclear
weapons.
- Activity 4: Who Am I? - Write a biography
describing contributions to World War II.
- Activity 5: Cracking the Code - Decode and
encode messages; learn about wartime encryption.
- Activity 6: Be a Historian! - Sequence events
in World War II; write historical fiction.
Remembrance
Day Quiz
Description: Test your knowledge!
Canadian
War Museum - Games & Activities for Children
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.
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.
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.
The
Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King
Description: This is a youth-oriented
educational Web site that showcases the life of
Canada's longest-serving
prime minister and promotes research of his recently
digitized diary. The Web site features lessons
for grades 6-8 (Sec. II) on diary writing for elementary
grades and interactive, multi-media quizzes and
activities that explore the life and times of Mackenzie
King.
The
Valour and the Horror: Canada at War
Description: Enormous
compendium of materials regarding Canada's participation
in the Allied World War II effort. Devotes one
of its three major sections to the Normandy Invasion,
including: a chronology of the invasion through
Germany's surrender; a superior background overview
concerning the participation and planning of Canada,
the Allies, and Germany; stories of numerous participants;
photographs, documents, and maps; and technical
data and specifications. Examines related issues
and historical controversies, including the considerable
criticism of the original television series associated
with this presentation. Online forums, a thoughtful
book service, and an excellent selection of links
round out this
exceptional, if controversial, resource.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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