Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: u.s. Entry Into Wwi

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this historical inquiry instructional activity, students address the question, "What changed between 1914 and 1917 that caused the U.S. to enter WWI?" to corroborate a textbook account with two...
Website
Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Wwi a Commemoration of Residents From Trinity & Area

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary documents, images,audio clips and maps help to reveal the role Newfoundland, as the oldest British Colony, had during the First World War.
Primary
Brigham Young University

Harold B. Lee Library: The World War I Document Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this archive of primary source documents from World War I. Content includes maps, photographs, various peace treaties, diary notes, official papers and more.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Wwi America: Babe Ruth's Draft Card

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will examine the language of the WWI draft card for George Herman 'Babe' Ruth to try and determine differences between American society during World War I and the present day.
Unit Plan
Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: A Fire Waiting to Be Lit: The Origins of World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete learning module on the origins of World War I. Includes article with map, photos, primary source excerpts and questions for discussion as well as four common core activities, instructions and handouts for students and teachers....
Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Private Donald Fraser

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a first-person primary source account of WWI that focuses on trench warfare and "No Man's Land."
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Remembrance and Hope

For Students 9th - 10th
Embrace the history of Innisfail Alberta's residents through stories of soldiers, nurses, cooks, war brides and wives left behind as they join in the war effort during WW l and WW ll. Included are pictures and primary source documents.
Primary
Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Selling the War to the American Public

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A resource filled with primary source materials, posters that promoted support for World War I. Included is a worksheet that can be used to analyze any of the resources, all of which are PDF files.
Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Docsteach: Americans on the Homefront Helped Win World War I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, young scholars will match documents to visualize ways that Americans contributed to the war effort on the homefront during World War I. Students will see a payoff image related to the armistice celebration and reflect...
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Curated OER

Image

For Students 9th - 10th
A site detailing the events leading up to the US' involvement in WWI, especially the sinking of the Laconia. Includes a primary source document, a newspaper article written at the time of the sinking.
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Curated OER

Ma N10053

For Students 9th - 10th
A thematic web exhibition featuring the 350,000 men who signed up to fight in World War I. The exhibition features why these men went and how they were persuaded to enlist using primary source images of photographs and posters. The...