A Fitting Tribute on the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall. A New Crash Course in U.S. History. Overview - The Great Depression - Themed Resources. Documenting America. All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period [view information about the black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs].
Apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/repository/us-history-sf-antebellum-reform.pdf. AP US History (APUSH) Movies for the Classroom: Walt Disney and World War II Cartoons. As summer approaches, I like to show how media and communication have affected our history.
To that end, YouTube has been an invaluable asset in reaching students with historical media. You would be amazed as to what you can find. Today’s selections showcase Walt Disney’s contributions to World War II. Like so many studios during the war, Disney was contracted by the US armed forces to produce training films, documentaries, propaganda and morale-boosting films. There was a monetary aspect to this as well: Disney had spent so much making its masterpiece Fantasia (1940) that it nearly bankrupted the studio. The government contracted 32 short films from the studio–the studio’s location, near the Lockheed aircraft plant, made it a perfect place for creating training and production films. The first is Education for Death, subtitled as “The Making of a Nazi.”
The second is a more humorous piece titled Der Fuhrer’s Face. Slavery & Abolition - U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online - Research Guides at Sam Houston State University. The Rise of Hitler: Mr. Men project. The following activity is a great way of rounding off or revising the Rise of Hitler with IGCSE students.
They produce a 'Mr. Men' book about the topic and then read these to primary school / Year 7 students in a team challenge. A. Prior to the Activity Pre-activity preparation for Year 11 Prior to this activity, Year 11 students should have finished studying the Rise of Hitler. Pre-activity preparation for Year 6 Year 6 students should have spent some time (at least an hour or two) working through the tasks and ideas in this preparatory worksheet.
B. Setting up the class Year 6 will be divided into groups. Year 11 form a 'queue' of storytellers. The First Story Each group listens to the story read to them by the storyteller. Lesson Plans. Art & Culture » Find lesson plans related to different media, including architecture, music, and visual arts, as well as subjects, including anthropology, philosophy, folklore, and more.
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In recent years I have attempted to find ways to “get out of the way” of student learning more, and not be the omnipotent source of information and ideas. Ghosts of History - Complete Collection. Calendar. One account.
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