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WWII Project Outline ActivityWWII Project Outline Activity
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Shaker Junior High School Library Media Center
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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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WWII Project Outline

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Work together as a class and get to know the ins and outs of World War II with this engaging collaborative project. Class members are broken into groups to research particular war topics, from life on the home front to the Holocaust and the Manhattan Project, and to then demonstrate their research in a creative way. This resource provides great guidelines for how to specifically approach and review each suggested project topic.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

japanese-american internment, internment camps, japanese-american history, pearl harbor, world war ii, the manhattan project, the atomic bomb, propaganda, the holocaust

Additional Tags

wwii, manhattan project, holocaust, pearl harbor, japanese internment, propaganda, wwii literature, social studies

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  • Can download and edit document
  • Nice variety of topics, each with unique project requirements

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  • Additional project materials (graphic organizers, rubrics, etc.) will need to be designed by instructor

Common Core

W.9-10.7 W.9-10.8 W.11-12.7 W.11-12.8 RH.9-10.1 RH.11-12.1

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