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Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
The World War I Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source that are printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock. Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The 20 World War I Primary Sources are:
- Headline of The Sun, a New York newspaper - 1914
- Photograph of German soldiers marching through the fields of Belgium during the 1914 invasion
- Photograph of a German U-boat submarine - 1914
- Illustration of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat - 1915
- Photograph of the first armed Serbian aircraft - 1915
- Photographs of land weapons of World War I - 1914- 1919
- Depictions of trench warfare - 1914-1918
- Leaders of the Allied Powers after the United States entered the war in 1917
- United States propaganda poster - 1917
- British sugar ration card - 1917
- Women's Land Army poster displayed in Great Britain - 1917
- From the diary of famous German pilot Manfred von Richthofen - 1917
- United States recruitment posters for its branches of military service - 1917
- Various hospital conditions during World War I - 1917
- Leaders of the Central Powers of World War I - 1918
- Cartoon depicting YWCA hostess houses in seventy camps - 1918
- Poster entitled "If I fail, he dies" - ca. 1918
- Newspaper article reporting the surrender of German forces - 1918
- Poster entitled "At Work Again" - 1919
- Poems from World War I - 1914-1919