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WWI Alliance Simulation

Anne Koschmider

I had a share a win from last week - I tried this simulation illustrating the role of alliances in the outbreak of WWI and decided it's a keeper! 

We've had four snow days since the start of the new semester on January 21, so it feels like building classroom community has gotten off to a slow start. While this activity was great for content, it was also a huge win for getting students up and interacting with each other. 

We'll be bookending our study of WWI with another simulation: the OER Project World War I Peace Talks.

Does anyone have other favorite activities for WWI?

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  • Thanks for sharing  ! I've done the OER Peace Talks Assignment before and it got pretty heated last year. It made it much easier going forward whenever I made a connection back to the Treaty, I think everyone would roll their eyes and be like well yeah of course. I really like the simulation you have that starts the war off and definitely want to try this out. How long did you have this run for? I have 40 minute periods so I'm thinking about my timing. One of my favorite activities on WWI is the WWI Poster Analysis. Students enjoy looking at the posters and we often make connections to modern propaganda which they're all over especially when we talk about the media today.

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  • Thanks for sharing  ! I've done the OER Peace Talks Assignment before and it got pretty heated last year. It made it much easier going forward whenever I made a connection back to the Treaty, I think everyone would roll their eyes and be like well yeah of course. I really like the simulation you have that starts the war off and definitely want to try this out. How long did you have this run for? I have 40 minute periods so I'm thinking about my timing. One of my favorite activities on WWI is the WWI Poster Analysis. Students enjoy looking at the posters and we often make connections to modern propaganda which they're all over especially when we talk about the media today.

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