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World War II Battles

Amber Llewellyn

My students love to talk about battles, and that is an area that I feel the least confident talking about. While I understand strategy and tactics, I am far from an expert in these areas, and I do not know an American Tank from a Soviet Tank when shown pictures, which makes some of my students very disappointed in me. So my question is, how do you teach about the battles of World War II? Do you go into details or talk about what was important and how many people died? 

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  • I don't really concentrate on the individual battles in either WWI or WWII.  In WWII, I do a stations activity that focuses on key turning points, sometimes that's an actual battle or sometimes its a strategy. 

    I used to do an activity where I placed them in groups to create an annotated map.  Basically, we put a map of that theater in the middle of a large piece of paper.  Each student was then responsible for 1 - 2 battles and had to create notecards on the battle which they then glued to around the map and drew to where that battle was on the map.

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  • I don't really concentrate on the individual battles in either WWI or WWII.  In WWII, I do a stations activity that focuses on key turning points, sometimes that's an actual battle or sometimes its a strategy. 

    I used to do an activity where I placed them in groups to create an annotated map.  Basically, we put a map of that theater in the middle of a large piece of paper.  Each student was then responsible for 1 - 2 battles and had to create notecards on the battle which they then glued to around the map and drew to where that battle was on the map.

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