Monthly Archives: March 2012

Complete this activity on what life was like in the U.S. during the war. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.

Learn about the Marshall Plan
. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.

ON YOUR OWN

Look at this Second World War Timeline.

Watch these videos on World War II.

Inside World War II: A Global Perspective.

Code Talkers

D-Day To Victory

Watch these two movies about the Holocaust and take the quizzes:

* Holocaust

* Anne Frank

Learn more about Anne Frank at

The Best Sites To Learn About Anne Frank

Learn more about The Holocaust.

Please read the first two paragraphs on this page about the Holocaust (click MP3 Listening so you can hear the words spoken). The do this exercise.

Watch these videos about The Holocaust.

Watch this with Spanish subtitles

Look at these resources:

The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust

Complete this activity about D-Day and watch the video.

Watch this movie about the Allied Victory.

Learn about the atomic bombings of Japan at:

The Best Resources For Learning About The Atomic Bombings Of Japan

If there's time, go to The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust and look at the sites on that list.

Learn about the war in the Pacific at:

The Best Sites For Learning About The War In The Pacific

WITH A PARTNER

Read about World War II Remembered.

The History Channel has many short videos on the war, as does How Stuff Works.

Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago is a great set of images from The Boston Globe's Big Picture.

SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:

Spanish videos on World War II

More Spanish videos

Brainpop World War II

Complete this activity on Japanese Internment. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.

ON YOUR OWN

World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans

WITH A PARTNER

Read more on this website.

Read even more here.

Executive Order 9066: Japanese American internment in World War II is a photo gallery from The L.A. Times (February 19th is the anniversary of the Order).

ON YOUR OWN

One of the major reasons Japanese Americans were put into camps was because other Americans were afraid that they might help Japan in the war against the United States. In other words, it was an example of people doing bad things to other people because of fear.

Have you ever done something bad to someone else because you were afraid (Start a fight? Say something nasty to someone?)? Has a person you know ever done something bad to someone else because they were afraid? What happened?

Has someone ever done something bad to you or your family because you think they were afraid of you?

Write your answers on your website.

Learn about Adolf Hitler in this activity. Get the code from Mr Ferlazzo.

ON YOUR OWN

Watch this movie about the causes of World War II and take the quizzes.

Watch this movie about World War II and take the quizzes.

Watch this movie about Adolf Hitler and take the quizzes.

Learn about what happened in the War in 1941
. Click on "Go" when you get to the page.  Be sure to click on the lower-left corner to see the words as they are spoken.

Learn about the war in Europe and Africa.  Click on "Go" when you get to the page.

Learn about the war in the Pacific.

Watch this video of Adolf Hitler.

Learn about Albert Einstein and take the quizzes.

Explore these sites about Pearl Harbor:

EL Civics has A Pearl Harbor Day Lesson

Holt, Rinehart & Winston have a Pearl Harbor Interactive.

Scholastic has another interactive on the Pearl Harbor attack.

National Geographic has its well-known Remembering Pearl Harbor site.

Learn About Pearl Harbor comes from Pearson.

The National Park Service has many good photos of the Arizona Memorial and ones that were taken on the day of the attack.

How Stuff Works has a series of online videos about Pearl Harbor and its aftermath.

You can find the transcript and audio, along with images, of President Roosevelt’s “Infamy” speech at the History Place.

Glencoe has some online clozes (fill-in-the-blanks) on Pearl Harbor.

Learn about Albert Einstein and take the quizzes.

WITH A PARTNER

Read about the causes of World War II.

Complete this cloze and then this quiz.

SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW

Brainpop Causes Of World War II

Brainpop Albert Einstein