Segunda Guerra Mundial para niños: el ascenso y la caída de los dictadores

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Each day we will discuss a part of the 5 year timeline of the war. As we go through the timeline - we will discuss important people from all the countries involved, the allies and the axis; cover the map of the countries; gain a vocabulary of people, places, things and events. There are notes that students can use to follow the timeline!

This is a discussion based class and learners should have some understanding of WWII events or a strong desire to learn. Learners will have PowerPoint notes to fill in that correlate with the Power Point; purely OPTIONAL. There will also be visual aids; videos, slide shows and websites used throughout the class. I will include activities, such as, Connect 4, Would you rather?, roll and retell, and others to review material and learn in ways other than lecture. There is also hands on learning as well!

My teaching style is to teach the subject/topic, and allow students to share what they know; I also ask questions to elicit knowledge, understanding and/or deeper meanings; or if the student needs the information in a different way to grasp the material.

We will also learn:
Leaders of World War II - Who am I? game
Causes of WWII and the connections to WWI:
   Treaty of Versailles - interactive activity - Breakout Groups
   Rise of dictators - video
   Hitler and the Nazi Party
Timeline of WWII - major events from before the Invasion of Poland to Japan's surrender
Battles:
   Invasion of Poland - interactive invasion map
    Phoney War
   Germany invades France
      French Resistance
   Battle of Britain - activity
   London Blitz - activity
   Pearl Harbor
   Battle of Midway - video
      Doolittle Raid
   D-Day 
Effects of war
Homefront experiences:
  war time economy
  rationing - activity
  propaganda - poster examples
  Tuskegee Airmen - video
  Recruitment poster - activity
  Women in WWII - activity
  Japanese Internment PowerPoint
D-Day - fun videos showing fooling Hitler and Hobart Funnies
Parachuting - activity
Dunkirk evacuation
Yalta Conference
Manhattan Project
     Potsdam Conference
Other aspects of war:
  cost of war
Cold War intro