FOR TEACHERS & STUDENTS:
The National WWII Museum is a dynamic educational resource, serving the needs of teachers and students from grade school through the post-graduate level. USA Today gave the Museum its top rank as one of the “Best Places to Learn U.S. Military History." Exhibitions and programs allow students from all backgrounds to explore the values and beliefs—the universal concepts—that Americans and their Allies embraced during World War II.
Explore this section to find out about all of our educational programs, including Virtual Field Trips, Operation Footlocker, and National History Day! We also have resources available to help foster learning about World War II, such as fact sheets, timelines, and general World War II History.
The National WWII Museum is a living museum. It honors the generation that won the war by enlightening today's generation about its own potential. The Museum is dedicated to the premise that these lessons are just as valuable today as they were over sixty-five years ago.
The 2012 Middle and High School Essay Contest is Now Taking Submissions!
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, the father of the computer, the 70th anniversary of the first use of penicillin to save someone’s life, and also the 70th anniversary of the world’s first sustained nuclear chain reaction. Throughout WWII, science and technology produced an astounding amount of invention and innovation. Many of those inventions and innovations were forerunners of our modern science and technology. As The National WWII Museum launches a series of new STEM-based programs this year, we call on students to answer the question, “What WWII invention or innovation has had the greatest impact on your life?”
As in years past, the Museum does not want research papers. Students’ essays will be judged foremost for their originality, clarity of expression, and adherence to contest theme, as well as their historical accuracy, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. WWII Museum staff will read and evaluate entries. All essays must be submitted through the Museum website at the links below. No essays will be accepted through the mail.
View full contest rules and get started on your essay today!
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EDUCATION PROJECTS:
The Victory Gardens of WWII
Visit the Classroom Victory Garden Project website to learn about food production during WWII, find lesson plans and activities for elementary students, get tips for starting your own garden and try out simple Victory Garden recipes!
The Science and Technology of WWII
Visit our new interactive website to learn about wartime technical and scientific advances that forever changed our world. Incorporates STEM principles to use in the classroom.
My Town Remembers WWII
Students, submit photos of your town’s WWII memorials, or WWII related historical buildings, statues, street signs and ceremonies that illustrate how your community honors the men and women of WWII.
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