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Electronic Field Trips

Site-specific WWII explorations streamed right into your classroom

Join the Museum for award-winning interactive webcasts on compelling WWII topics.

Electronic Field Trips are streamed directly into your classroom—no special technology required. Focusing on the national impact of World War II, take your students on a cross-country tour of historic sites while examining fascinating artifacts and exhibits at The National WWII Museum. Hosted by student reporters, Electronic Field Trips will help your students understand how the war affected young people just like them.


 

Eighty years after the events of 1945, join The National WWII Museum for a two-part Electronic Field Trip on the end of the war and the postwar period. Explore the final months of World War II and how major battles and key decisions brought about the surrenders of Germany and Japan. Learn about the devastating loss and destruction as well as the liberation and jubilation that came with the conclusion of the war. Examine the emerging tensions between communism and democracy, the United States and USSR, and explore the standoffs that would mark the beginning of the Cold War. Student reporters and their teachers will journey to sites where history happened and explore the galleries of The National WWII Museum.

Designed for grades 7–12.

Part One of the Electronic Field Trip will premiere Monday, April 28, at 9:00 a.m. CT.

Part Two will premiere Thursday, May 8, the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, at 9:00 a.m. CT.
 

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Past Programs—Watch on Demand Now!

Holocaust Electronic Field Trip: Part 1

Join The National WWII Museum on an Electronic Field Trip to learn about the Holocaust through firsthand accounts and testimonies of child victims and survivors.

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Manufacturing Victory Electronic Field Trip

Join The National WWII Museum this spring to learn more about the inspiring story of the American Home Front effort that brought victory to the Allies and brought the country out of the Great Depression.

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Path to Pearl Harbor Electronic Field Trip

Join The National WWII Museum with student reporters from Hawaii and New Orleans to learn more about why on December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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Japanese American Experiences in WWII Electronic Field Trip

Take your classroom on a journey with student reporters based in California and Louisiana as they gather the stories of Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from the West Coast after the United States’ entrance into World War II. 

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The Manhattan Project Electronic Field Trip

Student reporters examine the revolutionary science of nuclear energy and the race to produce an atomic weapon in complete secrecy. Perfect for students in grades 7–12.

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75TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY ELECTRONIC FIELD TRIP

Guided by student reporters, classrooms around the world will embark on a virtual transatlantic adventure to discover the lessons and legacies of Operation Overlord, the code name for the massive Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Perfect for students in grades 7–12. 

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FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO FIGHT: AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCES IN WORLD WAR II

In this interactive cross-country journey, your students in grades 6-12 will learn how the pursuit for both victory and equality shaped the story of World War II and transformed the United States for decades to come.  Winner of a Silver Telly Award for online educational programming.

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Remember Pearl Harbor - How Students Like You Experienced the Day of Infamy

On December 7, 2016—the 75th anniversary of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor—The National WWII Museum and New Orleans PBS member station WYES hosted a student program that focused on the events of that momentous day.  Watch as student reporters explore historic locations and museums, including the USS Arizona Memorial, the Pacific Aviation Museum, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, and The National WWII Museum. Winner of a Suncoast Regional Emmy for youth programming. 

We're All in this Together: How Students Like You Helped Win WWII

The WWII-era slogan—We're All In This Together!—included students just like yours on the Home Front. Tune in to WYES and The National WWII Museum's electronic field trip all about the lives of students during World War II. Follow student reporters as they explore the Museum, learn about rationing, grow a Victory garden, dance the jitterbug, and collect scrap for the war effort.

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