Primary Source Learning: World War I Teaching Resources
The Teaching with Library of Congress blog provides some great primary source teaching ideas related to supporting the troops, focusing in on wartime clothing drives. Be sure to check out these World War I clothing-related posters. There are also lots more teaching resources to draw from.
World War I related Teaching with the Library of Congress blog posts
Activities & lesson plans
- American Memory Timeline: U.S. Participation in the Great War background & primary source analysis activities
- Primary Source Learning: Personal Perspectives of World War I primary source activities using veteran oral histories
- World War I: What Are We Fighting For Over There? lesson plan
- Espionage, Sedition, Censorship, and Speaking Up lesson plan
- On the Homefront, America During World War I and World War II online activity
- Guided primary source analysis activities
Collection connections