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World War I Primary Sources Pack Gallopade International

The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics' Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence. The World War I Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source that are printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock

World War I Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!

Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.

The 20 documents in the World War I Primary Sources Pack are:
1. Headline of The Sun, a New York newspaper - 1914
2. Photograph of German soldiers marching through the fields of Belgium during the 1914 invasion
3. Photograph of a German U-boat submarine - 1914
4. Illustration of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat - 1915
5. Photograph of the first armed Serbian aircraft - 1915
6. Photographs of land weapons of World War I - 1914- 1919
7. Depictions of trench warfare - 1914-1918
8. Leaders of the Allied Powers after the United States entered the war in 1917
9. United States propaganda poster - 1917
10. British sugar ration card - 1917
11. Women's Land Army poster displayed in Great Britain - 1917
12. From the diary o