Title:
WWII Women Wore Many Hats
Grade Level(s): 5th Grade United States History
Description:
1. Students will begin by choosing a photograph
2. They will each study their images closely and
answer the 5 “W’s”
• Who do you think the photo is of? Who do you
think the person/s is?
• What do you think is happening? What do you
think this person/s is doing? What does this photo
tell you about the time period?
• When do you think this photograph was taken?
(Time period)
• Where do you think it was taken? (City, Country,
Farm)
• Why do you think this photograph was taken?
Why is it important?
3. Using their answers from the above questions they
will create a story about their photographs.
4. They will then share their stories with the class
Notations:
• This activity can be done individually, with
a partner or in a small group
• Students can pretend they are the person (or
one of the people) in the photograph and tell what
is happening to “them” that day in the
form of a journal entry
• Students can pretend to be the newspaper reporter
who took the photograph and write a newspaper article
about the experience
• Students can create a story using all of the
photographs
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