The Great War 1914-1918

Abstract

Key events and focuses of World War One centered around the big six historical thinking concepts; Lessons include identifying evidence, comparing and contrasting documentation, creating a propaganda poster, identifying significance of Canada’s involvement in World War One, comparing primary source documents and writing an opinion piece on the ethical dimension of warfare, understanding the causes and outcome of World War One; By the end of these lessons, students will be able to organize and interpret evidence from the First World War based on the historical thinking concepts