This was a new activity that I came up with this year. That's right! No begging, borrowing, or stealing. It just came from I just get really sad that we don't get to teach WW2 in our school. That is saved for the high schools. So I have gotten clever about how to weave it in. In this lesson, I start talking about Rosie the Riveter and do a little mini lesson about her and her role in WW2. You can see the slideshow I used here.
So we talk about Rosie the Riveter and what she did. Then students do a gallery walk with bios from different women from the Revolutionary war. These women are Deborah Sampson, Nancy Hart, Mary Katherine Goddard, Esther Reed, Lydia Darran, Sybil Ludington, and Margaret Cochran Corbin. They have to write down the women's names and what they did for the war.
The last task they have is to draw a poster demonstrating what their chosen woman did in the war. They have to "show the action" and create some sort of catchphrase to convince other women to also join the war effort.
This was a great activity and the students loved all of it from start to finish. They eat anything about WW2 up since they don't get it very often. They loved getting out of their seats for the gallery walk and drawing/art always engages the students I can't reach. The best part is that this fits perfectly in an hour long block!
Go women!
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