Here are resources you may find helpful for classroom studies and activities. Each district media center has additional material that will support your classroom lessons. Please contact a media staff person for help.
***The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Teacher Guide
https://department.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024_VeteransDayTeachersGuide.pdf
***The History of Veterans Day
https://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp
***Primary source sets from the Library of Congress (LOC) -
Veterans' Stories: The Veterans History Project and Veterans' Stories: Struggles for Participation veterans tell their stories firsthand through interviews, diaries, and photographs. With teacher guides and analysis tools plus links to Lessons Plans and Presentations on many topics.
***From Infoplease-
Veterans' statistics, history of the holiday, war poetry, and more (advertising does pop up on this site)
https://www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/holidays/veterans-day
***The high school media center has the Ken Burns' PBS series, The War. While the series is not available online, you can scroll across the header at this PBS site to find many additional resources related to the war:
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/
***The History Channel has videos and photo galleries related to Veterans Day:
www.history.com/topics/holidays/history-of-veterans-day
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