Lesson Plans - Texas Our Texas

D-Day and the Texas Panhandle

Grade: 11
This WWII unit includes two videos of a veteran speaking about his war experiences, questions to go with the videos, a lesson plan and an activity.

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Holocaust

Grade: 11
In this KACV educational unit, students will learn about the Holocaust through firsthand video accounts, a lesson plan and a presentation.

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Why We Moved

Grade:11
In this KACV educational unit, students will learn about how efforts to help win World War II forced many American civilians to migrate.

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Propaganda in World War II

Grade: 11
Through this KACV educational unit, students will learn about the effectiveness of United States propaganda used in World War II.

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WWII Personalities

Students will identify common characteristics exhibited by strong war leaders in this KACV educational unit from “Texas Panhandle WWII Stories.”

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The Texas Dust Bowl

Grades: 6-12
This Library of Congress group includes photographs, recorded music, and song lyrics that document the daily ordeals of rural migrant families from the Great Plains during a decade marked by both the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Use it to help your students write and illustrate the struggles Texas families went through.

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Texas Dust Bowl

Grades: 4-7
Show your students the impact of the Dust Bowl on the lives, livelihoods, interactions, and migrations of every day Texans through the creation of a three-part series of letters written in first-person perspective to an East Coast friend. Through creation of the letters students will evaluate significant events in the following three periods: the beginning of the Dust Bowl droughts, the worst part of the droughts, and the resulting resolution of the droughts.

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