Tag: World War 1

  • How did World War 1 start?

    How did World War 1 start?

    Have you ever wondered what caused World War 1? How World War 1 started? If you look at the facts of it, it should never have happened.  It’s a fascinating history lesson. I got two different versions of it as a freshman in high school.  First, for whatever reason, my freshman English teacher decided everyone…

  • World War 1 writing assignment

    World War 1 writing assignment

    While previous wars had newspapers and political cartoons.  World War 1 is probably the first war to have a newspaper made for just the soldiers (if you know otherwise I’d love to hear it). It was such a novel concept this even became a Horrible History sketch.  Of course, we had to use comics for…

  • World War 1 nurse’s hat craft

    World War 1 nurse’s hat craft

    By World War 1 nursing was finally recognized as a profession and as a noble service.  There had been recent work to get medics universally recognized as non-combatants, so they were now, in theory, not going to be shot at while helping the wounded.  This led to the universally acknowledged red cross symbol.  World War…

  • how to make a World War 1 helmet

    how to make a World War 1 helmet

    Picture books evoke emotions. When I picked out the books I wanted to use for our World War 1 unit for our week of funschooling history lessons, I picked out a book called “Midnight,” it was about a horse. I knew Princess would love this book. And then I read Midnight, and I knew it…

  • How did the United States end up in World War 1?

    How did the United States end up in World War 1?

    Haven’t you ever wondered that?  I mean it’s on a different continent after all, and there’s an ocean between us and them.  It’s a big ocean, and none of the issues going on even affected our country. So let’s dig into this history lesson and start this World War 1 Unit with How did the…