Remembrance and Veterans Day Lessons and Links

By Alan Haskvitz

http://www.reacheverychild.com

For a great many holiday lessons and links

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/pumpkins.html

Remembrance Day and Veterans Day Lessons

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/veterans_day.html

Canadian Remembrance Day

A large link page

http://edselect.com/remembrance.htm

Veterans Day and Remembrance Day lessons

http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/remembrance.php

Elementary Themes

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/remembranceday.htm

Crafts

http://www.kinderplans.com/content.cfm?pageid=201

Coloring activities

http://www.crayola.com/educators/lesson_plans/detail.cfm?id=893

British Remembrance Day site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_3240000/newsid_3243200/3243279.stm

Australian Remembrance Day

http://lvillage.education.vic.gov.au/lv/beps/hp.nsf/PreviewHomePages/remembrance%20day

AND

http://www.consultpivotal.com/remembrance_day.htm

Veterans and Remembrance Day Themes

http://www.themeunits.com/Remembrance_bk.html

Nice Printable selection

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/TCR/0615_73.pdf

Poems

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems10.html

Canadian Remembrance Day Ideas from Canadian Veterans

http://198.103.134.2/remembers/sub.cfm?source=teach_resources/gen_guide

How to send postcards to Canadian veterans

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=feature/vetweek/postpeace/postsend

Animals in war

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=feature/week2006/vw_edres/animalswar_news/guide

Royal Canadian Legion Teacher’s Guide

http://www.legion.ca/asp/docs/rempoppy/Tguide_e.asp

Three approaches to teaching Flanders Field

http://www.developingteachers.com/tips/pasttips74.htm

 

Dealing with the war and school violence

How to talk to students about the war and school violence

By Alan Haskvitz, national inservice presenter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

I have placed resources that deal with the following issues here.

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· Overviews

· Helping Young Children

· Resources for Caregivers, Teachers, Health Professionals and Communities

· Help for Older Children and Teenagers

· Coping with Loss

· Helping Adults and Helping Others

· Addressing Hatred

 

The Iraq war and dealing with children, hatred, and loss

Find help to address kids’

questions about the war

By Alan Haskvitz, national

 inservice presenter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

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As youth struggle to cope with the war in Iraq, children may be especially disturbed and confused by the barrage of images and information. Adults – parents, teachers and caregivers – may need help to reconcile advocating non-violence with the necessity for armies and conflict. Here are some resources that may help in discussing the war, addressing hatred, coping with lose, and help for older students. There are also links to resources for caregivers, teachers, and health professionals and others.

I have them all posted here. No ads, no cookies, just educational links

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/about_war.html

 

Lessons on Patriotism: For the Classroom

By Alan Haskvitz, national inservice presenter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/patriotism.html

Patriotism is defined as loyalty, pride or fervent love of one’s country. Sometimes the definition includes allegiance to its government and institutions. And others wrote about
America’s experiment with government by the people.

“What then is the American, this new man? . . . He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.”
– Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur from Letters from an American Farmer

These new manners included democracy, freedom and the rule of law. And the founding fathers did their best to provide the framework in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Yet they realized these new freedoms required citizens to perform certain duties and to surrender certain rights to vest their government with the powers to function.

Possibly our most basic duty, and a patriotic act in and of itself, is voting. Our government does not just encourage participation; it is the key to our existence as a democracy. As citizens, we have a duty to select our government.

But the responsibility doesn’t end with our vote. It is also our responsibility to form and express opinions about the operation of that government; to participate in the political process. As Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.”

Perhaps Abraham Lincoln described it best in his address to the 166^th
Ohio regiment on Aug. 22, 1864.

“I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has. It is in order that each of you may have through this free government which we have enjoyed, an open field and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise and intelligence: that you may all have equal privileges in the race of life, with all its desirable human aspirations. It is for this the struggle should be maintained, that we may not lose our birthright. . . . The nation is worth fighting for, to secure such an inestimable jewel.”

Education links are listed here

They include clip art, themes, art actitives, the national patriotic museum, and a collection of good links.

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/patriotism.html