ETE 335

Elementary Social Studies Lesson

Gardners Multiple Intelligences
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Laura Steubinger
Social Studies/ Civics and Government (WWII)
6
th
Grade
Propaganda during WWII

ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Goals:
Learn the power of propaganda during WWII
Learn why the governments around the world used WWII
Identify themes of propaganda in the United States

Objectives:
Content/Knowledge:
Students will be able to identify what propaganda is and
why it was used in WWII.

Process/Skills:
Students will be able to identify and list the different
effective tools that are used in propaganda.

Values/Dispositions:
Students will be able to label the different values and
emotional aspects that made propaganda so effective
during WWII.
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Rationale:
Propaganda was a major part of WWII in encouraging
people across the world to be supportive of the war. It is
important for students to learn how the government kept
the people to support the war even after it had been going
on for so long.

Standards:

State Illinois Common Core or Learning Standards
14.C.3 Compare historical issues involving rights, roles
and status of individuals in relation to municipalities,
states and the nation.

National NCSS Themes
Theme 4: Individual Development and Identity.
Theme 10: Civic Ideals and Practices

Logical/Mathematical
Logical/Mathematical
Look at the 19 photos of the British
Propaganda pictures.
Evaluate them and compare/contrast them.
Choose a few categories that you could
numerically compare with these posters.
Make a chart/graph about the categories you
have chosen to numerically compare with
these posters.
Verbal/Linguistic
Verbal/Linguistic
Choose a poster from this website about U.S.
propaganda posters.
Create a speech based off of the message the
poster is giving.
Please include at the end of your speech why
you chose the poster you did and what you
thought it meant.
Musical/Rhythmic
Musical/Rhythmic
Music was also used as a form of
propaganda during WWII.
Listen to the propaganda songs on this
website.
Explore the website as well.
Write a propaganda song for the United
States that could have been sung during
WWII.
Visual/Spatial
Visual/Spatial
Look at the propaganda posters on this website.
Choose ten of your favorite posters.
Think of one question for each poster that you
have about the poster.
Write you questions down and we will go over
some of them in class at a later time.
Body/Kinesthetic
Body/Kinesthetic
Get into groups of 3.
Use this website to look at propaganda
posters to get ideas of what they looked like
during WWII.
With your group create your own WWII
propaganda poster.
We will display these posters in class.
Interpersonal
Interpersonal
Use this website to look at the various
propaganda posters.
Choose 10 different posters (different than
the ones you chose for the other activities).
With your partner, carefully analyze them to
figure out these things:
What message are they trying to convey
What country made the poster
What group of people are they targeting
with the poster.
Intrapersonal
Intrapersonal
Explore this interactive website about
propaganda.
Write a one page paper reflecting on why
they used propaganda as much as they did
during WWII and why it was such an effective
tool to use.
Naturalistic
Naturalistic
Look at these propaganda posters from
WWII.
Evaluate them to see if there are any aspects
of nature in the illustrations and to see if the
words on the posters hint to what the
landscape of the countries looked like at the
time.
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Visual Learning and Assessment:
Visual Learning, Assessment, and Online Resources:
Visual Learning:
NOTE: Be sure to include one image that is
germane to the focus of your lesson on each
of the 8 lesson activity PowerPoint slides.
Assessment:
1. The paper will be formally assessed using
a checklist. The drawings and the rest of the
activities will be informally assessed.

Online Resources: (delicious bookmark
hyperlinked into this slide).