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Discussions of propaganda are great ones to have. Here you can see quite an assortment of World War 2 propaganda. Right now in the UK they are observing remembrance day so a lot of resources are being shared that we can use on this topic. It would be interesting to have students look for modern day propaganda? How about looking at US elections - do we have propaganda there? Just discussing that topic would be interesting.

"offers pictures from around the world, including America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Pacific."

A half hour animated documentary that covers the science of oil production, resource deletion and growth. Perfect for discussions and lessons about sustainability.

"Welcome to Civil War Animated If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the US Civil War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."

History-Map Timelines: TimeMaps TimeMaps creates beautiful interactive history-map timelines: TimeMaps. They're either: Animated, Interactive TimeMaps for classroom presentation or as study guides.The FREE TimeMap of World History, which is an award winning website that shows the bigger picture of world history

" Rationing of food and other goods during World War Two changed the social landscape of Britain for a generation, creating a national culture of ingenuity, austerity and making-do. "

"Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years of BBC television and radio programmes "

WE would need a proxy server for this in the Uk

"Wecome to History Animated E-mail If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."

"Enjoy these stories as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, where you need them."

Free access to many of the primary resources, however site membership to have access to everything on the site is paid.

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana. These objects include: * Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects * Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers * Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts * Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"

Day by day accounts & pics from WWII on twitter... could be a good discussion starter

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We could use this with our younger ones as well as long as we let their parents know and they do not choose to opt their child out.

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