Session 5: New Weaponry in World War I

Materials

  • Library, or computer lab with Internet access
  • Chart listing the five major new types of weapons of World War I: submarines, machine guns, poison gas, tanks, and airplanes. (NOTE: Be sure students understand that submarines led to the entry of the United States into the war on the Allied side in 1917.)
  • Preferred teacher resources

Instructional Activities

  1. Arrange for students to have access to the library or Internet for research on each of the new weapons of war.

  2. Have students document what impact the weapon had on World War I, which side used the weapon first, and how the weapon changed strategies of war.

  3. Have students cite Web and/or other resources used in their essay.

  4. Assign a preferred teacher activity.

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