<![CDATA[Tip of the Week – Propaganda Posters]]>

<![CDATA[Tip of the Week – Propaganda Posters]]>I spent Wednesday with a great group of middle and high school teachers, talking about the best ways to engage kids in thinking historically. A good chunk of the day focused on using primary and secondary sources. I always have fun being a part of history teachers sharing ideas and resources. Kenny Holthaus of Royal Valley HS shared a site I hadn’t seen before that documents some awesome World War II propaganda posters.

I’ve added it to my growing collection of propaganda resources. I’ve included some of those sites below as well as a few lesson plans that might be useful. A simple exercise is to have kids compare two images of the same topic from different periods or different countries.

The first picture below is an US poster from World War II urging Americans to be careful what they say. (It’s from the US Air Force collection.) The second is a similar image from the same period but from a German perspective. (You can find it and others at the German Propaganda Archive below.)