Museum archaeologists and educators lead students through this phenomenon-based investigation to identify and explain the difference between natural materials and synthetic materials. Students use early ceramics as a case study to evaluate how this early synthetic material impacted the lives of people who used them.

This interactive map allows students to see how the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred with pictures, oral testimony, and timeline of events.

This resource gives an overview of women's efforts on the homefront during WWII including social, political, and economic efforts.

This page provides a basic overview of each branch of government. Included are their roles and what makes up the branch.

This is a list compiled consisting of over 500 men from Utah who were killed during WWI. This can be used to show an impact on the communities and also be used as a way to learn more about the sacrificies made.

Resource to help students learn about how children were involved in the war effort in the 1940s. Includes propaganda posters with students creating their own. Some patriotic songs are provided that were taught in schools and look at ways to compare contributions during the war to modern times.

This website has both an article and podcast voiceover explaining how citizens of Utah stopped the MX Missile system from being stored in Utah during the height of the Cold War and nuclear testing.

Lesson Plan geared towards a civic engagement project for students. Focused on voting rights in states.

The Covid-19 Memory Project is designed for K-12 students to share their experiences during this unique time in our history. Student responses will become part of a permanent historical collection retained by Utah Division of State History that will help future generations learn about what life was like during the Covid-19 pandemic in Utah.

This 2-hour lesson plan helps students create a video to be used as an inflight video showing a historical event they are traveling to in the past. In this lesson, students document locations, historical figures, historical landmarks, and social conditions of that time. Because Adobe Premiere Rush enables professional video editing, this lesson empowers students to create a documentary-style video.

This resource is from the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service. This primary source set contains information on infamous criminals and crimes, including Joe Hill, Butch Cassidy, John D. Lee and the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and lesser-known cases that have been largely forgotten.

This website created by the University of Utah contains an interactive timeline of Downwinders of Utah. This timeline includes several news articles and memos sent out by the Atomic Energy Commission about the nuclear testing occurring in the Nevada Desert. This timeline goes from the time of WWII until 2015.

This website created by the University of Utah contains several oral histories of those who were "Downwinders". Each history is between 3 and 20 minutes long and talk about poeple's lives prior, during, and after the nuclear testing.

This youtube video provided from FDR Library gives an overview Executive Order 9066

This is a 360 educational VR video which allows students on a phone or headset to be able to view a WWI trench and walk around in one.

The Supreme Court website provides a brief background, ruling, and reopening the case of Korematsu v. US. This is helpful for students or teachers to have a basic understanding of the course case without reading through the entire case study, brief, and opinions. It helps explain the ruling and its overturning year later.

Resource contains activity prompts, essay topics and ideas, and other lesson activities that coincide with reading Farewell to Manzanar and learning about Japanese Internment

An article about one of the Japanese American combat teams that served during WWII which was fighting a war on two fronts; at home (Japanese Internment) and abroad.

An article about one of the Japanese American infantry teams that served during WWII which was fighting a war on two fronts; at home (Japanese Internment) and abroad.