WWII on the Arkansas Homefront
This traveling suitcase exhibit (TSE) teaches WWII era history through the lens of local community members who kept the home fires burning on the Arkansas homefront. WWII artifacts, posters, music, and etcetera allow teachers to share a variety of ways in which local homefront heroes and heroines waged war.
In addition, this TSE uses science, technology, engineering, art, math (STEAM), and creative writing, to inspire classrooms to venture back to the 1940s. There, students will make hard choices, ration goods, give up treasured items for "the cause" and much more.
Each kit comes with lesson plans and a full list of Arkansas Standards that guide teachers and meet state requirements.