• Art: National War Museum

• Activities: 10 Activities for Secondary Schools
  Remembrance Day Sample Assembly

• Choral Readings: - Elementary or Secondary

• Drama: Creating Soundscapes

• English: "In Flanders Fields"
  Creating Soundscapes
  Remembrance Day Sample Assembly

• French: "Les cimitieres flamands"

• History: "FREEDOM" stories about 22 veterans,
  Ennio Paola (Della Quercia, more Della Quercia)

• Images: (larger photos of veterans and girls, and Readiing and Remembrance bar)
  Robert "Kurt" Lavack and Tent
  Robert "Kurt" Lavack and Plane
  Robert "Kurt" Lavack and Squadron

• Intermediate Activities

• Links to Visual Resources: 

• Harry Palmer Gallery has a great variety of wonderful photographs of war monuments, cemeteries as well as veteran's and their stories. For example look up the story of E.A. Smoky Smith winner of the Victoria Cross during the Italian campaign in 1943. http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca
  Canadian War Museum has primary documents with newspaper articles as well as photographs from a great variety of Canadian experience both at the front and at home. http://www.warmuseum.ca
  Some of the work of Canadian Artists during the Second World War are available on the AGO website by calling up the artists name. For example Alan Collier, Pasakeva Clark, Jean-Paul Lemieux, Frederick Hagen, Barker Fairley and John Hall. http://www.ago.net

• Math: What we remember

• Music: "In Flanders Fields" musical version includes music and lyrics,
  Ennio Paola (Della Quercia, Conductor's Score, Della Quercia music)
• National War Museum
• World War I Music - Three verses are provided with the midi music for "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary"
• At another site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Long_Way_to_Tipperary (underscores between the words in the title) you receive four pages on the history of this popular music hall and marching song and its composer and lyricist.
• World War II Music - "There'll Always Be An England" and other War Music. Although many of the music links don't work, the lyrics are all there and good student researchers should be able to follow the leads to find music for these songs.
• Music from the Great War

• Choral Readings

• Oral Histories: The Memory Project
  Robert "Kurt" Lavack
  more from Robert "Kurt" Lavack

• War Poetry at http://www.angelfire.com/wa/warpoetry.
  A student poem on Remembrance Day on the Veterans Affairs web site at
  http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/other/native/remembrance
  LT. COL. JOHN McCRAE, M.D., [1872-1918] IN FLANDER'S FIELD, THE ANXIOUS DEAD
  Reply to Flanders Fields, by John Mitchell

Elementary learning materials:

• Activities Primary and Junior: Activities for Remembrance Day

• Choral Readings: - Elementary or Secondary

• French: "In Flanders Fields"

• Math: Grades - One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight

• Reading: Reading matters-The Second World War

• Social Studies: Ennio Paola (more Della Quercia)
  A Day of Remembrance

• www.thememoryproject.com - excellent Bilingual website with oral histories, speakers by area, digital archives and study units
• www.vac-acc.gc.ca - Veterans Affairs Canada. Bilingual site with youth/educator button at top, materials for Remembrance Day and a unit "The Aboriginal Spiritual Journey" (English)
• All About Poppies from the Royal Canadian Legion website: THE POPPY ... THE FLOWER OF REMEMBRANCE gives an overview of John McCrae.
  FLOWER OF REMEMBRANCE: SYMBOL OF UNITY The author speaks of the need for Canadian unity. It ends with the sentence, "The poppy, then, is a reminder of the need: a challenge to each of us to seek out that spirit of unity which sustained our forefathers and our country."
• Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board, Belleville
• The seed from the poppy is often used in baking and cooking. For example, many bagels are covered in poppy seeds and Poppy seeds are used in recipes for muffins, cakes and breads. An extensive data base of Poppy Seed Recipes can be found at http://www.poppyseed.org/html_recipes
• The War Amps have quite a number of videos available to purchase or borrow which would be appropriate for class use. There are also nine music videos which are part of the War Amps Military Heritage Documentary Series. The videos may be ordered on line and require about two weeks for delivery. The videos vary in length from four minutes to 57 minutes. The most recent addition to the collection is a video produced for the Year of the Veteran. Music videos are available at http://www.waramps.ca/video/music.html
• Radio minute on John McCrae www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=13540
• Video minute is www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10200

• War and Art by accessing the National War Museum at http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/warart_e.html there are four categories to access teaching materials that could be very useful. By clicking on the picture of the category you wish to explore you open a one aspect of this subject. The headings are Art and War (Australia, Britain, and Canada in the Second World War), Canvas of War (Masterpieces from the National War Museum), Military Munnings (Alfred Munnings one of England's finest painters of horses led a series of post war commissions), Second World War: Canada's War Artists Perspective (Canadian Painters participated in the War Records produced accurate images of fighting men, machinery, and the landscape of war).

• What we remember. Remembrance day occurs in Canada each November 11. It is a day of national commemoration for the more than 100,000 Canadians who have dies in Military service. The costs for Canada, with its relatively small population, have been substantial. At http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/remember/remembranceday_e.html. There is a chart which gives the statistics of population, numbers who served, as well as the number that died or were wounded in each of the major conflicts that Canada has taken part.
• Another superb World War I site is www.great.war.nl All materials are available to download from this Dutch site.