Students will be experiencing how people made butter using rationing points and they will be able to taste the yummy butter with saltine crackers.
After making butter, and if time permits, students will be playing a few Rounds of World War 2 Bingo.
Fifth Grade Field Trips
Making Butter
25 Minutes
Importance of an Assembly Line
25 Minutes
Students will learn about the importance of Henry Ford’s Assembly line and how it helped produce a lot of resources for war.
Students will then go through an assembly line simulation.
Propaganda Rosie the Riveter and Tuskegee Airmen
25 Minutes
Students will learn the important roles played by women and African American men during WWII.
Students will look at different propaganda used during WWII.
Students will look at the propaganda and they will get a chance to create their own.
Victory! Military Technology
25 Minutes
Students will learn the importance of military technology advancement during WWII.
Before trench warfare was the only thing that was used but with the technological advancements the military had access to radars, new guns, and importantly the Atomic Bomb.
Manhattan Project (Atomic Bomb Project)
Robert Oppenheimer, known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb created the bomb with the help of Einstein as consultant
We had the resources and were able to get enough uranium 235 and we beat the Germans in creating the bomb first.
The above rotations cover SS5H4 (explain America’s involvement in World War II) and S5P1 (obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explain the differences between a physical change and a chemical change).
Select Your Grade Level
Homeschool and hybrid groups are very welcome. To book your field trip email Vanessa Blanks, Director of Education and Museum Curator, at vanessa@dunwoodypt.org with the following information:
- School Name
- School Address
- Contact Name, Phone Number, and Email
- Grade Level
- Number of students attending
- Number of classes
- Number of buses
- Will you be eating lunch on campus?
- Preferred Field Trip Date
- Field Trip Date Second Choice
- Field Trip Date Third Choice
- Preferred Start Time
- Title 1 Status
- Any Important Information that we need to be aware of? (Mobility issues? Special Needs Accommodations? Etc.)