World War II impacted the world greatly and changed how we live today. However what countries were involved and what roles did they play. Well recently in class we had the opportunity to look into each country and the perspectives they had on the war. That did not mean that we all briefly looked at the countries but rather were split up into countries. In total there were 10 countries. There were groups and then also independents when students went by themselves instead of in a group. I was an independent country so I researched Australia by myself.

To start off this project we read a WWII book I read All the Light we Cannot See. You can about that in this blog post:

A WWII Book

After reading the book it was then time to start the website!

We started to ask questions about what we wanted to know about World War II so as a class we created a Google Doc and we put in all the questions we wanted to know. These questions ranged from what role did women have in the war to how did it impact the world after the war. Our teacher then took all of this into account and created the ideas that we would have to talk about on our website.

These were our questions:

It was then time to start actually looking into the war. We watched a documentary called History of World War II this taught us a lot about well the history of World War II. How Germany was such a huge power during WWII and how Hitler became the leader.

After learning about how the War began it was time to look at the battles! We first looked at the evacuation of Dunkirk because this played such a huge role in the war. I found this really fascinating as to how this battle happened. And how so many men in small fishing boats came from England to help save soldiers.

While we were learning all of this history we were also learning about citations. Citations are the references as to where you get your information from. I though this would be simple at just be copy and paste a link. I was wrong however. There is so much information needed in a citation as well where and how to place that information. Owl online Writing Lab helped our class majorly as to what to do.

We also looked at the battle of the Blitz and how it could have actually been an accident but Germany decided and had to carry on with what was started. This showed me how Great Britain was so brutally attacked.

Yet another battle we learned about was the battle of Barbarossa. To get our interests sparked in this topic we created a human timeline of the war.

In the midst of all of this we also got the chance to talk to a German World War II veteran. Helmut Lemke is a truly amazing person and to be able to sit and listen to his stories for an hour was amazing. While he was talking we also recorded the entire thing so that we could then create podcasts around him. Here is mine:

Meanwhile as we were learning citations and the war we were also researching our countries perspectives of World War II. And as I was by myself I found this very stressful. This was the research I collected.

It was then time to start compling all of this into our website. We created the website using Weebly a web designer. I found it difficult working on the iPad through this website as it was very glitchy, however on computers it was great. So after all the hard work here is the Perceptives of WW II website!

Overall through this project I learned a lot. From the history of World War II as well as how to effectively plan out my time and work independently. If I were to change the project I would learn more about the other countries involved in WWII as I truly did learn a lot about about Australia but would have liked to learn more about others.