Teaching World War I in the 21st Century 1 | Page 29

Work toward having the study of World War I seep into
…but Not Necessarily Just “Your” Time

and influence the curriculum of other departments—
music, art, literature, and science. There is

cross-curricular and Common Core gold in the study
of the World’s War.

• Ask middle school art teachers to teach camouflage
painting, a life-saving innovation of World War I.

• Study modernism in historic context with

images by German artist Otto Dix (http://

www.moma.org/explore/collection/ge/) or

approach Marsden Hartley’s Himmel (http://
www.nelson-atkins.org/studio33/listen_.

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with a conversation on LGBT perspectives.

• Explore the technology and inventors of World
War I and look at the