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title: Role of Women During WWII
description: Students will recognize and understand the impact women had on the developing identity of the United States as it emerged from WWII as a World Leader. 
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/role_of_women_during_wwii-001.png
---

**Subject: History; Social Studies**

**Lesson Length: 35 - 40 mins**

**Topic: World War II and Women’s Identity**

**Grade Level: 5**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [C3: D2.His.2.6-8](https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/2017/Jun/c3-framework-for-social-studies-rev0617.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Students will understand the impact women had on the developing identity of the United States as it emerged from WWII as a World Leader. 

**Know Before You Start:** Students should have an understanding of the daily life of women pre-World War II.

**Hook:**

- Introduce Rosie the Riveter, her origins, and what she represents.
- Explore the purpose of using Rosie the Riveter in propaganda.

**Activity:**

- Research the different jobs that women were able to do during WWII that were not open to them prior to the war. 
- Create a one-panel comic that illustrates a specific role women had during WWII, e.g., aircraft industry.

**Closure:**

- Share and discuss student comics. 
    - What did this mean for women in the United States?
    - How did their participation in the war effort change the identity of the United States moving forward?
- Display student comics digitally or in print. 

**Differentiation:**

- Preteach vocabulary.
- Provide background knowledge of women’s rights pre-WWII.
- Allow students to work with a peer model.
- Provide sentence starters as needed.
- Provide a list of jobs that women held.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/q5jcoaj). 

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1828458285796323328/thumbnail.png) World War II ](https://content.pixton.com/world-war-ii)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2078531323277959168/thumbnail.png) Laboratory ](https://content.pixton.com/laboratory)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-international%20womens%20day.png) Women's History ](https://content.pixton.com/womens-history)

**Suggested Story Starters:**

- [ Fill in the Blanks Historical Events: World War II ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/fill-in-the-blanks-historical-event-world-war-ii)
- [ Reorder Historical Events: World War II ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/reorder-historical-events-world-war-ii)

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